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Pratibha Chauhan Shimla, December 9 Newly elected Himachal Congress MLAs on Friday passed resolution authorising the party high command to pick next chief minister, state Congress incharge Rajeev Shukla said. Addressing the media after the CLP meeting, Shukla said the party high command had been authorised to take the…

Pratibha Chauhan Shimla, December 9 A day after getting public mandate for the formation of the government in Himachal Pradesh, the Congress remained undecided on the name of its chief ministerial candidate even as its central observers arrived here on Friday. The meeting of the Congress Legislature Party (CLP)…

New Delhi, December 9The Supreme Court on Friday slapped a cost of Rs 25,000 on a petitioner who had sought compensation of Rs 75 lakh from Google India for the advertisements shown on YouTube which allegedly had explicit content.While dismissing the plea, the apex court termed as “atrocious” the petition…

IANS New Delhi, December 9 While nearly 93 per cent winning candidates in Himachal Pradesh Assembly polls are crorepatis, about 41 per cent have declared criminal cases against themselves, a report by Association for Democratic Reforms (ADR) has revealed. Himachal Pradesh Election Watch and ADR have analysed the self-sworn affidavits…

Vibha Sharma New Delhi, December 9 The UGC will on Monday announce a new “student-centric” credit system — the “Curriculum and Credit Framework for Undergraduate Programmes (CCFUGP)”—for Four-year Under-Graduate Programme incorporating a flexible choice-based credit system, multidisciplinary approach, and multiple entry and exit options to help students pursue their…

New Delhi, December 9 A controversial private member’s Bill that seeks to provide for a panel to prepare a Uniform Civil Code was introduced in the Rajya Sabha on Friday. ‘The Uniform Civil Code in India Bill, 2020’ was introduced in the Upper House amid protests from opposition parties. BJP…

New Delhi, December 9 Punjab Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann on Friday said Punjab would soon launch its new ‘Industrial Development Policy’ in the next few months. While interacting with the delegates at the fifth meeting of the Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) Northern Region Council here on Friday, Mann said…

Mumbai, December 9 Vikas Walkar, father of Shraddha Walkar who was murdered allegedly by her live-in partner Aaftab Poonawala in Delhi, on Friday demanded that the accused be hanged to death for killing his daughter. Poonawala allegedly strangled Shraddha and cut her body into 35 pieces which he kept in…

New Delhi, December 9 Scores of farmers affiliated to the All India Kisan Congress (AIKC) on Friday gathered at the Jantar Mantar here to demand legal guarantee for MSP and compensation for the kin of farmers killed in last year’s agitation against the Centre’s three farm laws. The Congress’s unit…

New Delhi, December 9 Anandpur Sahib MP Manish Tewari on Friday flagged mistakes made in the process of Jallianwala Bagh memorial renovation and urged the government to fix these at the earliest. Recalling the April 13, 1919, Jallianwala Bagh tragedy, Tewari said gaps in the recently-renovated Jallainwala Bagh site had…

New Delhi, December 9 Anandpur Sahib MP Manish Tewari on Friday flagged mistakes made in the process of Jallianwala Bagh memorial renovation and urged the government to fix these at the earliest. Recalling the April 13, 1919, Jallianwala Bagh tragedy, Tewari said gaps in the recently-renovated Jallainwala Bagh site had…

New Delhi, December 9 The Asian Development Bank (ADB) on Friday said it had approved a USD 250 million policy-based loan to support India’s wide-ranging reforms that aim to strengthen and modernise the country’s logistics infrastructure, improve efficiency and lower costs. The loan will finance the first sub-program of the…

New Delhi, December 9 The Supreme Court on Friday dismissed a plea seeking to disclose the details of a collegium meeting held on December 12, 2018 under the Right to Information Act. A bench of Justices MR Shah and CT Ravikumar said that only resolutions drawn and signed by all…

London, December 9 An Indian-origin driver has been sentenced to 16 years in prison for causing the deaths of a pregnant woman and her father when he hit a family of five with his car in the UK. Nitesh Bissendary, 31, lost control of his black Alfa Romeo in Leopold…

Shimla, December 9 Congress observers sent to Himachal Pradesh after the party wrested power from the BJP met Governor Rajendra Vishwanath Arlekar on Friday, ahead of a meeting of the newly elected MLAs. The MLAs are expected to pass a resolution authorising the party president to pick the legislature party…