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News Posted Date: Wed, 22 Jan 2020 11:57:48 +0530
Assam Rifles Refute IPS Officer’s Allegations She Was Molested & Harassed By Jawan at Check-point
The Assam Rifles said that it has gathered evidence, in the form of video footage, showing the officer entering Myanmar and loading her vehicle with “suspicious goods”.
News Posted Date: Wed, 22 Jan 2020 11:43:59 +0530
Maha Farmers Get Video Game on Mobile Instead of Loan Waiver Information, Official Suspended
Instead of the video tutorial which was sent out to farmers by the agriculture department, candy crush video game opened on the mobile phones of farmers in Maharashtra.
News Posted Date: Wed, 22 Jan 2020 11:13:02 +0530
Jawan Arrested for Delivering Parcel Bomb at BSF Camp in J&K's Samba
Samarpal, a native of Kolkata, was detained from his residence in Hubli area on January 10 and later arrested, official sources said.
News Posted Date: Wed, 22 Jan 2020 11:04:19 +0530
Women Perform 'Havan', Pray for Rollback of CAA as Stir at Clock Tower in Lucknow Enters 6th day
The women chanted mantras and prayed for ‘sadbuddhi’ (good sense) to prevail over members of the ruling party so that they withdraw the latest amendment to the .
News Posted Date: Wed, 22 Jan 2020 10:57:22 +0530
Will Take Appropriate Action if Shaheen Bagh Protest Obstructs Poll Process: Delhi Police
Special Commissioner of Police (Election) Praveer Ranjan said the force has not yet received any complaint about protestors in Shaheen Bagh causing obstruction in the electoral process.
News Posted Date: Wed, 22 Jan 2020 11:46:50 +0530
5,000 Shaheen Baghs Will Come Up Across India In Next 10 Days, Says Bhim Army Chief Chandrashekar Azad
Azad said the government would have to walk over the corpses of protesters if it refused to roll back the "unconstitutional" Citizenship Amendment Act.
News Posted Date: Wed, 22 Jan 2020 10:38:57 +0530
Rajdhani Express Trains Reach Destination 12 Hours behind Schedule Due to Dense Fog
The Howrah Rajdhani Express reached its destination at 9.50 pm, instead of the scheduled 9.55 am. The Sealdah-bound Rajdhani Express reached its destination at 10.02 pm, where it was scheduled to reach at 10.10 am.
News Posted Date: Wed, 22 Jan 2020 10:20:21 +0530
Full Dress Rehearsal for Republic Day Parade, Traffic Congestion Likely in Central Delhi on Thursday
The rehearsal will start at 9.50 am at Vijay Chowk and will proceed towards the Red Fort via Rajpath, C-Hexagon, Tilak Marg, Bahadur Shah Zafar Marg and Netaji Subhash Marg.
News Posted Date: Wed, 22 Jan 2020 10:19:22 +0530
YSRCP Govt Suffers Setback in AP Legislative Council as Bills on Three Capitals Referred to Select Committee
This effectively puts paid, though temporarily, to the Chief Ministers plans of having three capitals -- executive capital in Visakhapatnam, legislative in Amaravati and judicial capital in Kurnool.
News Posted Date: Wed, 22 Jan 2020 10:14:00 +0530
Kerala Health Dept Issues Alert Amid Coronavirus Threat; Surveillance at Four Airports Stepped up
Those who have returned from China should inform district medical officers, State Health minister K K Shyalaja said.
News Posted Date: Wed, 22 Jan 2020 10:05:36 +0530
Assam Problem of CAA is Different from Rest of the Country, Says SC
The top court agreed to hear the petitions concerning issues of Assam and Tripura separately from the batch of petitions challenging constitutional validity of the CAA.
News Posted Date: Wed, 22 Jan 2020 10:04:24 +0530
Three Held in Tamil Nadu for Suspected Links with IS, Search on For Fourth Accused
The men were booked under sections of the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act as well as the Information Technology Act for spreading religious and extremist ideologies through social media apps like WhatsApp.
News Posted Date: Wed, 22 Jan 2020 10:00:49 +0530
Will Refer Article 370 Issue to 7-judge Bench Only if Direct Conflict in 2 Earlier Verdicts, Says SC
Hearing the point of reference on Wednesday, a 5-judge Constitution bench, headed by Justices N V Ramana, was told by Jammu and Kashmir Bar Association that the Centre's August 5 move last year to abrogate Article 370 was illegal and needed to be read down.
News Posted Date: Wed, 22 Jan 2020 09:57:01 +0530
CJI Takes Note of Overcrowded, Noisy Courtrooms; Bats for Corrective Measures
A bench, comprising CJI and justices S A Nazeer and Sanjiv Khanna, was sitting in the large CJI's jam-packed courtroom and got miffed when it could not hear the submissions of senior advocate Kapil Sibal who wanted to mention a case for urgent hearing.
News Posted Date: Wed, 22 Jan 2020 09:51:52 +0530
Delhi Assembly Polls: Arvind Kejriwal Leads AAP's List of 39 Star Campaigners
Delhi Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia, Punjab state head Bhagwant Mann, Delhi state convenor Gopal Rai, Rajya Sabha members Sanjay Singh, Sushil Gupta and ND Gupta also figure in the list.
News Posted Date: Wed, 22 Jan 2020 09:23:03 +0530
Indian Students in China's Wuhan in Anxious Wait as Coronavirus Turns Virulent
Over 500 Indian students are studying medicine while others were pursuing Ph.D and language programmes. China has become a major destination for Indian medical students with their numbers sharply increasing to 23,000 in the last few years.
News Posted Date: Wed, 22 Jan 2020 09:22:48 +0530
Motive Behind 'Free Kashmir' Poster at Mumbai Protest to Decide Action, Says Maharashtra HM
The woman, Mehak Prabhu, while taking part in an anti-JNU violence protest at the Gateway of India here earlier this month, had held aloft the 'Free Kashmir' placard, drawing a lot of public attention and a police case.
News Posted Date: Wed, 22 Jan 2020 09:14:14 +0530
SC Reinstates Woman Employee Who Had Levelled Sexual Misconduct Allegations against Ex-CJI Ranjan Gogoi
The apex court's three-member In-House Inquiry Committee, headed by Justice S A Bobde (now CJI), had in May this year given a clean chit to the then CJI as it 'found no substance' in the allegations levelled against him by the woman.
News Posted Date: Wed, 22 Jan 2020 09:09:48 +0530
Bengal Woman's House Set on Fire after Rumours She Was Collecting Data for NRC
Chumki Khatun and her family are now under police protection after the incident happened in Gourbazar village in Mallarpur police station area, officials said.
News Posted Date: Wed, 22 Jan 2020 09:01:18 +0530
PM Modi's First Mann Ki Baat of 2020 to Air at 6pm on Republic Day
The timing has been changed, from 11 am to 6 pm, due to the Republic Day function in the morning and Modi’s other official engagements, said a source.