Unseasonal rainfall to continue in Gujarat: IMD

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Central Government’s weather department India Meteorological Department (IMD) has predicted further unseasonal rains in parts of Gujarat till March 22nd

According to the IMD bulletin, ” Light thunderstorm with lightning and surface wind less than 40 kmph (in gust) accompanied with light to moderate rain very likely at isolated places in the districts of Gujarat region namely Banaskantha, Sabarkantha, Gandhinagar, Aravalli, Ahmedabad, Panchmahal, Dahod, Mahisagar, Vadodara, Chhota Udepur, Narmada, Surat, Dang, Tapi, Valsad and in Dadara Nagar Haveli; in the districts of Saurashtra-Kutch namely Surendranagar, Botad, Jamnagar, Amreli, Bhavnagar and Kutch,” on March 18th. On March 19th, Light thunderstorm with lightning and

Police silent on Khalistani leader Amritpal Singh’s arrest, internet suspended in Punjab

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Central Government’s weather department India Meteorological Department (IMD) has predicted further unseasonal rains in parts of Gujarat till March 22nd surface wind less than 40 kmph (in gust) accompanied with light rain very likely at isolated places in the districts of Gujarat region namely Sabarkantha, Gandhinagar, Aravalli,

Amit Shah responds to Adani-Hindenburg row: ‘If something wrong happened’

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Union home minister Amit Shah on Friday broke his silence on the Opposition’s demand to form a Joint Parliamentary Committee or JPC to probe the Adani-Hindenburg row.

Speaking at India Today Conclave 2023, Shah said the Supreme Court had already taken cognisance of the matter and formed a probe committee. Adani Group stocks had taken a beating on the bourses after US-based activist short-seller Hindenburg Research made a litany of allegations, including fraudulent transactions and share price manipulation, against the Gautam Adani-led group, which has dismissed the allegations as lies. The Adani Group has dismissed the charges as lies, saying it complies with all laws and disclosure requirements.“Our government has no confusion on the matter. What we are saying is that the Supreme Court has constituted a committee to investigate it and people should trust the judicial process,” Shah said. Shah added that if anyone has proof, he or she should submit it before the Supreme Court committee.

Ahmedabad, Dahod, Mahisagar, Vadodara, Chhota Udepur, Narmada and Dang; in the districts of Saurashtra namely Amreli and Bhavnagar.

Telangana High Court allows PwC to sue Ramalinga Raju

Khalistani leader and Waris Punjab De chief Amritpal Singh was detained near Jalandhar’s Nakodar on Saturday, sources told India Today. However, Punjab Police has so far neither confirmed or denied whether Singh has been apprehended or not.Earlier in the day, Punjab Police launched action against the separatist leader with Union Home Ministry being in constant touch with the Punjab government in view of the situation, sources told Six of his aides were earlier detained in Jalandhar and they are being questioned at an undisclosed location.Over 50 police vehicles chased the Khalistani leader and his aides in an attempt to arrest them this

India’s logs over 800 Covid cases after 126 days , active cases cross 5000 220.64 crore doses of COVID-19 vaccine have been administered under the nationwide vaccination drive morning after the Punjab Police traced Singh’s latest location near Shahkot. Mobile internet services were restricted in several districts of Punjab and the curbs will continue till tomorrow.“All mobile internet services, all SMS services and all dongle services provided on mobile networks, except voice call, in the territorial jurisdiction of Punjab shall be suspended from March 18 to March 19 in the interest of public safety,” an order by Punjab’s Department of Home Affairs and Justice read.

Kerala: Govt sanctions Rs 10 crore financial assistance to earthquake-hit Turkiye

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India’s single-day tally of COVID-19 cases crossed 800 after 126 days on Saturday, while the number of active cases climbed to 5,389, according to Union health ministry data. With 843 fresh infections, the country’s caseload increased to 4.46 crore (4,46,94,349). The death toll rose to 5,30,799 with four fatalities, the data updated at 8 am stated.According to

INSACOG data, 76 samples of COVID-19’s XBB.1.16 variant have been found which might be behind the recent rise of cases in India.While Jharkhand and Maharashtra reported one death each, two were reconciled by Kerala.At 5,839, the active cases now comprise 0.01 per cent of the total infections. The national COVID-19 recovery rate was recorded at 98.80 per cent, according to the health ministry website.The number of people who have recuperated from the disease surged to 4,41,58,161 and the case fatality rate stands at 1.19 per cent.According to the ministry’s website, 220.64 crore doses of COVID-19 vaccine have been administered under the nationwide vaccination drive.

S Jaishankar says situation with China fragile, dangerous in the Himalayan front

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A division bench of the Telangana high court has reportedly allowed audit firm PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) to sue Ramalinga Raju, the former chairman of Satyam Computers, for Rs 100 crore for sullying the audit firm’s reputation.Raju hit the headlines in 2009 when he admitted to manipulating the company’s accounts. Subsequently, the IT services firm was acquired by Tech Mahindra and it initially operated as a separate entity called Mahindra Satyam.In 2012, Mahindra Satyam was merged with Tech Mahindra. PwC was the statutory auditor for Satyam Computers between 2000 and 2009. The auditor had sued Raju and others as it claimed their conduct had affected its image and it had lost a lot of business as a result.A civil court in Hyderabad had earlier rejected the plea made by Raju against the claims.

The Kerala government on Saturday said it has sanctioned Rs 10 crore as financial assistance to Turkiye, which was battered by a massive earthquake recently.State Finance Minister K N Balagopal said the money was granted to support the people of that country and the External Affairs Ministry had given permission to hand over the amount to Turkiye the other day. The Rs 10 crore-financial assistance was announced in the state budget presented on February 8.“The earthquake in Turkiye, which had shocked the consciousness of the world, claimed tens of thousands of lives and left lakhs of people destitute,” the minister noted.People from all over the world came forward to help the quake victims, he said and recalled the support the southern state had received from around the globe when it was devastated by natural calamities some years ago.The earthquake had killed thousands of people and flattened several numbers of buildings in Turkiye and neighbouring Syria last month. Its epicentre was in Turkiye’s southeastern province of Kahramanmaras and was felt as far away as Cairo. India had already dispatched humanitarian assistance and disaster relief to Turkiye.

Different ways of reaching God, but destination same: RSS chief

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People have different ways of reaching God, but God is one and so we must not fight over the ways and just keep our eyes trained on the destination, RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat said on Friday, addressing the gathering at an event to launch the Urdu translation of Samved. He narrated a story about different people scaling a hill and talking about the other having taken the wrong route. However, the one who reached the top first found that all were reaching the same spot taking different routes, he said. “Knowing this truth, protecting ourselves from all the forces that want to create divisions, we have to imbibe the knowledge of this teaching through the Vedas,” Bhagwat said.

The situation along the Line of Actual Control (LAC)in eastern Ladakh remained “very fragile” and is “quite dangerous” in military assessment because of close deployments of troops of both sides in some pockets though substantial progress has been made in the disengagement process in many areas, External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar said on Saturday. Jaishankar also said that he and former Chinese foreign minister Wang Yi had reached an in-principle agreement in September 2020 on how to resolve the issue and that it is for China to deliver on what was agreed to. In an interactive session at the India Today conclave, the external affairs minister also made it clear that the relationship between the two countries can not return to normal until “these problems” are sorted out.The Indian and Chinese troops are locked in a standoff for the past three years at certain friction points in eastern Ladakh even as the two sides completed disengagement.

Sambhal cold storage owners arrested from Uttarakhand

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Police have arrested the two owners of a cold storage here where 14 people were killed and several injured after the building’s roof collapsed, a senior official said on Saturday.The two were arrested from Haldwani district in Uttarakhand, he said. Twentyfour people were pulled out of the rubble of the collapsed structure on Indira Road under Chandausi police station limits and 14 of them died, according to officials.Chief

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Minister Yogi Adityanath has set up a committee to probe the reasons behind the collapse, which took place on Thursday.“The owners of the cold storage, Ankur Agarwal and Rohit Agarwal, have been arrested from Haldwani,” Sambhal District Magistrate Manish Bansal told on Saturday.Police had registered a case under Section 304A of the Indian Penal Code against Ankur and Rohit on Thursday. According to police, the collapsed roof was built only three months ago without the necessary permission from the administration .

Maharashtra farmers call off long march to Mumbai

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Protesting farmers and tribals, who were on their way to Mumbai from Nashik district of Maharashtra, called off their long march on Saturday with their demands being taken into consideration in the state legislature and ground-level officials receiving orders to execute the government’s orders, a CPI(M) MLA said. The march had started from Dindori town, located around 195 km away from Mumbai, on March 12 demanding relief of Rs 600 per quintal to onion growers hit by price crash, 12-hour uninterrupted power supply to farmers, and waiver of farm loans. They had reached Thane district’s Vasind town, around 80 km from Mumbai.

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BJP Trying to Topple Delhi Govt by Issuing Threats to MLAs, Says AAP

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BJP-Shiv Sena Target 200 Seat Win in Next Maharashtra Assembly Polls

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Mamata Banerjee Takes Over TMC’s Birbhum Organisation

There’s an old saying about how the flap of a butterfly’s wing in one corner of the world can lead to a hurricane in another. This week’s events have shown precisely how these knock-on effects can be transmitted across the globe, with the closure of three relatively regional banks in the US leading to panic not just in the European banking sector, but also in Asian stock markets. The genesis of this world-wide banking contagion was the collapse of Silicon Valley Bank last week, but there has been enough turmoil in the banking sector since even Monday to make the global banking sector our Newsmaker of the Week.First, a bit of recent history before we get to the week that has just elapsed. Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) was a pretty integral part of the tech startup ecosystem in the US, since it not only lent to startups in need of funds for growth, but also held a large chunk of their deposits. When problems became visible in the bank last Wednesday due to a confluence of bad luck and poor financial planning, all the President’s horses and all the President’s men rushed to put Humpty Dumpty together again. Within a couple of days of the crisis breaking out, three different regulator institutions shut down the bank, secured its deposits, and promised depositors that they would have access to all of their deposits, not just the insured ones. Unlike the nursery rhyme, Humpty Dumpty was put together again pretty quickly—to an extent. With the collapse of Silvergate Bank and Signature Bank that same week—and for pretty much the same reasons—deep cracks had been made in investors’ confidence in the banking sector.That’s what leads us to this week. US President Joe Biden kicked off the week on Monday with a speech where he emphasised that “no losses will be borne by the taxpayers” due to the SVB crisis. Instead, he said, the money will come from the fees that banks pay into a Deposit Insurance Fund, maintained by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC). Sounds good, but the jitters had hit and the US banking stocks were not going to be calmed so easily.

The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) has alleged that the BJP, which has only eight MLAs in the Delhi Assembly, is trying to topple the Arvind Kejriwal government by issuing threats to legislators under the guise of a no-confidence motion. Addressing a press conference here, the AAP’s Rajya Sabha MP Raghav Chadha alleged that the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) is offering two options to his party MLAs — they should either join the saffron party or the CBI-ED will put them in jail.The BJP is planning to bring a no-confidence motion against the Kejriwal government during the ongoing session of the Delhi Assembly.“The AAP has 62 MLAs with a thumping majority and the BJP has eight MLAs. But the BJP wants to topple the government by buying MLAs under the guise of a no-confidence motion, just like governments that fell from Madhya Pradesh to Maharashtra.

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A young man dancing to the tune of a DJ in Panchmahal died of a heart attack

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Cases of heart attacks have been happening in the state for the past several days. There have also been cases of death due to heart attacks. Some youths playing cricket in the state had heart attacks and died. Now a young man who was dancing in a chariot suddenly fell down. This young man had a sudden heart attack. The young man was dancing with the groom when he had a heart attack. According to the details of this incident, a young man was dancing with the groom on his pole in a wedding ceremony in Panchmahal district of the state, suddenly the young man and the groom fell down. The groom’s friend suddenly fainted. Some others immediately took the youth to the hospital for treatment, but the youth died on the way. The incident took place in Rajayata village of Morwa Hadaf taluka.

The sudden death of a young man who was dancing to the tunes of a DJ at a wedding event left him in mourning. The entire incident was caught on camera. This video is becoming very viral in social media. The age of this young man was found to be around 27 years.

Newly inaugurated by PM Modi, Bengaluru-Mysuru Expressway flooded after moderate rainfall

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Expressway, which was inaugurated by Prime Minister Narendra Modi six days ago was flooded after the city received moderate rainfall on Friday. Visuals of the same have surface on social media.Visuals shared on social media show flooding near Ramanagara on Saturday.A BRS party affiliate Y Sathish Reddy shared a video which shows heavy gush of water on the expressway on Friday.In the videos, vehicles were seen passing slowly on the road due to inundation.Prime Minister Narendra Modi inaugurated the

118 km long Bengaluru-Mysuru Expressway project in Karnataka on Sunday.The project is said to reduce the travel time between the two cities from around three hours to about 75 minutes, according to officials.The ₹8,480 crore project involved six-laning of the Bengaluru-Nidaghatta-Mysuru section of NH-275 and will act as a catalyst for socio-economic development in the region.

Bihar govt Ramzan circular: BJP spokesperson demands similar permission during ‘Ramanavami’

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Bihar government’s permission to Muslim employees for coming late and leaving early during Ramzan has come under fire.

BJP spokesperson Arvind Singh in a video message expressed his discontent with the circular and sought a similar opportunity for Hindu community during ‘Chaiti Navratri’ and ‘Ram Navami’.Singh claimed in the video message that giving similar perks to both the communities will inculcate happy thoughts in their minds.

The Bihar government in a circular on Friday granted permission to Muslim employees and officials to come to office one hour before the scheduled time and leave office one hour before the scheduled time during the month of Ramzan. State General Administration Department announced the same on Friday. The circular in this regard read “Keeping in view the convenience of Muslim employees and officials, the government has granted permission to come to the office one hour before the scheduled time and leave the office one hour before the scheduled time during the month of Ramzan.”

Here are the options that the BJP is giving to our MLAs — join the BJP or the CBI-ED will put you in jail,” Chadha said. “The BJP has been losing election after election in Delhi and now, our MLAs are getting threats that ‘if we can do it with the deputy chief minister, you are just an MLA’. The BJP should stop its nefarious efforts. They tried many times, but could not lure our MLAs,” he added.The budget session of the Delhi Assembly began on Friday. Leader of Opposition Ramvir Singh Bidhuri has said the BJP will bring a noconfidence motion against the AAP government over its involvement in “corruption”.

3 fall to death after lift cable snaps at Vijayawada thermal power station in Andhra

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A major tragedy has occurred today in Vijayawada thermal power station of Andhra Pradesh. There, 3 people have died when the cable of a lift broke. 8 people were present in the lift at the time of this accident.

On receiving the notification of the accident, VTPS staff and employees immediately reached the spot and carried out the rescue operation. The injured were brought out after great struggle. VTPS staff shifted the injured to hospital by ambulance.

The police have registered a case and are conducting further investigation.

After the accident, a crowd of thermal power station employees gathered at the incident site. Along

Aday after his purported statements on seat sharing ignited a row, the state Bharatiya Janata Party President Chandrashekhar Bawankule on Saturday clarified that along with its ruling ally, Shiv Sena led by Chief Minister Eknath Shinde, the target would be to bag at least 200 seats out of 288 in the next Assembly elections.The statement came after Bawankule’s remarks — that the BJP would contest 240 seats and give the remaining 48 seats to Shiv Sena, with no mention of the independents — ignited a row with the Opposition Maha Vikas Aghadi attacking him.Even ruling partner Shiv Sena legislator Sanjay Shirsat indirectly slammed Bawankule’s utterances saying he must have said it in ‘over excitement’ and pointedly asked: “Are we stupid to contest only 48 seats?”Shiv Sena (UBT) MP Sanjay Raut said that Bawankule’s statement is part of a design to finish off all smaller parties and the MVA had also faced a similar fracas over an alleged seatsharing formula for the 48 Lok Sabha constituencies -- 21 for Sena (UBT), 19 for NCP and eight for the Congress

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With the panchayat elections due in a month’s time, Trinamool Congress supremo Mamata Banerjee has decided to take charge of the party’s affairs in Birbhum district in the absence of arrested leader Anubrata Mondal, a senior member of the party said. Senior party leader and MP Sudip Bandyopadhyay said on Friday that the decision was taken during the party’s meeting at Banerjee’s Kalighat residence.“Our party chief will be looking after the party affairs in Birbhum district. Aroop Biswas, who has been looking after party affairs in Purba Bardhaman and Darjeeling has been asked to take care of Nadia district. Firhad Hakim will look after affairs in Howrah and Hooghly districts,” Bandyopadhyay told reporters after the meeting.Malay Ghatak will look after the districts of Bankura, Purulia and Paschim Bardhaman while Tapas Roy would be the custodian of Dakshin Dinajpur district, he added. Party sources said that senior leader Siddiqullah Chowdhury, besides Sabina Yeasmin was asked to look after the districts of Uttar Dinajpur, Malda and Murshidabad districts. with this, the help of crane had to be taken to get out the people trapped in the lift. It is being said that the lift has fallen from a great height.Earlier, a young engineer died after falling from a lift in UP’s Greater Noida. A building was under construction in Sector 150 of Greater Noida’s Knowledge Park Police Station area. A temporary lift was installed to transport materials for the construction of the building to the upper floors.

PhD Scholar Arrested For Raping Children In Tamil Nadu: CBI

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The CBI has arrested a 35-yearold PhD scholar from Thanjavur in Tamil Nadu for allegedly raping children, officials said Saturday. The agency had registered a case against the accused for allegedly creating and circulating child sexual abuse material in electronic form, they said. The CBI had found child sexual abuse images and videos from the Interpol database. Its further analysis using digital forensic tools gave the location of the incident to the Thanjavur district.The agency conducted searches at the premises of the accused which led to the recovery of incriminating electronic gadgets, officials said.It was alleged that the accused was sexually abusing a child for the last four years whose nude videos and photographs were uploaded on his Google account. It was further alleged that the accused forced two minors to perform sexual acts on them as well as on other minors, including a girl, the officials said.The accused then clicked the photographs and videos and forced them to bring more girls else he would publish this material on the Internet, the officials alleged.

Home ministry seeks report from Bengal govt on Suvendu’s claim of ‘false’ cases

The letter to the West Bengal chief secretary was sent on March 10

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The Union home ministry has sought “immediately” a report from the West Bengal government on allegations that “false and fabricated” cases were registered against opposition leaders and workers in the state.

The move came after the Prime Minister’s Office wrote a letter to the ministry and forwarded a letter written by Leader of Opposition in West Bengal Assembly and BJP MLA Suvendu Adhikari in which he alleged registration of “false and fabricated” cases against opposition leaders and party workers allegedly by the West Bengal government. ”As the issue raised in the petition is concerned with the government of West Bengal, it is requested that the matter may please be looked into appropriately and the report in the matter may please be furnished to this ministry immediately,” the home ministry letter said.The letter to the West Bengal chief secretary was sent on March 10.In July 2021, Adhikari had alleged that he was being subjected to “political vendetta” since he was an opposition party leader and the cases were registered against him with “false claims”.He had then approached the Calcutta High Court seeking an order directing quashing of the FIRs against him. even the Shinde Shiv Sena will not be spared. State Congress President Nana Patole said “what is in tummy was on his tongue” and now Shinde will have to watch out.Going a step further, Nationalist Congress Party state President Jayant Patil said this is an indicator that ‘Shinde group’.

Karni Sena disrupts rapper MC Stan’s concert in Madhya Pradesh

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Activists of the Karni Sena created a ruckus at rapper MC Stan’s concert in Madhya Pradesh’s Indore and halted the show midway alleging that he used foul language in his songs, which polluted young minds. According to eyewitnesses, the concert organised at a hotel in Lasudia area on Friday night was halted midway, upsetting fans of the rapper, who won season 16 of the realty TV show Bigg Boss. The police had to use mild force to clear the unrelenting protesters.Karni Sena’s district unit president Anurag Pratap Singh Raghav on Saturday said, “MC Stan is spreading obscenity among youngsters by using foul

Gehlot Announces Formation of 19 New Districts; BJP Terms it as Political Stunt

Agency News: Jaipur language in his songs.” Stan used foul language and sang songs containing obscenities in front of the young audience during his performance, following which Karni Sena activists took charge of the show, forcing the rapper to leave the venue, Raghav claimed. Meanwhile, some videos of the ruckus surfaced on social media, in which the activists can be seen taking control of the stage after the rapper’s departure.

Aaditya Thackeray Writes To Centre About Rising Air Pollution In Mumbai

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Yuva Sena leader Aaditya Thackeray on Saturday wrote to the Centre raising the issue of air pollution in Mumbai, citing widespread construction activities and lack of effective supervision to control them.In a letter to Bhupender Yadav, Union minister for environment, forest and climate change, Mr Thackeray also said Maharashtra does not have an independent environment minister to look into the issue.“In the past 6 months, the air quality in Mumbai has consistently been rated as “Poor” to “Very Poor” on the AQI. Other cities in Maharashtra are also posting concerning air quality numbers,” he said.The entire city is undergoing construction, causing a large amount of dust and debris, much of which is left unattended and unchecked. Measures are needed to help the Urban Development Department and local bodies understand the consolidated impact construction has on the city’s environment, he said.

Congress leader KC Venugopal files breach of privilege notice against PM Modi

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In yet another development, Congress leader KC Venugopal on Friday gave Rajya Sabha chairman Jagdeep Dhankhar a breach of privilege notice against Prime Minister Narendra Modi over his remarks on why former Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru’s family did not use his surname. The prime minister’s remarks were made during his reply to the motion of thanks on the president’s address in the Rajya Sabha on February 9 during the first part of the budget session.He alleged that the remarks prima facie were made in a mocking manner and were not only disgraceful but also insulting and defamatory to members of the Nehru family, particularly Sonia Gandhi and

Rajasthan Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot announced the formation of 19 new districts in the state and also declared three new divisions namely Sikar, Pali and Banswara.His announcement is seen as a master stroke in a way as Gehlot has struck a regional as well as the political balance in the formation of new districts.By announcing such a large number of districts simultaneously, the Congress leader also attempted to diminish the impact of antiincumbency. If fewer districts would have been announced, then resentment could have developed from other places before the elections.In order to give relief to the areas where demand was rising due to the long distance from the division headquarters, efforts were made by the ruling party to balance the demand of the people by announcing Pali, Sikar and Banswara divisions.

Gehlot also ensured that the BJP’s temple agenda would get snatched.The BJP has been accusing the Congress government of “breaking” temples, banning processions on the day of Ram Navami.To counteract such allegations, Gehlot has made several announcements for the development of major temples of the state and to speed up religious tourism in state.Apart from developing Jaipur’s Govind Devji temple on the lines of Ujjain’s Mahakal temple, he also announced preparing DPR for the development of Khatushyam ji, Salasar, Tripurasundari, Karnaimata, Kailadevi, Mehandipur Balaji, Ramdevra temple, Khole ke Hanuman, Veer Tejaji temple and Sanwaliya temple.

Bihar YouTuber arrested for fake videos of migrant workers attacked in Tamil Nadu

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YouTuber Manish Kashyap who allegedly circulated false misleading news about purported attacks on migrant labourers working in Tamil Nadu was arrested from Bettiah in Bihar on Saturday, police said.According to the Bihar police, the accused surrendered at Jagdishpur police station in Bettiah while the Bihar Police and Economic Offence Unit (EOU) was in the process of attaching his house. “Kashyap, wanted by Bihar Police and Tamil Nadu Police in fake news matter of labourers issue in the southern state, surrendered before the police on Saturday fearing arrest and attachment of his belongings,” a statement issued by the EOU of

Bihar Police said.The EOU has registered cases against Kashyap and others on the charges of “indulging in spreading fake videos of migrants being killed and beaten up in Tamil Nadu on social media”.Earlier, four people, including two members of the Hindu Munnani outfit, were arrested and sent to judicial custody for allegedly assaulting migrant workers in Tamil Nadu’s Coimbatore city, Tamil Nadu police said.Notably, the issue over the alleged ‘attacks’ on migrants emerged after unverified reports on social media claimed that migrant labourers were targeted in Tamil Nadu. It triggered unrest among workers from other states and chief minister Stalin had to reassure that the state was safe for them.

Jammu Court Frames Charges in SIA Case Against Scribe, University Scholar for ‘Seditious’ Article

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Rahul Gandhi who are members of the Lok Sabha.Venugopal said in his notice that the very suggestion by the prime minister on why they did not adopt Nehru as a surname is “preposterous” by its very nature.The prime minister, he said, knows very well that the surname of the father is not taken by the daughter. “Despite knowing that, he deliberately mocked.... The tone and tenor of the remark is insinuating and derogatory in nature. This clearly amounts to casting reflections upon Sonia Gandhi and Rahul Gandhi.

In a first, a designated court here has framed charges against a journalist and a university scholar for writing and publishing a “seditious” article on a news portal.The case against arrested journalist Peerzada Fahad Shah and Kashmir University scholar Abdul Ala Fazili was probed by the State Investigation Agency (SIA), which successfully brought it up to the stage of framing charges, an official said.He said the special judge designated under the NIA Act, Ashwani Kumar, framed the charges against Shah and Fazili on Thursday.The case pertains to information received by the CIJ police station (SIA-Jammu) on April 4 last year, along with a copy of an article titled “The Shackles

The case against arrested journalist Peerzada Fahad Shah and Kashmir University scholar Abdul Ala Fazili was probed by the State Investigation Agency of Slavery Will Break”, written by Fazili and published in digital magazine (portal) ‘The Kashmir Walla’ through its editor-in-chiefcum-director Shah, according to the official. “The duo, under an active conspiracy and Pakistan’s support, resurrected a platform reviving the narrative in support of the terrorist and separatist ecosystem.

RCB to retire jersey numbers worn by AB de Villiers, Chris Gayle

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Royal Challengers Bangalore (RCB) will retire the jersey numbers worn by AB de Villiers and Chris Gayle when the two cricketing legends are inducted into the Indian Premier League (IPL) side’s Hall of Fame on March 26.“Jersey numbers 17 and 333 will be retired forever as a tribute to @ABdeVilliers17 and @henrygayle, when we induct the legends of RCB into the Hall of Fame,” RCB tweeted. Jersey No. 17 had become synonymous with de Villiers, who played 11 seasons (2011-2021) for RCB and scored 4,491 runs in 156 matches for the franchise.The charismatic South African cricketer also slammed 37 half-tons and two centuries for

Focus on Donald Bradman and Sachin Tendulkar

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Forex kitty down by $2.39 billion to $560 billion

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RCB, with a highest score of 133 not out in 2015.De Villiers, who announced his retirement from all forms of cricket in November 2021, had a strike rate touching 152 for RCB.With Virat Kohli, de Villiers posted five 100-plus partnerships for RCB and two 200-plus stands, the only pair in the world to post two such partnerships.West Indian hard hitter Gayle played for RCB for seven season (2011-2017) and his jersey No. 333 became the most feared among opposing teams.

All England Badminton: Gayatri Gopichand, Treesa Jolly sail on

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The Indian pair of Treesa Jolly and Gayatri Gopichand continued their impressive run, advancing to their second successive semi-finals at the All England Championships here on Friday.The World No.17 Indian pair looked solid in their defence and relentless in attack, claiming 21-14, 18-21, 21-12 win over the newly-formed Chinese pair of Li Wen Mei and Liu Xuan Xuan in a 64-minute quarter final.

Gayatri and Treesa had reached the semi-finals in the last edition as well when they were handed a spot in the main draw at the last moment. But this time they entered the draw with a fair amount of experience, having claimed the Commonwealth Games bronze last year and notching up wins over higher-ranked pairs like the world No.7 Tan Pearly and Thinnah Muralitharan at the Badminton Asia Mixed Team Championship in February.The Indian duo had shocked seventh-seeded Thais

Jongkolphan Kititharakul and Ravindra Prajongjai and former world No. 1 pair from Japan Yuki Fukushima and Sayaka Hirota in the previous rounds. In the quarter finals, Gayatri (20) and Treesa (19) were up against Li, who has been World No. 9 in the past, and Liu, a former World No. 16.

An Australian Broadcasting Corporation documentary, which delves into the lives of cricket legends Donald Bradman and Sachin Tendulkar, will be released on YouTube on Saturday.As batters, their styles were not particularly similar. Yet there were several connections between them — their aggression, their hunger for runs, their mental ability to maintain focus for hours on end and their deep love for the game. Bradman always admired Tendulkar and clearly saw something he recognised, perhaps more than he said at the time. “I was very, very struck by his (Tendulkar’s) technique. I asked my wife to come and have a look at him. Because, I said, ‘I never saw myself play. But I feel this fellow is playing much the same as I used to play’,” he had famously said. They met only once: on Bradman’s 90th birthday. The documentary looks into this remarkable bond between the two men, who always admired each other and reveals both were as nervous as the other about the meeting.Bradman once said it was impossible to rate players of different eras.

India vs Australia, 2nd ODI: Rohit Sharma Returns To Captaincy, Hosts Aim To Seal Series

Agency News : Visakhapatnam

The spotlight will once again be on KL Rahul and Ravindra Jadeja when India take on Australia in the second ODI in Visakhapatnam on Sunday, with regular captain Rohit Sharma returning to lead the side after missing the opening game in Mumbai. India defeated Australia by five wickets in a low-scoring game at the Wankhede Stadium, with Rahul, who struggled to find form during the Border-Gavaskar series leading to him being dropped for the third and fourth Tests, scoring a patient unbeaten 75 as the hosts cantered home.Jadeja, playing ODI cricket after nearly eight months due to a knee injury and subsequent surgery, scored an unbeaten 45 in the chase of 188 on Friday. He also bowled a tight spell and returned figures of 2/46 to be declared ‘Player of the Match’. With the ODI World Cup being hosted by India later this year, an in-form Rahul and a fully-fit Jadeja will be an asset, and the threematch series will help the selectors assess the duo’s progress.India would look to take an unassailable 2-0 lead in the series and also try to make amends with the bat, after they were in a spot of bother at 4/39, and later 5/83.

The country’s forex reserves fell by USD 2.39 billion to a three-month low of USD 560.003 billion for the week to March 10, the Reserve Bank said in its latest weekly data release. In the week to March 3, the reserves rose by USD 1.46 billion and stood at USD 562.40 billion. On an annualised basis, the RBI said, the reserves are down by USD 47.31 billion during the week under review while on a fiscal year basis, the same plunged by USD 62.23 billion. With this erosion, the forex kitty is at the lowest since early-December, according to the weekly statistical supplement released by the RBI on Friday The loss in the reserves is due to the revaluation of the foreign currency assets, which are the largest component of the forex kitty, to the tune of USD 2.2 billion to USD 494.86 billion for the week to March 10. On a year-on-year basis, the value of foreign currency assets fell by USD 45.86 billion and from a fiscal year perspective, they lost USD 59.49 billion.Expressed in dollar terms, foreign currency assets include the effect of appreciation or depreciation of the non-US units like the euro, the pound and the yen held in the foreign exchange reserves. The reserve losses are primarily due to the RBI selling dollars to stem the rupee volatility in the spot and forwards market to prevent runaway moves in the exchange rate.

New Tata Consultancy Services boss won’t alter plans

Agency News : New Delhi

Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) on Friday said the surprise exit of helmsman Rajesh Gopinathan would not lead to any drastic changes even as successor K. Krithivasan said the company would double down on customer deliveries.

Late on Thursday, TCS said Gopinathan, 52, was resigning from the company. Krithivasan became the CEO designate from Thursday and will take up the role of MD and CEO from April. Gopinathan became the CEO in February 2017. In 2022, he was re-appointed as the MD and CEO for five more years. Gopinathan said his 22-year term at TCS has been “fantastic”. “During past six years I helmed the TCS team with thrill. And I enjoyed each day I spent with the company.”He said TCS has managed to grow at an annual revenue run-rate of $28

Bank Of Baroda Asks Customers To Complete CKYC Before March 24

Agency News : New Delhi

KYC (Know Your Customer) is a process that banks and other financial institutions use to verify the identity of their customers. It is an important step in preventing financial crimes such as money laundering and fraud. It is mandatory for all banks to get your KYC done and the Bank of Baroda has now issued a statement regarding the same.Bank of Baroda has announced that by March 24, 2023, it is necessary for all its customers to complete the process of Central KYC (CKYC). It added that failure to do so might lead to the deactivation of the accounts. For this, the bank is informing its customers by giving them notices and sending SMS. It also tweeted about the same earlier this week.

If you are a customer of the Bank of Baroda and you have not yet completed the process of CKYC, then it is advisable that you visit your nearest branch. Now, let us know what exactly Central KYC is and how it can be done. Through KYC, the bank saves the data of its customers in digital format. Earlier, customers had to get KYC done multiple times for different purposes, but now this process has been simplified through Central KYC i.e. CKYC. Now, customers need not do KYC again and again for all the tasks like opening an account, buying life insurance and opening a demat account, among others. billion and has attracted the best talent. The trust of its customers has been the cornerstone of its success.Krithivasan said there would be no change with regard to the core principle of TCS. “Our core principle has been and will continue to be working for and with our customers and that will continue under me. I don’t expect nor should you (the media) expect any great strategic changes under me.”He said TCS did not have a culture of making radical strategic changes when it gets a new CEO. Analysts at Motilal Oswal said Gopinathan’s departure is surprising as he has led the company for only six years and was expected to continue for the long-term.