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A Delhi court on Saturday discharged all eleven student leaders accused of inciting rioting in the Jamia CAA protest case. Safoora Zargar, Sharjeel Imam, Aasif Iqbal Tanha, Chanda Yadav, Mohd Abuzar, Umair Ahmad, Mohd Shoaib, Mahmood Anwar, Mohd Qasim, Bilal Nadeem, and Shahzar Raza Khan are among the student leaders. Additional Sessions Judge Arul Varma at Saket district court, while discharging the students, said “it would be pertinent to underscore that dissent is nothing but an extension of the invaluable fundamental right to Freedom of Speech and Expression contained in Article 19 of the Constitution of India, subject to the restrictions contained. It is therefore a right which we are sworn to uphold.” Rioting and unlawful assembly were charged in the Jamia case under section...

After the shares of his four companies rose yesterday, Gautam Adani re-entered the list of the top 20 richest people in the world. On Friday, all four stocks finished in the black. Adani Ports increased 7.98% to Rs 498.85, while Adani Enterprises recovered from the 35 percent decline and increased 1.25 percent to settle at Rs 1584. The two other stocks, ACC and Ambuja Cement, both increased by 4.39 and 6.03 percent. All of the Adani Group stocks were trading in the red during Friday's early session, with the majority of them locked in lower circuits. However, yesterday at around 2:00 PM, stocks began to recover, and four of them closed in the green. Adani is currently listed as the 17th richest person in the world. Why Adani lost billions after Hindenburg report? A report fr...

The Gujarat Cooperative Milk Marketing Federation (GCMMF), which markets its dairy products under the brand name ‘Amul’, on Friday increased the prices of milk by Rs 2 per litre for all markets except Gujarat. Jayen Mehta, Managing Director of the Anand-headquartered federation, said the hike in milk prices is not applicable to Gujarat. “We have increased the milk prices by Rs 2 per litre for markets other than Gujarat, such as Delhi, Kolkata and Mumbai. As of now, there is no increase in milk prices in Gujarat,” he said. The new prices are effective from Friday morning, the GCMMF said in a statement issued by its Mumbai office. With the increase in prices, one litre pouch of Amul Taaza milk will now cost Rs 54, while one litre of Amul Gold will be sold at Rs 66, the statement ...

Yoga guru Baba Ramdev has stoked a controversy by delivering a speech against Christians and Muslims in Barmer, Rajasthan, Muslim Mirror reported. “Ask any Muslim what his religion teaches. He will advise you to perform Namaz five times and then do whatever you want, even kidnapping a Hindu woman or carrying out any other wickedness (paap),” the Hindu preist said while addressing a religious gathering. “They think that the Namaz is what Islam is all about, while some of our Muslim brothers commit horrific atrocities. But because this is what they have been taught—offer Namaz and do anything you want—they will never forget to do so,” said Ramdev. “Many of them became terrorists, and some became seasoned criminals, but do not forget to offer Namaz,” Baba Ramdev emphasised. “Sanatan ...

A month after the Allahabad High Court granted bail to Kerala journalist Journalist Siddique Kappan, a sessions court in Lucknow Wednesday signed orders to release him on bail, Live Law reported. Kappan is likely to walk out of jail by evening today. More than two years after he was arrested by the Uttar Pradesh Police while heading to the Hathras home of a young Dalit woman who died after an alleged gangrape, Kappan was granted bail on December 24, 2022 by the Lucknow bench of the Allahabad High Court in a money laundering case filed by the Enforcement Directorate. Kappan had been granted bail by the Supreme Court on September 9 last year in an Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act case after being booked by the UP Police for alleged links with the radical Popular Front of India —...

Ahmedabad Crime Branch and the city police have detained four Kashmiri youths from the Motera area because of their suspicious movement near the Narendra Modi Stadium. Deputy Commissioner of Crime Branch, Chetainya Mandlik, told media that the CB team and the local police detained the four Kashmiri youths from the Motera area because of their suspicious movement near Narendra Modi stadium late on Monday night. The officer said that the four youths, all of whom are from Budgam near Srinagar, are being questioned about their presence in Ahmedabad. According to sources, the youths were found in an area near the stadium, where ordinary citizens are not allowed to move. In the past, they had visited and stayed in a mosque in the Palanpur area. This time, after arriving in Ahmedabad, th...

Senior TV journalist and news presenter, Nidhi Razdan is the latest addition to the series of journalists that quit the news network NDTV after the Adani Takeover. "After more than 22 years, it is time to move on from NDTV. It has been a wonderful, roller coaster ride but you have to know when to get off. The next couple of weeks is my last. Thank you for the love and support all these years," Nidhi Razdan wrote on her Twitter. Earlier on January 28, senior journalist Sreenivasan Jain ended his 28-year-long association with NDTV. Journalist Ravish Kumar and NDTV Group president Suparna Singh are among others who quit. NDTV founders Prannoy Roy and Radhika Roy also left the company’s board in December 2022.

In a potentially controversial move, the Maharashtra government has ordered the removal of Tipu Sultan, the ruler of the Mysore kingdom, now in Karnataka, given to a prominent suburban garden and playground by the erstwhile Maha Vikas Aghadi government. Making the announcement, Bharatiya Janata Party’s Mumbai Suburban District Guardian Minister M.P. Lodha said the decision was taken recently at a meeting with the Collector. “Finally, victory of the Right! Ordered removal of name Tipu Sultan from the park in Malad after considering protests by Sakal Hindu Samaj and demands by BJP MP Gopal Shetty,” said Lodha. He said in the DPDC meeting last year, the previous MVA government had decided to name the park after Tipu Sultan and the BJP had protested the move. However, after droppin...

Nine years after the murder of an IT professional Mohsin Shaikh rocked Maharashtra, a Pune Sessions Court acquitted all 20 accused including the Hindu Rashtra Sena (HRS) President Dhananjay Desai, here on Friday. Reading out the verdict on Friday, Pune Additional Sessions Judge S.B. Salunkhe said that the evidence brought on record was not strong enough to convict Desai and other co-accused and the prosecution had failed to prove its case beyond reasonable doubts, lawyer Sudhir Shah said for one of the accused. In June 2014, Shaikh, who hailed from Solapur, was returning home with his friend Riyaz A. Shendrare after offering prayers in a mosque and was targeted by some motorcycle-borne men armed with hockey sticks, cricket bats, stones and other weapons, who created mayhem in the vic...

The government's two top watchdogs have admitted to 'multiple side-effects' of COVID-19 vaccines that inoculated over a billion Indians in the past more than two years. The startling revelations — many of which were previously known — were reiterated by the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) and Central Drugs Standard Control Organisation (CDSCO) in an RTI reply to Pune businessman Prafful Sarda. India has permitted the usage of six vaccines, including AstraZeneca and Serum Institute of India's 'Covishield', SII's own 'Covovax', Bharat Biotech's 'Covaxin', Dr. Reddy's Lab imported 'Sputnik V', Biological E. Ltd.'s 'CorBEvax', and later, Cadila Healthcare Ltd.'s 'ZyCov-D' for teenagers (12-17 age). In a specific query by Sarda on the side-effects of all these jabs, the ICMR'...