The Morning Standard - September 03, 2024

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September 03, 2024

Ahead of polls, Cabinet okays 7 farm schemes

Manmad-Indore rail line and new semiconductor plant get approval

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WHEN KARGIL SOLDIERS HELP NITESH PLAY

0 N that fateful Sunday in 2009, Vijender Singh's world came crashing down when he received a call from 108 (emergency number).

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RSS backs caste census, but with a rider

IN a clear message to the BJP which is yet to declare its stance on the contentious caste census issue, the RSS said on Monday that it has no objection to collecting data on specific communities or castes to ensure effective delivery of social welfare schemes.

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SC panel to break Shambhu border blockade as farmers hold march in Chandigarh

THE Supreme Court on Monday constituted a five-member high-powered committee, headed by former Punjab & Haryana HC judge, Justice Nawab Singh, to formulate issues and negotiate with farmers to resolve the MSP and other issues, including the Shambhu border blockade.

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ED gets 4-day remand of AAP's Amanatullah

THE Rouse Avenue Court late Monday night remanded AAP MLA Amanatullah Khan to four-day Enforcement Directorate custody in a money laundering probe linked to alleged irregularities in the Delhi Waqf Board and illegally leasing its properties.

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After 2-wk of questioning, CBI arrests RG Kar ex-principal in corruption case

THE CBI on Monday evening arrested former principal of RG Kar Medical College and Hospital Sandip Ghosh in connection with alleged financial irregularities at the state-run institution during his tenure.

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Court orders ED to release key documents to accused in excise policy 'scam'

A Delhi court on Monday directed the Enforcement Directorate (ED) to release certain additional documents related to the alleged excise policy scam-linked money laundering case.

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SC grants bail to ex-AAP functionary Vijay Nair

Court expresses concern over 23-month imprisonment without trial

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Two city school principals figure in list of 50 national teacher awardees

TWO Delhi school principals Dr Charu Sharma and Pallavi Sharma have been selected for the prestigious National Teachers' Award 2024.

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HC upholds defamation case against Kejriwal, AAP leaders over voter deletion remarks

IN a significant legal setback for the AAP, the Delhi High Court on Monday dismissed a plea by Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal, minister Atishi, and other party leaders seeking withdrawal of a criminal defamation case against them.

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Court flays ED over 'arbitrary arrests'

A Delhi court has sharply criticised the Enforcement Directorate (ED) while granting bail to Mangelal Sunil Agarwal, an accused in a money laundering case.

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'St. Stephen's took more Christians than granted seats'

DELHI University on Monday accused St.Stephen's College of exceeding the sanctioned quota for Christian candidates in its revised seat allocation list, leaving some seats in a few BA courses vacant despite candidates meeting required criteria based on CUET scores.

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AAP slams 'BJP conspiracy to jail opposition leaders

AAP on Monday said the BJP's \"conspiracy\" to target its leaders is \"getting exposed\" and asserted \"truth can be troubled but not defeated\" after the Supreme Court granted bail to the its former communication in-charge Vijay Nair.

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HC asks Rapido to submit report on PwD users

THE Delhi High Court has directed Rapido, the bike-taxi aggregator, to submit an audit report on the accessibility of its services for differently-abled persons.

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Haryana polls: Congress expected to release candidate list on Wednesday

THE Congress party is likely to announce the list of candidates for the 90 assembly seats on Wednesday, said Deepak Babaria, AICC in-charge for Haryana.

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DTC officials may soon issue challans for bus lane violations

TO enforce the lane driving by public buses on city roads, the transport department has planned to empower Assistant Traffic Inspectors (ATIs) of the Delhi Transport Corporation (DTC) with the authority of issuing traffic challans.

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Man stabs wife to death, leaves body in car, flees crime scene half naked

Ronrosentative image A 21-year-old man stabbed his wife to death in a car, parked the vehicle at some secluded place with her body in it, and later left the scene of crime half naked.

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Monday blues! Waterlogging, traffic jams after heavy rain lashes capital

Public Works Dept received over 40 complaints regarding submerged roads, uprooted trees

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Radha Swami Satsang Beas anoints ex-Cipla top official as new head

HARPREET BAJWA @Chandigarh SPIRITUAL organisation Radha Swami Satsang Beas on Sunday anointed Jasdeep Singh Gill, a doctorate in chemical engineering and former Chief Strategy Officer of Cipla Limited, as its next spiritual head.

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Man kills live-in partner over 'illicit affair', nabbed from Madhya Pradesh

A 30-year-old woman was murdered allegedly by her 48-yearold live-in partner by slitting her throat as he suspected her of having an \"illicit affair\" with some other person.

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32-year-old goes to return borrowed phone, stabbed to death by group in Burari

A 32-year-old man was brutally stabbed to death by a group of men and a minor when he went to return the mobile phone of one of the accused.

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Pvt schools asked to ensure education of Covid orphans

THE Delhi education department has issued a circular instructing all private schools to ensure the continuation of schooling for children who have become orphans or lost a parent after March 2020, whether due to COVID-19 pandemic or other reasons.

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'Hema report ripples reach other shores, Mollywood showing the way'

THE ripples created by the Hema Committee report on the issues faced by women and junior artists in Malayalam film industry are being felt nationwide.

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Ruckus in House as BJD & Cong MLAs spar over 'Subhadra Yojana'

THE Opposition uproar over Subhadra Yojana continued in the Assembly on Monday with the BJD and Congress members stalling the House demanding coverage of all women by the scheme.

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1.94 lakh apply for 310 forest watcher posts

THE Karnataka Forest Department has received 1,94,007 applications for 310 vacant posts of forest watchers.

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AP: Flood water recedes, stranded wait for food

A day after flash floods affected more than two lakh people in 16 divisions of Vijayawada city, people in several other colonies, abutting the Krishna River, feared inundation as Prakasam Barrage received record inflows.

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Rise in dengue cases with 4 deaths this yr: TN minister

TAMIL Nadu has recorded a total of 11,743 dengue cases so far in 2024.

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Guv seeks info on allotment of land to Kharge family

GOVERNOR Thaawarchand Gehlot has sought an explanation from the state government on allotment of a five-acre plot at the aerospace park on the outskirts of Bengaluru to a trust run by AICC president Mallikarjun Kharge's family.

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Kerala orders probe against top cop after MLA flags gold smuggling racket

CHIEF Minister Pinarayi Vijayan has ordered the constitution of a high-level team led by the state police chief to look into allegations against ADGP MR Ajith Kumar after hours long deliberations.

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Rescue, relief ops in flood-hit areas

URGING the Union government and Prime Minister Narendra Modi to declare the floods as a national calamity that has resulted in loss of life and crops in lakhs of acres, Chief Minister A Revanth Reddy on Monday asked the Centre to release ₹2,000 crore as immediate assistance.

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Modi's Ukraine Visit A Flexure In Futility

HY did Prime Minister Narendra Modi make the side-trip to Ukraine on his two-day visit to Poland? Why did he ignore suggestions from scouts that a visit to Ukraine was inadvisable at that moment? Was it because pressing agreements had to be signed? Or was superpower geopolitics using him as a messenger to forestall a potential global catastrophe? Consider this.

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Normalising The Abnormal In Our Daily Lives

With a stream of over-the-top content rushing at us, we are normalising things such as gore, corruption and civic decrepitude. Rural India is part of this transformation too

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Cong levels 'conflict of interest' charge against Buch, seeks investigation

1 THE Congress on Monday accused SEBI Chairperson Madhabi Buch of holding an office of profit at the ICICI Bank and receiving 16.8 crore from the bank and its subsidiaries.

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Netflix lands in 'IC-814' crosshairs, faces scrutiny

AMID a wave of social media outrage over the alleged distortion of the facts and contentious depiction of characters in the web series 'IC-814-The Kandahar Hijack', the Government has summoned the content head of OTT platform Netflix, which is streaming the series based on the infamous of hijacking of Indian Airlines Flight 814 in 1999.

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J&K Cong president to contest from Srinagar

THE Congress on Monday released a second list of six more candidates for the maiden Assembly polls in Jammu and Kashmir Union Territory, fielding recently appointed J&K Party chief Tariq Hamid Karra from a Srinagar seat.

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Hindu Sena files PIL in HC over 'distortion of facts'

A Public interest Litigation (PiL) has been filed by the hindu Sena in the Delhi high court, calling for a ban on the recently released mini-series, ‘ic-814: The Kandahar hijack’ on netflix.

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'Sharia law soon, women will have no rights in Bangla'

WOMEN in Bangladesh will bear the brunt of increasing prominence to radical Islamist outfits after the ouster of Sheikh Hasina as the prime minister in the country, Bangladeshi author, activist and physician Taslima Nasrin, who has been living in exile in India for many years now, tells Yeshi Seli.

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State BJP chief to be in fray from Nowshera

THE BJP on Monday released its fourth list of six candidates for the Jammu and Kashmir assembly polls, fielding party's J&K unit chief and firebrand leader Ravindra Raina from his home constituency Nowshera in border district of Rajouri in Jammu region.

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240 aero-engines for frontline Sukhoi fighter jets get green light

IN a major move to strengthen Air Force's combat capability, the Cabinet Committee on Security on Monday approved the proposal for procurement of 240 aero-engines for frontline multi-role Su-30 MKI fighters of the Indian Air Force.

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'Nation-building': PM launches BJP membership drive, sets 10 cr target

LAUNCHING the BJP's nationwide membership drive, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday said the youth have to be connected to achieve the goal of a developed India by 2047.

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Kannauj leader raped minor, confirms DNA sample: Cops

THE DNA report of former block pramukh Nawab Singh Yadav, belonging to the Samajwadi Party, corroborated the rape on the 15-year-old minor survivor as it matched with the sample collected from her in Kannauj on Monday.

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Not 'Shahi'! BJP takes objection to word in procession of Lord Mahakal in Ujjain

IN the era of politics of name change, politics has now begun over the use of the word 'Shahi' (imperial) in the traditional 'Shahi Sawari' procession of Lord Mahakal in Madhya Pradesh's holiest city Ujjain which is also the home city of state's chief minister Dr Mohan Yadav.

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After deaths of aspirants, J'khand cop recruitment drive postponed by 3 days

AS the death toll reached 12 on Monday during the excise constable recruitment drive in Jharkhand, Chief Minister Hemant Soren instructed officials to postpone the recruitment process for the next three days as a precautionary measure and also prohibited any race taking place after 9 a.m.

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Remove Central forces, says BJP MLA in Manipur

PRASANTA MAZUMDAR @ Guwahati AGAINST the backdrop of fresh violence in Manipur, a BJP MLA of the state on Monday sought the withdrawal of central forces \"who are mostly present as mute spectators\".

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SC trashes Bengal plea against bail to student leader

THE Supreme Court on Monday dismissed the West Bengal government's plea challengingthe Calcutta High Court's order granting bail to one of the organisers of the August 27 march to the state secretariat to protest against a 31-year-old trainee doctor's rape and murder at the RG Kar Medical College and Hospital.

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Docs mount heat on police chief

Police commissioner accused of inaction during vandalism at RG Kar Lahi JUNIOR doctors of different medical colleges on Monday took out a rally to Kolkata Police headquarters Lalbazar, demanding the resignation of police commissioner Vineet Goyal, alleging inaction in stopping vandalism at the RG Kar Medical College and Hospital on August 14.

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Jawan found dead in Sunjwan base in Jammu, Army rules out terror angle

AN army soldier has died under mysterious circumstances at the highly secured Sunjwan military station in Jammu, the winter capital of Jammu and Kashmir, on Monday.

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BJP neta held for raping mentally challenged girl

A state functionary of the BJP was arrested for allegedly raping a mentally challenged girl in Bihar's Gaya district, police said on Monday.

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Partial UK ban on export of arms to Israel

THE UK on Monday announced a partial suspension of some arms exports to Israel amid fears that they might be used to commit \"a serious violation of international humanitarian law\".

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Dhaka wants to restart dialogue on Teesta river

DHAKA BANGLADESH's interim government wants to restart with India the dialogue on the Teesta water sharing treaty, adviser on water resources Syeda Rizwana Hasan said, asserting that upper-riparian and lowerriparian countries should adhere to international principles on the distribution of water.

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Russian missile barrage ahead of Ukrainian kids returning to school

Prez Putin in Siberia says Kursk assault by enemy won't prevent his forces from advancing

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SC panel unanimously upholds Brazil's X ban

A Brazilian Supreme Court panel on Monday unanimously upheld the decision of one of its justices to block billionaire Elon Musk's social media platform X nationwide, according to the court's website.

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Netanyahu Not Doing Enough To Secure Hostage Release: US

US President Joe Biden on Monday said Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was not doing enough to secure a deal for the release of hostages taken by Palestinian armed group Hamas.

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No TV or screens for toddlers, Sweden says

TODDLERS should not be allowed to watch screens at all, Sweden told parents on Monday.

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TITANIC EXPEDITION YIELDS LOST BRONZE STATUE

A bronze statue from the Titanic not seen in decades and feared to be lost for good - is among the discoveries made by the company with salvage rights to the wreck site on its first expedition there in many years.

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Two-wheeler sales improve on rural demand

AFTER a long period, the two-wheeler industry, aided by a recovery in rural demand, is showing continuous improvement in sales volume with most players reporting healthy growth in monthly dispatches.

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WazirX hack: Users unlikely to get full amount

USERS of crypto exchange WazirX, which was hacked in July resulting in the theft of digital assets worth above 2,000 crore, may not receive their funds in full.

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Nod for Kaynes' 3.3K cr chip plant in Guj

Plant to produce 60L chips a day, and will cater to variety of applications like auto, EVs, electronics, telecom, phones

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IPO docs need to be in local languages: Sebi chairperson

THE larger goal of the market makers should be better inclusion, not just in terms of gender or socioeconomic fronts, but in terms of language inclusion, Sebi chief Madhabi Puri Buch said on Monday.

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India is big story for next 20-30-yr, pharma & life sciences strong sector: Nagarro CEO

ONE of the fastest growing IT companies Nagarro is bullish on India market and its growth opportunities.

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54% of IPO shares get sold within week: Sebi

AS much as 54% of the IPO shares get sold within a week of their listing, markets regulator Sebi has said.

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Infosys issues appointment letters to over 1K campus hires

IT services company Infosys has issued appointment letters to more than 1,000 campus hires, according to IT union Nascent Information Technology Employees Senate (NITES).

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Nifty gains for 13th straight session to hit high of 25,333.6

ADVANCING for the 13th consecutive session, probably its longest run on record, the local equity market benchmark index NSE Nifty50 - touched fresh high level again on Monday.

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Pathak keen on implementing his learnings in ACT

ODISH INDIA'S BEST KEPT SE ODISHA INDIA'S SESTRI india ODIE ODISH UB H Krishnan Pathak will be India's main goalkeeper post PR Sreejesh retirement INDIA'S goalkeeper Krishan Pathak has watched plenty of Hockey from the sidelines, especially in the Olympics.

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Gauff joins exit of US Open superstars as Zheng shines in record late show

COCO Gauff joined Novak Djokovic and Carlos Alcaraz on the US Open scrap-heap Sunday as the defending champion crashed out to Emma Navarro in a blizzard of mistakes as China's Zheng Qinwen won a record-setting 2:15 a.

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Athletics: Nithin, Ancy walk away with awards

SERVICES' experienced long jumper Ancy Sojan won gold with a personal best effort of 6.71m to walk away with the best female athlete award on the concluding day of National Open Championships here on Monday.

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Sharath Kamal opens up on anxiety before Olympics opening ceremony

\"HOW do I fix my hair?\" \"Do I have to iron my ceremonial dress?\" \"How do I hold the flag?\" \"Which way do I look to face the cameras?\" \"What will happen if I fall into the Seine, will I be able to swim?\" These were some of the questions that kept A Sharath Kamal up the night before the Opening ceremony of the Paris Olympics.

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IITian, shuttler, Paralympic champion

Overnight bus journey from Mandi to Karnal to podium: The rise and rise of Nitesh; back-to-back gold for Sumit NITESH Kumar used to play football and basketball before he lost his left leg in a mishap in 2009.

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Hyderabad in control against TNCA Prez XI

HALF-CENTURIES from Hima Teja (91 n.0), K Nitesh Reddy (59) and CV Milind helped Hyderabad post 313 in the first innings of the Buchi Babu semifinal against TNCA President's XI in Tirunelveli on Monday.

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Mbappe's first goals in La Liga help Real win

KYLIAN Mbappe answered his critics in style as he netted his first La Liga goals to give Real Madrid a 2-0 win over Real Betis at the Santiago Bernabeu on Sunday which sends them second in the table.

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