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17 Jun

Several parts of West Bengal to receive more rainfall over the next two days

editor0 CommentsSikkimclimate, India, rainfall, Weather, West Bengal

Kolkata and several parts of West Bengal received incessant rain on Wednesday and Thursday. According to reports, Bengal will continue to receive heavy rainfall along with thunderstorms over the next two days. In Kolkata, several arterial roads and alleys were seen to be submerged in water and large parts of the city remained waterlogged throughout the day, after overnight rainfall on Wednesday. The southern parts of Kolkata received more rainfall than the north, leaving streets and alleys waterlogged in Ballygunge Circular Road, Loudon Street, Southern Avenue and places in Kasba, Behala and Tollygunge. The weather department has predicted that West…

17 Jun

Delhi Police files complaint against Swara Bhaskar, Twitter India head and many others

editor0 CommentsSikkimDELHI, ghaziabad, India, police, swara bhaskar, twitter

Delhi Police have lodged complaint against multiple personalities over the Ghaziabad assault video. The names include actor Swara Bhaskar, Arfa Khanum Sherwani, Asif Khan of Twitter India and Manish Maheshwari, who is the Twitter India head. The complaint was lodged by advocate Amit Acharya at Delhi's Tilak Marg police station. Delhi Police has meanwhile launched a probe but an FIR is yet to be lodged over the fresh complaint. Earlier, an FIR had named Twitter Inc, Twitter Communications India and news website The Wire, journalists Mohammed Zubair and Rana Ayyub, Congress leaders Shama Mohamed, Salman Nizami, Maskoor Usmani and writer…

17 Jun

Modi calls for ‘repair and prepare’ as India emerges from pandemic

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Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday called for focus on ‘repair and prepare’ as the nation emerges out of a devastating pandemic. “Over the past year, we have witnessed a lot of disruption in different sectors. Much of it is still there. Yet, disruption does not have to mean despair,” he said at VivaTech Summit. “Instead, we must keep the focus on the twin foundations of repair and prepare,” he said referring to the need to augment healthcare infrastructure in the country as well as prop up the economy. Indian economy suffered its worst contraction in decades in the fiscal…

17 Jun

Madhya Pradesh IAS Officer Gets Notice After Chat On Corruption Leaked

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A young Madhya Pradesh cadre IAS officer who recently travelled to some of the state's remotest villages to dispel myths about vaccination, has now applied for inter-cadre deputation to home state Maharashtra for taking care of his ailing grandfather and widowed mother. Interestingly, while 2014 batch bureaucrat Lokesh Jangid's application to the central government via the MP chief secretary for the three years inter-cadre deputation cites pressing family reasons as the reason, his recent posts/chats in a closed private signal app messaging group of MP cadre IAS officers points towards an entirely different possibility. An IAS officer in Madhya Pradesh…

17 Jun

CBSE submits Class 12 grading-plan in SC; results by 31 July

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The Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) on Thursday told the Supreme Court that for Class 12, the marks will be based on unit test/mid-term/pre-board exam and 40 per cent weightage will be given. The CBSE told the bench of Justices AM Khanwilkar and Dinesh Maheshwari that about 40 per cent of the marks will be based on Class 12 pre-board exams, 30 per cent on Class 11 final exam and 30 per cent marks will be based on best-of-three Class 10 marks, The 12-member committee constituted by CBSE also told the Supreme Court that the class 12 results will…

16 Jun

Uttar Pradesh Police register case against Twitter for not following rules

editor0 CommentsSikkimcrime, India, TECHNOLOGY, twitter, Uttar Pradesh

Indian police have registered a case against Twitter and prominent journalists for allegedly trying to spark communal tensions. Police say the journalists falsely insinuated that a Muslim man was beaten by Hindu men while sharing a video of the alleged incident on Twitter. Officials added that the man was beaten up by both Hindu and Muslim men due to a dispute. Most journalists have deleted the tweets but Twitter is yet to comment. What is alleged to have happened? The video, which went viral around 7 June, shows around five men beating up an elderly Muslim man in Ghaziabad district…

16 Jun

Chirag Paswan expels five rebel MPs, they oust him as LJP chief

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A day after removing Chirag Paswan as the Lok Janshakti Party (LJP) leader in the Lok Sabha, five rebel MPs led by his uncle Pashupati Kumar Paras today removed him as the president of the party, founded by his late father Ram Vilas Paswan. Soon after the rebel group, led by Chirag Paswan 's uncle Pasupati Kumar Paras removed him from the national president's post at the party's "emergency meeting", the Chirag-controlled national executive committee expelled five rebel MPs led by Paras for "anti-party activities".Both sides claimed they have followed the due procedure of calling "emergency" meetings for taking the…

16 Jun

Terrorist killed in encounter with security forces in Srinagar

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A Terrorist was encountered at Wagoora, Naugam area of Srinagar, Wednesday morning. Kashmir Zone Police said, one has been killed further searching is going on and details will be shared as followed. The firefight between terrorists and security forces took place on Tuesday night just after a joint team of the police and the army prevented access to the area and launched a search operation on the basis of specific information about presence of terrorists. As the security forces got on the spot where terrorists were hiding they came under a heavy volume of fire that triggered the encounter. After…

16 Jun

Police blurred right to protest & terrorist activity: Delhi HC gives bail to Kalita, Narwal, Tanha

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Protesting without arms is a fundamental right and not a “terrorist activity”, the Delhi high court said on Tuesday, granting bail to three university students jailed under stringent anti-terror provisions in connection with the north-east Delhi riots last year. A division bench of Justices Siddharth Mridul and Anup J Bhambhani didn’t mince words in three separate bail orders, saying it was “constrained to say that it appears that in its anxiety to suppress dissent and in the morbid fear that matters may get out of hand, the state has blurred the line between the constitutionally guaranteed ‘right to protest’ and…

15 Jun

Discovery of two planets orbiting a Sun-like star creates buzz in the scientific community

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A new discovery is creating a buzz in the scientific community. Citizen scientists, part of the Planet Hunters TESS project, have found two exoplanets orbiting a Sun-like star. Royal Astronomical Society lists over a dozen citizen scientists, who participated in the project led by Nasa, to have published the new discoveries. The sun-like star, dubbed as HD 152843, is about 352 light-years away from Earth and is about the same mass as the Sun But it's about 1.5 times bigger and brighter. Orbiting this massive star are two exotic worlds and, if compared to our Sun, they lie within the orbit of Mercury.…