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Kolkata, Dec 21: A division bench of the Calcutta High Court Friday quashed a single bench order that had allowed BJP’s ‘Rath Yatra’ in West Bengal and asked it to hear the case afresh to consider intelligence inputs by state agencies. The single-judge bench of Tapabrata Chakraborty was asked to dispose the matter expeditiously after considering whether there were adequate materials to arrive at

Bengaluru, Dec 21: Saying that flawed implementation of GST regime and ill-effects of demonetisation will remain in the people’s mind for a long period, Senior Congress leader and former Union Finance Minister P Chidambaram said the two processes initiated by the NDA government had severely damaged the Indian economy and they will be major factors influencing the outcome of the 2019 Lok Sabha

New Delhi, Dec 21: The Delhi High Court Friday dismissed the plea by Associated Journals Ltd (AJL), publisher of National Herald, challenging the Centre's order to vacate the premises in the national capital. Justice Sunil Gaur said AJL will have to vacate the premises at ITO here within two weeks after which proceedings under the Public Premises (Eviction of Unauthorized Occupants) Act, 1971

Lucknow, Dec 21: The debate over Lord Hanuman continued on Friday, with a Uttar Pradesh minister claiming that the Hindu deity belonged to the Jat community. "Jats are descendants of Lord Hanuman. Hanumanji was a Jat," Uttar Pradesh Religious Affairs Minister Laxmi Narayan Chaudhary told news agency. His remarks follow those of his party colleague and MLC Bukkal Nawab, who on Thursday said Lord

New Delhi, Dec 21: The recent directive of the Ministry of Home Affairs empowering select security and intelligence agencies with surveillance right, has invited collective ire of the Opposition. The move is “undemocratic, unconstitutional and unacceptable”, said leaders from different opposition parties including Congress, Samajwadi Party (SP), Trinamool Congress (TMC), Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD)

Jerusalem, Dec 21: Israel will escalate its fight against Iranian-aligned forces in Syria after the withdrawal of US troops from the country, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said today. Some Israeli officials have said US President Donald Trump's move, announced yesterday, could help Iran by removing a US garrison that stems the movement of Iranian forces and weaponry into Syria from

Lucknow, Dec 21: A BJP MLA Thursday criticised former bureaucrats who have sought Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath's resignation over the Bulandshahr mob violence, saying they were concerned only with the death there of two men and not of "21 cows". MLA Sanjay Sharma, who represents Anupshahr assembly constituency in Bulandshahr, also said only the people have the power to remove a

Khartoum, Dec 21: Agitation resulting from soaring prices of bread and fuel claimed the lives of eight people across Sudan, local media reported on Thursday (local time). Emergency was imposed in the city of Gadarif, where six people were reportedly killed in clashes with the police. Furthermore, in Atbara city in eastern Sudan, two protesters died after police lobbed tear gas shells to disperse

Kozhikode, Dec 20: Even as the merchants, hotel owners, bus operators and cine exhibitors among others have decided to say no-to-hartals, a state-wide awareness-cum-declaration campaign is being organised by the Cochin-based Middle Path Organisation, on December 24 to highlight the need to "say no to hartal" and "overcome hartal fear". Being propagated through the social media, the campaign is

New York, Dec 19: Social media giant Facebook has been sharing its users' personal data, including private messages and contact information for users' friends, with some of the world's largest technology companies like Microsoft, Amazon, far beyond what it has publicly admitted, according to leaked internal documents. Facebook gave Netflix and Spotify the ability to read users' private messages