Tue, 10 Dec 2019 21:01:11
Kolkata, Dec 10 (PTI) The Directorate of Revenue Intelligence (DRI) on Tuesday said it has seized 42 kilograms of smuggled gold and more than 500 grams of jewellery, cumulatively valued at Rs 16.5 crore, and arrested 10 persons in this connection.
Acting on a tip-off, the DRI sleuths on Sunday raided a residence of a person in the city and premises of his associates in various locations across
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Tue, 10 Dec 2019 20:59:45
New Delhi, Dec 10 (PTI) Senior Congress leader P Chidambaram described the Citizenship (Amendment) Bill as "patently unconstitutional" on Tuesday and said with its passage in Parliament, the battleground will shift to the Supreme Court.
He claimed that the elected lawmakers were abdicating their responsibilities in favour of lawyers and judges.
According to the proposed legislation, memb
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Tue, 10 Dec 2019 20:57:39
New Delhi, Dec 10 (PTI) One of the four convicts, Akshya Kumar Singh, moved the Supreme Court Tuesday seeking review of its 2017 judgement handing down death penalty to all of them in the 2012 Nirbhaya gang rape and murder case.
The apex court, on July 9, 2018, had dismissed the review pleas filed by three other convicts in the case.
Akshya, 31, who had not filed the review plea earlier
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Tue, 10 Dec 2019 20:56:09
Kochi, Dec 10 (PTI) CPI(M) general secretary Sitaram Yechury on Tuesday slammed the Centre over the passage of the Citizenship (Amendment) Bill, alleging that the BJP-led government brought in the legislation to "sharpen communal polarisation" and "convert" India into a "Hindutva Rashtra."
He saidthe citizenship of a person cannot be determined by religious affiliation.
"By doing this, they
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Tue, 10 Dec 2019 20:54:24
Shillong, Dec 10 (PTI) Normal life was affected in Meghalaya on Tuesday due a statewide called by the Khasi Students Union (KSU), a constituent of the NESO, to protest against the Citizenship Amendment Bill.
Shops, markets and business establishments kept shutters down, while educational and financial institutions remained closed for the day, officials said.
Government offices were open but
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Tue, 10 Dec 2019 20:50:45
Guwahati/Agartala/Itanagar, Dec 9 (PTI) Large parts of the northeast on Tuesday simmered over protests by students' unions and Left-democratic organisations against the contentious Citizenship (Amendment) Bill, passed by the Lok Sabha.
A day before the divisive legislation is tabled in the Rajya Sabha, normal life was paralysed in Assam's Brahmaputra Valley during the shutdown, led by the All A
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Tue, 10 Dec 2019 17:38:09
State Marketing Minister Mopidevi Venkata Ramana on Monday claimed that Andhra Pradesh is the only state that has been selling onions at a subsidised price of Rs 25 per kg.
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Tue, 10 Dec 2019 17:31:47
The controversial Citizenship (Amendment) Bill 2019, which seeks to give Indian citizenship to non-Muslim refugees from Pakistan, Bangladesh and Afghanistan, was passed in the Lok Sabha on Monday midnight though it was vehemently opposed by the major opposition parties which described it as "anti-Muslim".
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