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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.…

15 Jun

UP Zilla Panchayat Election 2021

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The Election Commission on Monday announced the dates for the three-tier UP District Panchayat President election 2021 and it will be held from June 15 to July 3. Earlier, panchayat elections were held in 75 districts of UP in four phases. The polling were held on April 15, April 19, April 26, and April 29. According to the State Election Commissioner, polling is to be held on six District Panchayat posts in Rae Bareli, Unnao, Lakhimpur Kheri, Varanasi and Badaun. For the remaining Panchayat members, 665 nomination papers were received for 186 posts. Of these, 31 were canceled during investigation…

15 Jun

BOOM launches Covid-19 workshops and awareness films

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As the world battles the coronavirus pandemic, it is also challenged by an information overload in the digital as well as physical environment, which can cause confusion and mistrust. Senior citizens, due to various technical and awareness constraints, are most vulnerable to this infodemic. In order to address this information gap, BOOM will partner with senior citizen forums, organizations, and associations across India to host free online workshops titled ‘Information Overload in times of COVID-19’ that are aimed to empower senior citizen participants to distinguish between news, opinion, propaganda, and analysis. BOOM has also launched five short film series that…

15 Jun

Prashant Kishor- “I want to quit this space”

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Prashant Kishor who guided the Trinamool (and, in Tamil Nadu, the DMK-Congress alliance) to victory over the BJP (and its southern ally, the AIADMK) and then he wanted to "quit" It will be interesting to see how well I-PAC and its new nine-member leadership team can function without Mr Kishor, and how efficiently it can win elections for Trinamool and its other clients. The contract extension will run till the next round of Assembly elections in Bengal, by which time key states, including UP, Gujarat and Karnataka, and the country would have also held elections. It comes a little over…

15 Jun

India, China, Pakistan appear to be expanding their nuclear arsenals: SIPRI study

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The nine nuclear armed states - the U.S., Russia, the U.K., France, China, India, Pakistan, Israel and North Korea - together possessed an estimated 13,080 nuclear weapons at the start of 2021. Russia and the U.S. together possessed over 90% of global nuclear weapons and have extensive and expensive modernisation programmes under way, SIPRI said. Approximately 2,000 of the total 13,080 global nuclear warheads in the world are "kept in a state of high operational alert", said the study mentioned in the SIPRI Yearbook 2021. It also said Saudi Arabia, India, Egypt, Australia and China were the five largest importers…

14 Jun

Allegations misleading, motivated by political hatred: Ram Mandir Trust on corruption charges in land purchase

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Secretary of Shri Ram Janmabhoomi Teerth Kshetra, Champat Rai on Sunday called allegations of fraud in buying land for the Ram Mandir as misleading and politically motivated, adding that all temple land bought so far was at below open market price. "Allegations (of fraud) are misleading and motivated by political hatred. All lands that Shri Ram Janmabhoomi Teerth Kshetra has purchased so far have been bought at a price much less than the open market price," a statement issued by the Trust said. Rai said that after the Supreme Court`s decision on Shri Ram Janmabhoomi in November 2019, people from…

14 Jun

West Bengal govt extends COVID lockdown till July 1 with some relaxations – Check details here

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The West Bengal government on Monday extended the coronavirus lockdown in the state till July 1, in order to curb the spread of infection. Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee also eased the restrictions and allowed more relaxation. The essential services in the state have been exempted from the lockdown and restrictions. “We have allowed extension of business hours with the condition that the staff be vaccinated. We don’t want business to suffer,” said chief minister Mamata Banerjee. Government and private offices have been allowed to work with 25 per cent staff from June 16 with hours fixed between 10am and 4pm…