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Nitish takes oath as Bihar CM for record eighth time

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leader Nitish Kumar on Wednesday took oath as Bihar chief minister for a record eighth time in a no-frills ceremony at Raj Bhavan, a day after snapping ties with the BJP-led NDA and joining hands with the RJD to form a Mahagathbandhan’ government. Kumar was sworn in besides RJD’s Tejashwi Yadav, who is likely to be designated as his deputy. A notification is likely to be issued tonight, naming him as the deputy chief minister. Other cabinet ministers will be sworn in later once the three main alliance partners —…

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LEGAL NEWS NEWS CATEGORIES 

Take prompt action to prevent disasters during monsoons: Kerala HC to state govt

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The Kerala High Court has said the state government has to “take proper and prompt action” to prevent disasters during monsoons and otherwise, and has initiated a public interest litigation (PIL) on its own to monitor flood relief activities in the southern state. It directed its registry to register the suo motu (on its own) petition by arraying the state and its departments of Local Self Government, Power and Water Resources, the Disaster Management Authority and the Kerala State Electricity Board (KSEB). The high court said, “Torrential rains in the…

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NEWS CATEGORIES WORLD NEWS 

US, Australia, Japan urge China to immediately cease military exercises

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The United States, Australia and Japan have urged China to immediately cease its military exercises and reaffirmed their commitment to maintaining peace and stability across the Taiwan Strait. A joint statement was issued by US Secretary of State Tony Blinken, Australian Foreign Minister Penny Wong, and Japanese Foreign Minister Hayashi Yoshimasa after their in-person meeting in Phnom Penh on the margins of the 55th ASEAN Foreign Ministers’ Meeting. The Secretary and the Foreign Ministers reaffirmed their commitment to maintaining peace and stability across the Taiwan Strait. They appreciated ASEAN’s statement…

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Stage set for Amit Shah’s maiden Odisha visit after becoming home minister

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Preparations are in full swing in Odisha to welcome Home Minister Amit Shah who will reach Bhubaneswar on Sunday night. The twin cities of Bhubaneswar and Cuttack are bedecked with posters, banners and placards of Shah, who will visit the state for the first time after becoming the home minister. Shah’s programmes will start with a visit to the Lingaraj Temple in Bhubaneswar on the last Monday of ‘Shravana’. He will then go to Cuttack to visit Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose’s birthplace in Odia bazaar. He will also lead a…

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ENTERTAINMENT NEWS CATEGORIES 

Heartening to know hard work is paying off: Arjun Kapoor

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Arjun Kapoor says he is elated that filmmakers are finally noticing the actor in him and finding him suitable for playing complex characters. The 37-year-old actor has been receiving positive reviews for his latest release Ek Villian Returns and prior to that Sandeep Aur Pinky Faraar emerged as a game changer for him. Arjun, who also has films such as Ishaqzaade “2 States”, “Gunday” and “Ki & Ka” to his credit, said he hopes to have a rising career graph with his upcoming slate which includes Vishal Bhardwaj-produced “Kuttey” and…

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LEGAL NEWS NEWS CATEGORIES 

SC agrees to hear plea seeking to declare ‘Ram Sethu’ a national heritage monument

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That the Government of India intends to explore an alternative to the earlier alignment of Skeletomuscular Ship Channel project without affecting/damaging the Adam’s Bridge/Ram Sethu in the interest of the nation,” the affidavit filed by the ministry had said. The court then asked the government to file a fresh affidavit. The Sethusamudram shipping channel project has been facing protests from some political parties, environmentalists and certain Hindu religious groups. Under the project, an 83 km water channel was to be created, linking Mannar with Palk Strait, by extensive dredging and…

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BUSINESS NEWS CATEGORIES 

Govt cuts windfall tax on diesel, ATF export; raises levy on domestic crude oil

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The government has halved the windfall tax on the export of diesel and scrapped the levy on jet fuel (ATF) shipments but raised the tax on domestically produced crude oil. The tax on the export of diesel was cut to Rs 5 per litre from Rs 11, according to an official notification issued on Tuesday evening. Export of petrol will continue to attract nil tax. The tax on domestically produced crude oil was hiked to Rs 17,750 per tonne from Rs 17,000, a move that will hit producers like ONGC…

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NEWS CATEGORIES WORLD NEWS 

Pelosi says US will not abandon Taiwan as China protests

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US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, meeting leaders in Taiwan despite warnings from China, said Wednesday that she and other members of Congress in a visiting delegation are showing they will not abandon their commitment to the self-governing island. Today the world faces a choice between democracy and autocracy, she said in a short speech during a meeting with Taiwan’s President Tsai Ing-wen. America’s determination to preserve democracy, here in Taiwan and around the world, remains ironclad. China, which claims Taiwan as its territory and opposes any engagement by Taiwanese officials…

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RS: Cong, Shiv Sena seek to raise misuse of probe agencies, disallowed by chairman

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The Congress and the Shiv Sena on Wednesday tried to raise the issue of alleged misuse of central investigating agencies by the government in the Rajya Sabha but Chairman M Venkaiah Naidu disallowed them from doing so. Leader of the Opposition and senior Congress leader M Mallikarjun Kharge and his colleague Deepender Singh Hooda, Shiv Sena’s Priyanka Chaturvedi and AAP’s Sanjay Singh and Raghav Chadha gave notices under rule 267 but they were not admitted. “You know my position. These are all notices not worth to be taken up under…

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LEGAL NEWS NEWS CATEGORIES 

SC to hear pleas against pre-poll promises of freebies & for MCD elections

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The Supreme Court on Tuesday is scheduled to hear a plea seeking direction to seize the symbol or deregister a party that promises or distributes irrational freebies before polls and a separate petition of the Aam Aadmi Party challenging postponement of MCD polls on grounds of delimitation of wards in the national capital. A bench headed by CJI N V Ramana on January 25 had issued notices to the Centre and the poll panel on the PIL of lawyer and BJP leader Ashwini Upadhyay seeking action against political parties for…

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