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Feb252023 by News DeskNo Comments

7 labourers from Jammu Kashmir die in explosion at cold storage plant in UP

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At least seven persons from Jammu Kashmir died after a compressor in a cold storage plant exploded in Daurala area of Meerut in Uttar Pradesh on Friday. An official told the news agency—Kashmir News Observer (KNO) that the explosion took place in the afternoon and at least 25 workers were present on the site. He said some of them were evacuated safely while among the deceased 7 belonged to Jammu and Kashmir. The deceased have been identified as Balwant, Baldev, Balbir Singh, Sat Pal, Ramesh Lal, Kalu—all residents of Udhampur and Hoshiywar Singh of Ramban. Meanwhile, Union Minister Dr Jitendra Singh expressed grief over the accident and said all possible help was being provided to victim families. “Just now spoke to DC Meerut Mr Deepak Meena (IAS) on receiving the report abo...

Feb242023 by News DeskNo Comments

Supreme court refuses plea to gag media from reporting Hindenburg report on Adani group

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The Supreme Court on Friday said it will not injunct media on carrying reports on Hindenburg report on Adani group till the court pronounces its order on constitution of a committee to examine the matter. Advocate M.L. Sharma mentioned the matter before a bench headed by Chief Justice of India D.Y. Chandrachud. The Chief Justice told Sharma, "We are not going to issue any injunction to the media ever... We will pronounce orders shortly." When Sharma repeated his request by saying that the media was creating a sensation, the Chief Justice said, "make a reasonable argument, not for an injunction on the media..." Sharma, in the application, said media hype is affecting the Indian share market and the allegations are creating panic amongst the investors. Sharma's application is a p...

Feb242023 by News DeskNo Comments

PM Modi merged Kashmir with India forever, HM Amit Shah in poll-bound Karnataka

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The issue of Kashmir reverberated during an election rally in the south Indian state of Karnataka as the Union Home Minister Amit Shah said that Prime Minister Narendra Modi has merged Jammu Kashmir forever with India by abrogating Article 370. Speaking about Jammu Kashmir during a public rally at Sandur, in poll-bound Karnataka, Shah said the Congress, JD(S), and other parties in the opposition were saying that article 370 of the Constitution, which gave special status to Jammu and Kashmir, should not have been abrogated, Times Now reported. However, Modi with a stroke of his pen abrogated article 370 and made the state part of India forever, he said. The Minister said Congress leader Rahul Gandhi used to say that there will be bloodbath if the article 370 is abolished. "Let alon...

Feb212023 by News DeskNo Comments

Government to offload additional 20 Lakh ton wheat in open market ‘to cut prices’

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The Centre on Tuesday announced it will offload an additional 20 lakh tonnes of wheat in the open market to bring down the prices of wheat and wheat flour. On January 25, the Centre had announced sale of 30 lakh tonnes of wheat in the open market from its buffer stock to check rise in prices of wheat and wheat flour (atta). According to an official statement, the government has decided that state-owned Food Corporation of India (FCI) will offload an additional quantity of 20 lakh tonnes of wheat in open market under the Open Market Sale Scheme (OMSS). The stocks will be for sale through e-auction to flour mills/private traders/bulk buyers/manufactures of wheat products. The proposal to sell stocks in the open market was taken by a group of ministers, sources said. "So far, 5...

Feb172023 by News DeskNo Comments

CJI Chandrachud to ‘take a call’ on listing plea against abrogation of Article 370

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Chief Justice of India (CJI) DY Chandrachud said on Friday said he will take a call on listing the petitions challenging the removal of special status granted to Jammu and Kashmir under Article 370 of the Indian Constitution, Bar and Bench reported. The petitions were mentioned before a bench led by CJI DY Chandrachud by Senior Advocate Raju Ramachandran. "I will take a call on it," the CJI said, as per Bar and Bench. The report states that over 20 petitions are pending before the Supreme Court challenging the central government's decision to abrogate Article 370 of the Constitution, which resulted in the revocation of Jammu and Kashmir's special status. The erstwhile State was subsequently bifurcated into two Union Territories. In March 2020, a 5-judge Constitution bench of the ...

Feb172023 by News DeskNo Comments

In Haryana, two Muslim youth allegedly charred to death inside vehicle by cow vigilantes

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Two Muslim men were allegedly charred to death inside a vehicle by Cow Vigilants in the Bhiwani district of Haryana, NDTV reported. On Wednesday, two Muslim men identified as Nasir, 25, and Junaid, 35, had been kidnapped from Rajasthan's Bharatpur district, their families alleged in their complaint to the police. The charred bodies of Nasir and Junaid were found in a Mahindra Bolero SUV on Thursday morning in Haryana's Bhiwani district. Police are still trying to establish whether the remains are those of Nasir and Junaid. "The burnt bodies of two unidentified men have been found in the car. To ascertain whether the two men are the same who were kidnapped, our team has gone to the spot with the family members. After post-mortem and DNA analyses, their identification will be verifi...

Feb162023 by News DeskNo Comments

Eviction drive to evict 12,000 ‘encroachers’ over 1,900 hectares of land in Assam

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The drive to evict “encroachers” from nearly 1,900 hectares of forest and revenue land in Assam’s Sonitpur district continued for the second day on Wednesday, with 12,000-odd people, who were allegedly staying there illegally for decades, left in the lurch, a senior official said, reports PTI. Since morning, the administration started the eviction in five places of Burachapori Wildlife Sanctuary and nearby government land, the official said. “Today, we are carrying out the eviction exercise at Lathimari, Ganesh Tapu, Baghe Tapu, Gulirpar and Siali. So far it has been peaceful, and no untoward incident has been reported,” he said. With a huge posse of armed security personnel, the Sonitpur district administration had on Tuesday started the exercise to clear “encroached” land in the...

Feb162023 by News DeskNo Comments

UP official, Police allegedly set house on fire during ‘eviction’ drive, mother-daughter charred to death

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A 45-year-old woman and her daughter, 20, died in a fire during an anti-encroachment drive at a village in Kanpur Dehat district of Uttar Pradesh on Monday. The family alleged that cops set their hut ablaze when the women were inside. Local cops yesterday claimed that the two set themselves on fire, but the state police have now registered a murder case against 13 people. Those charged include the subdivisional magistrate, the station house officer and the bulldozer operator. They have also been charged with attempt to murder and voluntarily causing hurt. The incident took place in the Madauli village in the Rura area of the district where the police, district administration and revenue officials had gone to remove encroachments from a "gram samaj" or government land, a police off...

Feb162023 by News DeskNo Comments

‘Calling them encroachers resolves no issues’, Bombay HC stays demolition of ‘illegal’ structures

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Bombay High Court (HC) has restrained officials from demolishing "unauthorised" structures on Railway land in Greater Mumbai. An order was passed by the division bench while hearing a plea by a group of slum dwellers residing on railway land in Bandra East, challenging the demolition notice. The division bench came down on the railway authorities for issuing demolition notices without taking concrete steps to rehabilitate the displaced persons. The court also said that the authorities needed to ascertain their eligibility for beneficial schemes like the Prime Minister Awas Yojna Scheme (PMAYS). Advocating a ‘humane’ approach, the HC said that merely terming the persons as ‘encroachers’ and displacing them from their current settlement will not solve the problem. “Sometimes, the...

Feb162023 by News DeskNo Comments

IT Department’s ‘survey’ at BBC office continues for third day

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The Income Tax (IT) Department’s ‘survey’ at the BBC office continued for the third straight day on Thursday as officials gathered financial data from select staffers and made copies of electronic and paper data of the news organisation. The operation that began at the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) offices in Delhi and Mumbai around 11:30 am on Tuesday has clocked more than 48 hours now, officials said. The survey is going on, they told PTI. Authorities had said on Wednesday that the exercise would continue for some more time, saying the “exact time frame to call the operation closed rests entirely on the teams on the ground”. The survey is being carried out to investigate issues related to international taxation and transfer pricing of BBC subsidiary companies, officials...