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2 min read Last Updated : Jan 05 2023 | 10:37 PM IST
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Chief Justice of India DY Chandrachud has recused himself from hearing a batch of pleas seeking contempt action against stand-up comedian Kunal Kamra for his alleged scandalous tweets against the judiciary.
A bench headed by the CJI took up the petitions and said, "We will place this matter before a bench to which I (CJI) am not a part of because the comments (tweets) were made on the order which I have passed."
The bench also comprising Justice PS Narasimha then listed the matter after two weeks and the CJI, in his administrative capacity will now assign the case to another bench.
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Ahead of the panchayat elections due this year, the West Bengal government has allotted Rs 371 crore for introducing chicken and seasonal fruits in mid-day meals from January to April.
In addition to the existing midday meal menu of rice, potato, soybean and eggs, chicken and seasonal fruits will be served weekly once for four months for additional nutrition under PM POSHAN, according to a government notification.
The provision of additional items, however, is unlikely to continue after April, a school department official said.
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The Bharatiya Janata Party is set to hold a meeting of its national office bearers on January 16 at the party headquarters in New Delhi. The party is likely to deliberate and chalk out plans for the coming assembly elections in nine states this year.
In a statement, the BJP said the meeting will begin at 10 am and end by 2 pm, followed by the BJP's national executive meeting on the same day.
The national office bearers' meeting will be presided over by the party's national president JP Nadda.
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Pakistan Army chief General Asim Munir on Thursday travelled to Saudi Arabia on his first official visit abroad where he met Saudi Defence Minister Prince Khalid bin Salman and discussed ways to strengthen bilateral ties, including in the defence sector.
During the meeting, they emphasised the strength and durability of bilateral relations between the two fraternal countries, the state-run Saudi Press Agency reported.
"They discussed military and defence cooperation, and ways to support and enhance them, in addition to discussing the most important regional and international issues of common interest," it added.
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Union Home Minister Amit Shah asserts that the BJP-led government in Tripura wiped out terrorism and brought all-round development to the northeastern state.
Addressing a public rally in Dharmanagar, Shah also said the immense love and faith shown by people towards Prime Minister Narendra Modi clearly indicate that BJP will again form government in Tripura.
"We have brought an end to terrorism in Tripura through peace talks with the NLFT (National Liberation Front of Tripura), and resettled internally displaced Brus in the state," he said.
The home miniser is in Tripura to flag off two BJP rath yatras aimed at highlighting the state government's achievements ahead of the upcoming assembly elections.
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Prince Harry has made a shocking revelation in his upcoming autobiography that his brother Prince William "knocked" him to the floor during an argument over his American wife Meghan Markle, according to a media report.
Describing a confrontation at his London home in 2019, Harry says William called Meghan "difficult", "rude" and "abrasive", which Harry calls a "parrot (ing of) the press narrative about his American wife, according to The Guardian, which says it has seen a copy of the duke's memoir Spare.
"The confrontation escalated, Harry writes, until William grabbed me by the collar, ripping my necklace, and knocked me to the floor," the paper says.
The book is likely to spark a serious furore for the British royal family. The Kensington Palace said it "has no comment to make".
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Amid criticism over stone pelting on the Vande Bharat Express, West Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee has claimed that the train was pelted with stones in the neighbouring Bihar and not in her state.
She said legal action will be taken against media outlets that had spread "fake news" that the incident took place in West Bengal.
"Vande Bharat was pelted with stones in Bihar and not in West Bengal. We will take legal action against those media outlets that telecast fake news that the incident took place in West Bengal and brought a bad name to our state," Banerjee told reporters before leaving Sagar Island.
"Vande Bharat is nothing special. It is just an old train refurbished with a new engine," she added.
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The search and rescue operation for a 'leopard' spotted earlier this week close to a housing society in Greater Noida (west) area has entered the third day without much success. Authorities have now brought goats to the area to use them as a bait to lure the leopard.
"Three goats have also been brought at the site as bait in the trap cages for the stranded feline, Gautam Buddh Nagar Divisional Forest Officer (DFO) Pramod Kumar Srivastava said. Teams of forest department are stationed in the area and additional experts have also been roped in from Agra, Ghaziabad and Meerut.
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Suggesting that the age of celebration of technology for technology's sake is over, Microsoft Chairman and CEO Satya Nadella says it is now about technology and its use for everyone in the world, where India can contribute immensely.
Speaking at the Microsoft Future Ready Technology Summit in Bengaluru, he highlights the "magic" of government programmes and India Stack "co-evolving" in the country.
"I had a chance to have a brief conversation with the prime minister yesterday, his vision and all the programmes, the yojanas and the India Stack. In fact, the thing I'm realising is the magic of India Stack, because everything needs feedback. The yojanas or the policy and the technology stack co-evolving, that's just like a virtuous cycle that is unlike anything I have seen and it's just tremendous," Nadella says.
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Patients, most of them elderly, are lying on stretchers in hallways and taking oxygen while sitting in wheelchairs as Covid-19 surges in China's capital Beijing, reports AP.
The Chuiyangliu hospital in the city's east was packed with newly arrived patients on Thursday. By mid-morning beds had run out, even as ambulances continued to bring those in need. Hard-pressed nurses and doctors rushed to take information and triage the most urgent cases.
The surge in severely ill people needing hospital care follows China abandonment of its most severe pandemic restrictions last month after nearly three years of lockdowns, travels bans and school closures.
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India will send three explorers to a depth of 500 metres under the sea in an indigenously built vessel, Samudrayaan, this year, an official says.
Engineers at the National Institute of Ocean Technology in Chennai have designed the steel sphere that will house the aquanauts for their journey, he says.
However, the plan to send the Samudrayaan to 6,000 metres deep into the sea could be delayed due to difficulty in procuring the titanium sphere capable of withstanding pressure at those depths, the official, requesting anonymity, told PTI on the sidelines of the Indian Science Congress underway in Nagpur.
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In a fresh attack on Gen (retd.) Qamar Javed Bajwa, Pakistan's ousted prime minister Imran Khan has alleged that the former army chief wanted to have him murdered and impose a state of emergency in the country.
Khan, the chairman of the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf party, made the startling allegation during an interview with private Bol News channel in Lahore.
Khan, 70, had been at loggerheads with Gen (retd.) Bajwa ever since his ouster from power in April by a no-confidence motion.
He suffered bullet injuries in the right leg on November 3 when two gunmen fired a volley of bullets at him and others standing on a container-mounted truck in Wazirabad, some 150 km from Lahore, where he was leading the long march to press for snap polls.
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Indian Space Research Organisation and Microsoft have signed a Memorandum of Understanding to fuel the growth of space technology start-ups in India.
The MoU, signed Thursday, has come at a time when Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella is visiting India. He shared an image on his meeting with Prime Minister Narendra Modi earlier Thursday.
The ISRO-Microsoft collaboration seeks to strengthen the Indian space agency's vision of harnessing the market potential of the most promising space tech innovators and entrepreneurs in India, the US-based tech giant said in a statement.
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Top officials of Tihar Jail in Delhi have accused minister Satyendar Jain of threatening and intimidating them. They have lodged a complaint against him to the director-general (prisons), sources tell PTI.
Jain has been in jail since he was arrested by the enforcement directorate last year in connection with a money laundering case. Purported videos of him getting massages and meeting visitors inside the jail had created a furore with the opposition demanding his removal from the Cabinet.
The sources tell the agency that the additional inspector general - prisons (Tihar Jail), superintendent of jail no. 07 (SCJ-7), deputy superintendent, assistant superintendent and the law officer complained to the director-general (prisons) that Jain had been "abusing them and threatening them with dire consequences once he gets out of the prison".
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A special MP-MLA court in Bhagalpur has given a one-year imprisonment to Congress leader Ajit Sharma.
The special court judge Vivek Kumar Singh found Sharma and his six associates guilty of obstructing the polling during the 2020 assembly election. The court, however, gave provisional bail to all of them immediately.
Sharma, who was then the sitting MLA and candidate of the Congress, obstructed the proceedings of election procedures and stopped the roaming voting vehicle in Bhikhanpur locality under Bhagalpur city constituency on November 3, 2020.
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Congress general secretary Jairam Ramesh says the Bharat Jodo Yatra is intended to take on the divisive ideology and build harmony. It is not designed as an election-winning yatra, he adds.
"I think we are late as we were more focussed on elections and this yatra should have been (taken out) earlier because it's a battle of ideology and it may take years to nuetralise the poison of hatred spread by RSS," he tells reporters in Shamli (Uttar Pradesh).
He says the yatra will remain in UP for three days as it has to reach Srinagar by January 30, before the Budget Session starts on January 31.
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The first passenger flight landed at the Manohar International Airport in Goa from Hyderabad on Thursday, marking the commencement of operations at the new facility in the coastal state. Chief Minister Pramod Sawant said this was a "big achievement" for the state and the Centre.
The IndiGo flight from Hyderabad carrying 179 passengers landed at 9 am at the new airport located at Mopa in North Goa district, airport officials said.
Union minister Shripad Naik, the parliamentarian from North Goa, CM Sawant and state tourism minister Rohan Khaunte welcomed the passengers.
There was also a live band performance outside the airport to welcome the passengers.
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Senior BJP leader and the leader of opposition in Bihar Assembly Vijay Kumar Sinha has hit out at the state government for its "insensitivity" after a lathi-charge on Bihar Staff Selection Commmission (BSSC) aspirants.
Sinha said the government should have called the students and listened to their demands. "It's a reflection of the government's insensitivity. The students were taking out a peaceful procession but a barbaric lathi charge was done in such cold weather. They (Govt) should have called those students and listened to their demands. Why don't they get CBI investigation done?" said Sinha.
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Uttar Pradesh CM Yogi Adityanath met Maharashtra Governor Bhagat Singh Koshyari at Raj Bhavan in Mumbai on Thursday.
He visited the 19th century underground bunker museum at Raj Bhavan and inspected the gallery of revolutionaries 'Kranti Gatha' created inside the bunker. The museum was inaugurated by Prime Minister Narendra Modi in June last year.
The UP chief minister also paid tributes at the statue of Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj. Later, he visited the historic Sri Gundi Devi Mandir located at the cliff of Malabar Point facing the Arabic ocean inside Raj Bhavan and performed the Aarti with the staff and devotees present.
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Delhi police says the person, who allegedly urinated on a female co-passenger on an Air India flight, has been traced and will be nabbed soon.
"The accused is a resident of Mumbai and the investigators have found that his possible location is in some other state. He will be arrested at earliest," says a senior police official.
Delhi police have booked the man on charges of molestation and indecent act.
Air India has banned the passenger for 30 days, who behaved in an inappropriate and undignified manner on the New York-Delhi flight.
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Nearly 30 families in the Himalayan town of Joshimath have been evacuated to safer locations with several houses in the area prone to high seismic activity developing cracks, according to officials.
Located at a height of 6,000 feet in Uttarakhand's Chamoli district, the town, on the route to Badrinath and Hemkund Sahib, falls in high-risk seismic 'Zone-V'.
So far, 561 houses in different areas of the town have developed cracks, including 153 in Ravigram, 127 in Gandhinagar, 71 in Manoharbagh, 52 in Singhdhar, 50 in Parsari, 29 in Upper Bazar, 27 in Suneel, 28 in Marwadi and 24 in Lower Bazar, District Disaster Management Officer NK Joshi said.
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First Published: Jan 05 2023 | 9:18 AM IST
