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In a relief to 30 Army personnel, the Supreme Court on Tuesday closed the criminal proceedings initiated against them by the Nagaland government for allegedly killing 13 civilians in a 2021 botched operation to ambush militants in Mon district for want of prosecution sanction. A bench of Justices Vikram Nath and PB Varale noted that the Centre had on February 28 last year declined to grant sanction to prosecute the personnel under section 6 of the Armed Forces (Special Powers) Act (AFSPA) of 1958. Section 6 of the AFSPA says, "No prosecution, suit or other legal proceedings shall be instituted except with the previous sanction of the Central Government, against any person in respect of anything done or purported to be done in exercise of the powers conferred by this Act." The bench said, in case sanction is granted at any stage under Section 6 of the AFSPA, the proceedings pursuant to the impugned FIRs may continue and may proceed in accordance with law and be brought to a

Vice President Jagdeep Dhankhar on Monday said there is a need to hit hard at subtle discrimination against women and urged the "male society" to change its mindset before it is too late. He also condemned the rape-murder of a trainee doctor in Kolkata and said people must condemn remarks that the incident was of "symptomatic malaise". Addressing the News 18 She Shakti Conclave 2024 in Delhi, the vice president said after the women's reservation law comes into force, more women will be part of decision-making and governance. There will be less disturbance and disruptions (in Parliament and state legislatures), he said. People who term women as the weaker sex are wrong, he asserted and said women empowerment will be boosted by women themselves. Mr Dhankhar was of the view that education cuts into inequality. "Gender discrimination has vanished but has assumed certain forms. Overt discrimination can be fought but not subtle discrimination. We have to hi

The idea of One Country One Election -- under discussion for long in the corridors of parliament -- will be implemented during the current tenure of the Narendra Modi government, sources have said. Prime Minister Narendra Modi had mentioned this in his Independence Day speech this year and the government is committed to implementing it, sources said. The government has already formed a committee under the chairmanship of former President Ramnath Kovind, which has submitted its report.  The panel has recommended simultaneous elections for the Lok Sabha and state assemblies as a first step, which would be followed by synchronised local body polls within 100 days. It is likely that the Law Commission will also recommend it soon. The Commission is likely to recommend that all three tiers of government -- Lok Sabha, state assemblies and local bodies like municipalities and panchayats -- have simultaneous polls starting 2029 and a provision for unity government in cases like hung house or

Families living in a relief camp in Manipur's Kangpokpi district want to return home, provided there is guarantee of their safety, a senior officer of the central paramilitary force CRPF told news agency ANI. CRPF Deputy Inspector General (DIG) Manish Kumar Sachar visited the camps in Kangpokpi district's Thangkanphai village and Songpehjang, where over 100 families of the Kuki tribes have been staying since ethnic clashes began in May 2023. "This is Saikul subdivision, a huge subdivision under Kangpokpi district. And this Songpehjang relief camp, where over 100 families are living. They are living peacefully. You can see children playing. But our objective and purpose is to ensure they return home as soon as possible," Mr Sachar told ANI. "Their rehabilitation should be done. They should be given help to restart their lives. Many measures are being taken for them. For example, we are working to identify their agricultural fields and taking them to work on the

A 30-year-old woman from Mumbai has been arrested by Telangana's Cyber Security Bureau for allegedly trafficking youth from India to Cambodia to be kept as cyber slaves there. The woman, who worked with the director of a Chinese-owned company, was paid Rs 30,000 for every person that she managed to trick and send to the country.  'Cyber slave' is a term used for youth who are taken to a country by deceit, after being promised a legal employment opportunity, and are forced to participate in cyber frauds, sometimes under a threat of violence and confinement. Their passports are taken away, shutting off any way of returning home, and they are told there is a contractual obligation to stay. Sometimes, they are also 'sold' to other agents, often Chinese, for a price. In July, the Indian embassy in Phnom Penh had said it had rescued 14 Indians who had been pushed into cyber crime in Cambodia. The embassy had said that, in collaboration with Cambodian authorities, it had

A man, his two sisters and 11-month-old nephew were killed on Thursday in Chhattisgarh's Balodabazar-Bhatapara district on suspicion that a member of the family was practising black magic, a police official said. The murders took place at 6pm in Chharchhed village under Kasdol police station limits and a man and his two sons have been detained and are being interrogated, he added. "Chaitram Kaivartya (47), his sisters Jamuna (28) and Yashoda (30), and Jamuna's son Yash were killed with sharp weapons and a hammer. We have detained Ramnath Patle and his two sons. They are from the same village. Patle's daughter had taken ill recently and he suspected it was due to black magic practised by Chaitram Kaivartya's mother," the official said. "Chaitram's mother was not at home when the attack, allegedly by Patle and his two sons, took place. Further probe into the incident is underway," he added. (Except for the headline, this story has not been edit

A 26-year-old software engineer was arrested from Bengaluru for allegedly misappropriating cryptocurrency worth Rs 56 crore from a city-based firm where he had worked previously, police said on Wednesday. The accused, Shubhang Jain, who hails from Haryana, allegedly had access and control to all the company wallets which he misused, changed the account password and later transferred crypto currencies to other wallets, which he had created using fake identities, they said. The matter came to light during a company audit. Police said that accused was on the run for the last two years was arrested from Mumbai where he fled after committing the fraud at the city based cryptocurrency management firm he was working for. "During the investigation, it was found that the accused had committed fraud by transferring the cryptocurrencies from the wallet belonging to the complainant company to the wallets of his, his family members and friends wallets which he had created to divert the fir

A 13-year-old girl was allegedly kidnapped and molested by a property dealer in Delhi's Nihal Vihar area, officials said on Tuesday. The accused identified as Safaraz is a resident of Vandana Vihar. He has been detained and is being interrogated, they said. The girl's mother told police that her daughter went missing from her house on Sunday. She accused Sarfaraz of abducting her. According to police, the girl was found on Monday evening and it is suspected that she was sexually assaulted. Police said the local residents alleged that some more girls in the area were molested by the accused who lured them with money. Meanwhile, the accused has been booked under Sections 75(1) (sexual harassment) and 79 (insult modesty of a woman) of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita and 8/12 of the POCSO Act. (Except for the headline, this story has not been edited by NDTV staff and is published from a syndicated feed.) from NDTV News-India-news https://ift.tt/YOuU2IX

A 13-year-old girl from Ranchi was allegedly trafficked to Lucknow on a truck and on the way, she was "raped" by its driver multiple times before being left on a roadside, police said on Monday. Two persons were arrested after a case was lodged at the Tamar police station in Ranchi on Sunday, they said. The girl's family said she did not return from school on August 16, following which they lodged a missing person's complaint. The girl told the investigators that she was taken to the Bundu bus stand on August 16 by a youth she knew and later she was taken to Patna by another youth who was also known to her, said Roshan Kumar, the in-charge of Tamar police station. "The second youth left her in a truck in Patna and fled. The truck driver allegedly raped her and left her on a roadside in Lucknow," he said quoting the girl's statement. "We have arrested the two youths on the basis of the FIR lodged on Sunday. There are several missing links in her

A government school principal was arrested after he allegedly deleted Ganesh Chaturthi greetings posted on the school WhatsApp group, which triggered protests by people of the village, officials said on Sunday. Villagers held demonstrations outside the school, demanding the removal of Shafi Mohammed Ansari, principal of government senior higher secondary school at Laturi village, they said. The principal allegedly removed posts that had a picture of Lord Ganesh from a school WhatsApp group. Parents and teachers are part of the group, DSP Narendra Nadar said. SHO at Bapawar Police Station Uttam Singh said Ansari was arrested for disturbing communal harmony. He was granted bail and released later in the evening, the officer said. The situation in the village remained normal and peaceful, the SHO said. According to police, a man posted a Ganesh Chaturthi greetings message on the WhatsApp group, which the principal deleted. The group is named School Management Development Committee or

Bollywood Hungama was the first to inform that Akshay Kumar is set to make a special announcement on his birthday about his reunion with Priyadarshan on a horror comedy. We also informed our readers that the film is being produced by Ekta Kapoor and will go on floors in December 2024. And now we have another big scoop on this reunion of Akshay Kumar and Priyadarshan. According to our highly placed sources, their next is titled Bhoot Bangla. "It’s a spooky comedy and the duo of Akshay and Priyan feel that there is no better title than Bhoot Bangla. The title also has a recall value with their cult classic, Bhool Bhulaiyaa," a source told Bollywood Hungama. The source further informed us that the film is not just an out-and-out comic caper but also has a lot of horror, fantasy, and supernatural elements. "It's the most ambitious film from the combo of Akshay and Priyadarshan. Ekta Kapoor is going all out to give it the required scale and budget," the source told

An underworld don serving life sentence in the Almora district jail was offered 'diksha' by seers in the prison premises recently to initiate him into monkhood, claimed a man who mediated between the don and the seers. Don Prakash Pandey, also called PP, has a number of criminal cases pending against him including those of extortion, robbery and murder. Two seers accompanied by the man who mediated between the gangster and the seer community reportedly went inside the jail premises on September 5 to perform the 'diksha' ceremony during which Pandey was offered a rudraksha garland and a sacred beads necklace (kanthi) to wear. Vedic mantras were also chanted in his ears. The don was renamed as Prakashanand Giri by the seers who introduced themselves as being associated with the Panch Dashnam Juna Akhara, which is headquartered in Haridwar and has its ashrams in the Kumaon region. After coming out of the jail complex, the seers and mediator Krishna Kandpal held a press

A woman was shot dead in broad daylight at a bus stand here on Friday, the police said. The shooting triggered a commotion as people at the bus stand ran helter-skelter in panic. The victim has been identified as Munni Devi, a resident of Khudana village in Mahendragarh district. Munni Devi and her husband Dinesh had come to Mahendragarh for some work and were waiting at the bus stand to return to their village when a young man approached and shot her on the head. Munni Devi fell unconscious from the gunshot. She was rushed to the Mahendragarh Civil Hospital, where she was pronounced dead upon arrival. The police soon reached the crime scene and began the investigation. The incident was captured on CCTV, which shows a masked assailant shooting Munni Devi and then striking her twice on the waist before fleeing. He stumbled on the road but managed to escape, with several onlookers pursuing him. The victim's husband claimed that the shooting was the result of an ongoing land dis

Ministry of Defence on Friday said that they have successfully launched the intermediate-range ballistic missile Agni 4. "The launch was successfully carried out from the Integrated Test Range in Chandipur, Odisha," an official of the ministry said. He said that the launch successfully validated all operational and technical parameters. "It was conducted under the aegis of Strategic Forces Command," the official added. On April 4, India also carried out a successful flight test of the new generation ballistic missile Agni-Prime. Strategic Forces Command (SFC), along with the Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO), had conducted that successful flight test. The Agni missile is a ballistic missile developed by India. The Agni missiles are long-range, nuclear weapons capable, surface-to-surface ballistic missiles. (Except for the headline, this story has not been edited by NDTV staff and is published from a syndicated feed.) from NDTV News-India

Union Home Minister Amit Shah unequivocally said on Friday that India is not in favour of talks with Pakistan until terrorism ceases, emphasising that "talks and bombs cannot go together". Amit Shah made these remarks while releasing here the BJP's manifesto for Jammu and Kashmir. He dismissed any possibility of dialogue with Pakistan amidst the ongoing terrorist activities. Asserting that Article 370 is a thing of the past, Amit Shah stated that no one can bring it back. "Talks and bombs cannot go together. We are not in favour of talks with Pakistan unless and until terrorism ends. But we will definitely talk to the youth of Kashmir," Amit Shah told reporters shortly after releasing the BJP manifesto ahead of the Jammu and Kashmir assembly elections. Responding to a question about the National Conference (NC) and People's Democratic Party's (PDP) demand for talks with Pakistan and the restoration of cross-LoC trade, Amit Shah said, "Unless ter

Is there any restraint order on Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal performing his duties from jail? the Supreme Court asked the Delhi government on Friday after it was informed that files pertaining to the remission of sentences of eligible convicts were getting delayed for want of his signature. Remission is the cancellation or reduction of a part of the sentence of a prisoner. Under section 432 of the CrPC, state governments may remit the whole or part of the punishment to which a convict has been sentenced based on factors such as the prisoner's conduct, rehabilitation, health and time served in prison. The observation by a bench of Justices Abhay S Oka and Augustine George Masih came while hearing a plea filed by a convict alleging delay in remission of his sentence. "Is there any restraint order on chief minister performing his duties from jail? We want to examine this because this will affect hundreds of cases. "So many files would be there as various orders a

The national capital breathed clean air for 128 days of the first half of 2024, according to a Delhi government report. The report by the Delhi Pollution Control Committee (DPCC) said that the "Good days' (good/satisfactory/moderate days together) during the January-July, 2024, period was 128. The number of 'good days' from August 1 to August 20 was 20, it said. The number of 'good days' referring to air quality, increased from 159 in 2018 to 206 in' 2023, it said. An air quality index (AQI) between zero and 50 is considered "good", 51 and 100 "satisfactory", 101 and 200 "moderate", 201 and 300 "poor", 301 and 400 "very poor", and 401 and 500 "severe". The identified sources of air pollution are vehicular and industrial emissions, open burning and other combustion sources. The report cited various steps taken by the Delhi government to mitigate air pollution in the city. A total of 385 dedica

A 28-year-old man was run over by a school bus while he was crossing the road in south west Delhi's Vasant Kunj south, police said on Wednesday. The victim, Manoj Kumar (28), was sporting earphones when the incident took place near Mahipalpur flyover on Tuesday afternoon, they said. The bus driver, Jasbir Dahiya (42), was arrested from the spot, said a police officer. Manoj is survived by his wife and two children, who live in Uttar Pradesh's Agra. He used to live in Delhi's Rangpuri and worked at the IGI Airport as a security guard, he added. The officer said the victim was returning home from his job when he was hit by a school bus carrying children from a school in Dwarka Sector-23. During the course of investigation, it is suspected that the victim was wearing the ear phones due to which he could not notice the bus coming from the other side, the police said. Manoj died on the spot, they said. An eyewitness at the spot quickly intervened and apprehended the bus d

The Centre is closely monitoring the current flood situation in Andhra Pradesh and has constituted a team of experts that will visit the flood-affected areas of the state for an on-the-spot assessment and make recommendations for immediate relief, Union Home Minister Amit Shah said on Wednesday. So far, 20 people have died in the rain and floods which caused damage in several parts of Andhra Pradesh, especially Vijayawada. In a post on 'X', Mr Shah said the Modi government is closely monitoring the flood situation in Andhra Pradesh. "The MHA today constituted a central team of experts, led by the Additional Secretary (Disaster Management), MHA. "The team will visit the flood-affected areas for an on-the-spot assessment of flood management, reservoir management, issues of dam safety, etc. and make recommendations for immediate relief," he said. The Modi government is closely monitoring the ongoing flood situation in Andhra Pradesh. The MHA today constitute

Union Coal Minister G Kishan Reddy on Tuesday indicated that the floods in Telangana cannot be declared as "national calamity" as sought by the state government even as he said the Centre would extend all possible help to the state. The Telangana government should use the State Disaster Response Fund (SDRF) to help the flood-hit people and that the Union government would provide more funds after Central teams visit the state and ascertain the losses, he said. "It's (national calamity) not there anywhere... We are helping. Whatever is the name (of calamity). We have to provide relief to people and help them," he told reporters here. "The SDRF is with the state government. They should spend that fund and help people. The Central government's teams will come to Telangana and undertake spot visits. We will give additional amounts on the basis of their report," Reddy said. There is also provision for extending help to the flood victims for loss of l

The local MP-MLA court in Sultanpur granted bail on Monday to five individuals, including former Congress MLC Deepak Singh, in connection with charges related to a protest against former Union minister Smriti Irani and road blockade in Gauriganj. Special Public Prosecutor Vaibhav Pandey said the protest, led by Deepak Singh, was staged on July 29, 2022, in response to a heated debate between former Congress president Sonia Gandhi and Ms Irani. Mr Singh and hundreds of supporters blocked the Raebareli-Sultanpur road at the Sabji Mandi Tiraha in Gauriganj and burned an effigy of the then Union minister. The protesters were also charged with violating Section 144 of the Indian Penal Code. Mr Pandey said Deepak Singh, Manoj Kashyap, Sadashiv, Akhilesh Mishra and Yogendra Pratap alias Rohit Singh surrendered before the MP-MLA court on Monday. They were released on bail after submitting two surety bonds of Rs 20,000 each. The bail order was issued by Special Judge Shubham Verma of the MP

Parliamentarian and author-philanthropist Sudha Murthy on Sunday said although she has read a book set in Parliament way back in the 1980s, about Shyama Prasad Mukherjee, since so much has changed about India and the Parliament since then, that she would not mind writing about it. "Although, I have to finish my term as a Rajya Sabha member first, before I could attempt to do that," said Murthy on Sunday. Ms Murthy was in conversation with fellow author and actor Twinkle Khanna, at the celebration of the launch of her 300th book title - and 46th book - 'Grandpa's Bag of Stories' here. The event was organised by Bengaluru-based Lit Spirit Foundation. But in her immediate list of wishes is a book on 'shlokas' that her grandfather used to recite, she said. "Like the one my grandfather used to recite when someone went travelling or stepped out of the house," said Ms Murthy. Ms Murthy also said it is not likely that she will not set her stories in

Two security guards were on Saturday arrested for allegedly assaulting doctors and other staff at a hospital in Cossipore area of the metropolis, police said. The guards were likely in an inebriated condition, officials said. "The matter is being probed. We have arrested them after receiving a complaint from the hospital authorities," an officer of Cossipore Police Station said. A senior official of the hospital claimed that the guards had also threatened him with dire consequences. "The two guards were intoxicated and assaulted the doctors and hospital staff. They have done this earlier, too, and we had complained to the health department in this regard," he said. The hospital currently has 11 such security guards, he said. (Except for the headline, this story has not been edited by NDTV staff and is published from a syndicated feed.) from NDTV News-India-news https://ift.tt/13Wtidx

A Bengaluru-bound IndiGo flight had to make an emergency landing at the Kolkata airport minutes after take-off on Friday night due to an engine failure, a senior official said. Flight 6E573 from Kolkata to Bangalore, which became airborne at 10.36 pm on Friday, made an emergency landing at the Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose International (NSCBI) airport at 10.53 pm after failure of its left engine, he said. However, no fire or spark was reported, the Airports Authority of India spokesperson said on Saturday. The full emergency declared at 10.39 pm was withdrawn at 11.08 pm, he said. Both the runways at NSCBI airport were handed over to the Air Traffic Control (ATC) to make those available for the plane to land back safely, the spokesperson said. "It was learnt that the left side engine of the aircraft failed after take-off as a result of which it had to come back to Kolkata," he said. The airline in a statement said the flight returned to origin after take-off "due to