Amit Shah’s Odisha visit postponed

Bhubaneswar: Union Home Minister Amit Shah's scheduled one-day visit to Odisha March 26 has been postponed, a leader of the BJP's state unit said Tuesday. The new itinerary will be announced later, Odisha BJP general secretary Golak Mohapatra said. The...

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Strong tremors jolt Delhi, parts of north India

New Delhi:  Strong tremors jolted parts of north India, including Delhi-NCR, on Tuesday night as an earthquake of magnitude 6.6 struck the Hindu Kush region in Afghanistan. Panic-stricken people rushed out of buildings as the earthquake struck around 10.20 pm and was also felt in Jammu and Kashmir, Haryana, Punjab...

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Delhi excise scam: BRS leader Kavitha quizzed by ED for 10 hrs on day 3, submits phones to agency

ED grills BRS leader Kavitha for 9 hours, calls her again March 16

New Delhi: BRS leader K Kavitha Tuesday was quizzed for about 10 hours on the third day of her deposition before the Enforcement Directorate even as she submitted some mobile phones used by her to the agency in connection with the Delhi excise policy linked money laundering case. The MLC daughter of Telangana Chief Minister K Chandrashekar Rao reached the ED office in central Delhi from the Tughlaq Road official residence...

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Supreme Court asks Centre to discuss if hanging can be replaced by ‘less painful’ deaths

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New Delhi: The Centre should consider whether there can be a ‘less painful’ alternative to death by hanging way of carrying out death sentences, the Supreme Court said Tuesday. The Supreme Court asked the Centre to initiate a discussion and collect information to examine if there can be a less painful method than hanging by the neck. Attorney General R Venkataramani was asked to get back to the apex court with...

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BJP most important foreign political party from standpoint of American national interests: WSJ

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New York: An opinion piece in the influential Wall Street Journal has described the BJP as the most important foreign political party in the world for America's national interests and the "linchpin" of the US strategy in the Indo-Pacific amidst China's increasing assertiveness in the region. The BJP may also be the least understood, the opinion piece written by Walter Russell Mead, a leading American academic, commented. He added that the...

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Delhi excise scam: Cooperated with CBI in probe, no incriminating evidence found, Sisodia tells court

Excise scam: Manish Sisodia to be produced at Delhi court

New Delhi: Former Delhi Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia Tuesday told a Delhi court he has cooperated with the CBI investigation into the excise scam case and none of the searches have revealed any incriminating material against him. Sisodia's counsel, while making submissions on the bail plea of the AAP leader, said his custodial interrogation was no longer required and he was not a flight risk. “I am public servant but...

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Strong tremors jolt Delhi, parts of north India

New Delhi:  Strong tremors jolted parts of north India, including Delhi-NCR, on Tuesday night as an earthquake of magnitude 6.6 struck the Hindu Kush region in Afghanistan. Panic-stricken people rushed out of buildings as the earthquake struck around 10.20 pm and was also felt in Jammu and Kashmir, Haryana, Punjab and Rajasthan. There was disruption in mobile...

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Pakistan stays away from SCO conference after Indian side objects to incorrect map

New Delhi: Pakistan Tuesday skipped a conference of military medicine experts organised by an Indian think-tank under the framework of Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) after the host objected to incorrect depiction of Kashmir in a map, people familiar with the matter said. The conference on 'SCO Armed Forces Contribution in Military Medicine, Healthcare and Pandemics' was to...

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Boris Johnson admits he misled UK Parliament, but in ‘good faith’

London: Former British prime minister Boris Johnson's written defence in response to an influential parliamentary committee was published on Tuesday and in it he accepts that he misled Parliament over the partygate scandal of COVID lockdown law-breaching parties at Downing Street, but did so in “good faith”. Johnson is due to give oral evidence to the House...

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Charge sheet in minister Naba Das murder case will be filed on time: Naveen

Bhubaneswar: The charge sheet in the murder of minister Naba Kishore Das will be filed within prescribed time frame, Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik told the Odisha Assembly Tuesday. Replying to the discussion on demand of grants for the Home and General Administration Departments, he said: "The investigation is still under progress and within the time frame given...

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Amit Shah’s Odisha visit postponed

Bhubaneswar: Union Home Minister Amit Shah's scheduled one-day visit to Odisha March 26 has been postponed, a leader of the BJP's state unit said Tuesday. The new itinerary will be announced later, Odisha BJP general secretary Golak Mohapatra said. The change in programme is likely due to Shah's engagements in poll-bound Karnataka, Mohapatra said. Shah was scheduled...

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Nikhat sails into quarterfinals of World Boxing Championships

New Delhi: A "fatigued" Nikhat Zareen continued her winning run to enter the quarterfinals along with two other pugilists at the Women's World Championships here Tuesday. Nikhat saw off Mexico's Patricia Alvarez Herrera 5-0 to notch her third win of the tournament. Commonwealth Games champion Nitu Ghanghas (48kg) won her bout with a first round against Sumaiya...

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