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BJP's White Paper against the UPA government and the party claimed that the Dr. Manmohan Singh-led government compromised macroeconomic stability while the infrastructure sector was seriously neglected. "The banking crisis in 2014 and the total amount at stake we huge.

Jagran has reported. The top court had declared that Masih, the designated council member, must appear before the top court on February 19. Earlier on 5 February, the Chief Justice of India (CJI) DY Chandrachud-led bench which included Justices JB Pardiwala and Manoj Misra observed that the returning officer Anil Masih must be prosecuted as he was clearly seen defacing the ballot papers on video.

A flight from Vancouver to Toronto made an unscheduled stop in Winnipeg after a passenger attempted to open a door.

Sneaker Con: How is Donald Trump going to pay $355 million fine? $399 at a time Judge Arthur Engoron said the financially shattering penalties are justified by Trump's behavior. Trump's sons Eric and Donald Trump Jr.

CBI) took legal action against the airing of a documentary series focusing on Indrani Mukerjea, the main accused in the infamous Sheena Bora murder case. Titled 'The Indrani Mukerjea Story: The Buried Truth,' the series explores the circumstances surrounding the disappearance and subsequent murder of 25-year-old Sheena Bora. Scheduled to debut on Netflix on February 23, the series has raised concerns regarding its potential impact on the ongoing trial.

Shri Ram Janmabhoomi Mandir, there are numerous other places of worship in the temple town of Uttar Pradesh. After the Supreme Court decision on the disputed land in 2019, Ayodhya witnessed an infrastructure boost and many other initiatives are still underway to enhance its position as a global hub for religious tourism. In addition, transportation infrastructure has also been upgraded by connecting the city by air, rail, and road to every part of the nation.

Vladimir Putin's grip on power. On Saturday, Navalny's mother, Lyudmila, and his lawyer were refused access to his body after arriving at the remote Siberian prison colony where he had been held, his spokeswoman Kira Yarmysh said. "It's obvious that the killers want to cover their tracks and are therefore not handing over Alexei's body, hiding it even from his mother," Navalny's team said in a post on Telegram.

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Mamata Banerjee on Saturday alleged that there «is an attempt to bulldoze» the federal structure of the country and «change the spirit of the Constitution». «In the name of one nation-one election, which is proposed, there is one leader and one party now in the country,» Banerjee said. «Media is totally purchased and the judiciary is under political pressure,» she alleged, and asked: «Are we moving towards a presidential form of government?»

Malaysia for her comeback tournament. PV Sindhu was silently confident about her return to competitive badminton having put in the hard yards all of January 2024. For any sportsperson, a comeback from injury is always the most difficult challenge of all.

₹2 crore to the complainant, reported news agency PTI. The complainant, Ashok Lal – a prominent industrialist and shipping magnate from Jamnagar – had claimed that he received 10 cheques of ₹10 lakh each from the filmmaker, totaling ₹1 crore, which subsequently bounced. The advocate for the businessman in the case, Piyush Bhojani, confirmed the sentencing to ANI on Saturday.

Sandeshkhali in West Bengal's North 24 Parganas district was arrested on Saturday, police said. Local TMC leader Shibaprasad Hazra, who has been named in police complaints along with party colleagues and other two prime accused Shajahan Sheikh and Uttam Sardar, was nabbed from a hideout in Sandeshkhali. He will be produced before a local court on Sunday. «We have arrested Shibaprasad Hazra from Sandeshkhali this evening. He will be produced before the court tomorrow,» an officer of Nazat Police Station told PTI.

Chief Election Commissioner Rajiv Kumar on Saturday here said the poll panel will act in accordance with the directives of the Supreme Court regarding the electoral bonds scheme. Speaking to reporters, Kumar said the commission always works on the basis of transparency in information flow and involvement. «In its affidavit to the top court, the commission said it is in favour of transparency and when the order is issued, it will take action as directed by the SC,» Kumar said. To a question related to a case pending in the SC on conducting elections without EVMs, the chief election commissioner said, «Let the decision come...if required, changes will be made as per the court's direction.»

Rajkumar Santoshi to two years in jail and also directed him to pay Rs 2 crore to the complainant in a cheque return case. Santoshi, a director, producer and scriptwriter, is well known for action blockbusters like "Ghayal" and «Ghatak», the court drama «Damini» and the iconic comedy film "Andaz Apna Apna". Senior Civil Judge VJ Gadhvi sentenced Santoshi to two years in jail and asked him to pay Rs 2 crore to the complainant, which is double the amount he had taken from the latter. The court then allowed Santoshi's appeal for a 30-day stay on the order to allow him to appeal in a higher court.

trust vote in the 70-member Delhi Assembly with Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal claiming that his party has emerged as the biggest challenger to the BJP, which «wants to crush it by any means». Kejriwal, who is also the national convener of the AAP, won the confidence motion with the support of 54 MLAs and said no legislator of his party defected. Out of 62 AAP MLAs in the Delhi Assembly, 54 were present in the House during the trust vote, two were in jail, two others were unwell, three were out of station and one was not present due to a wedding in his family, the AAP national convener said. Kejriwal had moved the motion of confidence in the Assembly on Friday and accused the BJP of trying to poach his party's MLAs.

Sheriff’s Deputy Jeremy Malone’s life ended moments after he pulled over a car without license plates by a Dollar General store in rural Mississippi last month. The driver pulled out a pistol illegally modified with a small device known as a Glock switch, which made it capable of fully automatic gunfire, according to police. Malone, a 44-year-old father of three, was killed instantly in a barrage of bullets.

Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP) has approached the Jalpaiguri Circuit Bench of Calcutta High Court, requesting a name change for a lioness at Bengal Safari Park. According to the VHP's lawyer, the lioness was transferred from Tripura and given the name "Sita". The park authorities, on the other hand, have denied assigning any name to the lioness. Two lions were recently brought to the park from Tripura's Sepahijala Zoological Park, with the male lion being named "Akbar" as per VHP claims. The VHP's north Bengal unit filed the petition on February 16, and it is set to be heard on February 20 by a single bench of the court. The petitioner is seeking a name change for the lioness, stating that the current name may hurt religious sentiments. Additionally, the petition urges that no animal in any zoological park be named after gods and goddesses of any religion in the future. According to media reports, the lion and lioness, identified by their markings as IL26 and IL27 respectively, arrived at Bengali Safari Park as part of an animal exchange program. However, the park authorities have clarified that the official naming of the animals is still pending.

Donald Trump won't face the corporate death penalty after all. A New York judge on Friday spared the ex-president that worst case punishment as he ruled in a civil case alleging Trump fraudulently misrepresented financial figures to get cheaper loans and other benefits. Still, Trump got slammed hard, facing big cash penalties, outside supervision of his companies and restrictions on his borrowing.

Ghulam Nabi Azad on Saturday indicated that he would not be contesting in the upcoming Lok Sabha elections as he would be campaigning for the candidates of his newly formed Democratic Progressive Azad Party (DPAP) candidates. Azad, who has refrained from contesting Lok Sabha elections after his defeat in 2014 Lok Sabha polls, asked his party men to gear up as 2024 would be the election year for Jammu and Kashmir. Talking to reporters on the sidelines of a function in Nagrota, Azad, who resigned from Congress after decades of association, also appealed to Prime Minister Narendra Modi to resolve the issues of agitating farmers «once for all» as the protest is neither good for the government nor the farmers. «Parliament election is 100 percent taking place on its time and I can only guess about the assembly polls (in J&K) as I have no contact with the Election Commission or government. But it (assembly elections) has to take place as the Supreme Court has set a deadline of September.

Hindustan in an interview on Saturday. Amit Nagpal was among eight former Indian Navy officers who returned to India from Qatar on February 12. This was nearly three-and-half months after a Qatari court handed them a death sentence that was subsequently commuted to varying jail terms.

Supreme Court judge Sanjay Kishan Kaul on Saturday said a little bit of underlying friction between the judiciary and the executive is good to maintain checks and balances in a democracy. Addressing a function to confer the Sansad Ratna Awards on parliamentarians, Justice Kaul said the checks and balances of a democracy were enunciated in the Constitution which provides for an administration, a legislature and the court. «Since we have a democracy based on the first past the post concept where most governments would be having less than 50 per cent of the votes, the court plays an important role in maintaining a check and balance on the system,» he said. Justice Kaul, quoting a former chief justice, said «a little bit of underlying tension is good. If things are very hunky-dory between the judiciary and the executive, then we have a problem».