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Interpol issues global arrest warrant against Ami Modi, wife of Nirav Modi, on charges of money laundering

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Ajay Maken to visit Jaipur to deal with Congress' organisational issues in Rajasthan

AICC general secretary in-charge for Rajasthan Ajay Maken would visit Jaipur this week to take feedback from party leaders and workers, state's Congress unit chief said on Tuesday. Rajasthan PCC president Govind Singh Dotasra said Maken would take feedback from the division and district-level leaders and workers.

 

He said after the ground level feedback from party workers, the new executive for the party's state unit would be decided, according to a PTI report.

 

The final programme has not yet been received but he is scheduled to come here this week. We will hold discussions with him on organisational issues. The discussion will be helpful in the improvement of the party organisation, he told reporters on Tuesday.

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Death toll reaches 10 in Maharashtra's Raigad building collapse incident

Rescuers sifting through the rubble of a five-storeyed building in Maharashtra's Raigad district on Tuesday found a four-year-old boy alive and his mother dead beneath the debris, police said. Death toll in the collapse reached 10 with recovery of nine bodies from the rubble on Tuesday, police said.

 

A man died of cardiac arrest on Monday night after he was hit by a stone from the falling building, police said. The dead - five men and five women - include two teenagers, police said.

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Nitin Gadkari inaugurates and lays foundation stones of 45 highway projects in Madhya Pradesh

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Govt open to more tweaks in Rs 3 trillion credit guarantee scheme: FM Nirmala Sitharaman

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India-Bangladesh to hold DG-level border talks in Dhaka next month

India and Bangladesh will hold "important" Director General-level border talks in Dhaka next month to discuss a host of issues related to crimes on the front and other security challenges, officials said on Tuesday.

 

The biannual talks will be held between the Border Security Force (BSF) and their counterpart Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) from September 13-18 at Pilkhana, the headquarters of the Bangladeshi force in Dhaka.

 

Newly appointed BSF DG Rakesh Asthana will lead a dozen officers strong Indian delegation that will have representatives from the Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB), the external affairs ministry and other government agencies. READ MORE...

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Fire breaks out in a government hospital in Gujarat's Jamnagar

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Supreme Court reserves verdict on quantum of sentence for Prashant Bhushan

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National Investigation Agency files chargesheet in 2019 Pulwama terror attack case

The National Investigation Agency (NIA) filed a chargesheet on Tuesday in a special court here against 19 people including Masood Azhar, the chief of banned terror group Jaish-e-Mohammed, for planning and carrying out a deadly suicide attack on a CRPF convoy that left 40 personnel dead in Pulwama, South Kashmir, in 2019, news agency PTI reported.

 

The "blind case" was solved by the NIA after piecing together the electronic evidence and statements of terrorists and their sympathisers arrested in different cases, according to a PTI report.

 

The 13,500-page chargesheet names people who were arrested from Pulwama for providing shelter and shooting the last video of Adil Dar, the suicide bomber who used around 200 kgs of explosives in the vehicle that rammed into the CRPF convoy on February 14 last year killing 40 personnel near Lethpora in South Kashmir.

 

This case, whose probe was led by NIA Joint Director Anil Shukla, also brings to light the use of e-commerce platforms by the planners in the terror module for purchase of high-end batteries, phones and some chemicals.

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Painful to read Prashant Bhushan's reply justifying his tweets: Supreme Court

Justice Arun Mishra, during the hearing on the sentencing of advocate Prashant Bhushan convicted in a contempt case, said it was painful to read Bhushan's reply in justification of his tweets, according to an IANS report.

 

A Supreme Court bench headed by Justice Mishra and comprising Justices B.R. Gavai and Krishan Murari observed that if somebody like Bhushan, with experience of over 30 years, says something then people tend to believe him. The bench said people will think whatever Bhushan is saying is correct, and if it were somebody else then it was easier to ignore. But when Bhushan says something it has some effect, added the bench.

 

Justice Mishra noted that there is a difference between a politician and an officer of the court. He added that he is not making a comment on Bhushan, but this is something happening these days. He added, people go to the press in sub judice matters and make all kinds of comments.

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SC concludes hearing on quantum of punishment to Prashant Bhushan in contempt case: PTI

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Latest News LIVE update: Bus services resume in Bihar

Bus services in the state resumed from Tuesday following a State Transport Department directive, according to an ANI report.

 

"It is good the government has resumed bus services. Social distancing measures are hard to follow but we are trying. Sanitisers need to be made compulsory. Buses should also be sansitised for the safety of people," a passenger told ANI.

 

On Monday, State transport secretary Sanjay Kumar Agarwal wrote a letter to all District Magistrates regarding the resumption of bus services and other means of public transport. According to the order, vehicles should be sanitised after every trip and the number of passengers, under any circumstances, should not exceed the number of seats.

 

Sanitisers should be provides in vehicles and passengers have to wear masks during the journey.

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Latest news LIVE: Seven dead in building collapse in Maharashtra's Raigad

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Kerala HC refuses to stay privatisation of Thiruvananthapuram airport

The Kerala High Court on Tuesday declined to stay the further proceedings in leasing out Thiruvananthapuram international airport to Adani Enterprises. Considering an application by the Kerala government seeking the stay, the court adjourned the case for detailed hearing. Directing the government to produce the documents before September 9, the bench said a detailed hearing in the matter will be held on September 15, according to a PTI report.

 

In its application, the state government said unless the stay is granted, it will be put to irreparable injury and hardship. The state government filed the application in the court, after an all-party-meeting in the state demanded withdrawal of the Union Cabinet's decision last week to lease out the airport to Adani Enterprises.

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Two ITBP Jawans feared drowned in Sutlej river

Two Indo-Tibetan Border Police (ITBP) jawans are feared drowned after their vehicle fell into the Sutlej river in Himachal Pradesh's Kinnaur district on Tuesday, a district official said.

 

The vehicle was on its way to Duvling post from Reckong Peo when it fell into the Sutlej at around 10.30 am. Kinnaur Superintendent of Police, SR Rana, said the ITBP vehicle fell into the river near Spillow on national highway number five.