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AAP Demands Seat-Sharing Discussion For All States In INDIA’s Mumbai Meet

August 31, 2023 admin

“The meeting was good,” said Arvind Kejriwal. (File) Mumbai: Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) leader Arvind Kejriwal on Thursday said his party demanded that seat-sharing across the country be discussed at the meeting of the Opposition’s INDIA alliance here. When asked what transpired at the informal meeting of the alliance leaders in the evening, the Delhi…

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Will Withdraw Notification On Dissolution Of Gram Panchayats: Punjab To High Court

August 31, 2023 admin

The Punjab government, through its August 10 notification, had dissolved all gram panchayats. Chandigarh: The Punjab government on Thursday told the Punjab and Haryana High Court that it is withdrawing its notification dissolving all gram panchayats in the state. The court was hearing a petition by Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) leader Gurjeet Singh Talwandi, who…

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Students Told To Give ‘No Torn Jeans’ Undertaking By Kolkata College

August 31, 2023 admin

The principal said the move to sign the affidavit was “to enforce strict discipline in the institute”. Kolkata: Kolkata-based AJC Bose College students described their principal’s instruction to sign an affidavit with the declaration that they will not wear torn or artificially torn jeans to college as a diktat interfering with their freedom of expression….

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Supreme Court Questions Convict Over Payment Of Fine

August 31, 2023 admin

Bilkis Bano was 21 years old and five months pregnant when she was gangraped in 2002.. New Delhi: The Supreme Court questioned one of the convicts in the Bilkis Bano gangrape case today about depositing the fine imposed on him when the hearing on the pleas challenging his remission was in progress. Appearing for convict…

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Woman Dragged, Beaten With Sticks In Madhya Pradesh, 3 Arrested: Cops

August 31, 2023 admin

She was apparently deranged, a senior police official said. (Representational) Sagar: Three persons were arrested in Madhya Pradesh’s Sagar city on Thursday after a video showing a woman being brutally thrashed at a bus stand went viral. She was apparently deranged, a senior police official said. The woman was dragged, beaten with sticks and kicked…

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Delhi Court Allows Stem Cell Therapy For 2 Children Suffering From Autism

August 31, 2023 admin

Two AIIMS doctors said stem cell therapy is allowed only for treating blood cancer (representational) New Delhi: The Delhi High Court on Thursday allowed two children suffering from autism spectrum disorder (ASD) to undergo stem cell therapy for treatment of their condition. The family members of the two children had approached the high court earlier…

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Taiwan, Malaysia, Philippines Join India In Rejection Of China’s “New Map”

August 31, 2023 admin

India on Tuesday lodged a strong protest with China over its so-called “standard map”. Beijing: Governments of the Philippines, Malaysia, Vietnam, and Taiwan on Thursday joined India in rejecting China’s new national map, issuing strongly worded statements accusing Beijing of claiming their territory. China published a new version of its national map on Monday to…

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8 Terrorists Arrested In Jammu And Kashmir, One Among Them Has A Government Job: Police

August 31, 2023 admin

They were facing charges of terrorism and disruptive activities, police said. Srinagar: Eight terrorists who evaded the law for three decades have been arrested in Jammu and Kashmir, police said on Thursday. One among them had even landed a government job. The State Investigation Agency (SIA) and Criminal Investigation Department (CID) made the arrests in…

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8-Month-Old Girl Slammed To The Ground By Mentally Challenged UP Man, Dies

August 31, 2023 admin

Shahjahanpur , UP: An eight-month-old girl died after she was allegedly picked up and thrown on the ground by a mentally disturbed man here on Thursday, an official said. Vaishali, a native of Hardoi, was waiting for a train at the railway station with her eight-month-old daughter on Thursday morning. The woman had made the…

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Bangladeshi Girl Dies At Nagpur Hospital Days After Emergency Landing

August 31, 2023 admin

The child died at 3.15 am on Thursday. Nagpur: A 15-month-old Bangladeshi girl, who was admitted in a critical state to a private hospital in Nagpur city on August 27 after her health deteriorated on board a Delhi-bound Vistara flight, died early on Thursday due to medical complications, an official of the hospital said. The…

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