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Lalu Yadav gets 5 years prison time, ₹60 lakh fine in fodder scam case

Lalu Yadav gets 5 years prison time, ₹60 lakh fine in fodder scam case

An extraordinary CBI court today reported a 5-year prison sentence and Rs 60 lakh fine for Lalu Prasad Yadav in the fifth grain trick case. Lalu Yadav was announced blameworthy on February 15. Of the 99 charged for the situation, 24 were cleared, while three-year prison terms were articulated for 46 blamed. Yadav has been seen as at fault for illicit withdrawals of Rs 139.35 crore from the Doranda depository by an extraordinary CBI court in Jharkhand's Ranchi. Lalu Prasad has been condemned in four feed trick cases. This case (RC 47A/97) was the fifth and last one and the…
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Sec 144 in Shivamogga after Bajrang Dal lobbyist’s homicide, Karnataka serve denies hijab column point

Sec 144 in Shivamogga after Bajrang Dal lobbyist’s homicide, Karnataka serve denies hijab column point

Section 144 was forced in the Shivamogga region of Karnataka following a 23-year-old Bajrang Dal extremist was killed on Sunday night. He was taken to the Mc Gann locale clinic where he died. Karnataka Home Minister Araga Jnanendra said that the matter was not connected with the continuous hijab line in the state. "However, we really want to sit tight for additional examinations prior to coming to an end result," he said. Araga Jnanendra addressed the group of the perished, who was a designer, in Shivamogga. "The homicide happened at 9:30 pm on Sunday. The police have revealed a few…
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Calcutta HC rejects PIL seeking removal of Dhankhar as West Bengal governor

Calcutta HC rejects PIL seeking removal of Dhankhar as West Bengal governor

The Calcutta High Court on Friday dismissed a petition seeking the removal of West Bengal Governor Jagdeep Dhankhar on grounds that he was destroying the spirit of federalism. A Bench of Chief Justice Pakash Shrivastava and Justice Rajarshi Bharadwaj dismissed the petition filed by lawyer Rama Prasad Sarkar on the grounds that the court, even with the limited scope of judicial review in the case, was not satisfied that the material placed along with the petition furnished any ground to entertain the plea. Chief Justice Srivastava observed that Article 361 of the Constitution provides that the Governor shall not be…
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Mamata retains nephew Abhishek Banerjee as Trinamool national general secretary

Mamata retains nephew Abhishek Banerjee as Trinamool national general secretary

Abhishek Banerjee was appointed Trinamool Congress national general secretary a working committee meeting on Kolkata on Friday. Party supremo Mamata Banerjee, chairing the first working committee meeting since all posts were dissolved on February 12, retained nephew Abhishek in a post he held earlier. Emerging out of the meeting, senior party leader Partha Chatterjee said, “Yashwant Sinha, Subrata Bakshi and Chandrima Bhattacharya will be the party national vice-presidents; Sukhendu Sekhar Ray will be the national spokesperson.” The rift inside the party came to the fore on several occasions, the latest being the tweets of Abhishek loyalists on one-man-one-post which the…
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The Two new railway lines connecting Thane and Diva inaugurated by PM Modi

The Two new railway lines connecting Thane and Diva inaugurated by PM Modi

Prime Minister of India Narendra Modi inaugurated the two new additional railway lines which connected Thane and Diva. He will also flag off two suburban trains of Mumbai Suburban Railways. These have been built at the approximate cost of Rs 620 crores. It also features 1.4 kilometres long rail flyover, 3 major bridges and 21 minor bridges. According to the release issued by Prime Minister’s Office (PMO), Kalyan is the main junction of the Central Railway. The traffic that is coming from the North and Southern side of the country merge at Kalyan and move towards the Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj…
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Lakhimpur Kheri case: Minister’s son accused of running over farmers out of jail

Lakhimpur Kheri case: Minister’s son accused of running over farmers out of jail

Union minister Ajay Misra's son Ashish Misra, who was arrested in connection with the Lakhimpur Kheri violence case, walked out of jail on Tuesday after he was granted bail. Ashish Misra was released from jail after he was granted bail by the Lucknow bench of the Allahabad High Court. Ashish Misra's lawyers submitted two bail bonds of Rs 3 lakh each in regards to his bail orders on Monday. Ashish Misra was arrested on October 9 last year in connection with the violence that erupted in Uttar Pradesh's Lakhimpur Kheri. On October 3, 2021, eight people, including four farmers, were…
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Fodder scam: Lalu Prasad convicted in ₹139.35cr Doranda treasury case

Fodder scam: Lalu Prasad convicted in ₹139.35cr Doranda treasury case

Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) supremo Lalu Prasad Yadav was convicted on Tuesday in the Rs 139.35-crore Doranda treasury scam, the fifth fodder case in which he was named as a conspirator. Yadav, who was then the chief minister of Bihar, was named in the scam relating to embezzlement in the state’s animal husbandry department between 1991 and 1996. Prasad had earlier been sentenced to 14 years in jail in four other fodder scam cases. "Lalu Prasad has been convicted. The quantum of punishment will be pronounced on February 18," the CBI counsel said. The court of Special CBI Judge SK…
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Mamata Banerjee Announces Goutam Deb as Siliguri Mayor

Mamata Banerjee Announces Goutam Deb as Siliguri Mayor

Mamata Banerjee, West Bengal Chief Minister, announced former State Minister Gautam Deb as the next mayor of Siliguri after Trinamul wrested the Siliguri Municipal Corporation board from the Left Front after seven years, making it a defeat 4-0 lead in this round of the civic polls before leaving for North Bengal on Monday. Goutam Deb won from ward 33 of the Siliguri Municipal Corporation by over 3,000 votes.  The timing of  Mamatas’s visit to North Bengal, the visit when the Trinamul has wrested the only municipal corporation run by the Left in the state, could not have been better. Seven…
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PM Modi slams Congress over dynastic politics

PM Modi slams Congress over dynastic politics

In a severely critical attack at the grand old party on Friday, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said that not a single Congress leader is visiting Uttarakhand only the siblings are campaigning because they don't want to save the country, they only want to save The Gandhi family. "Such an old party, but did any of their leaders come here? Only a brother and sister come at times; because they don't want to save the country, they only want to save a family. Today, their own leaders do not want to be with the party. Then, how can they give anything…
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UP Police Registers FIR Against Congress In Moradabad

UP Police Registers FIR Against Congress In Moradabad

A case was filed by the Uttar Pradesh Police after a "roadshow-like situation" happened during Congress leader Rizwan Qureshi's door-to-door campaign in Moradabad. Qureshi, a candidate from Moradabad, held a door-to-door campaign in the constituency along with the party's General Secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra on Thursday. However, as per the police, the campaign looked like a roadshow. Moradabad Superintendent of Police (SP) Akhilesh Bhadoria told, "Congress candidate Rizwan had taken permission for a door-to-door campaign but it was seen that a roadshow-like situation had emerged with people atop of the car with him. As per Sector Magistrate's complaint, a case…
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