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With Assembly elections due later this year in Jharkhand where a coalition government of JMM, Congress and RJD is in place, Prime Minister Narendra Modi held a rally in Jamshedpur on Sunday in which he described the three-party alliance as the biggest enemies of the state. “There are three enemies of Jharkhand. The sooner the people of the state realise this and deal with them, the faster the state will grow. These three are JMM, RJD and Congress,” he said, adding that while RJD still blames Jharkhand for Bihar’s backwardness, Congress has ignored the rights of the state and tribals for decades, and JMM does not espouse the cause of tribals.

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ED, RBI, tax and consumer affairs departments may be set up to combat the proliferation of online gaming platforms and ensure regulatory compliance, a DGGI report said. The GST intelligence wing of the Central Board of Indirect Taxes and Customs (CBIC) has initiated action against 118 domestic online gaming entities, and Show Cause Notices have been issued to 34 taxpayers involving tax amount of Rs 1,10,531.91 crore. The notices were issued to these gaming companies as they were not paying GST at 28 per cent rate. Furthermore, 658 offshore entities have been identified as non- registered/non-compliant entities and are being investigated by the DGGI. Also, 167 URL/websites have been recommended for blocking.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. New Delhi: Filmmakers and content creators behind popular film and television shows are stepping up efforts to protect their intellectual property rights (IPR). These include unauthorised use of the title’s logo, dialogues and mannerisms of characters, and other critical elements.

Algeria's constitutional court has certified President Abdelmadjid Tebboune’s landslide victory in last weekend’s election after re-tabulating vote counts that he and his two opponents had called into question

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. Truth is stranger than fiction. The Supreme Court of India seems to have left no stone unturned to make this saying ring true.

Delhi chief minister as a «confession of crime» and wondered if he offered to quit the post because of an infight within his Aam Aadmi Party. It also termed Kejriwal's move a «drama» and claimed he was playing an «emotional card» in a bid to make a virtue out of necessity as the Supreme Court by granting him a «conditional bail» in the excise policy graft case, restricted him from entering his office and signing any file. «When Arvind Kejriwal talked about resigning, it became a confession of his crime. He accepted that the charges levelled against him were such that he could not continue as chief minister,» BJP national spokesperson Sudhanshu Trivedi told a press conference at the party headquarters here. He also wondered why Kejriwal did not resign when he was arrested in connection with the scam.

BJP spokesperson Pradeep Bhandari termed it a «PR stunt» and said he is doing this to restore his image. Bhandari further said that Kejriwal wants to apply Sonia Gandhi's model, where she made Manmohan Singh a dummy Prime Minister and ran the government from behind the scenes. «This is a PR stunt of Arvind Kejriwal. He has understood that his image among the people of Delhi is not of an honest leader but of a corrupt leader, today Aam Aadmi Party is known across the country as a corrupt party. Under his PR stunt, he wants to restore his image...It is clear that he wants to apply the Sonia Gandhi model, where she made Manmohan Singh a dummy Prime Minister and ran the government from behind the scenes. They have understood today that the Aam Aadmi Party is losing the Delhi elections and the people of Delhi cannot vote in their name, so they want to make someone else a scapegoat,» Bhandari said.

RG Kar Medical College and Hospital, Sandip Ghosh and Tala Police Station officer-in-charge, Abhijit Mondal, were produced in Sealdah Court on Sunday. Both Ghosh and Mondal were arrested by the Central Bureau of Investigation on Saturday in connection with the rape and murder of a woman doctor in Kolkata. This development comes amid mounting pressure on the Mamata Banerjee-led West Bengal government, over the brutal rape-murder case.

Aam Aadmi Party National Convenor Arvind Kejriwal on Sunday announced that he will resign from his post as the CM after 2 days and will only come back after winning people's trust. If the people of Delhi believe I am corrupt, I will not sit in the Chief Minister's chair for even a minute, said Kejriwal during the address. The Supreme Court on Friday, granted Kejriwal bail in the Delhi excise policy case.

AAP leader and former Delhi Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia said that the BJP drafted a fantasy story called 'liquor scam' and those stories were proved wrong in the Supreme Court. «The BJP drafted a fantasy story named the 'Liquor Scam'. The Supreme Court gave bail to Arvind Kejriwal and ended that story… It is a happy ending for us and a sad ending for the BJP. They thought they would keep Arvind Kejriwal jailed till the Delhi elections, but their stories were proven to be wrong in the court, and today Arvind Kejriwal and I are out of jail,» said Sisodia. Delhi Minister Atishi said that it has been proven that AAP is the only party that scares the BJP.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. The dispute between the families of Bharat Forge Ltd’s chief Baba Kalyani and his siblings over family assets estimated to be worth billions of dollars may take a fresh turn with the surfacing of a court affidavit filed two years ago.

junior doctors and West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee failed as the doctors demanded video recording of the meeting after reaching Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee's residence in Kalighat, which was denied by the Police citing security issues. The protesting students said, «The video streaming cannot be done by both sides. Only they will do the video recording. However, we were not allowed to video and the CM said that the video will not be shared to us as the matter is subjudice. Paying respect to the CM, we thought of paying respect to her and we will get the minutes. Then, the Health Minister said it is too late and the meeting cannot be conducted.» Chief secretary Manoj Pant and junior health minister Chandrima Bhattacharya were present along with Banerjee at the meeting originally scheduled to begin at 7.15 in the evening. All 35 doctors present were allowed into the chief minister's home.

West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Saturday evening appealed to the agitating doctors, who had arrived at her residence for talks, to join the meeting, amid their demand for live-streaming of the discussions. The scheduled meeting between Banerjee and the agitating junior doctors who are protesting over the RG Kar incident, is yet to start

Allahabad High Court, in a significant judgement, has ruled that a Hindu marriage is not to be dissolved or terminated as a contract. The sacrament based Hindu marriage may be dissolved (in law), in limited circumstances and too only on the strength of evidence led by the parties, it said. Allowing the appeal filed by a wife against dissolution of marriage, a division bench of justices Saumitra Dayal Singh and Donadi Ramesh was of the view that even in «granting the divorce on the strength of mutual consent, the learned court below may have dissolved the marriage between the parties only in the event of that consent continuing to exist on the date of the order being passed».

Yogi Adityanath on Saturday said it is «unfortunate» to refer to Gyanvapi as a mosque and called Gyanvapi an «embodiment of Lord Vishwanath himself». Adityanath made these remarks while inaugurating an international seminar on «Contribution of Nath Panth in Building a Harmonious Society» at the Deen Dayal Upadhyay Gorakhpur University, where he also highlighted the spiritual significance of Kashi and the revered site of Gyanvapi. «It is unfortunate that some people refer to Gyanvapi as a mosque while it is the embodiment of Lord Vishwanath himself,» he said, and also made a detailed reference to legendary sage Adi Shankar, narrating an anecdote about his «encounter» with Lord Vishwanath in Kashi.

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Prohibitory orders around the RG Kar Medical College and Hospital in north Kolkata were extended till September 30, an officer said. The orders, which were first imposed on August 18, restrict gatherings of more than five people in the designated area. The restrictions were imposed amid protests over the rape and murder of the doctor at the hospital. The prohibitory orders issued under Section 163 (2) of BNSS would also be in place at the Shyambazar five-point crossing, besides the roads leading to the RG Kar hospital, said a notification.

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