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3 min read Last Updated : Sep 20 2023 | 11:23 PM IST
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BookMyShow on Wednesday cancelled Punjabi- Canadian singer Shubhneet Singh's India tour after the ticket booking app faced a boycott call on social media for hosting a singer who is allegedly a Khalistani sympathiser.
In a post on X, formerly known as Twitter, BookMyShow said it will do a complete refund of the tickets within 7-10 days.
"Singer Shubhneet Singh's Still Rollin Tour for India stands cancelled. To that end, BookMyShow has initiated a complete refund of the ticket amount for all consumers who had purchased tickets for the show. The refund will be reflected within 7-10 working days in the customer's source account of the original transaction," it said.
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On the second day of the 10-day Ganesh festival, several devotees in Mumbai bid farewell to the idols of their favourite deity after worshipping them for one and a half days.
People took out processions of idols with devotion and enthusiasm, with many devotees dancing their way to the sites of immersion.
According to Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC), 195 household Ganapati idols and one sarvajanik (community) Ganapati idols were immersed in the sea and other water bodies, including artificial ponds.
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Uttarakhand Chief Minister Pushkar Singh Dhami on Wednesday dismissed speculation about factionalism within the BJP's Rajasthan unit after veteran leader Vasundhara Raje was left off the party's Parivartan Sankalp Yatra on her home turf.
The absence of Raje, a former Rajasthan chief minister and Union minister, from the event in Jhalawar -- which she has represented for 33 years in various capacities -- triggered speculation of a rift within the party.
However, Dhami -- who arrived in Kota for the event in Jhalawar -- brushed aside the speculations.
He also expressed confidence that the BJP will return to power in Rajasthan, where assembly elections are due later this year.
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The women's reservation bill is not about reservation but an "act of removing bias and injustice," DMK leader Kanimozhi said in the Lok Sabha on Wednesday while asserting that women want to be respected as equals.
Participating in the discussion on the constitutional amendment bill 'Nari Shakti Vandan Adhiniyam', she said the clause pertaining to 'after delimitation' in the bill should be removed as there could be an inordinate delay in the implementation of the reservation for women.
The 33 per cent reservation for women in the Lok Sabha and state assemblies, as proposed in the bill, will come into effect only after census and the delimitation exercise.
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The United Nations said on Wednesday it has documented more than 1,600 cases of human rights violations committed by authorities in Afghanistan during arrests and detentions of people, and urged the Taliban government to stop torture and protect the rights of detainees.
Nearly 50 per cent of the violations consisted of torture and other cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment, the UN Assistance Mission in Afghanistan said.
The report by the mission's Human Rights Service covered 19 months from January 2022 until the end of July 2023 with cases documented across 29 of Afghanistan's 34 provinces. It said 11 per cent of the cases involved women.
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Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Wednesday wondered whether Congress leader Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury was "jealous" of Nishikant Dubey, who was the first speaker from the BJP ranks on the women's reservation bill in the Lok Sabha.
Shah's remarks came after Chowdhury and other opposition leaders pointed out that the BJP was fielding a male member to speak on the debate on the bill.
Former Congress president Sonia Gandhi was the first speaker on the bill from the opposition ranks.
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A 12-year-old boy was held for questioning after he made a police call saying the Ram Mandir in Ayodhya would be hit by a bomb, an officer said on Wednesday.
According to police, on Tuesday, a call was received on the 112 emergency hotline with the caller saying that Ram Mandir would be bombed on September 21, Thursday.
The call was traced to a boy from a village under Fatehganj (East) Police Station. The minor had made the call from his father's phone.
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The opposition Congress accused the ruling regime in Madhya Pradesh of failing to check atrocities against tribals after a video purportedly showing a Bharatiya Janata Yuva Morcha (BJYM) leader beating a man with slippers in Anuppur district went viral.
MP Congress chief Kamal Nath alleged the ruling BJP is becoming a party of tribal atrocities. BJYM is the youth wing of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP).
Meanwhile, the police have registered a case against the accused BJYM leader, who was also expelled by the party.
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The full trial run of the Puri-Rourkela Vande Bharat Express, which would be Odisha's second such train, was conducted on Wednesday, officials said.
The train left the Puri station at 5 am to reach Bhubaneswar at 6.05 am, and left after five minutes for the onward journey. After brief halts at Cuttack, Dhenkanal, Angul, it reached Sambalpur at 10.15 am. The train was supposed to reach its destination, Rourkela, at 12.45 pm, they said.
Earlier, a trail run was held between Puri and Talcher Road stations, they added.
On its return journey, the train will leave Rourkela at 2.10 pm and reach Puri at 9.40 pm, covering the distance in 7.5 hours, officials said.
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The Supreme Court on Wednesday said it will commence hearing on October 17 to examine the constitutional validity of Section 6A of the Citizenship Act relating to illegal immigrants in Assam.
Section 6A in the Citizenship Act was inserted as a special provision to deal with the citizenship of people covered by the Assam Accord.
The provision provides that those who have come to Assam on or after January 1, 1966 but before March 25, 1971 from specified territories, including Bangladesh, as per the Citizenship Act amended in 1985, and since then are residents of Assam. They must register themselves under section 18 for citizenship.
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Congress parliamentary party chief Sonia Gandhi on Wednesday extended her party's support for the women's reservation bill and demanded its immediate implementation along with the provision for the representation of SCs, STs and OBCs.
Initiating the debate from the opposition's side in the Lok Sabha, Gandhi said, "I stand here in support of Nari Shakti Vandan Adhiniyam."
She said any delay in implementing women's reservation bill will be gross injustice to Indian women.
"The immediate implementation of the women's reservation bill by removing all obstacles not only necessary but also possible," Gandhi said.
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The Indian economy has started doing well even in an unsupportive global environment, as the Modi-led government implemented various reforms in the last nine years, resulting in improvements in key macroeconomic indicators, according to RBI Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) Member Ashima Goyal.
But, there is still a long way to go to realise India's full potential, Goyal added.
"The UPA government inherited a strong economy and benefitted from a high growth period.
"But over-reaction to the global financial crisis after 2008 and many corruption scandals weakened the economy," she told PTI.
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The Income Tax Department is conducting raids in Chennai at several places related to contractors and suppliers of Tamil Nadu Electricity Board (TNEB) and Tamil Nadu Generation and Distribution Corporation (TANGEDO), sources told ANI.
Sources have informed that several officials of TNEB and TANGEDO are also under scanner.
Further details are awaited.
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India should positively consider imposing retaliatory customs duties in a calibrated manner on certain EU goods to deal with the European Union's decision to impose a carbon tax on imports of certain sectors, a report by think tank GTRI said on Wednesday.
The European Union (EU) has decided to impose a carbon border adjustment mechanism (CBAM) from January 2026. But, its compliance starts from October this year, as businesses exporting carbon-intensive goods like steel, aluminium, cement and fertiliser will have to share detailed production data from next month with the EU authorities.
The retaliation measures, it said, offer several advantages, including rapid implementation.
10:52 AM
India should positively consider imposing retaliatory customs duties in a calibrated manner on certain EU goods to deal with the European Union's decision to impose a carbon tax on imports of certain sectors, a report by think tank GTRI said on Wednesday.
The European Union (EU) has decided to impose a carbon border adjustment mechanism (CBAM) from January 2026. But, its compliance starts from October this year, as businesses exporting carbon-intensive goods like steel, aluminium, cement and fertiliser will have to share detailed production data from next month with the EU authorities.
The retaliation measures, it said, offer several advantages, including rapid implementation.
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First Published: Sep 20 2023 | 8:49 AM IST
