BJP’s Bishnoi looks to defend bastion; Congress places bet on veteran Jai Prakash for Adampur bypoll

Chandigarh, October 16 The young and suave candidate of the ruling BJP, Bhavya Bishnoi, looks to defend his “family bastion” for five decades, while the main opposition Congress has placed its bet on veteran leader Jai Prakash in the Adampur bypoll in Haryana. The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), the…

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Punjab Vigilance Bureau arrests former minister Sunder Sham Arora for offering bribe

Chandigarh October 16 The Punjab Vigilance Bureau has arrested former state Industries Minister Sunder Sham Arora for allegedly offering a bribe of Rs 50 lakh to an Assistant Inspector General (AIG) of the Bureau for influencing a case, officials said. The Vigilance Bureau (VB) is learnt to have recovered the…

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Spurious Drugs: Maiden Pharma ‘forged’ raw material test reports

Bhartesh Singh Thakur Chandigarh, October 15 Sonepat-based Maiden Pharmaceuticals Limited, under the scanner for the death of around 70 Gambian infants due to the “consumption” of the company’s four cough syrups, appears to have “forged” test reports of raw materials such as propylene glycol, documents accessed by The Tribune…

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Supreme Court suspends Bombay High Court order acquitting Delhi University ex-prof in Maoist links case

New Delhi, October 15The Supreme Court on Saturday suspended the Bombay High Court order acquitting former Delhi University (DU) professor GN Saibaba and others in a Maoist links case, saying the merits of the case was not considered while granting them the relief.The top court rejected Saibaba’s request to order…

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Kashmiri Pandit killed by militants in Shopian

Srinagar, October 15A Kashmiri Pandit was shot dead allegedly by militants in Shopian district of Jammu and Kashmir on Saturday, officials said.Deputy Inspector-General of Police (Central Kashmir) Sujit Kumar said initial investigation suggested that militants of a local oufit were behind the attack. Puran Krishan Bhat was attacked near his…

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Hattee ST status or 370, BJP govt made it possible: Amit Shah

Sataun (Paonta Sahib), October 15 Union Home Minister Amit Shah today said be it according the Scheduled Tribe (ST) status to the Hattee community of the trans-Giri region in Himachal Pradesh’s Sirmaur district, abrogation of Article 370 or building the Ram Temple in Ayodhya, the Narendra Modi government had made…

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Spurious Drugs: Data shared not sufficient to reveal cause of illness, India writes to World Health Organisation

Aditi TandonNew Delhi, October 15India on Saturday asked the World Health Organisation (WHO) for a range of information on the tragic death of 66 Gambian children allegedly due to contaminated cough syrups manufactured by a Sonepat firm, and said the clinical data shared so far by the world body was…

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Gambian deaths: Data shared so far not enough to determine cause of disease, India tells WHO; more info sought

Aditi Tandon New Delhi, October 15 India on Saturday asked the World Health Organisation for a range of information on the tragic deaths of 66 Gambian infants allegedly due to contaminated cough syrups manufactured by a Sonepat firm, and said the clinical data shared so far by the world…

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‘Effort to taint India’s image’: Govt trashes Global Hunger Index report

Vibha Sharma New Delhi, October 15 India on Saturday trashed the Global Hunger Report 2022, calling it a “consistent effort yet again to taint India’s image as a nation that does not fulfil the food security and nutritional requirements of its population”. The “index is an erroneous measure of hunger…

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Odisha government to abolish contractual hiring, regularise services of over 57,000 employees

Bhubaneswar, October 15 Abolishing contractual hiring for state government posts, Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik on Saturday announced that over 57,000 contract employees will be regularised. The decision, for which the state government will spend an additional Rs 1,300 crore per year, was taken at a Cabinet meeting on the…

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Bangalore-bound Akasa Air flight returns to Mumbai airport after bird-hit

Mumbai, October 15A Bangalore-bound Akasa Air flight from here returned to the city airport due to a burning smell in the cabin, which later turned out to be due to a bird strike, a DGCA official said on Saturday.The Directorate General of Civil Aviation is looking into the incident, the…

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Another targeted killing in Valley, Kashmiri Pandit shot dead by terrorists in Shopian

Srinagar, October 15 In an another targeted killing in the Valley, a Kashmiri Pandit was shot dead allegedly by militants in the Shopian district of Jammu and Kashmir on Saturday. Deputy Inspector General of Police Sujit Kumar said the Kashmir Freedom Fighter (KFF) group, the proxy name of a militant…

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