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Iraqi protesters torch buildings, block roads over PM pick

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Iraqi anti-government protesters blocked roads and bridges in Baghdad and the country’s south Thursday after torching several buildings overnight.The demonstrators oppose the entire political class and have vented their anger against leaders who are negotiating to nominate an establishment insider as the next prime minister.”The government is hostage to corrupt parties and sectarian divisions”, said one activist, Sattar Jabbar, 25, in the southern city of Nasiriyah.Smoke and flames from burning tyres in Nasiriyah, Basra and Diwaniyah blocked major roads and bridges across the Euphrates all night, AFP correspondents said, before…

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Fear of speaking out, irrelevance: Anurag, Zoya, Dibakar list what scares artistes

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From never being able to find one’s true potential to putting loved ones at risk by speaking out are some of the fears that “Ghost Stories” directors Anurag Kashyap, Dibakar Banerjee and Zoya Akhtar battle in their lives.Kashyap, who has supported the nationwide protests against the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA), says speaking out against the establishment means putting people close to him and his work at risk.”I don’t want anyone else to be at risk because of what I do, especially the people I love. When I go on Twitter…

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GST Council to set up grievance redressal mechanism for taxpayers

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The GST Council will set up a grievance redressal mechanism for taxpayers.The decision was taken at the 38th meeting of the GST Council held on December 18. It has decided that a structured grievance redressal mechanism should be established for the taxpayers under GST to tackle grievances on GST-related issues of specific and general nature, an official statement said on Wednesday.The council will set up the Grievance Redressal Committee (GRC) at zonal and state levels consisting of both central tax and state tax officers, representatives of trade and industry and…

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JU students “rusticate” chancellor Jagdeep Dhankhar, call himspecless

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On the warpath with West Bengal Governor Jagdeep Dhankhar, students of Jadavpur University on Thursday “rusticated” him as the chancellor over his stand on a host of issues, including the contentious Citizenship Act.In an “open letter” that addressed Dhankhar as ‘Ex- Chancellor’, two students’ bodies–Arts Faculty Students Union (AFSU) and Faculty of Engineering and Technology Students Union (FETSU)– said he was being “rusticated” from his position of the chancellor.The letter alleged that the governor was present on university premises in the evening of September 19 “along with miscreants who hurled…

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SC acquits mother of charge of strangulating infant daughter

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A mother, who was convicted and sentenced to life imprisonment for allegedly strangulating her baby hours after her birth as she was a girl, has got relief from the Supreme Court which acquitted her by saying that it was “totally unnatural” for the woman to kill her own child.The apex court, while allowing the appeal filed by the woman challenging the March 2010 judgement of the Delhi High Court upholding her conviction and sentence, said there was no “clear evidence on record” to hold her guilty of the offence.”It is…

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Pak govt denies permission to Maryam Nawaz to travel abroad

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The Pakistan government has denied permission to PML-N vice president Maryam Nawaz to travel abroad, saying those involved in any economic crime and institutional fraud could not be allowed to leave the country, according to a media report on Monday.Maryam, the 46-year-old daughter of Pakistan’s former prime minister Nawaz Sharif, was placed on the no-fly list in August 2018 in an alleged corruption case.”The rules concerning placement of the name of persons on Exit Control List (ECL) do not allow the government to entertain her application to remove her name…

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Sri Lankan captain declares Paksitan ‘200%’ safe

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Sri Lanka might have lost the series but signed off satisfied with safety and security measures in Pakistan after the country’s first home test series in 10 years.Captain Dimuth Karunaratne called the security for the two-test series “200 percent” and promised to return.The series held major significance for a host nation deprived of all forms of international cricket for almost a decade.Pakistan had been forced to play its home series outside the country, mostly in the United Arab Emirates, since 2009, when the bus carrying the Sri Lankan team was…

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Vice President Venkaiah Naidu honours winners at 66th National Film Awards

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Vice President Venkaiah Naidu on Monday presented the National Film Awards to this year’s winners with actors Vicky Kaushal, Ayushmann Khurrana and Keerthy Suresh receiving top honours.Megastar Amitabh Bachchan, who was supposed to receive the Dadasaheb Phalke Award at the ceremony, skipped the event citing ill health. The 77-year-old actor will now be honoured by President Ram Nath Kovind on December 29 at a high-tea, to be hosted at Rashtrapati Bhavan for all the winners.Naidu said he was happy that films which were recognised at the 66th edition of National…

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White paper to reduce tax burden on steel sector in the offing

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The government will soon come out with a white paper on steel industry that will focus on ways to reduce the tax-related expenditure in the sector and make it competitive, Union minister Dharmendra Pradhan said on Monday.The task will be completed in three-four months with the help of NITI Aayog and other ministries concerned, he said at an industry event here.The steel minister said he will on behalf of his ministry assign a task to NITI Aayog and ask the think tank to discuss ways with all the government departments,…

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Why BJP didn’t grant full farm loan waiver when in power? Sena

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Hailing the Uddhav Thackeray-led Maharashtra government for declaring loan waiver of up to Rs two lakh for farmers, the Shiv Sena on Monday hit out at the BJP for seeking to write off debts fully and asked why it did not address the issue when it was in power.In a veiled attack on the BJP-led central government, the Shiv Sena, in its party mouthpiece ‘Saamana’, noted that the Thackeray government took the decision of farm loan waiver at a time when the country is “burning” over the issue of the…

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