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News of the day: Prime minister Narendra Modi visits Jammu and Kashmir, GN Saibaba released from Nagpur jail and more

Here are the latest developments from India and abroad

Our Web Desk Published 07.03.24, 05:52 PM
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Jammu and Kashmir is touching new heights of development and breathing freely after the abrogation of Article 370 in 2019, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said in Srinagar. This was Modi's first visit to Kashmir since the Centre abrogated the special status given to the erstwhile state and bifurcated it into two Union territories -- Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh on August 5, 2019.

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Calcutta High Court granted permission to a petitioner to file an application/affidavit, allowing alleged victim women from Sandeshkhali to bring their grievances to the court's attention. Holding that it would be difficult to bring all the 80 women to the court, the division bench presided by Chief Justice T S Sivagnanam granted permission to Tibrewal to file an application/supplementary affidavit bringing on record whatever the alleged victims wish to place before this court.

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A Delhi court issued summons to Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on a fresh complaint by the ED for allegedly evading its summonses in a money laundering case related to the alleged excise scam. Enforcement Directorate filed the complaint before the court on Wednesday, seeking prosecution of Kejriwal for skipping multiple summonses issued to him in the case.

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Indian warship INS Kolkata has rescued 21 crew members, including one Indian national, after their Barbados-flagged cargo vessel was hit by a missile in the Gulf of Aden, a Navy spokesperson said. Critical medical aid was provided to the injured crew by the ship's medical team

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A coaching centre in Vijayanagar in Bengaluru asked its students to attend classes online due to an 'emergency' for a week. The 'emergency' is the acute water crisis. Karnataka, especially its capital, is facing one of the worst water crisis in recent years due to poor rainfall in 2023.

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About 82 per cent of the total income from unknown sources declared by national political parties in 2022-23 came from electoral bonds, according to a poll rights body. Out of the Rs 1,832.88 crore as income from unknown sources, the share of income from electoral bonds was Rs 1,510 crore or 82.42 per cent, according to the analysis of the financial reports for the fiscal year 2022-23 submitted to the poll panel, it stated.

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Supreme Court refused to entertain a plea moved by the Enforcement Directorate (ED) challenging a Calcutta High Court order, in which guidelines were issued to probe agencies for not disclosing to the public or media, before the filing of a chargesheet, the details of a probe related to any person, an accused, a suspect or witness insofar as Rujira Banerjee is concerned. A bench of Justices Hrishikesh Roy and Prashant Kumar Mishra told Additional Solicitor General S V Raju, who appeared in the matter on behalf of the ED, that since the agency's plea is against an interim order of the high court, the top court is not inclined to entertain it.

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Former Delhi University professor G N Saibaba was released from the Nagpur Central Jail on Thursday, two days after the Bombay High Court acquitted him in an alleged Maoist links case. "My health is very bad. I can't talk. I will have to first take medical treatment, and then only I will able to speak," Saibaba, who has been wheelchair-bound, told reporters after coming out of the jail.

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A New Mexico jury found "Rust" armorer Hannah Gutierrez guilty of involuntary manslaughter, ending a trial over Hollywood's first on-set fatal shooting in nearly 30 years. Jurors acquitted Gutierrez on a second charge of evidence tampering.

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India wicketkeeper batter Dinesh Karthik is all set to make his last IPL appearance in the 2024 edition beginning on March 22, and he will decide on his international retirement after the lucrative T20 league. One of the most experienced wicket-keeper batters in the IPL, Karthik has represented six teams in the league.

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