Parliament scuffle: ‘Rahul can never push anyone,’ Priyanka Gandhi slams BJP’s allegations of violence | India News – Times of India

NEW DELHI: Congress MP Priyanka Gandhi on Friday defended her brother, Rahul Gandhi on Friday, rejecting BJP‘s allegations of violence during a scuffle outside Parliament as “false and baseless”Speaking to the media, Priyanka accused the BJP of fabricating the claims out of desperation to divert attention from pressing issues.“This is the government’s desperation,” she said….

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Massive seizure in IT raids: 52 kg gold, over Rs 10 crore cash found in abandoned vehicle in Bhopal | India News – Times of India

Massive seizure in IT raids BHOPAL: The Income Tax Department has uncovered a staggering 52kg of gold and Rs 10 crore in cash from an abandoned vehicle in a forested area near Mandora village in Bhopal. Officials have linked this discovery to recent widespread raids targeting real estate and construction firms across three districts in…

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‘Conspiring to murder me’: BJP leader CT Ravi claims after arrest over ‘derogatory’ remarks | India News – Times of India

NEW DELHI: Former Karnataka minister and BJP MLC CT Ravi, who was arrested Thursday on charges of making ‘derogatory’ remarks against minister Laxmi Hebbalkar, alleged a conspiracy to murder him through a false complaint. The BJP leader also alleged negligence by the police, who he said had not yet registered a complaint or a zero…

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Kashi scholars say ‘lost & found’ shrine is of Shiva | India News – Times of India

VARANASI: Shri Kashi Vidwat Parishad (SKVP), a body of Varanasi scholars, said Thursday that initial research on a temple that lay closed for decades in communally sensitive Madanpura’s Devnathpura locality indicated it was indeed of Siddheshwar Mahadev.However, SKVP general secretary Ram Narain Dwivedi said Thursday, the scholars will conduct a physical survey of the temple…

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Flagging farm loan waivers, cash transfers & other sops, RBI says rationalise subsidies | India News – Times of India

NEW DELHI: Reserve Bank of India on Thursday flagged its concern over several states announcing farm loan waivers, free power to agriculture and households, free transport and cash transfers to women and youth, cautioning that these spends will lower the funds available to undertake expenditure on building social and physical infrastructure as well as research…

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Grenade blast at abandoned police post in Punjab, fifth such attack in a month | India News – Times of India

GURDASPUR: Terrorists of a pro-Khalistan outfit lobbed a grenade at an abandoned police post near the border town of Kalanaur in Punjab’s Gurdaspur district late Wednesday, making it the fifth such attack targeting a police station or post in less than a month.Banned Khalistan Zindabad Force claimed responsibility for the attack through a post on…

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‘Flawed, bid to mar image’: Vice President’s removal notice junked | India News – Times of India

NEW DELHI: Rajya Sabha deputy chairman Harivansh on Thursday dismissed the notice submitted by the INDIA bloc for the removal of Vice-President Jagdeep Dhankhar on the ground that it did not meet the requirement of 14-day notice, while also observing that allegations against the RS chairman were “an act of impropriety, severely flawed, apparently drawn…

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Can’t legitimise illegal buildings, raze them: SC | India News – Times of India

NEW DELHI: In a significant decision giving the executive unfettered right to demolish unauthorised and illegal constructions and encroachments, the Supreme Court has ruled that properties falling foul of law cannot be legitimised on the ground that people have been staying in them for decades and that authorities had blinked at the illegalities.Upholding demolition action…

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‘Life hanging by a thread’: Doctors on farmer leader Dallewal’s health as fast enters Day 24 | India News – Times of India

NEW DELHI: Doctors on Thursday described the condition of Punjab farmer leader Jagjit Singh Dallewal, whose fast-unto-death entered its 24th day, as critical after he fainted for 8-10 minutes at the Khanauri border protest site. Doctors attending to him warned of risks of cardiac arrest and multi-organ failure.“His life is hanging by a thread,” said…

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