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Rahul Navin, Special Director, the Enforcement Directorate (ED) has been appointed as Director of the Enforcement Directorate.
AIMIM president Asaduddin Owaisi on Wednesday censured Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath over reports that Yadav and Muslim officials were being removed from duty in the districts where 10 assembly seats are going to by-elections in that state and appealed to the Election Commission to ensure free and fair elections. Addressing reporters, the Hyderabad MP said, this (reported) statement of the Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister shows that he does not want free and fair by-polls in Uttar Pradesh.
As per Article 324 of the Constitution, conducting elections is the responsibility of the Election Commission, he noted and sought to know whether the EC will accept the diktat of the Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister and won't deploy Yadav and Muslim officials.
Over 140 roads, including two national highways, are closed in Himachal Pradesh following landslides and flash floods triggered by rains in several parts of the state since the past week, officials said on Wednesday.
The local meteorological office has issued a 'yellow' alert for heavy rain in isolated parts of the state till Sunday and also warned of low flash floods in parts of Sirmaur district till Thursday.
Iintermittent rains continued to lash parts of the state since Tuesday evening and Dharamshala recorded 40.2 mm of rain followed by Kangra (35.9 mm), Narkanda (23.5 mm), Brahmani (19.2 mm), Sujanpur Tira (16 mm), Bharari (15.2 mm), Palampur (14.4 mm) and Rampur (11.2 mm).
Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) MLA Sukhwinder Sukhi joins the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) in the presence of CM Bhagwant Mann in Chandigarh.
President's Medal for Gallantry awarded to the members of the STF team that killed gangster Atiq Ahmed's son Asad and shooter Mohammad Ghulam in an encounter on 13 April 2023 in Jhansi.
Security tightened in the National Capital ahead of the 78th Independence Day. Visuals from Red Fort.
A 22-year-old woman was injured when she tried to chase a robber and stop him from fleeing with her valuables of Rs 31,500 in Maharashtra's Thane city, police said on Wednesday, as reported by news agency PTI. The incident took place at around 3.30 am on Tuesday at Kisan Nagar in Wagle Estate area and efforts were on to nab the culprit, they said.
The woman was sleeping in her apartment located on the first floor of a building when the robber entered the house by opening the door through a gap in an adjacent window, an official from Srinagar police station said.
The robber grabbed her by the neck, snatched her gold ring and 'mangalsutra' (sacred necklace worn by married women) valued at Rs 31,500 and then started running away, he said.
An Air India flight, which was about to depart from the Dabolim airport in Goa for Mumbai, had to abort its take-off due to a bird-hit on Wednesday morning, an official said. The incident took place at 6.45 am, he said.
The flight, which was scheduled from the Dabolim airport (in South Goa) to Mumbai, had to abort its take-off at the runway due to a bird-hit, a senior official at the airport told PTI. "The take-off was aborted immediately and the aircraft is parked in the bay for further investigation," he said.
RG Kar Medical College and Hospital rape-murder case | CBI team from Delhi arrives in Kolkata, West Bengal for investigation into the case, following Calcutta High Court order. The CBI has taken over the case and has sent a specialised medical and forensic team from Delhi.
Encounter breaks out between militants and security forces in Akar forest of Jammu and Kashmir's Doda.
Maharashtra | A 36-year-old rickshaw driver, Ganesh Yadav, sleeping on Versova beach in Mumbai was crushed by an SUV car on August 12, Monday. A case of culpable homicide was registered against two people - Nikhil Jawale (age 34) and his friend Shubham Dongre (age 33). Both were produced in Andheri court where the court sent them to five-day police custody, yesterday: Versova Police
The Ukrainian military now controls 74 settlements in Russia's Kursk border region, the country's President Volodymyr Zelensky said. The governor of the Kursk region, where Ukraine is mounting a week-long incursion, previously said on Monday that Ukraine controls 28 settlements.
"There are 74 settlements under the control of Ukraine," Zelensky said on Tuesday in his evening address. The President said that "despite difficult, intense fighting, the advance of our forces in the Kursk region continues". He posted footage showing him holding a video call with military chief Oleksandr Syrsky.
Syrsky tells him: "As of today, our troops have advanced in some areas by 1 to 3 km." Ukraine's cross-border incursion into neighboring Kursk border region began on August 6, and by August 12, Ukraine said it had control over 1,000 square km of Russian territory.
The Aam Aadmi Party will begin its poll campaign for the Delhi Assembly elections with senior leader Manish Sisodia's foot march to reach out to voters in all 70 constituencies, senior party leader Sandeep Pathak told news agency PTI on Monday.
The Delhi Assembly elections are likely to be held early next year. Former Delhi deputy chief minister Sisodia was released from Tihar jail on Friday. He held a meeting with AAP MLAs on Monday that was also attended by Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal's wife Sunita.
Sisodia had also held a meeting with senior party leaders on Sunday and the AAP councillors on Tuesday. Sisodia stated that the preparations for the Delhi Assembly polls were discussed in the Monday meeting.
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AAP To Launch Delhi Poll Campaign With Sisodia's Foot March Today
The Aam Aadmi Party will begin its poll campaign for the Delhi Assembly elections with senior leader Manish Sisodia's foot march to reach out to voters in all 70 constituencies, senior party leader Sandeep Pathak told news agency PTI on Monday.
The Delhi Assembly elections are likely to be held early next year.
Former Delhi deputy chief minister Sisodia was released from Tihar jail on Friday.
He held a meeting with AAP MLAs on Monday that was also attended by Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal's wife Sunita.
Sisodia had also held a meeting with senior party leaders on Sunday and the AAP councillors on Tuesday.
Sisodia stated that the preparations for the Delhi Assembly polls were discussed in the Monday meeting.
"In the history of independent India, the AAP is the first party which is being attacked repeatedly. They have even put the top leader of the party in jail. The BJP people must also be thinking that for the first time after freedom fighters such people have come who are neither breaking nor bowing down," he said.
Nominations Filing For Lone Vacant Rajya Sabha Seat In MP To Begin On Wednesday
Madhya Pradesh Chief Electoral Officer (CEO) Anupam Rajan said that the nominations for election to lone vacant Rajya Sabha seat from the state will open on Wednesday.
"The last date for filing of nominations is August 21 and papers will be scrutinised on August 22. The last date for withdrawal of the candidature is August 26," he said.
"Polling will be held on September 3 from 9 am to 4 pm and the result will be declared the same day," Rajan added.
The Rajya Sabha seat fell vacant after Bharatiya Janata Party leader and Union minister Jyotiraditya Scindia won the Lok Sabha polls from Guna constituency.
Rajya Sabha members are elected by MLAs of a legislative assembly who cast their vote in proportional representation with the single transferable vote (STV) system.
With BJP's strength in the MP assembly, its party candidate can win comfortably, if voting takes place. So far the BJP has not declared its Rajya Sabha nominee from MP.
In the 230-member House, BJP has 163 MLAs, Congress 64, and Bharat Adivasi Party (BAP) 1.
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