Russia’s Ukraine stand change raises G20 document hopes

The government is seeing some gains following Russia recalibrating its stance on the mention of the Ukraine conflict in the chair’s summary at two G20 ministerial meetings, but is keeping a wary eye on the outcome of subsequent talks in the lead up to the leader’s summit in about 50 days.

July 24, 2023 at 01:41AM

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UPA phone-banking scam broke banking system: PM

July 23, 2023 at 04:06AM

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Rs 700cr investment fraud by Chinese handlers busted in Hyderabad

An over Rs 700-crore investment-cum-part-time job fraud run by Chinese handlers with alleged links to the Lebanon-based Hezbollah terror group was unearthed by the cybercrime wing of Hyderabad police on Saturday. The terror funding tip-off came from a crypto agency, which flagged suspicious bitcoin credits in wallets of the terror group, said police.

July 23, 2023 at 03:20AM

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Oppn to step up protest, press for PM statement in Parliament

July 23, 2023 at 02:28AM

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Delhi issues Yamuna rise warning as Hathnikund volume up

A fresh spell of rain in the hill states led to the release of huge volumes of water from the Hathnikund barrage into the Yamuna on Saturday, forcing the Delhi government to issue a warning to people who had moved back to their houses in the low-lying areas. The release rate had increased to 2.51 lakh cusecs on Saturday morning, an engineer said.

July 23, 2023 at 12:53AM

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Rajasthan minister sacked after speech on rapes in state

Rajasthan CM Ashok Gehlot had a minister sacked Friday hours after he scored an own goal in the assembly by saying the Congress government “had failed to ensure the security of women” and that “we should introspect on this instead of focusing on Manipur”.

July 22, 2023 at 02:52AM

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2 women candidates stripped during WB panchayat polls: BJP

BJP on Friday came down heavily on West Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee over the alleged stripping of two of its women candidates in the recent panchayat polls. Addressing a press conference, BJP MP Locket Chatterjee claimed that on the day of panchayat polls, July 8, a woman gram sabha candidate was beaten, stripped naked and paraded in Howrah’s Panchla, adding that the state police refused to file an FIR until it was forced to do so by BJP’s protests.

July 22, 2023 at 02:59AM

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Can Parliament render city govt powerless over babus?

The Supreme Court, while referring scrutiny of the constitutional validity of the Delhi services ordinance to a five-judge constitution bench, said Parliament by law could limit Delhi government’s control over bureaucracy but whether that power extended to extinguishing the jurisdiction of the elected government altogether in matter related to services needed to be examined.

July 22, 2023 at 03:05AM

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SC judges taken by surprise as Yasin Malik appears in court

In a major security lapse that starkly exposed the ineptness of the administration of maximum-security Tihar Prisons complex, Kashmiri secessionist Yasin Malik, who has been convicted to life imprisonment for terrorism, was brought by jail authorities to the Supreme Court on Friday when his presence was not required.

July 22, 2023 at 03:14AM

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Can’t punish a person who hasn’t been convicted: Court on Brij Bhushan

Granting bail to former Wrestling Federation of India chief and BJP MP Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh, a Delhi court has observed that it would be “quite contrary to the concept of personal liberty enshrined in the Constitution” that a person should be punished in a case in which he has not been convicted.

July 22, 2023 at 03:18AM

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