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Justice has been done, will allow family to mourn Sunanda in peace: Tharoor
Incidentally for Tharoor this is a huge victory in every aspect as few months after she died, he had to face the electorate in the 2014 Lok Sabha polls and this case became a bogey for him, but he scraped through but saw his margin dropping from over 99,000 votes to around 15,000 votes, but in the 2019 polls, he triumphed with a similar margin what he got in 2009.
Delhi court discharges Shashi Tharoor in Sunanda Pushkar death case
Special judge Geetanjali Goel said, "the accused is discharged". The order was pronounced in presence of Tharoor, senior advocate Vikas Pahwa, appearing on behalf of Tharoor, and additional public prosecutor Atul Shrivastava.
India logs 35,178 new Covid cases in 24 hours
The daily new cases are nearly 40 per cent increase from Tuesday's 25,166, the lowest in 154 days. A total of 440 deaths were also reported in the past 24 hours, pushing the death toll due to 4,32,519, said the Covid bulletin released by the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare.India's recovery rate from the Covid infection currently stands at 97.52 per cent, the highest since March 2020.
‘Misguided Malayalis who joined Taliban’: Shashi Tharoor stirs row with his remarks
The celebratory video from a Twitter user called Ramiz showed two members of the Taliban crying in ecstasy after capturing the capital of Afghanistan Kabul. He captioned it as ‘#Taliban fighter weeping in Joy as they reached outside #Kabul knowing their victory is eminent.’
Collegium clears 9 names for appointment as SC judges, 3 women on the list
According to sources familiar with the development, out of these 10 vacancies, the collegium has zeroed in on nine names. There has been no appointment after September 2019. The list of recommendations includes three women judges, including B.V. Nagarathna from the Karnataka High Court, who if elevated now, could become the country's first woman CJI in February 2027 and occupy the post until October 29, 2027, for 8 months.
Afghan students at Lucknow University worry about families, future
Jawad Majeedy, a 27-year-old Afghan national, studying in Lucknow University, said, "Just when we thought that normalcy was returning to Afghanistan and we could breathe easy, we have been plunged into uncertainty again." Another student, who did not wish to be named, said he had spoken to his father last week and the latter had told him not to ever return to Afghanistan.
Maharaja's statue vandalism extremist act: British Sikh MP
"Saddened by this from extremists in Pakistan (western) Punjab, specially as Maharaja Ranjit Singh was no foreign invader, but fellow Punjabi whose court was run by Muslims, Hindus, Christians and Sikhs, and who donated to building their shrines," Dhesi tweeted.
Rahul's Twitter account should be locked again over false claims: BJP
The BJP made this demand after victim mother reportedly said that no one in the family gave consent to Rahul Gandhi to share their pictures on social media. For revealing the identity of victim, Twitter has locked the Rahul Gandhi's account for few days and later restored it. In a recent incident a nine-year-old Dalit girl was allegedly gang-raped, murdered and then cremated by her attackers in South West Delhi earlier this month.
ITBP personnel at Kabul embassy brought back to India too
Amidst the deteriorating situation in Afghanistan, the Indian government decided to recall all embassy personnel from Kabul and they were evacuated by an Indian Air Force C-17 aircraft on Tuesday. The IAF aircraft brought back 120 Indian officials, including the last batch of the Indian embassy staff and ITBP personnel, from the Kabul airport.
Delhi logs 38 fresh Covid cases, 4 deaths in 24 hrs
The fresh cases took Delhi's overall Covid tally to 14,37,156, the bulletin said. Delhi's recovery rate continued to remain at 98.22 per cent while its test positivity rate stood at 0.07 per cent. The national capital presently has 471 active cases, the bulletin said. A total of 30 Covid patients were discharged from different hospitals following recovery in the last 24 hours, taking the total number of recoveries to 14,11,612.
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