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Mizoram Governor Hari Babu Kambhampati on Friday summoned an assembly session for three days which will commence on December 12, a senior official said.
Max Healthcare Institute said on Friday it will buy 550 bedded Sahara Hospital in Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh for an enterprise value of Rs 940 crore ($112.76 million).
The Supreme Court on Friday granted bail to liquor giant Pernod Ricard's executive Benoy Babu in a money laundering case arising out of the Delhi excise policy scam. A bench of Justices Sanjiv Khanna and SVN Bhatti noted that the accused has been in custody for more than 13 months and the trial against him has still not commenced in the case. The bench also noted that there were contradictions in the case probed by the CBI and the ED with regard to Babu.
3 terror suspects arrested with unaccounted for cash in Jammu's Reasi
Three persons were detained by security forces with Rs 50,000 in cash in Jammu and Kashmir's Reasi district on Friday, police said.
During a routine checking of vehicles at a traffic check post in Mahore town, a vehicle on the way towards Srinagar was found to have three men with Rs 50,000 in cash, a police spokesman said.
Private member bill to repeal Waqf Act introduced in Rajya Sabha
A private member bill by BJP MP Harnath Singh Yadav seeking to repeal the Waqf Act, 1995, was introduced in Rajya Sabha after a division of votes amid strong protests by opposition parties.
The Waqf Repeal Bill 2022 was moved for introduction by BJP member Harnath Singh Yadav. This was vehemently opposed by members of several parties, including the Congress, TMC, DMK, CPI, CPI (M), and RJD and led to a division of votes.
Newly-elected Telangana MLAs to take oath in first session of Assembly on Dec 9
The newly-elected MLAs of Telangana would take oath during the first session of the Legislative Assembly scheduled to be held on Saturday.
Protem Speaker and AIMIM MLA Akbaruddin Owaisi will administer oath to the legislators tomorrow.
BJP MLA-elect Raja Singh, however, voiced opposition to Akbaruddin Owaisi's appointment as the pro tem Speaker and said he and other saffron party MLAs would not participate in the oath taking event with Owaisi presiding over the proceedings.
Aditya-L1 instrument captures full-disk images of Sun in near ultraviolet wavelengths
The Solar Ultraviolet Imaging Telescope (SUIT) instrument on board the Aditya-L1 spacecraft has successfully captured the first full-disk images of the Sun in the 200-400 nm wavelength range.
SUIT captured images of the Sun's photosphere and chromosphere in this wavelength range using various scientific filters, according to ISRO.
"On November 20, 2023, the SUIT payload was powered ON. Following a successful pre-commissioning phase, the telescope captured its first light science images on December 6, 2023," an ISRO statement said on Friday.
Central teams to visit eight Maha districts to review drought situation
Four inter-ministerial central teams will visit eight districts of Maharashtra on December 13 and 14 December and assess the drought situation, an official release said here on Friday.
The teams will be briefed at the divisional commissioner's office of Pune before their visit to Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar, Jalna, Beed, Dharashiv, Pune, Solapur, Nasik and Jalgaon districts, it added.
CPI Kerala state secy Kanam Rajendran dies at 73
Veteran CPI leader and the party's state secretary Kanam Rajendran died at a private hospital here on Friday following cardiac arrest, party sources said.
He was 73.
The senior leader of the Communist Party of India has been undergoing treatment at the hospital for multiple ailments including heart and kidney related issues and diabetes.
Pakistan issues visas to 104 Indian pilgrims
The Pakistan high commission on Friday said it issued 104 visas to Sikh pilgrims from India to facilitate their visit to Shadani Darbar in Sindh.
Under the provision of a bilateral protocol on visits to religious shrines, Sikh and Hindu pilgrims from India visit Pakistan every year. Pakistani pilgrims also visit India every year under the protocol.
Cong lost MP polls due to ego after Karnataka victory, not because of EVMs: CM Chouhan
Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan on Friday said the Congress lost in the state because of its "ego" after winning the Karnataka Assembly polls in May this year and not because of Electronic Voting Machines (EVMs).
The ruling Bharatiya Janata Party retained power in MP in an emphatic manner winning 163 seats in the 230-member Assembly, while the Congress managed to emerge victorious on just 66 seats, down from the 114 it had secured in the 2018 polls.
Since then, some Congress leaders, including Rajya Sabha MP Digvijaya Singh have raised the issue of EVMs and their credibility.
More than 70% rape victims in Delhi between age 18 and 30: Report
The highest number of women rape victims in Delhi in 2021 were in the 18-30 age group, accounting for more than 72 per cent of all such cases, a state government report released on Friday said.
The Directorate of Economics and Statistics in its report stated that in 2021, of a total of 1,251 rape victims in Delhi, the most, at 905, were in the age bracket 18-30, followed by 328 in the 30-45 age group.
The pattern bears out at national level too, with 20,065 rape victims, the highest, coming from those between age 18 and 30, followed by 7,627 in the age group 30-45.
Gyanvapi row: Court to pass order on handing over basement key to DM on December 11
The Varanasi district court on Friday could not take up a case seeking that the key to the basement of the Gyanvapi mosque complex be handed over to the district magistrate due to mourning over the death of a lawyer and fixed December 11 to pronounce the order.
The court completed the hearing on the appeal of advocate Vijay Shankar Rastogi for becoming a party in the case on Monday and reserved the order for Friday. But the matter could not be taken up on Friday due to mourning over the death of a lawyer, the counsel for the Hindu side to the dispute, Madan Mohan Yadav, said.
Need to link institutions with industry for developed India by 2047: UP CM Adityanath
To transform India into a 'developed' country by 2047, there is a need to connect our institutions with the industry, Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath said on Friday.
The more than 140 crore Indians need to will the country into making a global power in the next 25 years, the CM said, addressing the fifth convocation of the Bennett University in Greater Noida.
"To make the country a developed India by 2047, we will have to connect our institutions with the industry. We have to decide our goals for the next 25 years," Adityanath said.
Telangana CM in Delhi Revanth Reddy; likely to resign as Lok Sabha member
Telangana Chief Minister A Revanth Reddy on Friday arrived in the national capital and is likely to tender his resignation from Lok Sabha.
Official sources said Reddy is likely to meet Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla to offer his resignation. He represents the Malkajgiri Parliamentary constituency in Telangana.
The sources said Reddy is also likely to meet party general secretary K C Venugopal and discuss issues ahead of the first assembly session in Telangana besides implementation of six guarantees promised by the party during the poll campaign.
One killed, 18 injured as bus overturns in Rajasthan
One passenger died and 18 were injured when a Rajasthan Roadways bus overturned after hitting a motorcycle and ramming into a divider in Bundi district on Friday, police said.
The incident took place on National Highway (NH) 52 near Dhakni circle under the Hindoli police station area, they said.
The Rajasthan Roadways bus overturned this afternoon after hitting a motorcycle and ramming into a divider. One passenger died and 18 were injured in the accident. It is likely that the bus driver lost control of the vehicle while trying to avoid hitting the motorcycle, Circle Inspector Manoj Sikarwal said.
Mizoram assembly session from Dec 12 for oath taking by MLAs, election of speaker
Mizoram Governor Hari Babu Kambhampati on Friday summoned an assembly session for three days which will commence on December 12, a senior official said.
Pro-tem Speaker Lalfamkima will preside over the first day of the session and administer oath to the members. The election of the new speaker will also be held on that day, the official said.
Lalfamkima, who was elected from the Kolasib constituency, was sworn in as the Pro-tem Speaker on Friday.
Expulsion of Moitra from LS betrayal of parliamentary democracy: Mamata
West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee denounced the expulsion of Trinamool Congress (TMC) MP Mahua Moitra from the Lok Sabha on Friday in connection with the 'cash-for-query' case and termed the move as a "betrayal" of India's parliamentary democracy.
Moitra was expelled after the House adopted the report of its Ethics Committee that held her guilty of accepting gifts and illegal gratification from a businessman to advance his interests.
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First Published: Dec 08 2023 | 8:48 AM IST
