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Pak PM reluctant to take stern action against JuD: Report

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Pakistan Prime Minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi reversed his decision to take stern action against Hafiz Saeed-led Jamaat-ud-Dawa and Falah-i- Insaniyat Foundation fearing that any such move could trigger a political crisis, a media report said today. Pakistan has come under intense pressure to rein in terror groups after US President Donald Trump accused the country of harbouring terrorists and suspended nearly USD 2 billion in security assistance to it. The JuD is believed to be the front organisation for the LeT which is responsible for carrying out the Mumbai attack…

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Naxals torch JCB machines at road construction site in C’garh

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Naxals today set ablaze two JCB machines engaged in road construction work in Chhattisgarh’s insurgency-hit Sukma district, police said. No one was reported to be hurt in the incident, they said. The incident took place at Vardeltong village under Polampalli police station limits, a local police official told PTI. A road is being constructed in the area, which is around 500 km from the state capital Raipur, under the Prime Minister’s Gram Sadak Yojna (PMGSY). Two JCB machines were torched by a group of armed rebels, the official said. Yesterday,…

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Punjab CM to meet Canadian PM; red carpet roll out for dignitary

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Punjab Chief Minister Amarinder Singh and Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau will hold a meeting in Amritsar on February 21, officials said today ending long-standing uncertainty. Chief Minister Captain Amarinder Singh is all set to take Punjab’s close business as well as people-to-people relations with Canada to the next level, with a one-to-one meeting with visiting Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau in Amritsar on Wednesday, said an official spokesperson here. “Look forward to meeting Canadian Prime Minister @JustinTrudeau in Amritsar on Wednesday. I’m hopeful that this meeting will help strengthen…

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Manavaditya Rathore wins silver shotgun meet

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The promising Manavaditya Singh Rathore has won a silver medal in the Qatar Open Shotgun meet in Lusail, Qatar. Participating in the junior men’s trap event, Manavaditya shot 118 to finish second on the podium behind Italy’s Angelo Scalzone, who shot 119. Germany’s Jeremy Schulz won the bronze medal with a score of 115. Son of Sports Minister and Athens Olympics silver medallist Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore, the 19-year-old Manavaditya started with 23 in the first series of 25 shots and improved it to 24 in the next three series, but…

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Women I play on screen are an extension of me: Vidya Balan

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Vidya Balan picked powerful women characters even before “female-centric cinema” became mainstream in Bollywood and the actor, who has pioneered a change in the concept of the Hindi film heroine in the last decade, says her choices are often guided by her personal experiences. Vidya has successfully established herself as an actor par excellence with films such as “Parineeta”, “Ishqiya”, “No One Killed Jessica”, “The Dirty Picture”, “Kahaani” and “Begum Jaan” among others. But she says the films that are among her personal favourites and have become turning points in…

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1892 & 1924 pacts on Cauvery neither inoperative nor extinct: SC

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The Supreme Court has held that two pre-independence agreements of 1892 and 1924 between the erstwhile princely state Mysore — now a part of Karnataka — and the Madras Presidency on the allocation of Cauvery river water covers the areas of larger public interest and hence, they are “neither inoperative nor completely extinct”. The apex court, by its crucial verdict to resolve the decades-old dispute between the southern riparian states over Cauvery water-sharing, has enhanced Karnataka’s share by 14.75 tmcft and reduced Tamil Nadu’s quantum. The verdict was delivered on…

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PILs in SC for strict population control measures

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Three separate petitions have been filed in the Supreme Court seeking a direction to the Centre to ensure strict population control measures by adopting a two-child policy and reward or punish those who adhere or fail to follow it. The petitions, filed by advocates Anuj Saxena, Prathvi Raj Chauhan and Priya Sharma, claimed that statistics relating to population growth indicate that by 2022, the population of India is likely to pass the 1.5 billion mark. The PILs, which are likely to come up for hearing next week, also said that…

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ED conducts searches at Gitanjali Gems stores in city malls

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The Enforcement Directorate (ED) today conducted search operations at Gitanjali Gems stores located in shopping malls here and at Rajarhat, in connection with the Rs 11,400-crore Punjab National Bank fraud. The name of Mehul Choksi, the owner of the stores, features in the multi-crore rupees fraud. A senior ED official told PTI that its officers conducted searches at five malls which house Gitanjali Gems stores, including in Salt Lake and Rajarhat. PNB has detected the scam in which billionaire diamond merchant Nirav Modi allegedly acquired fraudulent letters of undertaking (LoUs)…

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PNB Fraud: Officials of other banks under scanner

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As investigations into the Rs 11,400 crore scam at PNB gather momentum, officials at overseas branches of other banks, where the fraudulently issued Letter of Undertakings (LoUs) were encashed, are under scanner, sources said. Officials of Hong Kong branches of Indian lenders including Allahabad Bank, State Bank of India (SBI), Union Bank, UCO Bank and Axis Bank are part of the entire fraud which continued for 7 years. As per the guidelines, the tenure for the encashment of LoUs for the jems and jewellery sector is usually of 90 days…

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Israel advances bill cutting Palestinian funding over ‘terror’

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Ministers today greenlighted a bill allowing Israel to withhold tax monies it collects for the Palestinian Authority by the same amount as stipends that the PA pays to jailed militants. Defence Minister Avigdor Lieberman, whose ministry drafted the bill, welcomed the vote in a ministerial committee, the first step toward sending it to parliament to be passed into law. “Soon there will be an end to this theatre of absurd,” he wrote in Hebrew on Twitter, adding that the money confiscated would be used “to prevent terror and compensate victims”.…

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