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New Delhi, Aug 8: Broadcast Editors' Association today expressed concern over what it said apparent tendency among governments, both at Centre and in some states, to serve notices on media organisations in a selective manner, against the backdrop of I&B ministry's show-cause notices to three news channels over coverage of Yaqub Memon's hanging. The apex body of editors of news channels in India

New Delhi, Aug 8: Insisting that cow should be protected, Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh today said even the Mughals were aware of the fact that if they had to rule then an "open support to cow slaughter" would not be feasible while the Britishers failed to understand this aspect. The senior BJP leader said that as a Home Minister he has ensured that cattle smuggling to Bangladesh was checked

New Delhi, Aug 8: On July 30, the usually combative Uma Bharti, the union minister for water resources, exhibited a diffident demeanor in the Lok Sabha when she gave out that China may construct three more hydropower projects on the Brahmaputra in Tibet (called Yarlung Tsangpo there) under its recently announced 12th Five Year Plan. The minister added two other important facts. First, she

New Delhi, Aug 8: 526 cases of sexual harassment of women at workplaces were reported during 2014, women and child development minister Maneka Gandhi revealed on Friday. In a written reply at Lok Sabha, Gandhi said 57 cases were reported at office premises and 469 cases were registered at other places related to work during 2014. She said the Sexual Harassment of Women at Workplace (Prevention

New Delhi, Aug 7: India will boycott a Commonwealth Parliamentary Union meeting in Islamabad next month in protest against Pakistan not inviting the Speaker of Jammu and Kashmir Assembly, a decision that comes in the midst of tensions over two terror attacks in Punjab and J and K. "A meeting of Speakers of all states here today unanimously decided that India will boycott the meeting of the CPU if

Chennai, Aug 7: Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa today took up with Prime Minister Narendra Modi a slew of issues concerning her state, ranging from inter-state river disputes to the GST rollout, besides the Sri Lankan Tamils issue. Jayalalithaa presented a detailed memorandum to Modi during their 50-minute luncheon meeting at her Poes Garden residence here. She called for retrieval of

Mumbai, Aug 7: The Maharashtra government has denied that absconding mafia don Mushtaque alias Tiger Memon allegedly called up his mother and threatened to avenge his brother Yakub Memon's hanging last week, top officials said here on Friday. The Mumbai police, too, denied any such conversation as having taken place, as reported by a leading financial daily. "We want to clarify that we don't have

New Delhi, Aug 7: Accusing External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj of keeping her ministry in dark over Lalitgate, Congress vice-president Rahul Gandhi on Friday launched a blistering attack on the former over her emotional clarification in the Lok Sabha yesterday, and said that Sonia Gandhi would have never done the same thing. "It was a very nice speech, hollow, but it sounded very nice. Sushma

New Delhi, Aug 7: Justice Misra, who led the three-judge bench that rejected the last- minute appeal of Yakub Memon in an unprecedented midnight hearing, has received an anonymous threat letter. According to a NDTV report, the letter addressed to Misra states, "irrespective of the protection you may avail, we will eliminate you." The Delhi Police has registered a case and are investigating upon

New Delhi, Aug 7: The Supreme Court on Thursday stressed the need for a new law to regulate social media to curb malicious and defamatory messages circulated online. Expressing concern over misuse of social media and internet, particularly after the controversial section 66A of the Information Technology Act was scrapped by the Supreme Court, a bench of Justices Dipak Misra and Prafulla C Pant