MUMBAI: Republic TV Executive Editor Niranjan Narayanswamy and Senior Executive Editor Abhishek Kapoor appeared before the Mumbai Criminal Branch on Wednesday to record statements in the false TRP scam case. Narayanswamy arrived at the office of the Criminal Intelligence Unit (CIU) at 12 noon, while Kapoor, which is based in …
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NEW DELHI: Punjab farmers’ organizations boycotted a meeting called by the Union Ministry of Agriculture on Wednesday to resolve their concerns about the new farm laws and accused the government of playing double standards with no minister present to listen to them. Representatives of 29 farmers’ organizations, including the one …
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AGRA: The CBI began his field research on the Hathras case on Tuesday reconstructing the crime scene where the 19-year-old Dalit girl was allegedly gang-raped and assaulted by four upper-caste men from the village a month ago. After speaking with the girl’s family and local police, the victim older brother …
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NEW DELHI: Days after Chief Justice, SA Bobde, denounced the misuse of freedom of expression, Attorney General KK Venugopal told the Supreme Court on Tuesday that there was an urgent need to strike a balance between freedom expression and contempt of court while the media searched “forbidden territory.” Addressing the …
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NEW DELHI: India ranks third, after China and the US, in registering the highest number of natural disasters during the last 20 years (2000-2019), paying an enormous economic and human cost. In a report released by the UN office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNDRR) on Tuesday, global economic losses were …
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NEW DELHI: Results from phase three trials of the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine underway in India could be available in “late November-early December”, raising hopes that the leading candidate anti-Covid, made in India by the Serum Institute – may be available sooner than expected. The government’s vision of a possible timeline came …
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LUCK: The 23-year-old LLM student who had accused former BJP deputy Chinmayanand of sexual exploitation last year turned hostile before a special MP-MLA court in Lucknow on Tuesday. The court was hearing the case under the direction of the Allahabad High Court. The student appeared in court on Tuesday and …
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SHIMLA: The Himachal Congress on Monday claimed that the first stone laid by its national president Sonia Gandhi For him Rohtang Tunnel A decade ago it was removed before its inauguration by Prime Minister Narendra Modi on October 3. In a letter to Prime Minister Jai Ram Thakur, the president …
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MUMBAI: In a sharp escalation of tensions, Maharashtra governor Bhagat Singh Koshyari on Tuesday he wrote a letter loaded with sarcasm to CM Uddhav Thackeray said it was “ironic” that shrines were still closed while bars and restaurants were allowed to reopen in the state and asked if Uddhav, “a …
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SRINAGAR / NEW DELHI: Jammu & cashmere On Tuesday night he revoked the arrest of the former president of CM and the PDP Mehbooba Mufti after 14 months and eight days. However, he did not mention any reason for its release before the end of the three additional months for …
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