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SC Starts Hearing Petitions on Criminalising Marital Rape

October 17, 2024 Editor In Chief

NEW DELHI, Oct 17: The Supreme Court on Thursday questioned the logic behind a penal law which considers wrongful confinement, criminal intimidation and assault of a wife by her husband as offences but not the act of forced sex which follows after the woman relents under pressure. “The husband demands sexual intercourse. Wife resists. She […]

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Hoax Bomb Threat: IP Addresses Traced to London, Germany

October 17, 2024 Editor In Chief

Manas Dasgupta NEW DELHI, Oct 17: Contrary to the initial reports that the bomb threats to different airlines could be the mischievous work of a minor, the Central intelligence agencies are believed to have traced IP addresses where threats were posted to London and Germany. More than 20 flights of Indian carriers — both domestic […]

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Hoax Bomb Threats: Centre Mulling Move for Stringent Punishment

October 17, 2024 Editor In Chief

Manas Dasgupta NEW DELHI, Oct 17: As the array of hoax bomb threats continued unabated and the Delhi police launched an investigation into the matter that is causing inconveniences to passengers and hitting the economy of the airlines, the centre is contemplating to amend the relevant acts to provide for stringent punishment for making such […]

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13-Member Nayab Singh Saini Ministry Installed in Haryana

October 17, 2024 Editor In Chief

NEW DELHI, Oct 17: A 13-member BJP ministry headed by Nayab Singh Saini was installed in the office in Haryana on Thursday in the presence of the Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Union Home Minister Amit Shah and several Chief Ministers from the BJP ruled States. Mr Saini took oath as the new Chief Minister for […]

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Railways Advance Reservation Period Reduced from Four to Two Months

October 17, 2024 Editor In Chief

NEW DELHI, Oct 17: The Indian Railways have decided to reduce the advance ticket booking period from 120 days to 60 fays. The significant change in the booking system will come into effect from November 1, a notification issued by the Ministry of Railways on Thursday said. Announcing the new ticket booking policy, the notification […]

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Canada: India tightens screws, singles out Trudeau for damaging bilateral ties

October 17, 2024 revoi editor

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: With the buffeted Justine Trudeau, ahead of the next year’s parliamentary elections, acknowledging that he had no hard evidentiary proof when he alleged the involvement of the Indian government’s “agents” in the Hardeep Singh Nijjar killing, New Delhi has hardened its stance against Ottawa and singled out the current Prime […]

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Roving Periscope: Dhaka apes Islamabad; making Hasina Imran-II

October 17, 2024 revoi editor

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: That Bangladesh is racing to morph back into what it was until 1971—East Pakistan—was little in doubt when the then Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina Wajed’s democratically-elected government was toppled in August 2024, 16 months after her counterpart in Islamabad, Imran Ahmed Khan Niazi, was overthrown—both allegedly as America’s behest. Now, […]