Breaking News HIGHLIGHTS: NIA Arrests Human Rights Activist Khurram Parvez During Raids In J&K
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Tripura police on Sunday arrested actor-turned TMC leader Sayani Ghosh on charges of attempt to murder after she allegedly disrupted a meeting of state Chief Minister Biplab Kumar Deb by shouting Khela hobe (We will play) on Saturday night.
The arrest and an alleged attack on TMC workers by unknown persons whom the Trinamool Congress believes to be BJP supporters happened barely 24 hours before the Mamata Banerjee-led party's national general secretary Abhishek Banerjee is slated to reach Agartala to stand beside attacked party workers.
The Supreme Court is likley to hear pleas today seeking directions to the government to bring in legislation enabling the prosecution of Twitter for alleged “anti-India tweets”. One of the pleas has sought the framing of a mechanism that could check advertisements and paid content on Twitter that may be hateful or seditious and to rein in social media accounts "in order to stop the hatred, fake, investigative and other news which are contrary to the law of the country or violates the law of the country".
Former national co-convener of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) IT cell Vinit Goenka, advocates Vinit Jindal, Ashwini Kumar Upadhyay and others had filed petitions in the apex court on the issue. The court issued a notice to the Central government in February and tagged Goenka’s plea along with another similar matter pending before the top court. A bench of Justices AM Khanwilkar and CT Ravikumar will hear pleas today.
In Andhra Pradesh, hundreds of vehicles and people were stranded, traffic was either closed or suspended in arterial highways and over 100 trains cancelled snapping rail-road link between southern and other parts of the country on Sunday as the Penna river in spate caused heavy destruction.
The death toll in rain-related incidents in different districts of Andhra Pradesh touched 33 as more bodies were retrieved from the flooded streams and at least 12 people were reported missing.
The Chennai-Kolkata National Highway-16 remained cut off for traffic between Nellore and Vijayawada in Andhra Pradesh as was the Chennai grand trunk rail route severing the all-important link between the southern and eastern and northern parts of the country.
According to the South Central Railway, more than 100 express trains were cancelled because of the damage caused to the railway tracks near Nellore and 29 more diverted.
Suvendu Adhikari's lawyer lodges police complaint alleging attack on BJP leader's convoy by TMC supporters
West Bengal: Leader of Opposition, Suvendu Adhikari's lawyer lodges a complaint at Marishda Police Station, stating that around 70 TMC supporters attacked Adhikari's convoy, abused him & gave him death threats while he was going to Kolkata from Contai today, ANI reported.
NIA Arrests Human Rights Activist Khurram Parvez During Raids At Various Places In J&K
NIA today arrested human rights activist Khurram Parvez during raids at various places in J&K including his residence in Sonwar & office in Amira Kadal, Srinagar in connection with a terror funding case, ANI reported the agency as saying.
Channi, Sidhu hold talks with Congress leaders to evolve strategy for Punjab assembly polls
New Delhi, Nov 22 (PTI) Punjab Chief Minister Charanjit Singh Channi and PCC chief Navjot Singh Sidhu on Monday held deliberations with Congress leaders here to evolve a strategy for the upcoming state assembly polls, sources said.
Channi and Sidhu arrived in the national capital on Monday afternoon along with AICC in-charge for Punjab affairs Harish Chaudhary and they later met at the party's "war-room" office here.
They said the screening committee for Punjab is to be finalised that will screen party candidates for the assembly polls, besides other decisions that are to be taken by the state government ahead of the elections.
Punjab goes to polls early next year along with states of Uttar Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Goa and Manipur.
Rajnath Singh attends Bangladesh Armed Forces Day event in Delhi
Attended the Bangladesh Armed Forces Day event today at the High Commission of Bangladesh. Recalled the heroic fight by the Muktibahini and the Indian Armed Forces in the Liberation of Bangladesh. The spirit of 1971 continues to nourish India-Bangladesh relations. pic.twitter.com/vcsNPBE9qF
— Rajnath Singh (@rajnathsingh) November 22, 2021
Rajnath Singh attends Bangladesh Armed Forces Day event in Delhi
Attended the Bangladesh Armed Forces Day event today at the High Commission of Bangladesh. Recalled the heroic fight by the Muktibahini and the Indian Armed Forces in the Liberation of Bangladesh. The spirit of 1971 continues to nourish India-Bangladesh relations. pic.twitter.com/vcsNPBE9qF
— Rajnath Singh (@rajnathsingh) November 22, 2021
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