Uttar Pradesh court orders judicial probe into Mukhtar Ansari’s death  

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Lucknow: A chief judicial magistrate's court in Uttar Pradesh's Banda Friday ordered a judicial inquiry into the death of gangster-politician Mukhtar Ansari, a senior official said. Banda Chief Judicial Magistrate (CJM) Bhagwan Das Gupta appointed Garima Singh, Additional Chief Judicial Magistrate (MP-MLA Court Banda) as the investigating officer in the case, the official said. The CJM has sought the probe report within a month. The 63-year-old Ansari was brought to the...

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EAM Jaishankar meets Ukranian counterpart Kuleba

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New Delhi: External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar met Ukraine's Minister of Foreign Affairs Dmytro Kuleba in New Delhi Friday as part of a bilateral engagement. Kuleba, who arrived here Thursday, is on a two-day visit to India. "Welcome FM @DmytroKuleba of Ukraine to Hyderabad House. Look forward to our discussions today," Jaishankar posted on X ahead of their talks. The external affairs minister also shared a photograph of him shaking hands...

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Kejriwal’s wife launches WhatsApp campaign to garner support for Delhi CM

Kejriwal's wife launches WhatsApp campaign to garner support for Delhi CM

New Delhi: Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal's wife Sunita launched a WhatsApp campaign Friday, urging people to support her husband, who is in the ED's custody in an excise policy-linked money-laundering case. In a digital media briefing, Sunita Kejriwal said her husband has challenged the "most corrupt and dictatorial forces" in the country and asked people to support him through their blessings and prayers. Issuing a WhatsApp number -- 8297324624 --...

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Hope that in India ‘everyone’s rights’ are ‘protected’, people are able to vote in ‘free & fair’ atmosphere: UN Spokesperson

United Nations spokesman Stephane Dujarric. | Photo Credit: AP

United Nations: A spokesperson for UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has said the world body "hopes” that in India and any country that is having elections, people's "political and civil rights" are "protected" and everyone is able to vote in a "free and fair" atmosphere. Spokesperson for the Secretary-General Stephane Dujarric made these remarks Thursday while he was responding to a question on the “political unrest” in India ahead of the upcoming...

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Uttar Pradesh court orders judicial probe into Mukhtar Ansari’s death  

Lucknow: A chief judicial magistrate's court in Uttar Pradesh's Banda Friday ordered a judicial inquiry into the death of gangster-politician Mukhtar Ansari, a senior official said. Banda Chief Judicial Magistrate (CJM) Bhagwan Das Gupta appointed Garima Singh, Additional Chief Judicial Magistrate (MP-MLA Court Banda) as the investigating officer in the case, the official said. The CJM has...

S Jaishankar, India, Ukraine, Dmytro Kuleba

EAM Jaishankar meets Ukranian counterpart Kuleba

New Delhi: External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar met Ukraine's Minister of Foreign Affairs Dmytro Kuleba in New Delhi Friday as part of a bilateral engagement. Kuleba, who arrived here Thursday, is on a two-day visit to India. "Welcome FM @DmytroKuleba of Ukraine to Hyderabad House. Look forward to our discussions today," Jaishankar posted on X ahead of...

Kejriwal's wife launches WhatsApp campaign to garner support for Delhi CM

Kejriwal’s wife launches WhatsApp campaign to garner support for Delhi CM

New Delhi: Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal's wife Sunita launched a WhatsApp campaign Friday, urging people to support her husband, who is in the ED's custody in an excise policy-linked money-laundering case. In a digital media briefing, Sunita Kejriwal said her husband has challenged the "most corrupt and dictatorial forces" in the country and asked people to...

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Security tightened in several parts of UP after Mukhtar Ansari’s death

Lucknow: Security personnel in several districts of Uttar Pradesh remained on alert Friday, a day after jailed gangster-turned-politician Mukhtar Ansari died of cardiac arrest at a hospital in Banda. Prohibitory orders under section 144 of the CrPC have been imposed across the state and teams of the Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) along with the local police...

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UN court orders Israel to allow unhindered aid to Gaza

The Hague: The International Court of Justice (ICJ) in The Hague has ordered Israel to do whatever is necessary to ensure that basic aid reaches the Palestinian population in the Gaza Strip. "Israel should take all necessary and effective measures to ensure, without delay, in full cooperation with the United Nations, the unhindered provision at scale by...

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Congress says it has received fresh I-T notices of over Rs1,800 crore

New Delhi: The Congress Friday said it has received fresh notices from the income-tax department, asking it to pay Rs1,823.08 crore, and accused the ruling BJP of indulging in "tax terrorism" to financially cripple the opposition party ahead of the Lok Sabha polls. Adressing a press conference at the AICC headquarters here along with Congress general secretary...

 

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