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21 Feb

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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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…

12 Feb

PM Modi slams Congress over dynastic politics

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In a severely critical attack at the grand old party on Friday, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said that not a single Congress leader is visiting Uttarakhand only the siblings are campaigning because they don't want to save the country, they only want to save The Gandhi family. "Such an old party, but did any of their leaders come here? Only a brother and sister come at times; because they don't want to save the country, they only want to save a family. Today, their own leaders do not want to be with the party. Then, how can they give anything…

11 Feb

UP Police Registers FIR Against Congress In Moradabad

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A case was filed by the Uttar Pradesh Police after a "roadshow-like situation" happened during Congress leader Rizwan Qureshi's door-to-door campaign in Moradabad. Qureshi, a candidate from Moradabad, held a door-to-door campaign in the constituency along with the party's General Secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra on Thursday. However, as per the police, the campaign looked like a roadshow. Moradabad Superintendent of Police (SP) Akhilesh Bhadoria told, "Congress candidate Rizwan had taken permission for a door-to-door campaign but it was seen that a roadshow-like situation had emerged with people atop of the car with him. As per Sector Magistrate's complaint, a case…

10 Feb

Karnataka BJP MLA’s Rape Comment, Then An Apology

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On the basis of Hijab Row, Karnataka BJP MLA MP Renukacharya on Wednesday claimed that rape cases are increasing as some dresses worn by women 'excite' men, as he tried to make his case for girl students in colleges to either wear uniform or dress that fully cover their body. Later realising that his remarks would lead to controversy, the political secretary to the Chief Minister said that he would apologise to women, if his statement has hurt them. The Honnali MLA was reacting to Congress leader Priyanka Gandhi Vadra's tweet regarding the hijab row. "Whether it is a bikini,…