The Morning Standard - August 30, 2024

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August 30, 2024

Sukhbir gets acting party chief ahead of Takht meet

IN signs of growing complications in Sikh politics in Punjab, Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) chief Sukhbir Singh Badal has appointed Balwinder Singh Bhunder as the party's working president.

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Purported audio of RG Kar calls to family add to ire

THREE purported audio recordings of phone calls allegedly made by RG Kar Medical College on August 9 to the parents of the rapemurder victim surfaced on Thursday, indicating the institution's muddled approach and insensitivity while breaking the horrific news to the relatives.

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Registration of Muslim marriages mandatory

New bill passed in Assam House to deter teenage pregnancy: CM

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SC slams T'gana CM's remarks on Kavitha bail

THE Supreme Court on Thursday slammed Telangana Chief Minister Revanth Reddy for his inappropriate comments over the granting of bail to BRS leader K Kavitha and AAP leader Manish Sisodia in cases linked to the Delhi excise policy scam.

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Wolves on prowl! 'Op Bhediya' nets 4, 2 still out in UP villages

IN the sparsely populated Sisiya village of UP's Bahraich district, death has lurked for at least 45 days: a pack of bhedia (wolves) on the prowl has killed at least nine villagers, mostly kids.

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FIR against CPM MLA Mukesh in rape case

AMID growing chorus for the resignation of CPM MLA M Mukesh, Kerala police on Thursday booked the actorpolitician following the complaint of an actress from Kochi.

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Shahbad Dairy councillor leaves BJP, rejoins AAP

Ram Chander, four other councillors defected to BJP on August 25

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DTC bus catches fire in Shahdara area, all 40 passengers onboard escape safely

A Delhi Transport Corporation bus caught fire on Thursday near Jagatpuri bus stand in Delhi's Shahdara area, an official said.

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DU colleges welcome freshers with zest & zeal

AS the University of Delhi opened its doors for the new academic year 2024-25 on Friday, student outfits left no stone unturned to ensure that freshers felt comfortable on campus.

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378 mm: Highest August rainfall in 12 yrs

DELHI experienced its highest August rainfall in 12 years, with 378.5 mm recorded, according to the India Meteorological Department (IMD).

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Govt waives annual tracking fee of 1.5 lakh public vehicles

IN a relief to public vehicle owners in the national capital, the Delhi government has announced the exemption of annual fee for the Vehicle Location Tracking Device (VLTD) for all public vehicles that carry passengers.

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30-year-old woman found dead with throat slit at rented house

A 30-year-old woman was found dead with her throat slit at a rented house in West Delhi's Ranhola area, an official said on Thursday.

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ED seizes gold, diamonds from bank lockers of narco-terrorism accused

THE Enforcement Directorate claimed to have found several \"secret\" bank lockers of international drug trafficker Jasmeet Hakimzada in the national capital and seized gold and diamonds kept in them.

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'Attempt to derail trial': HC raps Brij Bhushan seeking quashing of case

THE Delhi High Court on Thursday expressed reservations regarding the plea filed by BJP leader and former Wrestling Federation of India (WFI) president Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh, who sought to quash the sexual harassment case against him.

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'Depleting forest cover, groundwater': Voters send green manifesto to parties

IN the run-up to the assembly elections in Haryana, several voters have prepared a 'Green Manifesto' and forwarded it to various political parties to highlight environmental concerns and demand a proactive approach.

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Coca-Cola manager, friend stabbed in Mangolpuri area

They were attacked for asking two men to step down from parked scooter

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Fraudster assaults, locks constable at home, flees: Police

A Delhi Police constable was assaulted and confined by a fraudster when the former visited the latter's house in south Delhi's Khanpur area as he failed to join the investigation in a cheating case despite repeated reminders, an official said on Thursday.

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HC rejects Tharoor's plea to dismiss defamation case over 'scorpion' remark

THE Delhi High Court on Thursday rejected Congress MP Shashi Tharoor's appeal to dismiss a criminal defamation case related to his controversial statement comparing Prime Minister Narendra Modi to a scorpion.

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2 YSRC MPs quit, likely to join TDP

IN a major jolt to the YSRC, two of its Rajya Sabha members -Mopidevi Venkataramana and Beeda Mastan Rao- on Thursday resigned to their membership of the Upper House.

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Stalin gets grand welcome in San Francisco, to ink 1st deal with PayPal

DIGITAL payment solutions provider PayPal will sign a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Guidance Tamil Nadu on the first day of Chief Minister MK Stalin's visit to the United States on Thursday in San Francisco at 3pm Pacific Daylight Time (Friday 3.30am IST).

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Relief for DKS as HC turns down CBI plea in DA case

THE High Court of Karnataka on Thursday dismissed the petitions filed by the CBI and BJP MLA Basanagouda R Patil Yatnal, questioning the Siddaramaiah government's decision to withdraw the previous BJP government's consent to CBI to prosecute Deputy Chief Minister DK Shivakumar in a disproportionate assets (DA) case.

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23 mine owners yet to pay penalty of ₹2.7k cr, Odisha govt tells House

THE state government on Thursday informed the Assembly that 23 mine owners are yet to pay a penalty of 2,723 crore imposed on them by the Supreme Court for excess mining in violation of the mining plan and statutory clearances.

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4th semester BEd paper changed last minute after edu dept gets info on leak

THE Tamil Nadu Teachers' Education University (TNTEU) changed the question paper for the fourth-semester Bachelor in Education (BEd) exam at the last minute on Thursday after the paper got leaked.

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Revnue officials put Revanth kin's assets on notice

A day after Chief Minister A Revanth Reddy declared that he would himself demolish structures belonging to his family members if they were found to be within the full tank level (FTL) and buffer zone of any water body, Revenue officials on Thursday issued notices to A Tirupati Reddy, the chief minister's brother, as his house and office were found to be within the FTL of Durgam Cheruvu.

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Cabinet to give rent allowance to landslide victims

THE Cabinet meeting has decided to announce wards 9,10,11 of Vanimel Panchayat and the third ward in Narippatta grama panchayat in Kozhikode district as disaster-affected areas.

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Scolded for harassing girl, minor kills man

IN a shocking incident, a minor boy slit the throat of a 30-yearold man, who had reprimanded him for harassing his niece, at Raghunath Nagar under Khandagiri police limits here on Wednesday night.

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FORENSIC MISSTEP IS MISCARRIAGE OF JUSTICE

THE public outcry following the rape and murder of a trainee medico at R G Kar Medical College and Hospital in Kolkata has raised the issue of a delayed forensic examination.

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THE ECONOMIC STRESS LEADING TO THE 36TH OF JULY

The economic reality that brought Bangladeshi students to the streets also made it a mass movement later on. The interim government must heed the spark that lit the fire

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Arighaat to strengthen N-triad: Singh

INDIA'S second nuclear-powered ballistic missile submarine was commissioned into the Navy on Thursday in the presence of Defence Minister Rajnath Singh, who said this will further strengthen the country's nuclear triad and enhance nuclear deterrence.

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Spillover in India likely as once-banned outfit makes a comeback in Bangladesh

AMID the ongoing political turmoil and instability, Bangladesh is facing another challenge the rapidly increasing influence of Hizb ut-Tahrir (HuT), which is a fundamentalist political organisation that aspires to re-establish the Islamic Caliphate and implement Sharia globally.

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NIA conducts raids across 7 states in Pak spy ring case

22 mobile phones, sensitive papers seized during 16-location raids

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Now, Nitish joins Oppn chorus on caste census at parliamentary panel meeting

THE demand for a national caste census is gaining steam, with JD(U), a key ally of the NDA government, joining the chorus along with the Opposition INDIA bloc parties on Thursday.

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Eminent lawyer AG Noorani passes away at 93

NOTED scholar and legal luminary Abdul Ghafoor Majeed Noorani passed away at the age of 93 in Mumbai on Thursday.

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Govt dragging feet on SC/ST sub-categorisation?

THE Centre seems to be dragging its feet on the recent Supreme Court order allowing the state governments to sub-classify Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes (SC/ST).

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6 GRP officials suspended for thrashing Dalit woman, grandkid in MP's Katni

GRP police station's woman incharge, in-charge head constable and four cops have been suspended after a 2023 video went viral.

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Sunni Waqf Board, villagers near Patna come to blows over ownership of land

THE Bihar Sunni Waqf Board and residents of Govindpur village in Patna district are heading for a showdown after the former claimed ownership of the entire village and issued notices asking villagers to vacate the land within 30 days.

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Infiltration foiled, 3 terrorists killed in J&K

THREE militants were killed in two gunfights near Line of Control (LoC) in Tangdhar and Machil sectors of north Kashmir's Kupwara district while another gunfight erupted between militants and security forces in J&K's border district of Rajouri on Thursday.

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'Most women docs feel unsafe on night shift in govt hosps'

OVER one-third of Indian doctors, primarily young women, working mainly in government hospitals feel unsafe while doing night duty in the absence of duty rooms without bathrooms, insufficient untrained security staff, inadequately lit corridors, no CCTV cameras and unrestricted entry of unauthorised individuals into patient areas, found the latest survey conducted by the Indian Medical Association (IMA).

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Heavy rain continues to batter Saurashtra, Kutch; over 30 dead

HEAVY rains continued to batter Gujarat on Thursday, with most districts in Saurashtra and Kutch severely flooded over the past four days.

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Mamata softens, says 'malicious disinformation' against her govt

CM says never threatened’ protesting junior docs at RG Kar

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Third Russian barrage of missiles, drones in 4 days

Authorities in Kyiv said debris of drones fell in 3 districts of the city

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US NSA Sullivan meets Xi as allies face trouble from China in SCS

TOP White House aide Jake Sullivan held talks with Chinese President Xi Jinping on Thursday, after a senior military official warned the United States to stop \"collusion\" with Taiwan in a rare one-on-one meeting.

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Israel kills prominent militant in W Bank

THE Israeli military said it killed five more West Bank militants, including a local commander, as it pressed ahead Thursday with what appeared to be the deadliest operation in the occupied territory since the start of the war in Gaza.

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Turkiye hosts meet for transportation project

TRANSPORT ministers from Turkiye, Iraq, Qatar and the United Arab Emirates are meeting in Istanbul on Thursday to discuss a multibillion-dollar regional transportation project designed to ease the movement of goods from Asia to Europe through Iraq.

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Hong Kong outlet Stand News, two journalists convicted in sedition case

HONG Kong pro-democracy news outlet Stand News and its two former chief editors were found guilty of sedition on Thursday, the first conviction of its kind since the city came under Chinese rule in 1997.

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Former B'desh speaker, trade minister held in murder case

FORMER Bangladesh speaker Shirin Sharmin Chaudhury and ex-commerce minister Tipu Munshi have been arrested over the killing of a goldsmith during the recent quota reform protests that led to the ouster of the Sheikh Hasinaled government, media reports said on Thursday.

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Telegram founder faces criminal activity charges

FRENCH authorities handed preliminary charges to Telegram CEO/founder Pavel Durov on Wednesday for allowing alleged criminal activity on his messaging app and barred him from leaving France pending further investigation.

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Moody's raises India's growth forecast to 7.2% from 6.8% for 2024

MOODY'S Ratings has revised India's growth forecast for 2024, increasing it from the previously projected 6.8% to 7.2%.

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DGCA places SpiceJet under 'enhanced surveillance' amid financial trouble

IN another setback for cashstarved SpiceJet, civil aviation regulator DGCA on Thursday placed the budget carrier under 'enhanced surveillance' with immediate effect.

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Jio creating one of most advanced 5G networks: Ambani

RELIANCE JIO has transformed India from 5G-dark to 5G-bright, creating one of the world's most advanced 5G networks, said Mukesh Ambani, chairman and managing director of Reliance Industries.

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Shah Rukh Khan makes to Hurun rich list 2024

WITH as many as 334 dollar billionaires, the country has emerged as the new wealth creator in Asia, adding a new billionaire every fifth day in 2023, as per the Hurun rich list 2024, which saw actor Shah Rukh Khan making to the rich list with a wealth of 7,300 crore and Mukesh Ambani losing the long held crown as the richest Indian to Gautam Adani.

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SEBI chief calls for better compliance to 'foster trust'

IN the first public address after the Hindenburg allegations of conflicts of interest in relation to the Adani group probe, SEBI chairperson Madhabi Puri Buch has called for a \"better compliance\" from market infrastructure participants and industry players to \"foster trust\".

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SEBI official says discount broking is not future, requires transparent fee structure

HINTING discount broking is not the way forward and that investors have to pay for their services as there can be no free lunches in business, a senior Sebi official has called for adopting an explicit and transparent fee structure.

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Gangwal sells 5.24% in IndiGo for ₹9,549 crore

RAKESH GANGWAL, the billionaire co-founder of India's largest airline IndiGo, sold 5.24% stake in InterGlobe Aviation on Thursday for 9,549 crore.

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RIL aspires to be among world's 30 most valuable cos

Ambani says company is on course to double in size by the end of this decade, new energy business will be new jewel in its crown

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Messy miss for cadet judokas

MORE than a month ago, they earned their place in the national team by finishing on the podium at the open selection trials.

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JAN THE MAN: SINNER SAILS INTO RD

World no 1 and Australian open champion registers easy win against Michelsen on Thursday

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Focussed more on practice now than results: Nithyashree

ON the draft day, ahead of the fifth season of Ultimate Table Tennis, Nithyashree Mani was not in the plans of any of the franchises.

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Archer Sheetal finishes 2nd in ranking round

INDIA'S armless archer Sheetal Devi finished second in the women's individual compound open ranking round with a stunning performance to directly make a round of 16 entry in the Paris Paralympics on Thursday.

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Chennai gets ready to host night street race

THE Indian Racing Festival (IRF) is set to make history with its inaugural night race at the Chennai Formula Racing Circuit from August 30 to September 1, 2024.

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