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Stan Swamy dies of cardiac arrest
IPA Webdesk Jailed Jesuit priest and tribal rights activist Stan Swamy died of a cardiac arrest in a Mumbai hospital. He was 84. The oldest person to be accused of terrorism, he was arrested in October 2020. Stan Swamy was suffering from Parkinson’s disease and was moved to the...
SC shocked at use of banned law to arrest online activists
The Supreme Court on Monday expressed shock and displeasure on being told that over 1,000 cases had been filed under Section 66A of the IT Act – a controversial law that allowed police to arrest people for posting “offensive” content online – since it was struck down seven...
CBI files new case in Akhilesh’s Gomti river project
The CBI today filed a fresh case in connection with the alleged irregularities in the 1,500 crore Gomti riverfront development project in Uttar Pradesh’s capital Lucknow. The project was carried out by the previous Samajwadi Party government but the then Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav is not named...
Cong blasts Govt silence over Rafale probe
New Delhi: The Congress today lashed out at the Narendra Modi government’s alleged silence over recent developments around India’s Rs 59,000-crore Rafale jet deal. It said huge amounts of money were paid to middlemen in the deal, according to documents available now. With inputs from NDTV
Karnataka relaxes Covid curbs; no weekend curfew from next week
Karnataka today announced the lifting of weekend curfew starting next week as it treads cautiously even as daily Covid cases continue to drop. The night curfew will, however, continue to be in place from 9 pm to 5 am across the state, a government order said. Karnataka, which...
Pushkar Singh Dhami to be youngest Uttarakhand CM
Dehradun: Pushkar Singh Dhami, the 45-year-old new Chief Minister of Uttarakhand, is the hill state’s youngest ever Chief Minister. Previously, Ramesh Pokhriyal Nishank became the youngest leader in the top job when he became Chief Minister at age 49. Dhami is a two-time BJP MLA who represents Khatima...
New French probe into Rafale deal ‘gift’ to Reliance
IPA Webdesk A judicial probe into suspected corruption has been opened in France over the 7.8-billion-euro sale to India in 2016 of 36 Dassault-built Rafale fighter aircraft, French news website Mediapart reported. In this latest of a series of investigations about the secret dealings behind the contract, Mediapart revealed...
Impressive BJP show in UP local body polls
Lucknow: The BJP is surging ahead in the Uttar Pradesh local body elections, with a projection of winning over 60 seats in the zila panchayat chairperson election where 75 seats are at stake. Akhilesh Yadav’s Samajwadi Party, which was expected to make a big show, is forecast to win...
Pushkar Singh Dhami to be new Uttarakhand CM
Pushkar Singh Dhami was today chosen by the Uttarakhand BJP legislative party to be the eleventh Chief Minister of the state. The change of guard came a day after Tirat Singh Rawat resigned from the post amid infighting and fading chances of his getting elected to the state...
Shashi Tharoor discovers Modi doing ‘pogonotrophy’
Congress MP Shashi Tharoor, known for his penchant for rarely used English words, sent the Twitterati running for their dictionaries on Friday with another head scratcher — pogonotrophy. Mr Tharoor said he learnt of the new word pogonotrophy, which means the growing or cultivation of a beard, from...
Modi Cabinet expansion in a couple of days
IPA Webdesk Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s much-awaited cabinet expansion is likely to take place in a couple of days and his selection of names is seen greatly influenced by the polls in five states next year and the 2024 national election. This is the first cabinet expansion in...
TMC links fake vaccination scam with Governor
Kolkata: In a new twist to its running battle with the West Bengal governor, the Trinamool Congress has trained its guns on him afresh with ammunition linked to the fake vaccination scam in Kolkata. Trinamool Rajya Sabha MP Sukhendu Shekhar Roy on Thursday displayed two photographs at a news...
J&J says its vaccine effective against Delta variant
Johnson & Johnson said that its single-shot coronavirus vaccine neutralizes the fast-spreading delta variant and provides durable protection against infection more broadly. The company said in a statement Thursday that recipients of its vaccine produced strong neutralizing antibodies over the course of at least eight months against all...
Near-stampede at MP vaccination centre
Bhopal: A vaccination centre in Madhya Pradesh’s Chhindwara district saw a stampede-like situation yesterday as people turned out in large numbers for vaccination. As soon as the centre opened for the day at Sausar, scores of people from various age groups were seen rushing in, apparently to...
Terror-accused Kashmir man found innocent after 11 years in jail
A Kashmiri man arrested on terror charges, was released last week after he was found innocent by the Additional Sessions Judge of Anand District Court but it took 11 years to establish his innocence. He is one of many in the country who have spent years in jail...
Nirav Modi’s sister turns approver, pays Rs 17 crores to ED
IPA Webdesk New Delhi: Nirav Modi’s sister Purvi Modi has turned approver in the Punajb National Bank fraud case and paid Rs 17.5 crore from her London bank account, officials disclosed. Purvi Modi and her husband Maiank Mehta were “granted pardon” in Rs 13,500 crore bank fraud...
Heat wave warning for North India over next two days
New Delhi: Due to likely dry westerly winds from Pakistan to northwest India at lower levels, heat wave conditions would be felt in some pockets over Punjab, Haryana, Chandigarh, Delhi, north Rajasthan, Uttar Pradesh and north West Madhya Pradesh during the next two days, said the weather office....
7 EU nations, Switzerland approve Covishield
New Delhi: Seven European Union countries – Austria, Germany, Slovenia, Greece, Iceland, Ireland and Spain – and Switzerland have cleared the Serum Institute of Indi’s Covishield amid travel pass row, sources have said. On Monday, the Serum Institute of India’s Adar Poonawalla had tweeted: “I realise that a...
