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Bypolls: High turnout seen in most assembly, Lok Sabha seats

India News | Latest News Headlines & Live Updates from India - Times of India A turnout of 50 percent to 90 percent was recorded in three Lok Sabha and 29 assembly constituencies spread across 13 states during by-elections on Saturday, with INLD leader Abhay Chautala, who quit the Haryana assembly in protest against the new agri laws, and Congress’ Pratibha Singh, wife of late chief minister Virbhadra Singh, among the prominent candidates in the fray. https://ift.tt/3bqBP97

In message of solidarity, Vatican flags threats of hyper-nationalism

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Declared citizen 2 years ago, woman faces fresh test

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ABVP man stabbed, Sec 144 imposed in N Tripura district

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Stop forced conversion, people must declare faith change: RSS

India News | Latest News Headlines & Live Updates from India - Times of India The RSS said on Saturday that forced religious conversion should stop and those who change their faith should announce it. The Sangh also said it would welcome the passing of any anti-conversion bill. “People who are converted have to announce that they have converted. There are people who get converted and do not disclose that they have converted. They take double benefits,” RSS general secretary Dattatreya Hosabale said at a press conference. https://ift.tt/31lJfJb

Fresh border row as Assam arrests Mizoram cop

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Indecisive Congress makes Modi stronger, says West Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee

India News | Latest News Headlines & Live Updates from India - Times of India PM Narendra Modi and BJP will grow stronger as a political force as long as Congress remains indecisive and displays a lack of seriousness, said West Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee in Goa on Saturday. The TMC supremo said Congress had squandered several opportunities to take on BJP, because of which the country is suffering. https://ift.tt/3jNPA6b

Congress win is vital, not who becomes Rajasthan CM again: Ashok Gehlot

India News | Latest News Headlines & Live Updates from India - Times of India Less than a month after declaring he aimed to become Rajasthan CM for the fourth time, Ashok Gehlot on Saturday sought to put party before personal ambition by saying the only goal that mattered was for Congress to form the government again in 2023. https://ift.tt/3CvtTzt

Ex-BSP MLA gets life term in 2008 rape case

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No backend talks with Congress: Capt Amarinder

India News | Latest News Headlines & Live Updates from India - Times of India Rejecting reports of back-end talks with Congress, former Punjab chief minister Amarinder Singh said on Saturday that the time for rapprochement was over. https://ift.tt/3q0fc3E

Ahead of UP polls, 6 rebel BSP MLAs, BJP lawmaker join SP

India News | Latest News Headlines & Live Updates from India - Times of India Six rebel BSP MLAs and one sitting legislator from BJP formally joined Samajwadi Party in Lucknow on Saturday. After inducting the seven MLAs into the party fold, SP chief Akhilesh Yadav said BJP should now change its slogan from ‘Mera parivar BJP parivar’ to ‘mera parivar bhaagta parivar’. https://ift.tt/3vZIhxi

Make SCs, STs active stakeholder in court proceedings, says SC

India News | Latest News Headlines & Live Updates from India - Times of India Observing that people belonging to Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes continue to “face insurmountable hurdles in accessing justice from the stage of filing the complaint to the conclusion of the trial”, the Supreme Court on Friday said they must be made an active stakeholder in criminal proceedings and it is mandatory to keep victims of offences under the SC/ST Act informed about the court proceedings against accused and be allowed to be heard. https://ift.tt/31iCO9B

Second NBW against Param Bir Singh

India News | Latest News Headlines & Live Updates from India - Times of India A metropolitan court on Saturday issued a non-bailable warrant against IPS officer Param Bir Singh and two other accused — Vinay Singh and Chhota Shakeel aide Riyaz Bhatti — in a case of alleged extortion where the accused threatened a hotelier and extorted money, reports Ahmed Ali. This is the second non-bailable warrant against the officer. https://ift.tt/3pRPoab

5 more months to go, NREGS 2021 fund already exhausted

India News | Latest News Headlines & Live Updates from India - Times of India In what shows that employment demand under MGNREGS will be high like last year, belying the government’s expectations and funding, the scheme has already exhausted the budget approved for the current financial year with five more months to go. https://ift.tt/3boGHLV

Consensual sex with major girl not an offence, but unethical, says high court

India News | Latest News Headlines & Live Updates from India - Times of India Rejecting the bail plea of a person accused of raping his girlfriend along with other accused, the Allahabad high court has said that “having consensual sex with a major girl is not an offence, but is unethical, immoral and against established Indian norms”. https://ift.tt/3BGB3jb

Congress allowed namaz on national highway: Amit Shah

India News | Latest News Headlines & Live Updates from India - Times of India Union home minister Amit Shah on Saturday accused Congress of “appeasement politics”, claiming that when he visited Uttarakhand earlier during the party’s tenure, “people had permission to block a national highway fornamaz”. https://ift.tt/3w04nj4

First papal visit to India since 1999 likely after PM Modi’s invite

India News | Latest News Headlines & Live Updates from India - Times of India Prime Minister Narendra Modi met Pope Francis at the Vatican on Saturday, where Modi invited the head of the Roman Catholic Church to visit India and the two leaders discussed the future of a post-Covid world and climate change among other issues at a meeting that went on for an hour beyond the scheduled 20 minutes. https://ift.tt/3jPBbGK

SC raps MP govt over detention of doc under NSA, nixes order

India News | Latest News Headlines & Live Updates from India - Times of India Holding it mandatory for a government authority to expeditiously deal with and communicate its decision on a representation made by a person against preventive detention, the Supreme Court on Friday invalidated an order passed by Madhya Pradesh government against a doctor after noting that no decision was taken on his representation for two months. Rejection of his plea by the Centre was also not communicated to him in jail. https://ift.tt/3Butcos

2 decades of drought emptying out Andhra’s ‘blessed’ district

India News | Latest News Headlines & Live Updates from India - Times of India Anantapur in Telugu means “blessed with many things”. It's an ironic name for a place that has come to be known for what it’s not blessed with — rainfall. This district in Andhra Pradesh has seen 18 droughts in the last 20 years (till 2020), making it a living example of creeping desertification and mass migration. https://ift.tt/3jRqG5K

Pakistan ex-general's son convicted for inciting anarchy in army

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Army officer, jawan killed in blast along LoC

India News | Latest News Headlines & Live Updates from India - Times of India An Army officer and a jawan were killed in a mine explosion near a forward post along the Line of Control (LoC) in Jammu and Kashmir’s Rajouri district late Saturday. https://ift.tt/3GBJa3T

What's at stake in bypolls across 14 states, 1 Union territory

India News | Latest News Headlines & Live Updates from India - Times of India People in three parliamentary seats and 30 assembly constituencies across 15 states and Union territories are voting in bypolls on Saturday. In the competitive world of Karnataka politics, these bypolls are the first major electoral test for chief minister Basavaraj Bommai, who took over from the veteran Yedduyurappa. Rajasthan CM Ashok Gehlot will want to win the bypolls to assert his supremacy once again https://ift.tt/3boDBHL

SC seeks responses of Uttar Pradesh govt and CBI on businessman's murder

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Wait for WHO clearance for Covaxin, we cannot play with people's lives: Supreme Court

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In Goa, Didi hits out at BJP's 'dadagiri', Congress's 'surrender'

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Won't fight for J&K trio held for sedition, say Agra lawyers

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Unable to get fertiliser, farmer kills self in MP

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'Film will be over after Wankhede loses job'

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