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21 Feb

Modi vows to tackle stray cattle issue in U.P.

editor0 CommentsPoliticalPM Modi, Uttar Pradesh

With homeless cows arising as a significant survey issue in Uttar Pradesh, Prime Minister Narendra Modi Sunday said another strategy will be acquainted with tackle it after March 10, when political decision results will be reported, adding that pay can be produced using the compost of creatures. Talking in Unnao Sunday, Modi said: "Whole UP is adulating the endeavors of Yogiji's administration to control floods. Aap logon ko chutta jaanvaron se jo pareshani hoti hai, ussey dur karne ke liye, 10 March ke baad nayi vyavasthayen banayi jayengi. Aur Unnao ke simple bhai-beheno, simple ye shabd likh kar rakhiye, ye…

21 Feb

Security tightened in Karnataka’s Shivamogga

editor0 CommentsCrime, India, Political

Prohibitory orders reportedly imposed in Karnataka’s Shivamogga after the killing of a 26-year-old Bajrang Dal activist Harsha. Shivamogga deputy commissioner Selvamani R said that Section 144 of the CrPC has been imposed in the area. Home minister Araga Jnanendra said that schools and colleges in the city limits will remain shut for two days as a precautionary measure. The minister met the family members of the victim and promised of swift action in the act. He also said, “We have already got a clue, but I cannot share much as the investigation is underway. The satisfactory part is that we…

21 Feb

After student leader is killed in Howrah, students block road in Kolkata

editor0 CommentsPolitical, West Bengal

An understudy head of the Indian Secular Front was purportedly killed at Amta in Howrah locale, around 50 km west of Kolkata, by four unidentified individuals in the early long periods of Saturday. While one of the denounced was wearing a police uniform and was conveying a gun, the rest were wearing regalia of city volunteers. Relatives claimed that the casualty Anish Khan was lost from the subsequent floor. Following the episode, understudies of Aliah University obstructed the seven-point Park Circus crossing in Kolkata and took out a flame light walk. A fight broke out when the protestors attempted to…

21 Feb

Sec 144 in Shivamogga after Bajrang Dal lobbyist’s homicide, Karnataka serve denies hijab column point

editor0 CommentsCrime, Politicalkarnataka

Section 144 was forced in the Shivamogga region of Karnataka following a 23-year-old Bajrang Dal extremist was killed on Sunday night. He was taken to the Mc Gann locale clinic where he died. Karnataka Home Minister Araga Jnanendra said that the matter was not connected with the continuous hijab line in the state. "However, we really want to sit tight for additional examinations prior to coming to an end result," he said. Araga Jnanendra addressed the group of the perished, who was a designer, in Shivamogga. "The homicide happened at 9:30 pm on Sunday. The police have revealed a few…

18 Feb

Amid rift, Abhishek Banerjee reappointed as TMC national general secretary

editor0 CommentsPoliticalTMC

Abhishek Banerjee was appointed Trinamool Congress national general secretary a working committee meeting on Kolkata on Friday. Party supremo Mamata Banerjee, chairing the first working committee meeting since all posts were dissolved on February 12, retained nephew Abhishek in a post he held earlier. Emerging out of the meeting, senior party leader Partha Chatterjee said, “Yashwant Sinha, Subrata Bakshi and Chandrima Bhattacharya will be the party national vice-presidents; Sukhendu Sekhar Ray will be the national spokesperson.” The rift inside the party came to the fore on several occasions, the latest being the tweets of Abhishek loyalists on one-man-one-post which the…

18 Feb

Calcutta High Court Dismisses PIL Seeking Removal Of WB Governor Jagdeep Dhankhar

editor0 CommentsPoliticalCalcutta High Court, Jagdeep Dhankhar

The Calcutta High Court on Friday dismissed a petition seeking the removal of West Bengal Governor Jagdeep Dhankhar on grounds that he was destroying the spirit of federalism. A Bench of Chief Justice Pakash Shrivastava and Justice Rajarshi Bharadwaj dismissed the petition filed by lawyer Rama Prasad Sarkar on the grounds that the court, even with the limited scope of judicial review in the case, was not satisfied that the material placed along with the petition furnished any ground to entertain the plea. Chief Justice Srivastava observed that Article 361 of the Constitution provides that the Governor shall not be…

18 Feb

‘Uncalled for’: India objects to Singapore PM’s remarks on democracy

editor0 CommentsInternational, Political

Discussing how a democracy should work in Singapore, the country's Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong, on Tuesday, 15 February, during a Parliamentary session, invoked Jawaharlal Nehru, India's first prime minister. Starting with what actions the parliament should debate on, having received the report of the Committee of Privileges (CoP) on complaints about untruths spoken by the previous lawmaker of the Workers' Party Raeesah Khan, he put forth three fundamental questions to discuss. Delivering a speech in Singapore’s Parliament on February 15 on a report by the Committee of Privileges, which was looking into charges of lying by members of the…

15 Feb

Lalu Prasad convicted in Rs 139-crore Doranda treasury case, fifth in fodder scam

editor0 CommentsPoliticalbihar, Lalu Prasad Yadav

Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) supremo Lalu Prasad Yadav was convicted on Tuesday in the Rs 139.35-crore Doranda treasury scam, the fifth fodder case in which he was named as a conspirator. Yadav, who was then the chief minister of Bihar, was named in the scam relating to embezzlement in the state’s animal husbandry department between 1991 and 1996. Prasad had earlier been sentenced to 14 years in jail in four other fodder scam cases. "Lalu Prasad has been convicted. The quantum of punishment will be pronounced on February 18," the CBI counsel said. The court of Special CBI Judge SK…

15 Feb

Lakhimpur Kheri violence: Ashish Misra, accused of running over farmers, walks out of jail

editor0 CommentsPoliticalUttar Pradesh

Union minister Ajay Misra's son Ashish Misra, who was arrested in connection with the Lakhimpur Kheri violence case, walked out of jail on Tuesday after he was granted bail. Ashish Misra was released from jail after he was granted bail by the Lucknow bench of the Allahabad High Court. Ashish Misra's lawyers submitted two bail bonds of Rs 3 lakh each in regards to his bail orders on Monday. Ashish Misra was arrested on October 9 last year in connection with the violence that erupted in Uttar Pradesh's Lakhimpur Kheri. On October 3, 2021, eight people, including four farmers, were…

14 Feb

Mamata Banerjee Announces Goutam Deb as Siliguri Mayor

editor0 CommentsPoliticalGoutam Deb, Mamata Banerjee

Mamata Banerjee, West Bengal Chief Minister, announced former State Minister Gautam Deb as the next mayor of Siliguri after Trinamul wrested the Siliguri Municipal Corporation board from the Left Front after seven years, making it a defeat 4-0 lead in this round of the civic polls before leaving for North Bengal on Monday. Goutam Deb won from ward 33 of the Siliguri Municipal Corporation by over 3,000 votes. The timing of Mamatas’s visit to North Bengal, the visit when the Trinamul has wrested the only municipal corporation run by the Left in the state, could not have been better. Seven…