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TMC leader Derek O’ Brien further stated that the EC was trying to bring back NRC in from the back door. Following the decision of the Election Commission of India to revise the electoral roll ahead of Bihar’s elections, Trinamool Congress (TMC) MP Derek O’ Brien on Saturday stated that in the desperation to change or attempt to change things, one does desperate things. “TMC has the highest regard for the Election Commission of India as a constitutional body, but the constitutional body should not turn into the branch office of the BJP. Why is this exercise being suddenly done…

Day after beginning of Rath Yatra in Puri, chariots of deities reach ‘aunt’s place’. Puri, The chariots of sibling deities – Lord Balabhadra, Devi Subhadra and Lord Jagannath – on Saturday reached the destination Gundicha Temple, a day after the Rath Yatra began in Puri. Gundicha Temple is considered the aunt’s place of the deities who go there every year after leaving the 12th-century Jagannath temple, situated at a distance of 2.6 km. They will go back to the main temple after nine days. The return car journey, known as ‘Bahuda Yatra’, will held this year on 5 July. Earlier…

Saying that he is first a citizen of India, and then a father, the man affirmed in full faith in Kolkata police over the probe in this gang-rape case. As the row over the alleged gangrape of a law student in South Kolkata continued to escalate, the father of one of the accused on Saturday called for “strong punishment” for his son if his involvement is proved, asserting complete faith in the state police. Police have so far arrested four persons, including prime accused Monojit Mishra, for the alleged gang-rape of a first-year student of the South Calcutta Law College,…

A new study has found that such practices are prevalent in some of India’s neighbours, such as Myanmar, where the country’s gas revenues are being deposited directly into restricted Chinese bank accounts. China is securing loans to low-income and developing nations with commodity revenue streams and cash held in restricted escrow accounts in Chinese banks, with such practices implemented for almost half of the total loans worth $991 billion, according to a new study. The study, done by the Kiel Institute for the World Economy, AidData and Georgetown University and Oxford University and released on Thursday, found such practices prevalent…

Group Captain Shubhanshu Shukla travelled to the International Space Station as part of the Axiom-4 mission on June 25. Prime Minister Narendra Modi interacted with Indian Air Force Group Captain Shubhanshu Shukla, who is aboard the International Space Station, via video conferencing. Shukla, along with three other astronauts, jetted off to the ISS on board SpaceX’s Dragon capsule from NASA’s Kennedy Space Centre, as part of the Axiom-4 mission, on June 25. Shubhanshu Shukla also became the first Indian astronaut to head to space in over 40 years, marking a historic milestone for the nation. The Prime Minister’s Office posted…

The Congress alleged that the RSS “never accepted” the Constitution and the remark is part of “long-standing conspiracy to dismantle” Ambedkar’s vision of India. Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Friday launched an attack on the RSS, saying that the mask of the organisation has come off as it wants “Manusmriti” and not the Constitution. Rahul Gandhi’s attack comes after RSS leader Dattatreya Hosabale on Thursday called for reviewing the words ‘socialist’ and ‘secular’ in the Preamble of the Constitution, saying that the terms were included during the Emergency and were never part of the Constitution drafted by BR Ambedkar. “The…

The Congress party criticised the move, claiming it suppresses press freedom, while BJP leaders called for responsible journalism. Police in Varanasi have filed an FIR against six journalists on charges of inciting unrest and spreading misinformation through social media posts, officials said on Friday. The complaint, registered at the Lanka police station, alleges that the journalists shared a video of a statue being cleaned and used it to incite communal sentiment. The action has triggered a political backlash, with the Congress condemning it as an attack on the freedom of the press. According to Lanka Station House Officer (SHO) Shivakant…

RSS leader Hosabale’s call to review “secular” and “socialist” in the Constitution sparks political outrage, with Congress accusing the government of constitutional distortion. A day after Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) leader, Dattatreya Hosabale, called for “reviewing” the insertion of the words “secular and socialist” in the Preamble of the Constitution, Union agriculture minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan on Friday argued that these words did not reflect India’s core cultural values, even as the Opposition accused the government and the RSS of “distorting and destroying” the Constitution. Speaking at an event in Delhi on Thursday, RSS general secretary, Hosabale said, “During the…

The accused was the maternal uncle of the 10-year-old victim. Alongside life term under the POCSO act, he is also fined of ₹85,000. A special court in Mainpuri district convicted and sentenced to life term the maternal uncle of 10-year-old girl for raping and killing her five years ago. The man was also saddled with a fine of ₹85,000, a lawyer said on Friday. Special public prosecutor Shailendra Rajput told that the court of Special Judge (POCSO Act) Chetna Chauhan on Thursday convicted the man in the case of rape and murder of the minor girl, daughter of a daily…

All three accused in the gang rape case have been arrested, their mobile phones have been seized and further investigation into the case is underway. The medical examination of the first-year student of South Calcutta Law College has proved her allegation of gangrape as officials found evidence of “forceful penetration, bite marks and nail scratches” on her body. After last year’s rape case of a postgraduate medical trainee at RG Kar Medical College, Kolkata is once again embroiled by a tragic crime. The first-year law student complained to the police that she was gang-raped inside the college campus by an…