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Covid-19: Travel Restrictions in Different States

NEW DELHI, July 15: Despite marginal increase in the daily Covid-19 cases in the last 24 hours compared to the previous day, most states have started easing restrictions on entry of travellers. As such, air travel across the country has changed a lot with many states dropping strict norms that existed even a month ago. […]

NHRC Indicts Mamata Government of Post-Poll Violence, Recommends CBI Probe and Trials Outside the State

Manas Dasgupta NEW DELHI, July 15: A committee of the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) has accused the Mamata Banerjee government in West Bengal of “appalling apathy” towards victims of political violence after the March-April state Assembly elections and recommended a CBI probe into “grievous offences like murder and rape” and suggested that such serious […]

Supreme Court Disfavours Continuation of “Colonial” Sedition Law

Manas Dasgupta NEW DELHI, July 15: The Supreme Court on Thursday made it clear that it was not in favour of the sedition act and asked the centre why the government needed to continue the “colonial law” in the statute book even 75 years after the independence. Pointing out that the sedition law was used […]

Piyush Goyal Appointed Leader of the Rajya Sabha

NEW DELHI, July 14: The union minister and senior BJP leader Piyush Goyal has been appointed the leader of the House in the Rajya Sabha to fill up the vacancy created by the elevation of Thavarchand Gehlot as the governor of Karnataka. Announcing the appointment, Union Parliamentary Affairs Minister Pralhad Joshi tweeted: “Congratulations to @PiyushGoyal […]

Calcutta High Court Asks ECI to Preserve Election Records of Nandigram

NEW DELHI, July 14: The Calcutta High Court on Wednesday admitted a petition by the West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee challenging the election of her BJP rival Suvendu Adhikari in Nandigram state Assembly constituency and directed the Election Commission of India to preserve the election records. Justice Shampa Sarkar directed that Banerjee’s election petition would […]

11 Per Cent DA Hike for Central Government Employees, Pensioners

NEW DELHI, July 14: In a major relief to the central government employees and pensioners, the Union Cabinet headed by Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday approved a steep 11 per cent hike in Dearness Allowance (DA) and Dearness Relief (DR) from the present 17 per cent to 28 per cent of their basic pay, […]

Supreme Court to “Examine” Sedition Law in the Present Context

NEW DELHI, July 14: Even as the Haryana police invoked “sedition act” against some agitating farmers who had allegedly attacked the car of the deputy speaker of the state Assembly, the Supreme Court on Wednesday decided to examine the sedition law in the light of the restrictions on the fundamental rights of the people. The […]

Corona on the Decline, MP Schools to Reopen from July 25 in Batches

Manas Dasgupta NEW DELHI, July 14: As fresh Coronavirus cases continued to remain under 40,000 a day in the country, the Madhya Pradesh government has decided to reopen schools for students of classes 11 and 12 from July 25 at 50 per cent of the existing capacity. Classes will be held four times in a […]

SC Notice to Centre, UP Governments for Allowing “Kanwar Yatra”

NEW DELHI, July 14: Taking suo motu cognizance of the Uttar Pradesh government allowing conditional “Kanwar Yatra” amidst the on-going Covid-19 pandemic even when the Uttarakhand government has banned it, the Supreme Court on Wednesday issued notices to the central and the UP governments and scheduled the hearing of the matter for July 16. Even […]

Bus Blast in Pakistan Killed 13 Including 9 Chinese Engineers

Manas Dasgupta NEW DELHI, July 14: At least 13 people including nine Chinese engineers and four Pakistani soldiers have been killed in a powerful blast in a bus that threw it into a ravine on Wednesday morning in northwestern Pakistan, government and police officials said. At least 28 Chinese nationals were also injured, several of […]
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