Wed, 23 Nov 2022 09:21:57
COLOMBO: At least two front-line ministers in the Sri Lankan government have been suspended by the Sri Lanka Freedom Party (SLFP) for breach of party discipline, it was announced on Tuesday.
"They have been suspended temporarily until they offer explanations," Dayasiri Jayasekera, the party general secretary, told reporters.
Minister of Aviation Nimal Siripala de Silva and Minister of Agricu
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Wed, 23 Nov 2022 09:16:48
ANKARA: An earthquake with a magnitude of 5.9 hit a town in northwest Turkey on Wednesday, Turkey’s government-run Disaster and Emergency Management Presidency said.
The earthquake was centred in the town of Golkaya, in Duzce province, some 200 kilometres east of Istanbul. It was felt in Istanbul and in the capital Ankara.
The quake sent people rushing out of buildings and cut power in the a
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Wed, 23 Nov 2022 09:13:55
Asserting that a woman or a girl is killed every 11 minutes by an intimate partner or a family member, UN chief Antonio Guterres has said that violence against them is the most pervasive "human rights violation" in the world and called on governments to implement national action plans that tackle this scourge.
Secretary General Guterres made these remarks ahead of the International Day for the
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Wed, 23 Nov 2022 09:11:01
The Enforcement Directorate on Tuesday told a Delhi court that the agency had no role in the leak of purported CCTV footage showing jailed AAP minister Satyendar Jain getting special treatment inside the prison cell.
The ED made the submission before Special Judge Vikas Dhull while opposing Jain's plea seeking contempt proceedings against the agency for allegedly leaking the videos to the media
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Wed, 23 Nov 2022 09:09:16
The National Investigation Agency (NIA) Tuesday moved the Supreme Court against the bail granted to scholar-activist Anand Teltumbde in the Elgar Parishad-Maoist links case.
The Bombay High Court on November 18 granted bail to Teltumbde noting that prima facie the only case made out against him relates to alleged association with a terror group and support given to it, for which the maximum pun
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Wed, 23 Nov 2022 09:07:37
Aaftab Amin Poonawala has not yet confessed to killing his live-in-partner Shraddha Walkar in the court of law, his lawyer said on Tuesday.
"I spoke to Poonawala for five-seven minutes today. When I spoke to him in the morning, he appeared relaxed and very confident. He did not show any signs of aggressiveness," said Defence Counsel Abinash Kumar, who is representing Poonawala.
The lawyer sa
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Wed, 23 Nov 2022 09:06:22
BJP president J P Nadda on Tuesday said the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) will be defeated in the Gujarat Assembly elections as it is a "banner-based party" as against the BJP which is cadre-based.
AAP leaders will leave Gujarat once the elections are over, he claimed, speaking at a campaign rally in Shehra town of Panchmahal district in support of BJP candidate Jetha Bharwad.
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Wed, 23 Nov 2022 09:04:28
Congress leader and former chief minister Ashok Chavan on Tuesday said a new governor should be appointed for Maharashtra and Bhagat Singh Koshyari should be removed from his office for his remark on Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj.
Chavan was speaking to reporters after an agitation staged by Congress workers against the governor in Nanded. During an event in Aurangabad, Koshyari said that Chhatra
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Wed, 23 Nov 2022 09:02:33
The Supreme Court on Tuesday said it will hear on December 6 the plea of a Congress leader challenging a recent notification by which the sale of electoral bonds has been extended by 15 more days in the year of general elections to legislative assemblies of states and Union Territories (UTs) with a legislature.
A bench comprising Chief Justice D Y Chandrachud and Justices Hima Kohli and J B Pa
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