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Rahul writes to Om Birla seeking permission to speak in Parliament

Congress leader Rahul Gandhi has asserted that he has the right to respond in Parliament to the "totally baseless" and "unfair charges" hurled at him by senior ministers in the Lok Sabha over his democracy remarks. In a letter to Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla, Gandhi invoked Rule 357 which allows for "personal explanations" and also cited the example of BJP MP and then minister Ravi Shankar Prasad, who invoked the Rule to give an explanation regarding comments made by Jyotiraditya Scindia in relat...

No evidence found: Sisodia

Former Delhi Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia on Tuesday told a Delhi court he has cooperated with the CBI investigation into the excise scam case and none of the sea...

NSA invoked against Amritpal Singh, Punjab tells high court

Punjab government on Tuesday informed the Punjab and Haryana High Court that the stringent National Security Act has been invoked against radical preacher Amritpal Singh,...
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Anubrata sent to Tihar jail

Trinamul Congress leader Anubrata Mondal has been sent to Tihar jail till April 3 in connection to the West Bengal cattle-smuggling case. Mondal will not be allowed...
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I had only recently begun to write this column for The Telegraph when the war-drums began beating in the second half of 2002, signalling the lead-up to the invasion of Iraq. Reading some of ...
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In India, where smokeless tobacco consumption is not socially disapproved, anti-tobacco campaigns have been less impactful, as was confirmed by the Global Adult Tobacco Survey-II.
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