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Kiran Bedi removed as Puducherry Lt Gove | New Delhi, Feb 16 (TIWN) Kiran Bedi has been removed as the Lieutenant Governor of Puducherry, a Rashtrapati Bhavan communique said on Tuesday. | 16-Feb-2021 |
Raje meets Nadda after her followers ann | Jaipur, Feb 16 (TIWN) Former Chief Minister Vasundhara Raje's meeting with BJP President J.P. Nadda on Monday in Delhi has raised many eyebrows in Rajasthan's political circles at a time when Raje's followers have already started an intensive campaign demanding her projection as the BJP's chief ministerial face for the 2023 Assembly polls and have announced rallies and yatras to make her emerge as the winner in the ongoing power tussle within the state BJP unit. | 16-Feb-2021 |
Theft in Haryana BJP leader and TikTok s | Chandigarh, Feb 16 (TIWN) TikTok star and Haryana BJP leader Sonali Phogat has reported theft of jewellery, a licenced revolver, Rs 10 lakh cash and valuables from her house in Hisar town. | 16-Feb-2021 |
Greta Toolkit case: Ruling BJP and Oppn | Bengaluru, Feb 16 (TIWN) Even as the scenario post arrest of 22-year-old Bengaluru based climate change activist Disha Ravi is evolving elsewhere in the country, a full-blown twitter war has erupted in Karnataka between the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and the opposition Congress party. | 16-Feb-2021 |
Manipur's iconic all-women market reopen | Imphal/Agartala, Feb 16 (TIWN) World's largest all-women-run market 'Ima Keithal' or the 'Mother's Market', located in the Manipur state capital, was formally reopened on Monday after 11 months, bringing smile on the faces of over 3,600 women traders. | 16-Feb-2021 |
Rahul on a campaigning spree in poll-bou | New Feb 15 (TIWN) Congress leader Rahul Gandhi is on a campaigning spree in poll-bound states. After Assam, Gandhi is scheduled to kickstart the poll campaign in Puducherry on February 17. | 15-Feb-2021 |
SC notice on PIL against ED Director's e | New Delhi, Feb 15 (TIWN) The Supreme Court on Monday sought response from Centre on a PIL by NGO Common Cause challenging the November 13, 2020 order which retrospectively amended the tenure of the present Enforcement Directorate (ED) Director, Sanjay Kumar Mishra. | 15-Feb-2021 |
Relief for NDTV: SC asks SAT to hear app | New Delhi, Feb 15 (TIWN) In a relief to NDTV promoters Prannoy Roy and Radhika Roy, the Supreme Court on Monday directed Securities Appellate Tribunal (SAT) to hear their appeals against the orders of market regulator SEBI without the pre-condition of depositing half of the fine. | 15-Feb-2021 |
WhatsApp may be worth $2-3 tn, people va | New Delhi, Feb 15 (TIWN) People have grave apprehensions on loss of privacy, the Supreme Court said on Monday, making it clear that it is the court's duty to protect this right as it heard an application against WhatsApp's new privacy policy. | 15-Feb-2021 |
Newsclick editor’s ‘illegal | NEW DELHI, Feb 15 (TIWN): Human rights organisation People’s Union for Civil Liberties on Sunday expressed shock at the detention of Newsclick Editor-in-Chief Prabir Purkayastha and author Githa Hariharan at their home amid the Enforcement Directorate’s days-long search in connection with a money-laundering case. The organisation also criticised the media coverage of the raids. | 15-Feb-2021 |
Corporates will grab Rs 80 lakh cr agrib | Sibsagar, Feb 14 (TIWN) Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Sunday claimed that the three new central farm laws will help corporates and rich people grab agribusiness worth Rs 80 lakh crore in India. | 14-Feb-2021 |
Kerala : SPG foil CPM youth wing's prote | Kochi, Feb 14 (TIWN) Timely action by the Special Protection Group (SPG) foiled an attempt by activists of the youth wing of the CPI-M to stage a protest against Prime Minister Narendra Modi while he was driving down to the venue here on Sunday afternoon where he is to inaugurate a slew of central projects in Kerala. | 14-Feb-2021 |
Farmers, Centre should resume talks: Dus | New Delhi, Feb 14 (TIWN) Haryana Deputy Chief Minister Dushyant Chautala on Sunday said all farmer associations and the government should restart talks to find a solution over the three contentious farm laws. | 14-Feb-2021 |
UP: Police seize half-burnt bodies of co | Sant Kabir Nagar (UP), Feb 14 (TIWN) Police have seized half-burnt bodies of a young couple who had died under mysterious circumstances in Mudadih village in Uttar Pradesh's Sant Kabir Nagar. | 14-Feb-2021 |
Voting begins for 117 Punjab urban local | Chandigarh, Feb 14 (TIWN) Voting for the 117 Punjab urban local bodies, including eight high-stake municipal corporations, began on Sunday, Election Commission officials here said. | 13-Feb-2021 |
AAP opposes MCD proposal to increase Cou | New Delhi, Feb 13 (TIWN) With the bypolls in five municipal wards in Delhi nearing, the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) sharpened its attack on the Bharatiya Janata Party, running the Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD). | 13-Feb-2021 |
Tough sailing for BJP in Punjab municipa | Chandigarh, Feb 13 (TIWN) "BJP people are advised not to trouble us by ringing the door bell," reads an advisory at the gate of a house in Punjab amidst the protest of farmers. | 13-Feb-2021 |
Assam-Mizoram border row: Tension on; fr | Guwahati/Aizawl, Feb 13 (TIWN) The Assam Assembly on Friday discussed the Assam-Mizoram border disputes even as tension prevailed in the villages along the borders of the two northeastern states following the violent incidents on Tuesday and Wednesday. | 12-Feb-2021 |
'Ghar Ghar Lok Adalat' on Feb 14 to sett | New Delhi, Feb 13 (TIWN) The Delhi State Legal Services Authority (DSLSA), in coordination with the Delhi Traffic Police is organizing 'GHAR GHAR LOK ADALAT' for amicable settlement of traffic 'challans' (tickets) on Sunday. | 12-Feb-2021 |
Dalit converting to Islam or Christianit | New Delhi, Feb 13 (TIWN) Law Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad in response to a question in Rajya Sabha said that Dalit converting to Islam or Christianity cannot claim reservation benefits and it will also deprive the person the eligibility to contest parliamentary or Assembly election from constituencies reserved for Scheduled Castes (SC). | 12-Feb-2021 |
CPI unlikely to field 3-term MLAs, inclu | Thiruvananthapuram, Feb 12 (TIWN) The Communist Party of India in Kerala will, in all likelihood, not give tickets in the coming Assembly elections to its six MLAs, including three Ministers, as they are set to complete three terms as legislators, sources said. | 12-Feb-2021 |
Custodial death not acceptable, is crime | New Delhi, Feb 12 (TIWN) The Supreme Court on Thursday said that death due to custodial violence is abhorrent and not acceptable in a civilised society. | 11-Feb-2021 |
Newsletter by all-women team on farmers' | New Delhi, Feb 12 (TIWN) "We are trained to look at the ongoing farmers' agitation with a certain gaze that tends to ignore the role of women participating actively and passively. The same holds true for Dalit labourers who do not own tractors and trolleys, and make a huge effort to be at protest sites. This is where the newsletter 'Karti Dharti' comes in," says social activist Sangeet Toor. | 11-Feb-2021 |
BJP MP Surya explains why control over s | New Delhi, Feb 12 (TIWN) Amid the row over banning many social accounts for not following the government's guidelines after they were found instigating the peasants' movement, the Bharatiya Janata Party has raised the demand to control social media platforms such as Facebook and Twitter. | 11-Feb-2021 |
Not at this stage: SC on activist Akhil | New Delhi, Feb 12 (TIWN) The Supreme Court on Thursday declined to entertain a plea by farmers' rights activist Akhil Gogoi in a case pertaining to anti-CAA protests in Assam in 2019. | 12-Feb-2021 |
SKM's 4-point program to intensify farme | New Delhi, Feb 11 (TIWN) The Samyukta Kisan Morcha (SKM) on Wednesday announced a 4-point program including "Rail Roko" across the country for four hours on February 18 in a move to intensify the ongoing farmers' agitation against the three farm laws. | 10-Feb-2021 |
NCW says skin-to-skin contact verdict 'p | New Delhi, Feb 10 (TIWN) The Supreme Court on Wednesday agreed to examine a plea by the National Commission for Women (NCW) challenging the controversial verdict of the Bombay High Court acquitting a 39-year-old man accused of groping a 12-year-old girl over her dress while stating there was no skin-to-skin contact. The NCW termed this verdict as a "perverse interpretation of physical contact". | 10-Feb-2021 |
Cong will repeal farm laws when back in | Saharanpur (UP), Feb 10 (TIWN) Congress General Secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra on Wednesday promised that his party will repeal the three "black" central farm laws and ensure MSPs for different crops as soon as it returned to power at the Centre. | 10-Feb-2021 |
UP Board exams from April 24 | Lucknow, Feb 10 (TIWN) The Uttar Pradesh Madhyamik Shiksha Parishad (UPMSP) on Wednesday announced the dates for classes 10 and 12 board examinations 2021. | 10-Feb-2021 |
10 hurt, 20 houses burnt in fresh troubl | Silchar/Aizawl, Feb 10 (TIWN) In fresh trouble along the Assam-Mizoram borders, at least 10 people were injured and around 20 houses were burnt down by 'unknown miscreants', forcing the authorities to deploy huge contingent of security forces in the area, officials said on Wednesday. | 10-Feb-2021 |
India reports 11,067 new corona cases, 9 | New Delhi, Feb 10 (TIWN) India's streak of low numbers of single-day coronavirus cases continued on Wednesday as 11,067 new infections and 94 more deaths were reported in the last 24 hours, Ministry of Health and Family Welfare data showed. | 10-Feb-2021 |
SC directs Fathima not to use social med | New Delhi, Feb 9 (TIWN) The Supreme Court on Tuesday directed Kerala-based activist Rehana Fathima not to use social media to hurt religious sentiments or feelings, however it stayed a direction issued by the Kerala High Court restricting her from using visual or electronic media to publish or share any material or comments. | 09-Feb-2021 |
2007 terror attack which made PM, Azad e | New Delhi, Feb 9 (TIWN) Memories of the 2007 terror attack in Kashmir on tourists from Gujarat made both Prime Minister Narendra Modi and senior Congress leader Ghulam Nabi Azad emotional in the Rajya Sabha on Tuesday, as the House bid farewell to Leader of Opposition Azad who is among four members retiring from the Upper House this month. | 09-Feb-2021 |
House collapse in Delhi's Sadar Bazar, 3 | New Delhi, Feb 9 (TIWN) A house collapsed in north Delhi's Sadar Bazar area on Tuesday morning. | 09-Feb-2021 |
Deep Sidhu, wanted in Red Fort violence, | New Delhi, Feb 9 (TIWN) Delhi Police Special Cell has arrested Punjabi actor-turned-activist Deep Sidhu who was an wanted in the January 26 Red Fort violence case. | 09-Feb-2021 |
Farm union's legal cell writes to UN on | New Delhi, Feb 8 (TIWN) The farm unions' legal cell which is representing farmers facing legal challenges emerging out of the Republic Day violence, has written to the United Nations Human Rights Commission (UNHRC) on "illegal detention" and suspension of internet at protest sites on the borders of the national capital. | 08-Feb-2021 |
End agitation, hold talks: Modi to farme | New Delhi, Feb 8 (TIWN) Prime Minister Narendra Modi has appealed to the farmers to end their agitation and initiate talks to resolve the issue while assuring that the MSP will continue. He also appealed to the farmers to give a chance to the agri reforms and said he was always open to change. | 08-Feb-2021 |
Uttarakhand flood: Seven Navy diving tea | New Delhi, Feb 7 (TIWN) Seven diving teams of the Indian Navy are on standby for relief operations in flood-affected areas at Joshimath in Uttarakhand's Chamoli district on Sunday, officials said. | 07-Feb-2021 |
Over 150 missing, 10 bodies recovered in | Chamoli (Uttarakhand), Feb 7 (TIWN) Nearly 150 people are missing or "feared dead" as a sudden flood inundated a power project at Reni village in Joshimath area of Uttarakhand's Chamoli district on Sunday following a glacier burst, the ITBP, which is engaged in rescue and relief operations there, said. | 07-Feb-2021 |
India ranks 3rd among nations with maxim | New Delhi, Feb 7 (TIWN) India has become the third topmost country in the world after the United States and the United Kingdom in terms of coverage in Covid-19 vaccination among the population, the Union Health Ministry said on Sunday. | 07-Feb-2021 |
Rahul urges Cong workers to help people | New Delhi, Feb 7 (TIWN) Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Sunday expressed concern over the situation that arose in the wake of glacier burst and floods in Uttarakhand's Chamoli district and urged his party workers to help the affected people. | 07-Feb-2021 |
Modi to visit Assam, West Bengal on Feb | New Delhi, Feb 6 (TIWN) Prime Minister Narendra Modi will be on a day's visit to poll-bound Assam and West Bengal on February 7 to lay the foundation stone for several infrastructure projects. | 06-Feb-2021 |
Was misguided, Sonu Sood tells SC; allow | New Delhi, Feb 5 (TIWN) Bollywood actor Sonu Sood on Friday informed the Supreme Court that he was given wrong advice in the matter pertaining to illegal construction, and it allowed him to withdraw the plea challenging the Bombay High Court order, which junked his case on alleged illegal construction at his residential building in Juhu area. | 05-Feb-2021 |
Challenge WhatsApp privacy policy in Del | New Delhi, Feb 5 (TIWN) The Supreme Court on Friday declined to entertain a plea by the Confederation of All India Traders (CAIT) seeking direction to WhatsApp to roll back its new privacy policy which can impact the country's security. | 05-Feb-2021 |
Oppn's amendment notice on motion of tha | New Delhi, Feb 5 (TIWN) Opposition leaders have given notice of amendment to the motion of thanks on President Ram Nath Kovind's address while the BJP has issued a three-line whip to its party members to be present in the Upper House from Monday onwards. | 05-Feb-2021 |
Deferring vaccine jab, Andhra police bus | Amaravati, Feb 5 (TIWN) In the run up to the forthcoming rural local body polls in Andhra Pradesh, the state police are busy seizing liquor and destroying arrack production facilities after deferring the administration of coronavirus vaccine jab on police personnel. | 05-Feb-2021 |
Shivpal ready for alliance with Akhilesh | Lucknow, Feb 5 (TIWN) Pragatisheel Samajwadi Party Lohia (PSPL) chief Shivpal Yadav has said that his party is ready to forge an alliance with the Samajwadi Party (SP) for the upcoming Assembly elections to defeat the Bharatiya Janata Party. | 05-Feb-2021 |
UP Budget to go digital even as MLAs fum | Lucknow, Feb 5 (TIWN) The Budget presentation in the Uttar Pradesh Assembly on February 19 will be read out by the state's Finance Minister Suresh Khanna from his tablet and not paper. | 05-Feb-2021 |
FIR against Sharjeel Usmani in Lucknow | Lucknow, Feb 4 (TIWN) A case has now been registered against Sharjeel Usmani at the Hazratganj police station in Lucknow in connection with his controversial speech at Elgar Parishad, in Pune, Maharashtra. | 04-Feb-2021 |
Priyanka meets family of deceased farmer | Rampur (Uttar Pradesh), Feb 4 (TIWN) Congress General Secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra, Thursday, met the family of the deceased farmer Navreet Singh, who had died during the Republic Day violence in Delhi when his tractor overturned. | 04-Feb-2021 |