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Mumbai, Nov 8: Republic TV editor-in-chief Arnab Goswami on Sunday said he was subjected to torture and was not being allowed to talk to his lawyers. A video released by the Republic Television showed him speaking to media from the police van which shifted him from Alibag primary school in Rajgad district to Taloja jail in Navi Mumbai. “I had requested them please let me talk (to my lawyers). But

New Delhi, Nov 8: The Union Ministry of Road Transport and Highways has issued a notification making a FASTag mandatory for all four-wheel vehicles from January 1, 2021. FASTag has become mandatory for M and N class four-wheelers sold before December 1, 2017. For this, the Central Motor Vehicles Rules, 1989 were amended. The ministry issued a notification regarding this on November 6. As per the

Chennai, Nov 8: Former Karnataka-cadre IAS officer S Sasikanth Senthil, who resigned from civil services last year will join the Congress in Tamil Nadu on Monday, according to media reports. “Yes. I have decided to take the political plunge. I will be joining the Congress,” Senthil, a 2009 batch officer, was quoted as saying by news papers. The 41-year-old former bureaucrat will join the Tamil

New Delhi, Nov 8: India's Case Fatality Rate (CFR) of COVID-19 has touched 1.48 per cent and the country continues to report one of the lowest mortality rates, as per the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare (MoHFW) on Sunday. The Ministry said that the widespread and comprehensive testing, prompt tracing, quick isolation, and effective treatment of severe patients in ICUs through a standard of

Katra, Nov 7: Even as polling was underway on Saturday in 78 Assembly constituencies in 15 districts of Bihar, a Presiding Officer posted at a polling centre in Muzaffarpur district's Katra Block died due to heart attack. "Presiding Officer Kedar Rai, deployed at voting centre number 190 in Katra, died of a heart attack," an official said. He was employed with the state Irrigation Department. The

New Delhi, Nov 6: The information technology (IT) industry may not get back to the old style of working from office and around 75 per cent of the workforce may continue to work from outside office going ahead, Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (Meity) Secretary Ajay Prakash Sawhney said on Friday. He said the IT industry showed resilience during the lockdown, with up to 97 per

New Delhi, Nov 6: Air pollution may lead to a faster spread of Covid-19 infections as it causes coughing and sneezing, government officials told a parliamentary panel on Friday, according to sources. Top officials of the Union environment and health ministries and the governments of Delhi, Haryana and Punjab deposed before the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Urban Development to find a

New Delhi, Nov 6: The Centre has extended the applicability time period of fare bands within which the airlines have to operate till February 24, 2021. The decision was taken by the Ministry of Civil Aviation. These fare bands came into force with effect from May 21, 2020. Earlier, Union Civil Aviation Minister Hardeep Singh Puri had said the applicability of fixed minimum and maximum air fare

Mumbai, Nov 6: There was no immediate relief for Republic TV Editor-in-Chief Arnab Goswami, arrested in a 2018 abetment of suicide case, on Friday as the hearing on his interim bail plea before the Bombay High Court remained incomplete. A division bench of Justices S S Shinde and M S Karnik said they would continue the hearing on Saturday because of lack of time. “We will assemble for this matter

New Delhi, Nov 6: The Supreme Court on Friday granted protection from arrest to Arnab Goswami in the Maharashtra assembly breach of privilege motion case and issued a show cause notice to Secretary of legislative assembly for his letter to the journalist purportedly cautioning him against disclosing house notice to the apex court. The top court directed the Secretary of Maharashtra legislative