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Rajasthan Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot on Monday allocated portfolios to ministers of his expanded cabinet, retaining home and finance with him. Twelve new ministers were inducted and three ministers of state were elevated to the cabinet rank. The 15 ministers were sworn in on Sunday for the expanded Gehlot cabinet, fulfilling a key demand of former deputy chief minister Sachin Pilot whose rebellion last year shook the state’s Congress government. Along with the finance and the home portfolios, the chief minister has kept taxation, personnel, general administration, cabinet secretariat, information…

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“700 Lives”: BJP’s Varun Gandhi Needles PM On Delaying Farm Laws’ Rollback

November 20, 2021November 20, 2021 strong

Varun Gandhi has been censured by the BJP for speaking out of step with the party’s line in recent months. BJP MP Varun Gandhi, who has been increasingly offering views divergent from his party, on Saturday posted online a letter to Prime Minister Narendra Modi, listing four big demands following the centre’s surprise cancellation of the controversial farm laws. Reminding the Prime Minister that over 700 farmers would have still been alive had he taken the decision earlier, the MP demanded ₹ 1 crore compensation for those who died in the course of…

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Board exams: Don’t mess up with education system, says SC; refuses to direct for hybrid mode option

November 19, 2021November 19, 2021 strong

“Don’t mess up with the education system”, the Supreme Court said on Thursday while refusing to direct the CBSE and the CISCE to provide option of hybrid mode, instead of only offline mode, to the students for appearing in class 10 and 12 board examinations amid the COVID-19 pandemic. Observing that this last-minute business should be discouraged, the apex court said it would not be appropriate to intervene and disturb the entire examination process at this stage. The top court noted that term one board exams of the Central Board…

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GDP likely to grow at 10 pc in FY22, says Bibek Debroy

November 19, 2021November 19, 2021 strong

India’s economy is moving towards a higher growth trajectory and is likely to grow at around 10 per cent in 2021-22, Economic Advisory Council to the Prime Minister (EAC-PM) Chairman Bibek Debroy said on Wednesday. I am confident that we are on a path towards a higher growth trajectory, higher poverty reduction, higher employment, and a prosperous, more developed and better governed India. I think it is, more or less, agreed that the real rate of growth this year (FY2022) is going to be around 10 per cent, Debroy said…

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COVID-19 deaths in Russia hit record for 2nd straight day

November 19, 2021November 19, 2021 strong

Coronavirus deaths in Russia hit record highs for the second straight day Thursday, while new daily cases appeared to be taking a downward trend but still remained higher than during previous waves of the pandemic. Russia’s state coronavirus task force reported that 1,251 people died of COVID-19 since the day before, the most since Russia had its first virus outbreak in March 2020. The previous record of 1,247 deaths was recorded Wednesday. The task force also reported 37,374 new confirmed cases. Until this week, Russian authorities had recorded higher daily…

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Govt to repeal farm laws, protesting farmers should return home: PM

November 19, 2021November 19, 2021 strong

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday announced that the government has decided to repeal the three farm laws, which were at the centre of protests by farmers for the past year, and appealed to the protesting farmers to return home Addressing the nation on the auspicious occasion of Guru Nanak Jayanti, Modi insisted that the laws were in the benefit of farmers and then apologised to people of the country while adding that the government could not convince a section of farmers despite its clear heart and clean conscience. “There…

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Felt robbed of our privacy: Tom Holland on viral photos with Zendaya

November 18, 2021November 18, 2021 strong

Tom Holland says the downside of being a popular actor is the lack of privacy he gets in the public as the British star opened up about his relationship with “Spider-Man” movies co-star Zendaya. In July, the two stars, who have for a long time denied dating each other, were photographed kissing in a car in the Silver Lake neighbourhood of Los Angeles. The photos spread like a wildfire on social media and news websites in the US, fuelling speculation about their relationship. In a profile interview with GQ magazine,…

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Sensex sinks for third day; IT, auto stocks weigh

November 18, 2021November 18, 2021 strong

Equity benchmarks buckled under selling pressure for the third session on the trot on Thursday as bearish global cues and a disappointing market debut for Paytm unnerved investors. The 30-share BSE Sensex tumbled 372.32 points or 0.62 per cent to finish at 59,636.01. Similarly, the NSE Nifty dived 133.85 points or 0.75 per cent to 17,764.80. M&M was the top loser in the Sensex pack, shedding 3.28 per cent, followed by Tech Mahindra, HCL Tech, L&T, Tata Steel, IndusInd Bank and Maruti. Only six index constituents managed to close in…

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Most important ingredient of sexual assault is sexual intent, not skin-to-skin contact: SC

November 18, 2021November 18, 2021 strong

The Supreme Court on Thursday quashed the controversial skin-to-skin judgement of the Bombay High Court in a case under the POCSO Act, saying the most important ingredient constituting sexual assault is sexual intent and not skin-to-skin contact with the child. The high court had held that no offence of sexual assault under the POCSO Act is made out if there is no direct skin-to-skin contact between an accused and victim. A bench headed by Justice U U Lalit set aside the high court judgement, and said the act of touching…

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China rejects US allegations of violation of religious freedom

November 18, 2021November 18, 2021 strong

China on Thursday slammed the US for designating it along with Pakistan and others as ‘countries of particular concern’ for the violation of religious freedom and accused Washington of frequently using religious issues to interfere in the internal affairs of other nations. The US on Wednesday designated several nations, including China, Pakistan, Iran, North Korea and Myanmar, as countries of particular concern for having engaged in or tolerated systematic, ongoing, and egregious violations of religious freedom.” China firmly opposes groundless accusations as it smears the country’s religious freedom, Foreign Ministry…