In the ongoing anti-terrorism operation in J&K’s Rajouri district, a Lance Naik from 9 Para (Special Forces) died, bringing the total security casualties to five. The operation led to the killing of two terrorists, including a high-ranking Pakistani commander of Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT). The fallen soldiers are Captain MV Pranjal, Captain Shubham Gupta, Havildar Abdul...
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PM Narendra Modi on Thursday drew cheers from the audience at his poll rally in Deogarh in Rajasthan when he recognised a nonagenarian BJP member, Dharam Chand Derasariya, sitting in the crowd and lauded his contribution to the party. “Derasariya ji has probably given his six decades of his life to propagate this (BJP’s)...
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LGBTQIA+ community members on Thursday requested an open court hearing on their petitions seeking review of the Supreme Court’s October 17 judgment rejecting marriage rights for same-sex couples, and tactically based their demand on CJI D Y Chandrachud’s minority opinion – “when there is discrimination, it must be remedied by the courts”. Senior advocate...
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Battleground Rajasthan resonated with poll pyrotechnics one last time on Thursday as electioneering closed in a blaze of allegations and counters, including a rare instance of CM Ashok Gehlot and his estranged deputy Sachin Pilot rebutting in one voice PM Narendra Modi’s allegation about the latter being “punished” by Congress just like his late...
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Beloved characters like Snoopy and SpongeBob SquarePants soared through the skies above New York City on Thursday and bands marched along the streets below as the annual Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade ushered in the holiday season. The parade started on Manhattan’s Upper West Side making its way alongside Central Park in front of big...
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The Supreme Court has sought to clearly delineate the boundary of action by governors when a bill passed by a state assembly is sent for their assent by ruling that, being titular heads of states, they don’t have the power to veto legislative actions of elected governments or sit indefinitely on bills duly passed...
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Red Bird Flight Training illegally removed the Secure Digital (SD) data card from the crashed aircraft at Baramati airport. The card records flight data and engine performance parameters. Red Bird tampered with the SD card and handed it over to the Aircraft Accident Investigation Bureau (AAIB). They repeated this offense when a second aircraft...
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The Supreme Court on Thursday directed the Union government to decide “with reasonable dispatch” setting up a Delimitation Commission to examine the need to increase seats reserved for Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes in Lok Sabha and state assemblies in view of the addition of scores of communities to the list of SCs and...
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