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Former PCC Chief Navjot Singh Sidhu meets Punjab CM Charanjit Singh Channi at Punjab Bhavan in Chandigarh. The meeting chaired by the CM has begun and as per reports, working Congress president Kuljeet Nagra, leaders Pawan Hoel, Pargat Singh and Harish Choudhary are also present.
An earthquake of magnitude 3.5 on the Richter scale occurred 95 km west of Nashik, Maharashtra at 1428 hours: National Center for Seismology
Drugs cases related to the death of actor Sushant Singh Rajput | Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) arrested hotelier Kunal Jani from Mumbai's Khar area. He was a close friend of Rajput and was absconding.
Navjot Singh Sidhu has agreed to meet Punjab Chief Minister Charanjeet Singh Channi at 3pm today. This comes after speculations of Congress selecting Capt Amarinder Singh's wife Preneet Kaur as Punjab PCC chief. Sidhu tweeted and informed about the meeting.
After meeting Home Minister Amit Shah on Wednesday amid the current Punjab fiasco, Captain Amarinder Singh met National Security Advisor Ajit Doval in Thursday
Bombay High Court upholds life sentence given to three convicts in 2010 gang rape case of Pune Convicts Ranjeet Gade, Ganesh Kamble & Subhash Bhosale were convicted by Pune Sessions Court for life. Subsequently, they had filed appeals in HC which were rejected
Tickets for the Beijing 2022 winter Olympics will be sold to spectators from mainland China only, while unvaccinated athletes must spend 21 days in quarantine ahead of the Games, the International Olympic Committee said on Wednesday.
Organisers of the Beijing Games have informed the IOC's Executive Board 2022 of the principles to deliver "safe and successful Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games as scheduled," the committee said.
The Beijing Games start on Feb. 4 and the Chinese capitalwill become the first to have hosted both summer and winter editions after also staging the Beijing 2008 summer Games.
Delhi: Directorate of Education has directed to authorities concerned to ensure that all teachers& school staff who have not been vaccinated, should be vaccinated by 15th October, or else they would "not be allowed to attend the school & their absence will be treated as on leave"
A consensual agreement has been reached between the Karnataka government and private colleges to not hike the fees in engineering courses in private colleges, state Minister for Higher Education, C.N. Ashwath Narayan, said on Wednesday.
The decision was taken at a meeting with representatives of private engineering colleges. Following the agreement, the fees for engineering courses in private colleges for students who secure admission this year under government quota will continue as earlier in two different slabs of Rs 65,340 and Rs 58,806, the Minister said.
BJP Member of Parliament Subramanian Swamy on Wednesday claimed victory in Andhra Pradesh High Court as police informed the court that the picture of Jesus Christ was never used on the website of Tirumala Tirupati Devasthanam (TTD) as reported by a Telugu daily in 2019.
The police also conveyed to the court that it was framing charges against three persons of the newspaper for carrying a report which incited people.
Subramanian Swamy, who argued the case on behalf of TTD, termed it as a victory as trial will now begin in the case.
He alleged that 'Andhra Jyoti' indirectly managed by former chief minister N. Chandrababu Naidu carried a report which incited people but turned out to be a lie.
The former union minister told a television channel that he had taken up the case on the request of Chief Minister Y.S. Jagan Mohan Reddy.
He said 'Andhra Jyoti' had carried a front page story that TTD board, which is the custodian of the famed Sri Venkateswara temple at Tirumala, displayed on its website a picture of Jesus Christ. He said the newspapers did not have even the basic courtesy speaking to TTD chairman Y.V. Subba Reddy
Soon after former Punjab chief minister Amarinder Singh met Home Minister Amit Shah, the Congress hit out at the BJP leader, alleging his residence has become the "new centre of anti-Dalit politics". Congress chief spokesperson Randeep Surjewala alleged that the arrogance of those sitting in power has been hurt ever since a Dalit has been made the chief minister of Punjab.
"The arrogance of the those sitting in power has been hurt. Because if a Dalit is made the chief minister, they ask who is taking the decisions in the Congress," he asked. His remark came after Kapil Sibal, a leader of the G-23 dissident group, said there is no elected president in the party and wondered who was making the decisions.
Background
Breaking News LIVE Updates, September 30, 2021: Amid the ongoing political crisis in Punjab Congress, Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan took a jibe at Congress leader Rahul Gandhi and alleged that he was sinking the party.
"Rahul Gandhi is sinking Congress, disposed off a well-established Punjab government," he remarked at a public rally in Prithvipur.
Taking a dig at the party, he said that state Congress chief Navjot Singh Sidhu has "run away" after Captain Amarinder Singh was "removed" from the post of Punjab Chief Minster because of Sidhu, for which he again blamed Rahul Gandhi.
"Amarinder was removed because of Sidhu, now Sidhu has run away as well. We don't have to do anything as long as Rahul Gandhi is there," said Chouhan.
YouTube will block all anti-vaccine content, moving beyond COVID-19 to include content that alleges vaccines cause chronic health effects or contains misinformation on the substances in vaccines, it said in a blog post on Wednesday.
The online video company owned by Alphabet Inc is also banning prominent anti-vaccine activists, taking down several channels, the Washington Post reported on Wednesday, citing YouTube's Vice President Of Global Trust and Safety Matt Halprin. These include Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Joseph Mercola, who have long been high-profile figures in the anti-vaccine movement.
The move comes as YouTube and other tech giants like Facebook Inc. and Twitter Inc. have been criticized for not doing enough to stop the spread of false health information on their sites.
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