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The lawyer of an Italian woman passenger who was arrested for unruly behaviour on an Abu Dhabi-Mumbai flight argued in court that she had wanted to complain about the services on the Vistara flight and a ruckus erupted with the cabin crew. Paola Perruccio was granted bail on a Rs 25,000 deposit.

A Gandhinagar court held Asaram guilty on Monday of raping and sodomising his former devotee, who had accused him of sexual abuse a decade ago. This is the second conviction for Asaram; a Jodhpur court had held him guilty in 2018 of raping a minor in 2013 and had sentenced him to life imprisonment. He is currently serving that sentence in Jodhpur Central Jail.

Odisha health minister Naba Kisore Das’s fatal shooting by ASI Gopal Das in Jharsuguda district's Brajarajnagar may have been an act of “revenge” triggered by the former allegedly turning down the police officer's request to give a relative of his a job, the crime branch said Monday. Gopal was quoted as saying during his interrogation that he attacked Naba Das “in a fit of rage” the previous day as he was “upset” at being rebuffed by the minister when they met around three months ago.

The SC on Monday agreed to hear a plea challenging the government’s decision to block the BBC documentary on 2002 Gujarat riots, leading law minister Kiren Rijiju to target petitioners for “wasting the precious time of SC”. The joint petition alleging that criticism of the government or its policies does not tantamount to violating sovereignty and integrity of the country and blocking critical views is unconstitutional. The court posted hearing on February 6.

A 13-member central team on Monday started a review of the midday meal scheme in schools in West Bengal, a senior official said. The joint review mission consisting of Union education ministry officials, one nutritionist, and a representative of Unicef along with the director of PM Poshan Scheme, V Bhaskar, also held a meeting with state education department officials. The officials, who are scheduled to conduct their review till February 6, visited several schools in North and South 24 Parganas districts on Monday. The team, which reached the city on Sunday evening, will check school infrastructure and the quality of food served to school children under the mid-day meal scheme. "This is a routine visit. We carry out such reviews in the states every year. We will try to visit as many districts as possible. Today we met the officials of the School Education department," an official of the team said after the meeting. She said that after conducting the review, when they wi...

Accor Stadium is the new venue for the Matildas’ opening match of this year’s FIFA Women’s World Cup against Ireland on July 20. from Latest News and News Headlines | Daily Telegraph https://ift.tt/1faSWxO

After the untimely death of Health and Family Welfare Minister of Odisha, Naba Das, Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik has allocated the Health and Family Welfare dept to Finance Minister Niranjan Pujari, informed the Chief Minister's Office. Lt Naba Das had been the Health and Family Welfare Minister of Odisha since 2019. He was a three-time MLA from the Jharsuguda constituency and was said to be an influential leader in the area. Minister Naba Das was shot at in Brajarajnagar in the Jharsuguda district and succumbed to his bullet injuries in Bhubaneswar hospital on Sunday. During the operation, it was found that a single bullet had entered and exited the body, injuring the heart and left lung and causing massive internal bleeding and injury. "He was an asset for both the Govt and the party. His death is a great loss to the State of Odisha," Odisha Chief Minister's Office (CMO) said. Das was shot at by one police personnel near Brajarajnagar in Jharsuguda district ea...

The enrolment in higher education institutions increased to 4.14 crore during 2020-21, crossing the 4 crore mark for first time, according to the government's All India Survey on Higher Education (AISHE) 2020-2021. It registered an increase of 7.5 per cent from 2019-20 and 21 per cent from 2014-15. The female enrolment has increased to 2.01 crore from 1.88 crore in 2019-20. There has been an increase of around 44 lakh (28 per cent) in their number since 2014-15, the survey report said. The Ministry of Education has been conducting All India Survey on Higher Education (AISHE) since 2011, covering all higher educational institutions located in Indian Territory and imparting higher education in the country. The survey collects detailed information on different parameters such as student enrollment, teachers' data, infrastructural information, financial information etc. For the first time, in AISHE 2020-21, the higher education institutions, or HEIs, have filled the data onlin...

Decadal Change of Night Time Light over India from Space (2012-2021), released by Isro’s National Remote Sensing Centre — shows that overall at the national level, normalised NTL radiance increased by 43% in 2021 compared to 2012. Significant increase was observed in Bihar (474%), Manipur (441%), Ladakh (280%) and Kerala (119%), while good increase was observed in Arunachal Pradesh (66%), MP (66%), UP (61%) and Gujarat (58%).

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday congratulated the Indian team for its "special win" as it bagged its maiden ICC title in women's cricket by lifting the inaugural U-19 T20 World Cup. "Congratulations to the Indian Team for a special win... They have played excellent cricket and their success will inspire several upcoming cricketers. Best wishes to the team for their future endeavours," he tweeted. Congratulations to the Indian Team for a special win at the @ICC #U19T20WorldCup . They have played excellent cricket and their success will inspire several upcoming cricketers. Best wishes to the team for their future endeavours. https://t.co/BBn5M9abHp — Narendra Modi (@narendramodi) January 29, 2023 India on Sunday won their maiden ICC title in women's cricket as a bunch of sprightly and talented teenagers lifted the inaugural U-19 World Cup with an emphatic seven-wicket victory over England. The Shafali Verma-led India U-19 squad managed to do what ...

A group called Akhil Bharatiya OBC Mahasabha on Sunday in Vrindavan burned photocopies of pages allegedly carrying "objectionable comments on women and Dalits" in Ramcharitmanas, supporting SP leader Swami Prasad Maurya. The protest was held in Vrindavan Yojana sector apparently in solidarity with Maurya, who had on January 22 in a statement said the Hindu epic contained passages discriminatory of women and shudras. "As reported in a section of media that we had burnt copies of Ramcharitmanas, it is incorrect to say that. We took out the photocopies of the objectionable comments from the Ramcharitmanas, which were against the 'shudras' and women, and burned the photocopied page in a symbolic protest," Devendra Pratap Yadav, a state office bearer of the Akhil Bharatiya OBC Mahasabha, told PTI. "Swami Prasad Maurya has already demanded that the objectionable comments mentioned in the Ramcharitmanas should be removed or banned. The government did not ta...

Karnataka Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai on Saturday hit out at the Congress party saying "the party use cheap language which shows that they are scared of defeat in the upcoming Karnataka assembly election." Speaking at Jan Sankalp Yatra in M.K Hubli in Belagavi, he said, "The Congress has now remembered 'Praja Dhwani' but what did they do while they were in power from 2013 to 2018? In the name of social justice, they cheated SC/ST communities. The present BJP government has ensured social justice. When Farmers were in difficulty, it was CM Yediyurappa who went to their rescue. While he was the CM, Yediyurappa had given free power supply, interest-free agro loan, input subsidy during the flood fury, support price for food produces and subsidy for the working classes." "We have introduced Vidyanidhi scheme for the children of farmers, and extended to the children of coolies, fishermen and cab drivers, Rs 5 lakh for youths," the CM said. Mr Bomm...

“While it was not a head-on collision, the wings of the two jets seemed to have clipped each other,” an official said. “It is difficult to say at this time whether it was technical snag in one of the fighters, or a bird-hit or some other factor that caused the jets to veer into each other. The court of inquiry, with the analysis of the flight data recorders concerned, will look into it.”

A woman gave birth to a child in a Dehradun-bound Haryana Roadways bus near Mullana on Friday, around 25 kilometers from Ambala, officials said. However, the child could not survive as it was a premature delivery, doctors said. The woman complained of severe labour pain when the bus was crossing Mullana. Some women present in the bus helped her give birth to the child, they said. Bus driver Salim Khan also took the bus to the civil hospital at Mullana. The doctors at the hospital declared the child brought dead while the woman was admitted to the facility. Salim Khan said the woman along with her husband, two children and brother-in-law boarded the bus for Saharanpur from Ambala. As soon as the bus reached Mullana, the woman had labour pains, said the bus driver. Principal medical officer, Mullana Civil Hospital, Kuldeep Singh said the woman's delivery was premature. (Except for the headline, this story has not been edited by NDTV staff and is published from a syndicated fee...

External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar on Saturday said that just as the Pandavas could not choose their relatives, India cannot choose its geographical neighbours. "It is a reality to us ... Pandavas could not choose relatives, we can't choose our neighbours. Naturally, we hope good sense prevails" said EAM S Jaishankar when asked if "a neighbour and rogue nation (Pakistan), who happens to be nuclear power, will be an asset or a liability." S Jaishankar was in Pune for the release of his English book "The India Way: Strategies for an Uncertain World," which has been translated into Marathi as 'Bharat Marg'. The Marathi version of S Jaishankar's book was released by Deputy Chief Minister of Maharashtra, Devendra Fadnavis. When asked about the economic situation in Pakistan, S Jaishankar said that he cannot comment on what is happening in Pakistan. The World Bank has slashed Pakistan's economic growth by half -- from 4 per cent to 2...

The CBI has registered a case against one Ankit Kumar Singh for allegedly impersonating a secretary in the Prime Minister's Office (PMO) handling the Varanasi Lok Sabha constituency and seeking favours from senior government officials. The federal agency acted on a complaint from Assistant Director in PMO Anil Kumar Sharma, officials said. The case has been handed over to the CBI's Special Crime unit, headed by Joint Director Viplav Kumar Choudhry, who was awarded the President Police Medal for distinguished service on Republic Day, they added. In its complaint, Mr Sharma has accused Mr Singh of claiming himself to be Dinesh Rao, a 1997-batch Indian Administrative Service (IAS) officer of the Bihar cadre, and posted as a secretary in the PMO who looks after Varanasi district in Uttar Pradesh. "His mobile number is XXXXXXX098 and he is learnt to have contacted Prabhu Narayan Singh, District Magistrate, Agra, Uttar Pradesh, seeking favours for 'his constituency'....

President of the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) Csaba Korosi will arrive in India on a three-day visit on Sunday, during which he is expected to discuss with his Indian interlocutors ways to deal with various challenges facing the globe. It will be Csaba Korosi's first bilateral visit to any country since he assumed the UNGA presidency in September 2022, the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) said, announcing his trip. Csaba Korosi is scheduled to witness the "Beating the Retreat" ceremony at the historic Vijay Chowk in the heart of New Delhi. The president of the 77th session of the UN General Assembly (PGA) will hold talks with External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar on key multilateral and regional issues of mutual interest. "The PGA's visit to India will be an opportunity to exchange views on global challenges that the United Nations is currently seized with," the MEA said in a statement. "It would help reinforce India's abiding comm...

PM Modi on Friday said his government was taunted as being filled with “average” talent, but India is now shining in the world as a beacon of hope in the post-pandemic era. During his interaction with students, teachers and parents in the sixth edition of ‘Pariksha pe Charcha,' Modi said it is his “firm conviction” and “article of faith” that criticism is a purification exercise for a robust democracy.

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Congress MP Rahul Gandhi Friday claimed that a security lapse forced him to abandon the 11km leg of his Bharat Jodo Yatra. He had crossed the Jawahar Tunnel from Jammu’s Banihal in a bulletproof vehicle and walked less than a kilometre towards the gateway to Kashmir division when the alleged security lapse brought his march to a halt. J&K Police contested allegations of poor crowd management.

 Ajay Kumar Mandavi, one of the three persons chosen from Chhattisgarh for the Padma Shri awards this year, has for more than a decade been teaching Kanker jail inmates, several of them arrested in cases related to the outlawed Maoist movement, wooden calligraphy art. Speaking about the honour, the 55-year-old on Friday said he becomes more of a counsellor than a wood art trainer when he enters the jail premises as many inmates recount their pain and problems to him even without being prodded about their past. Mr Mandavi, who hails from Kanker district, said making toys out of wood and clay was a childhood interest, which turned him into an artist later in life, resulting in him training youth, several of them victims of Naxalite violence, from 2005. He was asked by the then collector of Kanker to teach wood art to jail inmates in 2010, when the Maoist menace was at its peak in the district. He began his classes with a dozen inmates, all of them held for alleged Maoist links, a...

Aligarh Muslim University Friday set up a three-member inquiry committee and suspended a student after a video showed some NCC cadets purportedly raising religious slogans following a Republic Day function here. According to AMU spokesperson Omar Peerzada, the panel has been asked to submit its report within five days. He told PTI that it would probe the entire sequence of events when the official function was over and the audience was dispersing. In the 17-second video, a group of NCC cadets were seen chanting "Allah hu Akbar" twice near a flagpole. In another 19-second video, another group of NCC cadets could be seen shouting "Bharat Mata ki jai" and "Vande Mataram" in front of a building. The spokesperson emphasized the incident should be viewed as an aberration in the university's ethos. A student seen shouting slogans in the first video was suspended on Friday, the spokesperson added. City Superintendent Police Kuldeep Singh said police have t...

Former US secretary of state Mike Pompeo has claimed that India, which has charted an independent course on foreign policy, was forced to change its strategic posture and join the four-nation Quad grouping due to China's aggressive actions. In his latest book, Pompeo called India the "wild card" in Quad because it was a nation founded on socialist ideology and spent the Cold War aligning with neither the US nor the erstwhile USSR.

West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Thursday, while presiding over a 'Hatey Khori' event held in the state on the occasion of Saraswati Puja, said Bengali is the 2nd-largest spoken language in Asia and 5th in the world. "We must remember that we should learn our mother tongue no matter where we live," she added. Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee also congratulated West Bengal governor Dr CV Ananda Bose for taking a particular interest in Bengali. "I want to congratulate the Governor for taking special interest in our mother tongue," she said. The West Bengal chief minister was attending Governor Bose's 'Hatey Khori' event at Raj Bhavan in Kolkata. The 74th Republic Day was celebrated with characteristic fervour and enthusiasm across West Bengal on Thursday, with Governor Bose presiding over an hour-long parade by the Army, the Navy, the Air Force, policemen, and civilians, including students. A military helicopter showered rose petal...

Screenings of the blocked BBC documentary on PM Narendra Modi continued on campuses and public places in parts of southern India, with SFI organising its second show in a week at the central University of Hyderabad on Republic Day and taking on ABVP at Pondicherry University the night before after at least five students watching the film there were allegedly injured in an assault.

South Africa said Thursday that it had reached a deal to transfer more than 100 cheetahs to India as part of an ambitious project to reintroduce the spotted cats in the south Asian country. The environment ministry said an initial batch of 12 cheetahs would be flown to India next month, after eight cheetahs arrived from Namibia last September. "The plan is to translocate a further 12 annually for the next eight to 10 years" to help establish a "viable and secure cheetah population," the ministry said in a statement. India was once home to the Asiatic cheetah but the animal was declared extinct there by 1952, primarily because of habitat loss and deaths at the hands of hunters seeking their distinctive spotted hides. Efforts to reintroduce the animals gathered pace in 2020 when India's Supreme Court ruled that African cheetahs, a different subspecies, could be brought into the country at a "carefully chosen location" on an experimental basis. Negot...

A man allegedly killed his 3-year-old son in Uttar Pradesh's Hussainganj in a fit of rage following an argument with his wife, police said. Chandra Kishore Lodhi of Chitisapur village under Hussainganj police station killed his son with a spade, they said. "Chandra Kishore had an argument with his wife on Wednesday night. He then attacked his son Raj with a spade after the argument and killed him," Circle Officer (CO) Veer Singh said. "The accused took the body of his son in the night to a farm and buried it there," said the officer. The wife of the accused informed police about the incident on Thursday. Acting on her complaint, police recovered the body and arrested Kishore. (Except for the headline, this story has not been edited by NDTV staff and is published from a syndicated feed.)

One of the architects of the Indigenous Voice to parliament says he remains hopeful the proposal to enshrine the body in the Constitution will receive multi-partisan support. from Latest News and News Headlines | Daily Telegraph https://ift.tt/b2AkClo

President Droupadi Murmu will lead the nation in celebrating Republic Day from Kartavya Path. The grand parade, to begin at 10.30 am, will be a mix of the country's military strength and cultural diversity. Massive security arrangements have been made for the programme with the deployment of 6,000 soldiers as part of security arrangements. The Kartavya Path will be monitored with around 150 CCTV cameras, some of which are high-resolution. In a first, a combined band and marching contingent of the Egyptian Armed Forces will take part in the parade. The contingent will have 144 soldiers, representing the main branches of the Egyptian Armed Forces. In a statement, the Defence Ministry said the parade on the 75th year of Independence, celebrated as the "Azadi Ka Amrit Mahotsav", will "witness zeal, enthusiasm, patriotic fervour and janbhagidari, as envisioned by Prime Minister Narendra Modi". There will be tableaux from 17 states and Union Territories, and six ...

ORS (oral rehydration solution) pioneer Dilip Mahalanabis will receive the Padma Vibhushan (posthumous) in the field of Medicine (Pediatrics), the Centre announced on Wednesday. A total of 25 other personalities across various walks of life will be awarded the Padma Shri.

Issues related to social harmony, environment and other prevalent topics will be discussed at the three-day meeting of the Akhil Bharatiya Pratinidhi Sabha, the top decision-making body of RSS, at Panipat from March 12-14. All top functionaries of Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh, including Mohan Bhagwat and Dattatreya Hosabale, BJP president JP Nadda and heads of other allied organisations of the Sangh are expected to take part in the meeting, sources said. All organisations, including the BJP, will give the annual report of the activities undertaken by them throughout the year, they said. RSS' Akhil Bharatiya Prachar Pramukh Sunil Ambekar tweeted on Wednesday, saying "RSS's Akhil Bharatiya Pratinidhi Sabha will be held from March 12-14 2023 at Samalkha in Haryana." Around 1,800 participants, including Sangh functionaries and members of its allied organisations will attend the meeting. The entire year's programme and agenda of the Sangh will be decided in this me...

Two people were victims of a terrifying crime rampage through Melbourne’s southeast as a man allegedly committed two carjackings and evaded police for hours. from Latest News and News Headlines | Daily Telegraph https://ift.tt/9ADfqbR

Amid the ongoing tussle between the elected government and the constitutional head over the issue of supremacy in Delhi, Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal and Lieutenant Governor Vinay Kumar Saxena on Tuesday met at LG House in traditional 'At Home'. The Lieutenant Governor and his wife Sangita Saxena hosted the traditional 'At Home' at Raj Niwas, in the run-up to the 74th Republic Day on January 26, 2023. The 'At Home' was attended by the Delhi Chief Minister, Ministers of the Delhi government and MLAs were also present here. Apart from them, MPs and, representatives of Foreign Missions in India, representatives of political parties, vice-chancellors, academics, doctors, lawyers, civil society, media and officers from the Government of India, Delhi Government, Delhi Police, armed forces, DDA, MCD and NDMC amongst others were present. Organized after a gap of two years, owing to the COVID pandemic-related restrictions, the 'At Home' this year had guests...

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India on Tuesday kicked off a massive naval combat exercise with warships, submarines, fighter jets, maritime patrol aircraft and helicopters to test operational preparedness in the Indian Ocean Region (IOR), amid the growing collusiveness between China and Pakistan in the maritime domain.

Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Tuesday shook hands with some Army personnel watching his 'Bharat Jodo Yatra' from behind the boundary wall of their camp as the march passed through the garrison town of Nagrota here. Mr Gandhi's gesture to reach out to the soldiers despite the walls secured with barbed wire came a day after his senior party colleague Digvijaya Singh sought proof from the BJP government on the surgical strikes on terror camps across the border. The former Congress president, who resumed his 'Bharat Jodo Yatra' from Nagrota towards Kashmir, paused outside an Army camp after spotting some personnel watching from behind the wall. He approached them and shook their hands before marching forward, waving at the crowd gathered on either side of the road and at those trying to catch a glimpse from their homes and shops. Some of the Army personnel were seen filming the foot march on their mobile phones. Snubbing Digvijaya Singh, a former Madhya Pradesh c...

BJP president J P Nadda on Monday said the party will form a three-fourth majority government in Rajasthan in the assembly elections to be held later this year. Addressing the party's Rajasthan state working committee meeting here, Mr Nadda said, "BJP is the only national party and all other parties have remained family parties. The Congress has been identified as a family party. Regional parties have also become family parties." He also congratulated the state leadership for the successful organisation of the 'Jan Aakrosh Yatra' and asked it to hold more such campaigns. Attacking the Congress government in the state, Mr Nadda alleged that cybercrimes and crimes against women and Dalits have increased. Prices of electricity, petrol and diesel are also continuously increasing under this Congress government, he added. "We (BJP) are not just a political organisation but also a party working for social concerns... India and the whole world saw the social face ...

Samajwadi Party (SP) chief Akhilesh Yadav is believed to be unhappy with his party colleague Swami Prasad Maurya over his controversial remarks on Ramcharitmanas. According to sources, Akhilesh Yadav is very angry with Mr Maurya and a press conference can also be held on behalf of the party. Apart from Akhilesh Yadav, several MLAs of the party are also keeping themselves away from the statement of Mr Maurya. According to sources, several MLAs have spoken to Akhilesh Yadav over the phone. There is huge discontent within the party over SP MLC's controversial statement. The Samajwadi Party leader Swami Prasad Maurya on Sunday, sparked a major controversy after he demanded the deletion of "insulting comments and sarcasm" targeted at particular castes and sects in Ramcharitmanas, a poem based on the epic Ramayana. Speaking to ANI, the SP leader said, "I don't have any issue with Ramcharitramanas but parts of it have insulting comments and sarcasm directed at part...

A Mallakhamb player, a singer suffering from bone disorder and a YouTuber were among 11 children who received Pradhan Mantri Rashtriya Bal Puraskar, 2023 by President Droupadi Murmu on Monday. There were six boys and five girls among the awardees from 11 states and Union territories. Each awardee was given a medal, a cash prize of Rs 1 lakh and a certificate. This year, the PM Rashtriya Bal Puraskar (PMRBP) was conferred on 11 children selected for their exceptional achievement in the fields of art and culture (4), bravery (1), innovation (2), social service (1), and sports (3). Among the awardees was Aadithya Suresh who even after being diagnosed with a bone disorder since birth (osteogenesis imperfecta) transformed himself into a singer. As of now, he has performed at more than 500 singing events including those on different TV channels. He has won the award in the field of art and culture. M Gauravi Reddy was another awardee in the field who is an accomplished dancer and has pe...

The toll in the suspected hooch tragedy in dry Bihar's Siwan district rose to five after two more deaths were reported on Monday, a senior police officer said Seven people, who had also taken ill after allegedly consuming the spurious liquor, are currently undergoing treatment at a government hospital, he said. A probe has been initiated into the matter, and as many as 16 people, including two who had "50 litres spirit in possession", have been arrested thus far in connection with the incident at Bhopatpur sub-division, the officer said. According to a statement issued by the Bihar Police, "Twelve people were admitted to a district hospital in Siwan around 7 pm on Sunday after they complained of stomach pain, nausea and dizziness. One person was declared dead on arrival by the doctors, and two died when they were taken to Patna Medical College and Hospital (PMCH) from the Siwan facility. "Two more died on Monday on their way to the Patna hospital," it s...

An alleged drunk driver has been busted after he fell asleep at the wheel of his car in a Melbourne fast food drive-through. from Latest News and News Headlines | Daily Telegraph https://ift.tt/dtuPIip

Addressing the 57th All-India conference of DGP and IGPs of police, which concluded here on Sunday, Modi suggested making the police forces more sensitive, while also training them in effective use of emerging technologies. He emphasised on the importance of the National Data Governance Framework for smoothening of data exchange across agencies.

Rahul Gandhi led his Bharat Jodo Yatra from Hiranagar in J&K’s Kathua district Sunday amid tight security in the wake of twin blasts in Jammu a day earlier that left nine injured. After a day-long halt, the Congress leader set out around 7am from Hiranagar along the Jammu-Pathankot highway, marked by heavy presence of security forces. Officials said the police, CRPF and other agencies were keeping vigil.

Senior Congress leader and Gujarat high court advocate Krishnakant Vakharia died in Ahmedabad on Sunday at 92. Vakharia, a former chairman of the legal cell of Gujarat Congress, died at his residence. He was not well, Congress spokesperson Manish Doshi said. A native of Bagasara village in Amreli district, Vakharia studied law in Ahmedabad. He started his legal career in 1954 in Rajkot. He was a successful lawyer and a known expert on the Constitution with six decades of practice in the Gujarat High Court, Doshi said. Vakharia mentored many successful lawyers including Solicitor General Tushar Mehta. He was a legal adviser to Gujarat Congress until 2010 as the president of the party's legal cell. Vakharia also served the Gujarati diaspora as a founder and chairman of Vishwa Gujarati Samaj, Doshi said. He is survived by a son, also a Gujarat High Court lawyer, and two daughters. Vakharia became involved in politics as a student and went on to become a labour activist under th...

Cash worth more than Rs 3 crore was seized by the Delhi Police while scanning a package at the cargo terminal of the IGI Airport, informed the police on Sunday. The Delhi Police told ANI that counting the seized cash is still continuing and further probe is on. "Cash worth more than Rs 3 crore seized during scanning a package at the cargo terminal of IGI Airport in Delhi. Counting of the cash seized is still underway. CISF and Delhi Police are conducting further probe," Delhi Police said. (Except for the headline, this story has not been edited by NDTV staff and is published from a syndicated feed.)

India has nominated Charaideo’s royal burial mounds or tumulus called “moidam” of the Ahom dynasty that ruled Assam for six centuries from 1228 to 1826 for consideration as a Unesco World Heritage Site. Also known as the Pyramids of Assam, the moidams in Charaideo have been likened to the royal tombs of ancient China and the Egyptian pyramids.

The government on Friday ordered the blocking of multiple YouTube videos and nearly 50 tweets that shared the first episode of the BBC documentary — “India: The Modi Question”— on grounds that senior officials of various ministries found it to be an attempt to “cast aspersions” on the authority of the Supreme Court and make “unsubstantiated allegations” regarding the actions of foreign governments in India.

A group of over 300 eminent Indians, including ex-judges, retired bureaucrats and military veterans, on Saturday slammed a BBC documentary on PM Modi for its “unrelenting prejudice” towards India. In a signed statement, they criticised the BBC series, which they claimed is based on “deluded and slanted reporting” and presumes to call into question the entire foundation of India’s existence as an independent, democratic country.

Attacking BBC for its controversial documentary ‘India: The Modi Question’, law minister Kiren Rijiju on Saturday said that India’s image cannot be disgraced by “malicious campaigns” inside or outside the country. “Minorities, or for that matter every community in India is moving ahead positively... Prime Minister Narendsra Modi’s voice is the voice of 1.4 billion Indians,” the minister stated.

A woman was allegedly duped of around Rs 7 lakh by a fraudster posing as a courier company executive on the pretext of rejecting an international parcel carrying narcotics, police said on Saturday. The victim, Prachi Dhoke, in her complaint said that she received a call from a person posing as a courier company's customer service executive. He told her that an international parcel, in her name, containing two passports, five ATM cards, 300g weed and a laptop has been rejected, police said citing the complaint. When Prachi Dhoke told the person that the parcel was not sent by her, the caller urged her to file a complaint with the police as her Aadhaar card has been misused, they said. Following this, the caller transferred the call to a person posing as an official of Mumbai Police who told her that her ID is being misused for international smuggling and money laundering in Mumbai, Prachi Dhoke said in her complaint. "They asked me to help them in the investigation saying ...

A day after the Supreme Court declined to stay the operation of J&K Land Grant Rules, issued on December 13, 2022, lieutenant-governor Manoj Sinha said it was some influential political families and land mafias that were trying to trigger a controversy over the issue because they had vested interests.

Bengaluru south MP Tejasvi Surya has declined to comment on the ongoing row over alleged opening of the emergency door of a plane last month. Surya, also the BJP youth wing president, said he wishes not to spoil his time and others' on the issue, as authorised people have spoken on it. "Already, Indigo airline officials, Union Minister for Civil Aviation (Jyotiraditya Scindia), my co-passenger and eye-witness Annamalai, chief of Tamil Nadu unit of the party, and two other passengers, have spoken of what exactly had happened," Surya told reporters here. "I don't wish to spoil my time and your time because the Congress and others have been talking about it time and again. Certain people, authorised to issue appropriate clarification and tell the facts, have spoken. You can refer to that," said the MP. Surya had reported that he accidentally opened the emergency exit of the IndiGo flight to Tiruchirappalli from Chennai in December 2022. (Except for the hea...

Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar on Friday demanded a separate Railway Budget to be presented in the house from the general budget. Nitish said it has a lot of importance. Nitish Kumar, who is on a Samadhan Yatra told reporters in Nalanda, "When I was the Railway Minister, we used to give numerous jobs to people. When Rail Budget was presented in Parliament, there were discussions across all newspapers". "I want a separate Railway Budget to be presented in the House. It has a lot of importance," Nitish Kumar added. Mr Kumar again raised the issue of demanding special status for Bihar. Development work has been done in Bihar Sharif, he added. "I have always been listening to the problems of people since the time I was an MLA. I keep visiting places, sitting with people and addressing their issues. We have always been demanding special status for Bihar," CM Nitish. The government is in the process of finalising the Budget document to be presented on Fe...

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The Indian Air Force (IAF) will conduct a major air combat exercise with frontline fighters, helicopters, other aircraft and drones in Arunachal Pradesh, Assam and other northeastern states early next month, amid heightened tension in the eastern sector of the Line of Actual Control due to the 32-month long military confrontation in eastern Ladakh.

BJP MP Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh will step aside from India's wrestling body for four weeks during which an oversight committee will look into allegations of sex harassment against him, Union Sports Minister Anurag Thakur told reporters today.

India can increase inter-regional trade with its neighbouring countries threefold by making international borders superfluid for the seamless movement of logistics, goods and tourists, World Bank’s country director, Auguste Tano Kouame said here on Friday. He was speaking on the sidelines of a brainstorming session ‘Unlocking Economic Opportunities for Northeast States’ organised by the Assam government and the World Bank.

The search for the lone missing person in the Nepal plane crash intensified on Friday, Nepal Army officials said, as the postmortem of the remaining victims continued here at Tribhuvan University Teaching Hospital. A Yeti Airlines aircraft with 72 people on board, including five Indians, plunged into a river gorge in the resort city of Pokhara on January 15. The five Indians, all from Uttar Pradesh, have been identified as Abhisekh Kushwaha, 25, Bishal Sharma, 22, Anil Kumar Rajbhar, 27, Sonu Jaiswal, 35, and Sanjaya Jaiswal. Sanjaya Jaiswal's body was handed over to his relatives who returned to India, hospital sources said. So far, only 71 dead bodies have been recovered and the search is on for the remaining person. On Thursday, 12 bodies including one belonging to an Indian national were handed over to the family members. The remaining bodies will be handed over their families once the postmortem is over, hospital sources said. Nepal Army on Friday said that it has in...

 A father-son duo involved in heroin smuggling allegedly set the house of a man on fire on Thursday over a financial dispute killing his seven-year-old son, police said. Superintendent of Police, Hanumangarh, Ajay Singh said the accused, Baaj Singh (53) and his son Sharaj (27), were arrested from Abohar in Punjab. Jasveer Das (36), his wife Manpreet Kaur (34) and their son Ekmjit Singh, residents of Pilibanga, Hanumangarh, were sleeping when the accused poured petrol from under the door and lit the fire. While Das and Kaur were referred to Bikaner for treatment, their son succumbed to injuries at the hospital, police said. (Except for the headline, this story has not been edited by NDTV staff and is published from a syndicated feed.)

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The Jammu and Kashmir government on Thursday revoked restrictions imposed on issuance of arms licences by district magistrates and issued fresh guidelines for granting such permits, making Aadhaar card mandatory for identity verification and also requiring police clearance before any application is considered.

India has urged Australia to investigate incidents of vandalisation of two temples near Melbourne and take action against the perpetrators, the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) said on Thursday. MEA spokesperson Arindam Bagchi said the matter has been taken up with the Australian government both in Canberra and New Delhi. "Recently a couple of temples have been vandalised in Australia. We condemned these incidents. Both are near Melbourne. We strongly condemned these actions," Arindam Bagchi said. "These actions have also been publicly condemned by Australian leaders, community leaders and religious associations there," he said, replying to a question at his weekly media briefing. Mr Bagchi said the Indian consulate general in Melbourne has taken up the matter with local police. "We have requested expeditious investigation, action against the perpetrators and measures to prevent such incidents in future. The matter has also been taken up with the Austral...

Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot on Wednesday said that the Rajasthan government is firm on its decision to revive the Old Pension Scheme (OPS) for the state government employees. He said the employees are an integral part of the state government and play an important role in taking the benefits of public welfare schemes run by the government to the last mile. Speaking at the pre-budget dialogue with the representatives of the employees' organisations at the secretariat on Wednesday, Mr Gehlot said his government is continuously working in the interest of the state employees. He said the employees act as an important link in the effective implementation of the schemes till the lower level. The CM invited suggestions from the employees' organizations to make the upcoming budget inclusive. "Unprecedented decisions have been taken by the state government in the last four years for the welfare of the employees. In view of the future security of the employees, the government re...

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Panic gripped Rajouri in Jammu and Kashmir after a suspected improvised explosive device (IED) was found near the Government Medical College and Hospital, a crowded area of the town, on Wednesday. This came just over a fortnight after the twin terror attacks in the district on January 1, followed by an IED explosion on January 2. Seven persons, including two minors, were killed in these two attacks.

A young man was assaulted mercilessly in Madhya Pradesh for allegedly molesting a woman. Six men have been arrested and a case has been filed by the police in Khandwa, where the assault took place. A video of the attack, which is being widely circulated on social media, show a group of men surrounding the man in the parking lot of a shopping mall. Initially they threaten him and demand that he answer their questions. Then they abuse him and start slapping him. He was then dragged in the middle of the room and two men with rods start hitting him. Police sources said the incident took place on January 3 and was reported to them the same day. The men allegedly responsible were arrested today, after the video went viral. Earlier today, with no arrest being made even after two weeks of the attack, a delegation of the local Muslim community met the district police chief. "The boy is a resident of Sahar village and a college student. There was a conspiracy against him. He was wrongly...

The 74th Republic Day celebrations will take place on the revamped Central Vista avenue, and the government has put 32,000 tickets on sale online for the masses, defence ministry officials said on Wednesday. For the first time, all official invites for the ceremonial event will be sent online, they said.

The Election Commission's announcement of Meghalaya Assembly poll on February 27 was welcomed by most political parties in the state, barring the BJP on Wednesday. The ruling alliance partners NPP, UDP and the opposition TMC and Congress welcomed the EC announcement and said they are ready for the poll battle. Meghalaya BJP was, however, discountenanced at the long time span between the announcement of the date and the holding of the election and said it will give "ample opportunity to major parties to influence voters". The EC Wednesday declared February 27 as the date of poll and March 2 for counting. The notification for the elections will be issued on January 31. Chief Minister Conrad P Sangma, who is also the president of the National People's Party, the major party in the ruling Meghalaya Democratic Alliance (MDA), welcomed the announcement of the poll. "We thank the EC for taking into account numerous factors while preparing for the election. We appea...

An image of a model question paper from a school in Bengal, asking students to mark "Azad Kashmir" on a map, has been widely distributed on social media, setting off a controversy ahead of Class 10 board exams. The school in question is Ramakrishna Mission Vivekananda Vidyamandir School of Malda. Pakistan and terrorist organisations refer to Pakistan-Occupied Kashmir as "Azad Kashmir".   Various schools and teachers' association, as well as the West Bengal Board of Secondary Education, issue model question papers every year to aid the preparations for board examinees. These are printed in a book format and Bengal board students solve them as part of their preparations.  Union Minister Subhas Sarkar, who has called for a state-level inquiry, told NDTV that the education ministry should stop selling the test paper and investigate the matter.   "They should find out who set the paper, find out who published it and take necessary action... Their mentality i...

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Six women and a young man on Tuesday unsuccessfully tried to set themselves on fire during a public hearing in the office of the Gwalior collector over the allotment of land, an official said. However, security guards present in the hall overpowered them after they doused themselves with kerosene and tried to light a match stick. "We were living on the land on which the district panchayat building was constructed in Sirol area in Gwalior for a long time but the administration forced us to vacate and allotted us another land which is not safe as it is surrounded by musclemen," one of the aggrieved women, Geeta Morya, told reporters. She alleged the administration has failed to act on their plea in the last ten months, which forced them to try to commit suicide. They demanded the administration allot them another piece of land. However, Sub-Divisional Magistrate (SDM) HB Sharma said the family of one Kadam Singh has encroached upon the government land and even after the co...

Retired director general of the Border Security Force (BSF) Pankaj Kumar Singh was on Monday appointed as deputy national security adviser. According to an official order, Mr Singh, a 1988-batch IPS officer of the Rajasthan cadre, has been appointed on a re-employment contract for a period of two years. Mr Singh retired as BSF chief on December 31, 2022. When he took charge of the BSF on August 31, 2021, he had created history of a son and a father holding the top post of a paramilitary force during their services. His father and retired IPS officer of the 1959-batch, Prakash Singh, had also headed the BSF from June, 1993 to January, 1994. Prakash Singh is considered an architect of police reforms in the country. He had petitioned the Supreme Court in 1996 for carrying out reforms in the police establishment following which the government started giving a fixed tenure of two years at least to the chief of the Intelligence Bureau, the CBI, foreign secretary, the RAW chief and the Un...

A migrant workers charity based in Singapore on Tuesday suspended a top Indian-origin employee following allegations of misappropriation of funds. In a statement, the Humanitarian Organisation for Migration Economics (HOME) said its executive director Deshi Gill was suspended until an internal inquiry, according to a Channel News Asia report. "After preliminary investigations, we believe there is a basis for suspected misconduct," said HOME, which handles migrant workers employed in labour-intensive industries, including those from India. HOME said it has notified the relevant authorities of the development. "HOME's board and staff will provide all necessary information as part of any investigations that will be carried out," it said. It did not divulge further details about the extent of fraud that Gill was allegedly associated with. Gill, who has been working with HOME since 2017, was appointed as the executive director in July 2021, according to a Faceb...

Mumbai witnessed a decline in casualties due to road accidents by 30 per cent in 2022 compared to the previous year thanks to the awareness campaigns conducted by the traffic police, a senior official said on Monday. At least 268 people were killed in 257 road accidents in the city last year, while 387 people lost their lives in 376 accidents in 2021, joint commissioner of police (Traffic) Pravin Padwal said. It is a good sign that in 2022 the traffic police recorded 30 per cent less deaths in road accidents compared to 2021, he said. The number of fatal accidents has also dropped and the decline can be attributed to the frequent awareness programmes and campaigns conducted by the traffic police, the official said during the road safety week, which will end on January 17. "We will launch more campaigns in the coming days to make people aware about traffic norms and ways to follow them," he said, adding that a Bollywood personality has also been roped in to be part of a dr...

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Congress leader Rahul Gandhi said that Punjab should be run from Punjab only and not from Delhi.

Three students were injured in a fight between two groups at Meerut College during which shots were allegedly fired, police said on Monday. The two groups clashed during the afternoon and the three students were injured, Senior Superintendent of Police Rohit Singh Sajwan told PTI. The trio is undergoing treatment at the district hospital, where their condition is said to be stable. Asked about shots being allegedly fired, Mr Sajwan said the police had received information about the firing. Mr Sajwan added that the FIR was being written on the police's behalf since the college administration had not lodged a complaint. Lalkurti police station in-charge Naresh Kumar said the three injured students were in police custody. One of the injured students said some outsiders had allegedly entered the campus. "They started fighting without any reason. One of them had a pistol. The police were informed about the incident. As soon as they arrived, the outsiders fled," he added...