The ruling Bharatiya Janata party won three of the six Uttar Pradesh Legislative Council seats whose results were announced on Friday. While the BJP managed to end the decades-long dominance of the eight-time MLC Om Prakash Sharma in Meerut, it finished in third place in Varanasi, where Lal Bihari Yadav …
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FIR filed the father’s complaint that the defendant wanted to ‘coerce, persuade and seduce’ his daughter to convert. The Uttar Pradesh police have filed the first case under the new ordinance against illegal conversion a day after its enactment. Police filed an FIR in Bareilly under Sections 3 and 5 …
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(Representative image: Reuters) On Saturday, the Governor of Uttar Pradesh, Anandiben Patel, gave his consent to an ordinance against forced or fraudulent religious conversions that provides for prison terms of up to 10 years and a maximum fine of 50,000 rupees in different categories. PTI New Delhi Last update: November …
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High-level core teams have been delegated to Uttar Pradesh, Punjab and Himachal Pradesh to support them in the response and management of Covid-19. These states have been reporting an increase in the number of active cases, those who are hospitalized or in home isolation under medical supervision, or demonstrating an …
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Earlier this week, the government had dispatched the team to Haryana, Rajasthan, Gujarat and Manipur. All of these states have reported an increase in the number of active cases. Authorities in Gurgaon and Faridabad in Haryana and Gautam Budh Nagar in Uttar Pradesh have started randomly testing people arriving in …
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File photo of Chhattisgarh CM Bhupesh Baghel. ‘Love Jihad’ is a conspiracy theory promoted by right-wing groups under which they claim that Muslim men ‘forcibly convert’ women of other religions under the ‘guise’ of love. News18.com New Delhi Last update: November 22, 2020 8:22 AM IST FOLLOW US: After several …
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Kerala-based scribe Siddique Kappan, arrested on the way to Hathras, where a young Dalit had died after allegedly being gang-raped, was going there in journalism garb with a very determined design to create a division of castes and disturbing the situation of law and order. the Uttar Pradesh government said …
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The WHO appreciated the efforts made by CM Yogi Adityanath and his government for the management of Covid (Archive) Lucknow: The World Health Organization (WHO) praised the Uttar Pradesh government for its COVID-19 management strategy and called it a good example for other states to follow, an official statement here …
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November 6, 2020 10:51 AM ISTSource: TNN Now a bail of 5 lakh rupees was imposed on the cleric for assenting to Chalisa’s recital at the UP mosque. The decision to allow a Hanuman Chalisa recital inside a mosque has sparked strong rejection from the mosque and the administration in …
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The government of Uttar Pradesh declared on Thursday the 14th of the laws against citizenship and the National Registry of Citizens as fugitives and announced cash rewards for their arrest. Eight of these protesters were declared wanted under the Gangster Act and notices were posted outside their homes. The defendants …
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