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November 29, 2022

Men with swords attack police van carrying Aaftab

A police vehicle carrying Shraddha Walkar murder accused Aaftab Amin Poonawala after the polygraph test at the Forensic Science Laboratory (FSL) in Rohini was on Monday evening came under attack by a sword-wielding mob.

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Religious freedom doesn't include fundamental right to convert, Centre tells SC

THE Centre on Monday told the Supreme Court that the right to freedom of religion enshrined under Article 25 of the Constitution does not include a fundamental right to convert people to a particular religion, not in the least if it is done through fraud, deception, coercion or allurement.

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Assam ragging: Student jumps off hostel, critical

A student of Assam's Dibrugarh University was grievously injured after he had jumped off a two-storey building to escape torture during ragging by some senior students and a former student union leader. Anand Sharma, the first-semester post-graduate commerce student, is admitted to ICU of a private hospital and his condition is stated to be critical.

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Mehrauli rerun? Man killed, body cut into pieces, stored in fridge

YET another gut-wrenching murder case akin to the Shraddha Walkar shocker has surfaced from the Pandav Nagar area of east Delhi. The police said on Monday that a 48-year-old man was allegedly murdered and chopped with the body parts tossed around an abandoned place in the city.

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Can't sit on picks as you don't like collegium: SC

Raps law minister’s comments; opposes cherry-picking of names

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K’taka prof suspended for calling student Kasab’

THE Manipal Institute of Technology in Udupi has suspended a professor after he allegedly called a student 'Ajmal Kasab', a Pakistani terrorist who was hanged in 2012 after being convicted in the 26/11 Mumbai terror attack case.

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In balancing act, Rahul says both Gehlot & Pilot assets

CONGRESS leader Rahul Gandhi on Monday took the middle ground in the raging controversy over Rajasthan Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot calling his former deputy Sachin Pilot a traitor, saying both are assets for the party.

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Pandav Nagar horror: Cold cuts, depraved minds

Woman-son duo kept body until morning to let blood drain out

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R&AW may join probe into AIIMS cyberattack

IN order to ensure that all aspects of the cyberattack on AIIMS are covered, the government, according to sources, is planning to sign up the Research & Analysis (R&AW) Wing. The National Investigative Agency, has already joined the probe.

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DU to release first merit list for PG admissions tomorrow

THE University of Delhi will publish the first merit list for postgraduate (PG) admission on November 30 on its official website admission.uod.ac.in, according to the details given by the university on Monday.

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Reply to Shah's plea against sealing office: HC to L-G, AAP govt

City High Court Monday sought response of the Lieutenant Governor and Delhi government on a plea by the state think-tank DDCD's vice chairman Jasmine Shah challenging an order restraining him from discharging his duties and sealing his office.

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BJP-ruled MCD has littered Delhi with piles of garbage, says Chadha

AAP leader and Rajya Sabha MP Raghav Chadha on Monday brought up the issue of garbage management in the city once again, saying the BJP turned MCD into the 'Most Corrupt Department'.

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Congress says rights of Dalits, minorities to be priority if party wins

FIGHTING for the \"rights and protections\" of Dalits and minorities will be the first priority if the Congress wins the civic elections in the national capital, the party's Delhi unit chief Anil Chaudhary said on Monday. Chaudhary said the Congress would implement various social welfare schemes to empower these communities, particularly Dalit children, through quality education.

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Kejriwal deserves dhokha ratna, says MP CM Shivraj

Alleges Delhi CM has betrayed everyone, including his guru Anna Hazare

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Border row: Bommai to meet legal experts in Delhi today

CHIEF Minister Basavaraj Bommai will hold a meeting with legal experts, including senior advocate Mukul Rohatgi, in New Delhi on Tuesday to discuss the Karnataka-Maharashtra border row.

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Vizhinjam violence: Cases booked against 3k people

All-party meet condemns violence, calls for resumption of port work

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Indian Politics And Emotionalism

THE (mis)use of collective emotion vs public reason in the runup to elections is rife. Political parties routinely play them against each other, and this cynicality equally often leads to the privileging of irrationality over acumen. This often-subliminal impairing of the public mind becomes increasingly conspicuous and blatant the closer one gets to the elections. In the background are political strategists calculating which emotional triggers-fear, anger, yearning, hope will best serve the consolidation or expansion of their party.

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TRACK QUEEN USHA TO HEAD IOA, BALL NOW IN ATHLETES' COURT

AT first glance, the nominations for the IOA Executive Committee (EC) elections throw up two interesting facts. There is none from the previous executive committee, and sportspersons comprise nearly half the EC. Athletics legend PT Usha is set to be the IOA president after the election process ends on December 10. Six other sportspersons are on the 15-member panel. They are London Olympic medallist shooter Gagan Narang (vice president), All India Football Federation chief Kalyan Chaubey (joint secretary), two Sportspersons of Merit, London Olympic medallist Yogeshwar Dutt and archer Dola Banerjee, and two Athletes' Representatives-London Olympic medallist M C Mary Kom and Asian and Commonwealth Games medallist paddler Sharath Kamal.

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INDIA'S INTENT ON POK: THE ISI RUNS SCARED

There is no doubt that the matter is complex, made even worse by the presence of Chinese strategic interests

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Kashmir Files A Propaganda Movie: IFFI Jury Head

THE movie The Kashmir Files was called 'propaganda' by Israeli filmmaker and IFFI jury head Nadav Lepid at the closing ceremony of the 53rd International Film Festival of India on Monday.

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Doval, Indonesia minister to address ulema meeting

NATIONAL Security Adviser Ajit Doval and Indonesian security affairs minister Mohammed Mahfud Mahmodin on Tuesday will address a meeting of ulema, or Muslim scholars, convened to focus on countering radicalisation and extremism. The Indonesian leader, known as Mahfud MD, will attend this and other meetings which includes talks on security cooperation with Doval.

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'New Vande Bharat trains may not meet deadline'

Good scope of replacement of Shatabdi, Rajdhani, some more premium trains by Vande Bharat: Mani

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Koshyari ready to quit over Shivaji remarks: BJP leaders

THE speculations are rife that Maharashtra governor Bhagat Singh Koshyari will be removed or he himelf will step down after the controversy erupted over his \"controversial and defamatory\" remarks against Chhatapati Shivaji Maharaj. He made the objectionable remarks on November 18.

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Intranasal vaccine INCOVACC gets restricted use nod

INDIA'S first nasal Covid vaccine iNCOVACC has received approval from the Central Drugs Standard Control Organisation (CDSCO) under restricted use in an emergency for ages 18 and above, in India, for heterologous booster doses; Bharat Biotech announced on Monday.

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Mehbooba vacates Gupkar residence, moves to sister's home

NEARLY a month after being served eviction notice by authorities, PDP chief and former Jammu and Kashmir chief minister Mehbooba Mufti on Monday vacated her Fairview residence at highly-secured Gupkar Road in Srinagar and moved to her sister's residence in the Srinagar outskirts.

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Jolt to BJP in local body polls, Independents win most seats

The Congress and the BJP's ally, Jannayak Janata Party, did not contest these elections on their party symbols. The focus is now on the over 350 Independent candidates who have won from the 411 Zila Parishad wards.

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Guj hunt for Oppn: AAP fills Cong vacuum in BJP citadel

It may be too far-fetched to see any change in the ruling party, but the state is certainly keen to have a strong alternative opposition

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U.K. MUST STRONGLY DEFEND ITS VALUES: RISHI

BRITAIN must do more to defend its values of freedom and openness on the world stage, Prime Minister Rishi Sunak will argue on Monday in his first major foreign policy speech since taking office a month ago.

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Keeping army apolitical will help boost Pak's democratic culture: Bajwa

A day ahead of his retirement, Pakistan's Army chief General Qamar Javed Bajwa has said that his decision to keep the military establishment \"apolitical\" will shield it from the \"vagaries of politics\" in the coup-prone country.

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Shanghai blanketed by heavy police presence

Nervy atmosphere as hundreds of officers patrol the city, search people’s phones for incendiary items and foreign apps

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Leaders of Nepal's five-party ruling alliance hold talks on power sharing

TOP leaders of the five-party ruling alliance led by the Nepali Congress on Monday held several rounds of intense meetings on forming a new government and power-sharing mechanism as the results of the November 20 general elections are expected to be announced soon.

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Amazon to shut wholesale distribution unit in India

E-commerce giant Amazon is shutting down its wholesale ecommerce website for neighbourhood stores - Amazon Distribution.

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Sensex may touch 80K by Dec 2023: Morgan Stanley

INDIA'S equity market continues to hit new highs despite various global concerns, including a civil unrest in China that led to noticeable decline in key Asian markets.

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Bank credit up 17.2% in Q2; deposits grow 9.8%

RBI says credit growth remained broad-based as all population groups, bank groups recorded double-digit growth

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S&P cuts India's GDP growth to 7% for FY23; SBI sees Q2 growth at 5.8%

S&P GLOBAL RATINGS has further slashed India's economic growth projection to 7% for FY23 due to global slowdown, geopolitical tension between Russia and Ukraine and inflationary pressure.

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Instant Messaging Platform WhatsApp Denies 'Data Leak'

META-owned instant messaging platform WhatsApp on Monday denied data breach and said that there is no evidence of a 'data leak' from the platform.

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TRAI to form joint panel to curb pesky calls, messages menace

IN a bid to detect pesky calls and messages, which has become a major source of inconvenience to the public and impinges on the privacy of individuals, telecom regulator body TRAI will form a panel

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CASEMIRO THE HERO

Neymar’s absence felt as five-time champions labour to a 1-O win

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LIONS SHARE OF PASSION

EVEN in the vivid, vibrant world of African football, Cameroon are an outlier. The stories are endless. The heroes evoke an awe, some of their feats etched in the sands of time.

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Not your Riyan of the mill cricketer

WHEN Riyan Parag walked out to the middle, with Assam reduced to 45/2 while chasing 351 against Jammu & Kashmir in the quarterfinal of the Vijay Hazare Trophy in Ahmedabad on Monday, not many were sure how the end result would be. Not even Riyan's father Parag Das. But Das knew one thing. Riyan had to do well for them to have a chance of getting over the line.

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