‘Can’t view every speech as defamation’: Delhi court junks BJP ex-MP Chandrashekhar suit against Tharoor | India News – The Times of India

NEW DELHI: A Delhi court dismissed Tuesday a defamation complaint filed by BJP functionary Rajeev Chandrashekhar against Congress MP Shashi Tharoor, saying if every speech was viewed as defamation then “freedom of speech and expression would be reduced to nought”.The court of additional chief judicial magistrate Paras Dalal noted there is “no prima facie evidence”…

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Will halt coal mining if Rs 1.4 lakh crore dues not cleared: Soren to Centre | India News – The Times of India

RANCHI: In a stern warning to the Centre, Jharkhand chief minister Hemant Soren on Tuesday said his govt would take tough measures, including taking a legal recourse and forcing public sector coal units operating out of the state to shut down their mining operations, if no sincere efforts were made to clear its coal-related dues.Speaking…

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Abujmarh has fallen, no longer a Red citadel, says surrendered top Maoist | India News – The Times of India

GADCHIROLI: The once-unassailable Maoist headquarters in Abujmarh – spread across the rugged, forested hills straddling Maharashtra and Chhattisgarh – has fallen to security forces after 50 years of bloodshed. A fact conceded by Giridhar, a former commander of PLGA, during a conversation with TOI Tuesday.“Abujmarh is no longer an impregnable Red citadel. The liberated zones…

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Tests confirm water caused Pune GBS outbreak; toll hits 7 after 10-year-old’s death | India News – The Times of India

PUNE/CHENNAI: A 10-year-old boy who died at Chennai’s Institute of Child Health on Jan 31 was Tuesday confirmed to be Tamil Nadu’s first Guillain-Barre Syndrome (GBS) victim, taking the number of casualties caused by the rare but treatable infection since last month to seven.Pune, which accounts for five of the GBS mortalities across the country,…

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On Delhi poll eve, PM Modi’s ‘jacuzzi’ jibe at Arvind Kejriwal, ‘urban Naxal’ dig at Rahul Gandhi | India News – The Times of India

New Delhi: Asserting that he was only into his “third term” and that BJP would remain in office for many more years to steer India to the “developed” club, PM Modi Tuesday tore into leader of opposition Rahul Gandhi, accusing him of using “the language of urban Naxals openly”.“Those who declare a war on the…

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