In a significant move, the Supreme Court on Wednesday took suo motu cognizance of the Lakhimpur Kheri violence and deaths and listed the matter for hearing in the next 24 hours. A three-judge bench headed by Chief Justice of India NV Ramana will hear the suo motu case on Thursday.
More civilians than security forces have been killed in various terrorist incidents in Jammu and Kashmir (J&K) this year. The data shows that the targeted killing of civilians including prominent civilians and non-locals in the Valley reverses the trend of the last six years.
A powerful earthquake shook a remote mountainous part of southwestern Pakistan with coal mines and mud houses early on October 7, killing at least 11 people and injuring more than 200, an official said. Went.
In a historic move, the World Health Organization (WHO) on Wednesday endorsed the first anti-malarial vaccine, as mankind enters a turning point in the decades-long battle between humans and the mosquito, the vector.
Minister of State for Home Ajay Kumar Mishra met Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Wednesday after returning from his constituency in Uttar Pradesh’s Lakhimpur Kheri, where his son has been accused of crushing a group of farmers on October 3.
Officials close to the junior home minister said he was unlikely to resign, though opposition parties were pressing for his removal.
After holding a brief and dramatic sit-in at the Lucknow airport, Congress leader Rahul Gandhi, accompanied by the chief ministers of Punjab and Chhattisgarh – Charanjit Singh Channi and Bhupesh Baghel – and general secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra, reached Lakhimpur’s Palia village late on Wednesday, where they would meet on October 3. met the family of one of the killed farmers, Lovepreet Singh.
LPG price was hiked by ₹15 per cylinder on Wednesday, while petrol and diesel rates saw the sharpest hike in recent weeks, taking prices to an all-time high across the country.
According to the price notification of the state-owned fuel retailers, the price of LPG is now ₹899.50 per cylinder in Delhi and Mumbai and ₹926 in Kolkata.
The government told the Supreme Court on Wednesday that seventy-five years of independence have not been able to bring members of the Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes at par with the forward sections of the society.
India and the US are on the same page on the threat from terrorism to Afghanistan and the region, US Deputy Secretary of State Wendy Sherman said, calling the partnership “inevitable” for both countries and the world.
Making a dissenting comment on the imminent delivery of Russian S-400 missile systems by India, however, Ms Sherman, who described the S-400 deal as “dangerous”, expressed hope that both sides could “solve” the issue. . From the prospect of US sanctions on defense purchases.
The government on Wednesday, October 6, 2021 informed the Supreme Court that it withdrew its decision to introduce a new exam pattern for the National Eligibility-cum-Entrance Test- Super Specialty (NEET-SS) 2021 to be held in November Is.
The Nobel Prize in Chemistry has been awarded to German scientist Benjamin List of the Max Planck Institute and David W.C. Macmillan, a Scottish-born scientist from Princeton University. He was cited for his work in developing a new method for manufacturing molecules known as “asymmetric organocatalysis”.
The Taliban arrested four Islamic State members and confiscated their documents and weapons north of the Afghan capital, the group’s main spokesman said on Wednesday.
Anshu Malik on Wednesday created history by becoming the first Indian woman wrestler to reach the final of the World Championships when she overcame junior European champion Solomiya Vinik.
India on Wednesday swept the International Hockey Federation’s annual awards, claiming all the top honors based on a voting system that was lambasted as a “failure” by men’s Olympic champions Belgium, the FIH said. Inspired that he would try to find out why some unions did this. Didn’t cast my vote.
Royal Challengers Bangalore dashed the hopes of top-two finishers Sunrisers Hyderabad with a narrow four-run victory in an IPL thriller in the last overs in Abu Dhabi on Wednesday.
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