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Tharoor panel tells Twitter to ‘abide by Indian laws’
IPA Webdesk Twitter was grilled by MPs across parties and told bluntly that “Indian laws are supreme and the company has to abide by the laws of India in India,” sources said after a meeting of the parliamentary panel on IT led by Congress’s Shashi Tharoor. During a...
Third wave ‘inevitable’, says AIIMS chief
A third Covid wave in India is “inevitable”, and it may hit the country in the next six-eight weeks, AIIMS chief Dr Randeep Guleria told NDTV. “As we have started unlocking, there is again a lack of Covid-appropriate behaviour. We don’t seem to have learnt from what happened...
UP police notice to Twitter MD for provoking ‘communal hatred’
IPA Webdesk The Uttar Pradesh Police has sent a legal notice to Twitter India’s Managing Editor for “provoking communal unrest” on the assault on a Muslim man in Ghaziabad earlier this month. Manish Maheshwari, Managing Director of Twitter in India, has been asked to come to the Police Station...
Second bribery case against Kerala BJP chief
Thiruvananthapuram: An FIR (first information report) has been filed against the BJP’s Kerala chief – the second in less that 10 days – on the allegation that he had given money to a tribal leader to return to the BJP-led alliance as a candidate for the assembly election...
Student-activists released after stern court warning
IPA Webdesk Student-activists Natasha Narwal, Devangana Kalita and Asif Iqbal Tanha walked out of Delhi’s Tihar jail today, hours after a court ordered their immediate release. They were arrested for alleged conspiracy in the north-east Delhi riots case. “It shows the desperation of the government… We are women...
Twitter India chief quizzed in Congress toolkit case
Manish Maheshwari, Managing Director of Twitter in India, was questioned by the Delhi Police Special Cell in Bengaluru on May 31 in connection with the alleged ‘Congress toolkit’ case, sources said. This was a week after Delhi Police teams went to Twitter’s offices in Delhi and Gurgaon after serving...
Mumbai raid in connection with Ambani bomb scare
The NIA on Thursday morning raided the home of former Mumbai Police ‘encounter specialist’ Pradeep Sharma in connection with the Mukesh Ambani bomb scare investigation. A team from the central agency and armed CRPF (central reserve police force) personnel arrived at Sharma’s home in Mumbai’s Andheri at 5 am...
Amit Shah meeting with MPs not about Cabinet expansion: Sources
BJP sources say home minister Amit Shah’s meeting with groups of BJP MPs has nothing to do with cabinet expansion, but part of an ongoing feedback exercise on the work of the government, Covid situation and other issues. The speculations started in view of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s meetings...
BJP MLAs skip Suvendu meeting, signalling more ‘ghar wapasis’
IPA Webdesk A number of BJP MLAs stayed away opposition leader Suvendu Adhikari’s meeting with Governor Jagdeep Dhankar to apprise him of “several inappropriate incidents happening in Bengal and discuss other important matters”, further adding to speculation about more reverse migration to the TMC. But with 24 of the...
BJP to launch national drive to promote vaccination
Faced with all-round criticism that the Modi government was ill-prepared to meet the second wave of Covid, BJP is starting the second phase of a countrywide voluntary service to promote vaccination and help people affected with the disease. The programme was initiated last month by BJP chief JP Nadda...
National Award-winning actor Sanchari Vijay dies after accident
Kannada actor Sanchari Vijay, who met with an accident on June 12, was declared brain dead on Monday. He was 38. He had been admitted to the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) of the Apollo Hospital in Bengaluru, where he was being treated. The actor’s family has decided to donate...
Ayodhya Ram Temple Trust accused of land scam
The Ram Mandir Trust set up by the Centre last year has been accused of pulling off an illicit land deal, in which two real estate dealers allegedly purchased a property for Rs 2 crore and selling to the Trust for Rs 18.5 crore within minutes of the...
All Delhi shops, restaurants reopen
Shops, malls and restaurants in Delhi will open all seven days from today as Covid numbers in the national capital drop to a three-month low. But Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal said this will be on trial basis for a week and strict action will be taken if the...
Kapil Sibal reiterates call for complete overhaul of Congress
Congress veteran Kapil Sibal has repeated his call for a meaningful overhaul of the party at all levels of the organisation to show it is no longer in a state of inertia and to present itself as a viable political alternative to the BJP. Sibal, who was among the...
5% GST To continue on Covid vaccines
IPA Webdesk The GST Council, which met in Delhi on Saturday, decided to reduce the tax on medicines, some hospital equipment and other items needed in the fight against COVID-19. No tax will be charged for medicines like Tocilizumab and Amphotericin B, used for treating Black Fungus, an opportunistic...
G7 moots alternative to China’s Belt And Road
Carbis Bay, United Kingdom: G7 leaders on Saturday launched a plan to help build infrastructure in poorer nations, offering a “values-driven, high-standard and transparent” partnership in opposition to China’s Belt and Road Initiative. The adoption of the US-inspired “Build Back Better World” (B3W) project came after President Joe Biden...
Shiromani Akali Dal, BSP form alliance in Punjab
IPA Webdesk The Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) has formed an alliance with Mayawati’s Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) for the Punjab Assembly elections. SAF broke ties with BJP last year over the Centre’s contentious farm laws. With the new alliance, the Sukhbir Singh Badal-led party aims to fill the...
Pilot escalates pressure on leadership, but denies exit move
IPA Webdesk Congress leader Sachin Pilot stepped up pressure on the party leadership in pursuit of the promises given to him even as he brushed aside claims by BJP leader Rita Bahuguna Joshi that he was at the Congress exit door. Rita Bahuguna had claimed that she had spoken...
