Category: NATIONAL NEWS

The BJP has suspended Khanpur MLA Kunwar Pranav Singh Champion from the party on charges of indiscipline. Champion’s three-month suspension follows preliminary investigations by the party into charges of indiscipline against him and that of threatening a journalist, Pradesh BJP general secretary Naresh Bansal told reporters late on Saturday evening. Champion cannot attend any of the meetings of the party or its legislators now for three months, Bansal said after a meeting of Pradesh BJP office bearers in Rishikesh. A video had gone viral recently in which Champion was purportedly…

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The government on Friday introduced the fresh triple talaq bill in the Lok Sabha amid vehement protests by opposition members who claimed that it was violative of the Constitution The Muslim Women (Protection of Rights on Marriage) Bill 2019 became the first legislation to be tabled in Parliament by the Narendra Modi dispensation in its second term, with Law Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad asserting the legislation was a must for gender equality and justiceThe bill was introduced following a division of votes, with 186 members supporting and 74 opposing it“This…

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Three more children suffering from Acute Encephalitis Syndrome (AES) have died here since Wednesday evening, taking the total number of deaths caused due to the outbreak to 118, the district administration said Thursday.While two deaths were reported from the SKMCH hospital — raising the toll at the government healthcare facility to 97 — another child died at privately-owned Kejriwal hospital, where the total number of casualties has reached 20.One death was reported from East Champaran district two days ago. The total number of AES cases registered since June 1 was…

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TRS President and Telangana Chief Minister K Chandrasekhar Rao would not attend Wednesday’s meeting called by Prime Minister Narendra Modi to discuss the “one nation, one election” issue, among others.K T Rama Rao, Working President of the party and son of the Chief Minister, would represent the TRS (Telangana Rashtra Samiti) in the meeting, a senior leader said Tuesday.”Working President K T Rama Rao will attend”, TRS Parliamentary Pary leader K Keshava Rao told DIN.KCR, as the Chief Minister is popularly known as, had skipped the Prime Minister’s swearing-in ceremony…

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Asserting that there are “serious doubts” over EVM, senior Congress leader M Veerappa Moily has sought a referendum on whether it should be used in the electoral process or ballot papers be brought back.He also emphasised that such a referendum should be conducted on ballot papers and not on electronic voting machines (EVMs) over which he claimed there was a trust deficit.”Everybody is suspecting EVM. This is a very serious matter and there is serious doubt on EVM. I think many countries like the US after having used EVM have…

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The first session of the 17th Lok Sabha will commence from Monday during which the passage of the Union Budget and other key legislations such as triple talaq will be on top of the agenda for the governmentPrime Minister Narendra Modi, chairing an all-party meeting on the eve of the first session of the new Lok Sabha, invited heads of all parties to a meeting on June 19 to discuss the “one nation, one election” issue and other important mattersNoting that there are many new faces in this Lok Sabha,…

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Patients in the national capital faced hardships for the second consecutive day as protest by doctors, in solidarity with their striking colleagues in Kolkata, spread to several government hospitals on Saturday.Doctors at the Centre-run Lady Hardinge Medical College and Hospital, and RML Hospital, and Delhi government’s healthcare facilities such as GTB Hospital, Dr Baba Saheb Ambedkar Hospital, Sanjay Gandhi Memorial Hospital and DDU Hospital, boycotted work and held protests.However, emergency and ICU services were not hampered in these hospitals.Meanwhile resident doctors of AIIMS and Safdarjung Hospital, who resumed work after…

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Tripura Chief Minister Biplab Kumar Deb is keen to operationalize the Indo-Bangla waterway project at the earliest as it could be a game changer in the states communicaton system, a senior official said Wednesday. The proposed waterway project will connect Tripuras Gomati river with Meghna river of Bangladesh to get access to Ashuganj port of the neighbouring country.Presently ships and steamers ply from Haldia in West Bengal to Dawodkandi in Bangladesh, which is only 80 km from Tripura’s Sonamura sub-division in Sepahijala district.At a meeting with the planning department on…

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Six of the seven accused in the horrific gangrape-and-murder case of an eight-year-old girl in Jammu and Kashmir’s Kathua were convicted by a court here on Monday, lawyers said.A seventh accused, namely Vishal — son of main accused Sanji Ram — was acquitted by the court, giving him the ‘benefit of doubt’, said Farooqi Khan, who represented the victim’s family in the court.The court pronounced its much-awaited verdict away from the gaze of media which has gathered outside the premises.Sanji Ram, the caretaker of the temple where the crime took…

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