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140 Afghan Sikhs stopped from attending Guru Tegh Bahadur's birth anniversary in India
"A kirtan darbar is scheduled to be held on Sunday. Community members from various parts of the world are arriving here. Unfortunately the Taliban denied the 140 pilgrims access to the Kabul airport," said Afghan national Partap Singh, who is President of the Sri Guru Arjan Dev Ji gurdwara in New Mahavir Nagar. The 400th birth anniversary of Sri Guru Tegh Bahadur will be marked in a grand manner.
Delhi to witness warm weather with high humidity
The India Meteorological Department (IMD) has predicted the minimum temperature to be 27 degree Celsius. Temperature at 8.30 a.m. on Thursday was 28.8 degree Celsius, while the relative humidity was 68 per cent. The maximum temperature on Wednesday was recorded 28 degree Celsius, whereas the maximum temperature was at 37 degree Celsius, 3 notches below normal.
'Very disturbing trend', SC on use of sedition law on suspended IPS officer
Chief Justice said, "When a political party is in power, police officials side with it... then, when a new party comes into power, the government initiates action against those officials. This is a new trend, which needs to be stopped". The bench also comprising Justice Surya Kant further added that this is a very disturbing trend in the country and the police department is also responsible for it.
India liberalises UAS operations via Drone Rules, 2021
In March 2021, the Ministry of Civil Aviation (MoCA) had published the UAS Rules, 2021. "They were perceived by academia, Startups, end-users and other stakeholders as being restrictive in nature as they involved considerable paperwork, required permissions for every drone flight and very few 'free to fly' green zones were available," MoCA said in a statement.
Uddhav Thackeray’s 2018 offensive jibe on Yogi Adityanath goes viral amid Narayan Rane row
In the video, Uddhav Thackeray was seen ranting about the Uttar Pradesh CM. He questioned the morals of Yogi Adityanath by saying "how can he be a Chief Minister? He is a yogi so he should give up everything and sit in a cave.”
IAF aircraft with 35 evacuees on way to Delhi from Kabul
The flight will land at the Hindon airport here. "Op Devi Shakti in action! @IAF_MCC flight with 24 Indian and 11 Nepalese evacuees from Kabul is on its way to Delhi," MEA spokesperson, Arindam Baghchi said on social media. The rescue efforts from war torn Afghanistan have been named as Ops Devi Shakti by the government, which was announced by the External Affairs Minister, Dr S. Jaishanakar on August 24.
Only 2 tweets by Rahul Gandhi after restoration of account
As per the account details, he tweeted on Wednesday, ten days after his account was restored to attack the government on the asset monetisation scheme. Congress sources said that the former Congress President has lost trust in Twitter and he is now relying more on Facebook, Instagram and other social media platforms. He is writing on Facebook and gave onam greetings on the platform.
Trinamool approaches ECI for bypolls in Bengal
According to an announcement made by the party, a five-member delegation of Trinamool Congress MPs including Sougata Roy, Jwahar Sircar, Sukhendu Sekhar Roy, Sajda Ahmed and Mohua Moitra will meet the election commissioner at 3.15 p.m. on Thursday. They will again ask the commission to conduct the polls in the state. Earlier five MPs led by the leader of the party in Parliament Sudip Bandopadhyay met the Chief Election Commissioner in July this year and urged him to conduct the pending bypolls in the state.
If allegation true, matter serious: SC on PIL alleging duty evasion by 61 firms
A bench headed by Chief Justice N.V. Ramana told Sharma, who appeared in-person, "You want to implead more than 60 parties? Do you know how many applications will be filed now?" The bench also comprising Justice Surya Kant asked Sharma to withdraw the petition and file a comprehensive fresh petition. The bench also asked Sharma to amend the prayers in the petition and add all necessary parties. "But we will not order any impleadment now until the Centre files a counter," said the bench.
Kerala Covid model once the cynosure of all eyes, now laughing stock
But, gone are those days and the situation has come to such an extent that today if a Keralite has to cross the border of the state, for easy and smooth passage, one will have to be armed with a Covid vaccine jab certificate or any one of the mandatory Covid test results. On Wednesday the latest news is that if implemented by neighbouring Karnataka state, all those coming from Kerala will have to undergo a seven-day quarantine after entering their state.
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