19 Jan, 2025 4:45 AM
Chandigarh, Jan 19 (IANS) The Centre will hold a meeting with Punjab's protesting farmers on February 14 in Chandigarh to discuss their demands, thus ending a stalemate over the resumption of a dialogue with the protesters, who have been demanding a legal guarantee on the MSP for crops.
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14 Jan, 2025 5:56 PM
Bhubaneswar, Jan 14 (IANS) The members of Loktantra Senani, an organisation representing individuals detained during the 1975 Emergency, on Tuesday, felicitated Odisha Chief Minister Mohan Charan Majhi at Bhubaneswar airport upon his return from Delhi over the state government's decision to provide pension and other facilities to those affected during the Emergency period.
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13 Jan, 2025 6:47 PM
New Delhi, Jan 13 (IANS) The Supreme Court has ruled that even if non-compliance with an order for payment of maintenance entails penal consequences, such proceedings would not qualify as or become criminal proceedings.
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12 Jan, 2025 4:31 AM
Patna, Jan 12 (IANS) The Bihar Public Service Commission (BPSC) issued a legal notice to prominent educationist Guru Rahman on Saturday, officials said.
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10 Jan, 2025 9:39 PM
Kolkata, Jan 10 (IANS) The Calcutta High Court on Friday rejected the plea by a leading human rights group for allotment of a stall for the Kolkata International Book Fair 2025, scheduled to begin by the end of this month.
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10 Jan, 2025 5:28 AM
Patna, Jan 10 (IANS) The allegations of irregularities in the 70th Bihar Public Service Commission Preliminary examination have escalated, with a group of examinees on Thursday, filing a petition in the Patna High Court seeking the cancellation and re-conducting the examination held on December 13.
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10 Jan, 2025 5:18 AM
Patna, Jan 10 (IANS) The controversy surrounding the detention and subsequent attempted imprisonment of Jan Suraaj Party President Prashant Kishor by the Patna police has drawn sharp criticism from his advocate, Amit Kumar.
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10 Jan, 2025 4:53 AM
Patna, Jan 10 (IANS) In the latest development surrounding the controversy over alleged irregularities in the 70th Bihar Public Service Commission (BPSC) Preliminary Examination, the Jan Suraaj Party filed a writ petition in the Patna High Court on Thursday seeking fresh examination.
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09 Jan, 2025 10:09 PM
New Delhi, Jan 9 (IANS) The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) has taken suo motu cognisance of an incident from Karnataka, where a 72-year-old man committed suicide on December 25 after a public hospital in Bengaluru declined to provide him treatment under the Ayushman Bharat scheme.
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09 Jan, 2025 9:21 PM
New Delhi, Jan 9 (IANS) In a big setback to the petitioners demanding marriage equality rights in India, a 5-judge bench of the Supreme Court on Thursday rejected the batch of pleas seeking review of its October 2023 verdict, which had refused to grant any legal recognition to same-sex and queer couples in the country.
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