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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...
Chirag Paswan’s counter-move against uncle
LJP leader Chirag Paswan, the son of former Union minister and LJP founder late Ram Vilas Paswan, was caught in a controversy on Friday after an alleged audio conversation of the former LJP chief with a worker was leaked on social media. The audio conversation between Chirag Paswan and...
Pawar-Kishor meet discussed ‘wider alliance’ for 2024
A day after election strategist Prashant Kishor met NCP chief Sharad Pawar, a spokesperson of the party on Saturday said there is a need to have a “wider alliance” of political parties against the ruling BJP ahead of the 2024 Lok Sbha polls. Kishor met Pawar at the latter’s...
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...
Digvijaya Singh says his critics on Article 370 remark ‘Illiterate’
In a recent conversation with a Pakistan-based journalist on the Clubhouse app, Congress leader Digvijaya Singh hinted at ‘relooking’ the decision of revoking Article 370. During the conversation, Digvijaya said, “Democracy was not there in Kashmir when they revoked Article 370, ‘insaniyat’ was not there as they had put...
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...
Lakshadweep BJP leaders quit over sedition case against Aisha Sultana
As many as 15 leaders of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) from Lakshadweep have reportedly resigned from the party’s primary membership over a sedition case being filed against filmmaker Aisha Sulthana by Abdul Khader, who heads the saffron camp’s island unit. Khader had filed the complaint with the Kavaratti...
Another BJP turncoat met TMC leaders, but calls it courtesy call
A day after Mukul Roy joined Trinamool Congress leaving BJP, former West Bengal minister Rajib Banerjee, who had moved to the saffron party only months before the assembly elections, met TMC leader Kunal Ghosh on Saturday fuelling speculations of his return to the old party. Banerjee, who unsuccessfully fought...
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...
