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Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal fined  Rs 25k as Gujarat HC junks CIC's PM Modi degree order

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Kejriwal tweeted, "Doesn't the country even have the right to know how much the PM has studied?" while BJP said he was "peddling lies" against Modi. from India News | Latest News Headlines & Live Updates from India - Times of India https://ift.tt/ZenmRPN

Three more covered stepwells found within 1km radius of Indore temple where 36 perished

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TOI found 3 more stepwells in a 1km radius of the tragedy site and they too have been covered with iron grille and have structures, including a temple, around them. In 1970, there were records of 1,400 wells in Indore. from India News | Latest News Headlines & Live Updates from India - Times of India https://ift.tt/9fPVaD8

Indore death toll touches 36 as 22 more bodies fished out

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Twenty-one of those killed were women. There were three children among the dead, including a one-and-a-half-year-old boy whose parents could only watch in horror as he plunged into the well just inches away from them. His body was among the last to be found as the dead were stacked on top of each other in the 50-foot-deep well. from India News | Latest News Headlines & Live Updates from India - Times of India https://ift.tt/SLf60u4

Automatic Fitness testing deadline extended by 18 months

The ministry has extended the timeline considering that so far only seven automated testing stations (ATS) have been set up, which is inadequate to meet the countrywide requirement. The earlier deadline was April 1, 2023. from India News | Latest News Headlines & Live Updates from India - Times of India https://ift.tt/iYmZ3Xo

Is funding of religious education violation of constitution, HC asks Centre, UP

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Rajasthan pvt hospitals stay shut for 12th day, patients hit

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While government facilities were grossly overburdened in the first few days of the strike, the situation seems to have stabilised. "Due to the strike, patients from other states have stopped coming to Rajasthan for now," said Dr Achal Sharma, superintendent of Jaipur's SMS Hospital, the largest government health facility in the state. Rajasthan draws a sizable patient load from neighbouring states owing to its relatively better healthcare infrastructure. from India News | Latest News Headlines & Live Updates from India - Times of India https://ift.tt/dPKDhfy

One killed in Maharashtra clashes; violence in Bengal, Gujarat too

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One person died from an alleged bullet wound during clashes on Thursday in Maharashtra's Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar on Ram Navami and scores of others were injured in skirmishes in Bengal's Howrah and Gujarat's Vadodara. from India News | Latest News Headlines & Live Updates from India - Times of India https://ift.tt/czgNwut

A day after blast in Kathua border village, live grenade found during search op

A powerful blast occurred in a border village along the International Border in Hiranagar area of J&K’s Kathua district on Wednesday night, triggering panic among the locals. from India News | Latest News Headlines & Live Updates from India - Times of India https://ift.tt/4OBNFUQ

Udhampur IED blasts: NIA files chargesheets against 2 LeT men

Two civilians were injured in two separate IED blasts in parked buses within eight hours on September 28 and 29 in Udhampur district, barely four days ahead of a visit by Union home minister Amit Shah to J&K. from India News | Latest News Headlines & Live Updates from India - Times of India https://ift.tt/elGiYQL

Enacting uniform civil laws Parliament's domain: SC

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Disposing of a PIL filed by advocate Ashwini Upadhyay, the SC on Wednesday said it was within Parliament's exclusive domain to enact uniform marriage, divorce, adoption, and succession laws applicable to all religious communities. from India News | Latest News Headlines & Live Updates from India - Times of India https://ift.tt/5gK1Tlk

We will wait: CEC on bypoll for Wayanad

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While announcing bypolls to the Jalandhar Lok Sabha seat and four assembly seats on Wednesday, the Election Commission held back on the Wayanad LS seat, saying it would rather wait for the aggrieved party (Congress' Rahul Gandhi, who stands disqualified as MP) to avail himself of judicial remedy in the 30 days given by the court. from India News | Latest News Headlines & Live Updates from India - Times of India https://ift.tt/cLpXZ2x

Rajasthan HC: Multiple botch-ups by a callous ATS

The court order mentions how the ATS had overlooked the difference between the pellets found in the victims' bodies and those presented as evidence. from India News | Latest News Headlines & Live Updates from India - Times of India https://ift.tt/qctjUD2

Is state impotent to take timely action against hate speech mongers, asks SC

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"Is the state impotent? Can't it take timely action against hate speech mongers? If it can't take, why do we have a state at all?" These posers came from the Supreme Court Wednesday on a petition seeking contempt proceedings against Maharashtra for inaction against hate speeches by Hindu organisations despite undertaking to prevent it. from India News | Latest News Headlines & Live Updates from India - Times of India https://ift.tt/7amdHE3

Disqualified NCP MP reinstated in Lok Sabha hours before SC hearing

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Two months after the order of the Kerala high court's January 25 order staying P P Mohammad Faizal's conviction, the Lok Sabha secretariat restored the membership of the disqualified Lakshadweep MP (of NCP) - just hours before the Supreme Court was set to take up his petition against the delay. from India News | Latest News Headlines & Live Updates from India - Times of India https://ift.tt/PlYJrUD

NGT recalls Aug '22 order over Mumbai Coastal Road noise levels passed without hearing HCC

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The August 2022 order by NGT was in an application filed by a south Mumbai resident Dileep Nevatia who had sought orders to direct the government and civic administration to “maintain air and noise quality level for construction of the Coastal Road (South) project within limits’’ specified under the Noise Pollution rules. from India News | Latest News Headlines & Live Updates from India - Times of India https://ift.tt/7SdUtva

40% Army of f icers retire with disability pension

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As many as 36%-40% of officers who retire every year get disability pension, which is much higher than the normal one, while only 15%-18% of the jawans get it. Moreover, the percentage of medical officers retiring with disability pension is "significantly higher" at 44-58% as compared to other officers in the 12-lakh Army. from India News | Latest News Headlines & Live Updates from India - Times of India https://ift.tt/EOxMmoW

CAG: Rs 11 lakh crore I-T arrears till '17-18, 98% of them 'difficult to recover'

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Doon cricket coach Harendra Shah booked in sex scandal

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Harendra Shah, the former coach of a top cricketer who recently represented India as part of the senior women's squad, has been booked for sexual harassment, intimidation and use of casteist slurs following a complaint by three girls training at his popular academy in Dehradun. from India News | Latest News Headlines & Live Updates from India - Times of India https://ift.tt/2oNhfg5

Watching Rahul Gandhi's case in India courts, says US

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Respect for the rule of law and judicial independence is the cornerstone of any democracy, the US has said, adding that it is watching Rahul Gandhi's court case that resulted in his disqualification from the Lok Sabha. from India News | Latest News Headlines & Live Updates from India - Times of India https://ift.tt/1WAdbRJ

Atiq Ahmed can do anything even from jail: Umesh Pal's mom

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Umesh's mother Shanti Devi said she had "full faith" in the country's judiciary, but expressed apprehension that Atiq "can do anything even from jail". "I request the court to award him capital punishment for getting my son killed," she said, alluding to the case pertaining to her son's murder. from India News | Latest News Headlines & Live Updates from India - Times of India https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/atiq-ahmed-can-do-anything-even-from-jail-umesh-pals-mom/articleshow/99073807.cms

Why target one community with hate speech charge: SG Tushar Mehta

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Citing a media report, Pasha said despite the SC's February 3 order directing the Maharashtra police to take action against a Hindu organisation indulging in hate speech and calling for boycott of Mulsims, as many as 50 rallies have been organised in the last four months across the state. from India News | Latest News Headlines & Live Updates from India - Times of India https://ift.tt/wy571k3

Supreme Court to examine validity of two PMLA provisions

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The petitioner, MP leader of the opposition Govind Singh, alleged that the unbridled power given to the agency was being misused to silence opposition leaders across the country. from India News | Latest News Headlines & Live Updates from India - Times of India https://ift.tt/K8ONwBs

P Chidambaram gets court nod for Singapore travel to appear for client

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Vacate official bungalow by April 22, Rahul Gandhi told

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The Lok Sabha Secretariat has cancelled the government accommodation to Congress leader Rahul Gandhi and he is now allowed to retain 12 Tughlak Lane bungalow till April 22. The allotment of the bungalow "shall deem to have been cancelled from April 24, 2023", according to the letter issued to Gandhi on Monday. from India News | Latest News Headlines & Live Updates from India - Times of India https://ift.tt/zLoaSY5

Life-threatening bacteria found in Hyderabad company's cancer drug: WHO

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Prices of essential drugs set to increase from April

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The government is all set to allow drug companies an increase in line with the change in the annual Wholesale Price Index (WPI). The annual change in WPI, as notified by the government, works out to 12.12% during 2022, the drug prices regulator National Pharmaceutical Pricing Authority (NPPA) said on Monday. from India News | Latest News Headlines & Live Updates from India - Times of India https://ift.tt/t7cSKu2

Kathmandu near miss: 'Questioning' of Air India woman captain by ATC officials highly 'irregular', fume airline pilots

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Transgressions may potentially trigger escalations along LAC with China: Army chief

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Man dies after falling into well in park in Delhi's Dhaula Kuan

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A 23-year-old man died after he allegedly fell in a well in southwest Delhi's Dhaula Kuan area, police said on Sunday. The deceased has been identified as Pawan, a native of Faridabad. from Delhi News: दिल्ली समाचार - Latest Delhi News Headlines & Live Updates from Delhi - Times of India https://ift.tt/V3EgfGY

Working on policy to make organ donation easier: PM Modi

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No Kalapani villages in final Nepal census

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Isro successfully places UK firm's 36 satellites in orbit

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BJP will win 200+ seats in Madhya Pradesh polls: JP Nadda

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BJP president JP Nadda on Sunday said his party would win more than 200 out of 230 assembly seats in Madhya Pradesh, where elections are set to be held at the end of this year. Currently, BJP has 127 members in the MP assembly, Congress 96, Bahujan Samaj Party 2, Samajwadi Party 1 and Independents 4. from India News | Latest News Headlines & Live Updates from India - Times of India https://ift.tt/TwRBIpc

India summons Canadian envoy over Khalistan stir

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In Bastar, Amit Shah does first-hand review of development

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Postpone harvesting of matured crops, IMD advises farmers

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In view of the current weather conditions, the India Meteorological Department (IMD) on Saturday advised farmers to postpone harvesting of matured crops in Jammu, Himachal Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Assam, Meghalaya and Arunachal Pradesh, and keep already-harvested produce in safe places or cover them in the field with tarpaulin sheets. from India News | Latest News Headlines & Live Updates from India - Times of India https://ift.tt/Q2X6x0V

Jamiat to move court against Karnataka Muslim quota removal

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Javed Akhtar's RSS remark hurt complainant's reputation: Court

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Steep fines not enough to cut road deaths, government data shows

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While the fines collected through e-challans by the traffic and transport rule enforcement agencies across states have increased 450% in the past three-and-a-half years since the penalties were hiked, there has been barely 3% decline in road deaths during this period. Experts said better and scientific enforcement of rules is key to reducing road crashes and fatalities rather than focusing on slapping challans and fines. from India News | Latest News Headlines & Live Updates from India - Times of India https://ift.tt/0PnORa6

One dead, six injured in explosion at Samba scrap factory

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A month on, 36-year-old arrested for murder, sexual assault on boy in Delhi

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More than a month after a teenaged boy was found dead in Alipur in north Delhi, the murder bearing all signs of a sexual crime, police arrested a 36-year-old man on Wednesday and charged him with the murder of the 15-year-old. from Delhi News: दिल्ली समाचार - Latest Delhi News Headlines & Live Updates from Delhi - Times of India https://ift.tt/uPYRD6x

Nod for setting up of GST Appellate Tribunals, to help in reducing appeals

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JD(U) distances itself from Bihar House protests

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Rahul Gandhi a habitual offender, thinks he can get away with anything: Anurag Thakur

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Rahul Gandhi disqualified as MP, can’t contest polls for 8 years if conviction not stayed

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Rahul Gandhi was on Friday disqualified as an MP from the Wayanad Lok Sabha seat in compliance with the Surat trial court order, which had on Thursday convicted him in a criminal defamation case and sentenced him to two years, in a development which escalated BJP's confronation with Congress and widened its arc with many others in the opposition rallying for the Congress leader. from India News | Latest News Headlines & Live Updates from India - Times of India https://ift.tt/6HDmnxf

Opposition’s concerns on EVMs ‘a farce’: BJP

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Working on possibility of launching joint land-rover Moon mission with Japan, says Isro chief

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TMC skips Pawar’s meeting with Opposition parties on EVMs

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What are the defamation laws around the world?

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Appropriation Bill: Lok Sabha clears Rs 45 lakh crore spend in 9 minutes, without discussion

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The Lok Sabha on Thursday passed the Appropriation Bill in less than nine minutes, without any discussion in the House, paving the way for the Centre to spend over Rs 45 lakh crore in the next financial year. The proceedings of the House were conducted amid din, with PM Modi, defence minister Rajnath Singh and other ministers in attendance, and opposition members shouting slogans of “Modi-Adani Bhai Bhai” while demanding a JPC on the Adani issue. from India News | Latest News Headlines & Live Updates from India - Times of India https://ift.tt/X4entHi

Class 5 student of MCD-run school gang-raped by 4

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Police said Ajay, a native of Jaunpur in Uttar Pradesh who lived in Ghaziabad, was working as a peon at the Municipal Corporation of Delhi-run school for the last 10 years. from Delhi News: दिल्ली समाचार - Latest Delhi News Headlines & Live Updates from Delhi - Times of India https://ift.tt/ohjZ5w9

Pak infiltrators orchestrated Dhangri attacks: J&K DGP Dilbag Singh

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‘New era’: Shah inaugurates temple near LoC in J&K

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Can’t put a cap on members from each community in housing society: HC

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HC: Institution head will be responsible if freshers ragged

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Neither side wants war, says China as Xi mulls SCO invite

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CAG outreach extended to political executives to highlight audit concerts: Murmu

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Delhi girl abducted, raped & killed in Haryana’s Jhajjar

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A girl from Delhi was allegedly abducted, raped & killed by a few men in Haryana’s Jhajjar. Her body was reportedly buried by the accused. from Delhi News: दिल्ली समाचार - Latest Delhi News Headlines & Live Updates from Delhi - Times of India https://ift.tt/uMUe3mQ

UIDAI tightens processes to secure Aadhaar

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Congress returns fire, claims BJP is ‘full of Jai Chands’

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