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Guna: Principal Catherine Vattoly of Vandana Convent School booked for snatching mic from students reciting Sanskrit verses; ABVP stages protest, files complaint

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Catherine Vattoly stopped sixth-grade students from chanting Sanskrit verses during the morning assembly on 15th July. A First Information Report (FIR) was registered against her, per the authorities.
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News Reports

Uttar Pradesh: Bulldozers raze down decades old illegal flower market in Lucknow- Details

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The flower market earlier operated from the 2000 sq ft of land behind the Imambada area of the city. It was shifted to the Hussainabad Trust land in the year 2001.
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News Reports

Foreign affairs sole prerogative the Union Government as per the constitution, states should not intrude: MEA on Kerala govt appointing ‘foreign secretary’

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Reacting to Kerala government appointing a Secretary for External Cooperation, the Ministry of External Affairs said that foreign affairs are the "sole prerogative" of the Union Government and not concurrent or state subject
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Politics

My grandfather died for the nation, not for Congress: Former Punjab CM Beant Singh’s grandson Ravneet Bittu slams Congress leader Charanjit Channi in Parliament

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Responding to Channi's comment “Bittu Ji, your grandfather was a martyr, but he died when you left the Congress", Ravneet Singh Bittu, a state minister in the NDA government, responded that his grandfather didn't die for the Congress party, but for the nation.
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News Reports

CBI court finds 14 people including CPM leader guilty in 14-year-old murder case of Congress leader Anchal Ramabhadran in Kerala, 4 acquitted: Details

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Ramabhadran's wife earlier filed a petition in the High Court stating that justice was not done in the investigation.
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Opinions

The world remembers Akhlaq, but not Tejram: Here is how Tejram was lynched in Bareilly by a Muslim mob over stopping them from playing...

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The report said that the head bones of Tejram were damaged during his lynching as a result of strikes from large stones and iron rods, and blood clots had developed in his brain.
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News Reports

The regular Q&A drama between Pakistani journalist and US State Dept to lecture India is now peddling false claims of Muslim victimhood: How the...

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Matthew Miller replied citing the Supreme Court's interim stay on the directive and said, "We have seen those reports. We have also seen the reports that the Indian Supreme Court on July 22nd issued an interim stay on the implementation of those rules, so they’re not actually in effect now."
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News Reports

President Droupadi Murmu announces that Durbar Hall and Ashok Hall in Rashtrapati Bhavan have been renamed Ganatantra Mandap and Ashok Mandap

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President Droupadi Murmu announced on Thursday that two of the important halls of Rashtrapati Bhavan, namely, Durbar Hall and Ashok Hall, have been renamed as Ganatantra Mandap and Ashok Mandap, respectively, according to a President's Secretariat release.
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News Reports

Ghaziabad: Mohammad Alam, father of four, strangles his second wife Pooja Devi to death with her dupatta, dumps her body in canal

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Mohammad Alam and Pooja Devi were living together for four years before they tied the knot in an Islamic wedding.
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News Reports

Congress govt in Karnataka passes resolution against NEET in assembly, demands return to state-organised CET for medical admissions

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Siddaramaiah-led Congress government on Thursday passed a resolution in both houses of the Karnataka legislature against the NEET
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World

Manchester Police arrests 4 Muslim community members for brutally assaulting 3 airport staff and a police officer, viral video used to peddle ‘Islamophobia’ claims

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The video of action by Manchester Police after the attack is being used by Islamists to claim Islamophobia saying that the Police assaulted them because they are Muslims.
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News Reports

US flags removed, burnt and replaced by Palestine flags, cop dragged by Pro-Palestine group: Chaos in Washington DC during Netanyahu’s visit

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A US Park Police commander confirmed that two of the three American flags taken down by protesters were set on fire. The demonstration further resulted in road closures in the Capitol and Union Square locations. Protesters also burned an effigy of Netanyahu and demanded an end to US military funding to Israel during its ongoing crisis in Gaza.
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Law

Kamlesh Tiwari murder case: Supreme Court Bench grants bail to Syed Asim Ali, the accused conspirator in the murder

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Kamlesh Tiwari, the Hindu Samaj Party leader was murdered in Lucknow on October 18, 2019, when the assailants came to meet him on the pretext of working for his outfit. He was murdered at his home in Naka Hindola area in Lucknow.
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News Reports

Delhi High Court declines to stay release of Netflix show ‘Tribhuvan Mishra CA Topper’ on ICAI’s defamation lawsuit, read what the court said

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Delhi High Court asserted that the Netflix series does not refer to the profession of Chartered Accountancy.
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News Reports

Reliance Industries gets US approval to continue crude oil import from Venezuela amid sanctions

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Before the United States placed oil sanctions on Venezuela in 2019, Reliance was the second-largest private buyer of Venezuelan crude oil, trailing only China's China National Petroleum Corporation.
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News Reports

Ashiq Ali is the hero, Vikrant and Sunny forgotten: How Islamists choose heroes based on religion and how, it is done only to whitewash...

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Islamists and the entire liberal ecosystem have developed this penchant for selecting heroes based on religion, though they do so primarily to whitewash Jihadis rather than out of admiration for their valou
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News Reports

‘Gays for Gaza’ is like ‘Chickens for KFC’: Israel’s PM Netanyahu slams supporters of Hamas during address at US Congress, calls for an ‘Abraham...

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PM Benjamin Netanyahu also pointed out the irony of some protest slogans such as “Gays for Gaza” highlighted the severe persecution of the LGBTQ community in regions controlled by Hamas and other Islamic groups. Mocking the slogan, he said, “They might as well hold up signs saying ‘Chickens for KFC'.
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News Reports

Meerut: Teenage girl gang-raped, brutalised with iron rod, Haseen, Shahrukh, Ikramuddin, Mohsin named as accused by victim family

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As per the local reports, the girl was gang raped by the 4 suspects identified by the family of the girl. They abducted her, gang-raped her, and then murdered her by inserting an iron rod in her private parts. The suspects also burned the face of the girl by pouring acid on it.
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News Reports

UP: Lakme Academy director Rakshanda Khan booked for pressuring Hindu trainees to marry Muslims and convert to Islam in Moradabad

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The duo alleged that Sapna alias Rakshanda Khan used to encourage Hindu girls to befriend Muslim boys and do Nikah with them after converting to Islam. They also alleged that Rakshanda used to keep Hindu girls in groups with Muslim boys at the academy situated on Kanth Road. The duo said that Rakshanda Khan was originally a Hindu, however, converted to Islam before marrying a Muslim man named Shahnawaz Khan 17 years ago.
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News Reports

Majid Freeman formally charged with encouraging terrorism: Instigator of 2022 anti-Hindu Leicester violence whose links to ISIS and Al Qaeda OpIndia had exposed

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Majid Freeman, who had spread lies and misinformation about the role of Hindus in the 2022 anti-Hindu Leicester riots, has been charged with inciting terrorism and lending support to the proscribed terrorist organization, Hamas
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News Reports

Washington DC: Pro-Palestine group releases insects and sets off fire alarms at Watergate Hotel where Israeli PM Netanyahu was staying, dye fountains red, over...

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Additionally, a DC-based pro-Palestine group named ‘Palestinian Youth Movement’ has claimed that it released mealworms and insects inside the Watergate Hotel where Netanyahu is staying during his current US visit.
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News Reports

‘Judicial impropriety’: Justice BR Gavai-led SC bench expresses displeasure as another bench hears the same case, refers the matter to CJI

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Justice Gavai expressed displeasure after another bench led by Justice AS Oka took up the same contempt case later.
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News Reports

“No company will be forced into the internship programme”: Union Govt clarifies on stipend for interns in top 500 companies announced in budget

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Government sources have said that the top 500 companies will not be forced for the internship programme announced in the Union Budget
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News Reports

She is my possession, I will convert her to Islam and marry her: Dilshad Ali kidnaps Hindu girl in Uttar Pradesh, dares anyone to...

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The perpetrator worked as a brick kiln worker in the Basti area of Uttar Pradesh where he lured the victim.
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News Reports

Assam: Shahid Ali arrested for sexually harassing a woman; was blackmailing her with obscene videos

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Shahid Ali, the sexual predator, was arrested by Dispur Police for blackmailing a woman with obscene videos.
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OpIndia Explains

The destruction of Mecca and Medina: How Wahabi Islam razed down ancient structures like Taliban destroyed Bamiyan Buddhas, fearing idolatry

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Of the famed "Seven Mosques" originally established by Prophet Muhammad's daughter and four of his "greatest Companions", five have been demolished.
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News Reports

As I.N.D.I. Alliance alleges ‘Undeclared Emergency’, Karnataka Police filed 37 cases for social media posts against politicians, many based on ‘fact-check unit’ run by...

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It is pertinent to note that reportedly none of the companies part of the state’s fact-check unit are signatories of the International Fact-Checking Network (IFCN).   
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News Reports

‘They are also human beings’: SC asks govt to come out with rehabilitation scheme before removing encroachments on Haldwani railway land

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The SC on Wednesday asked the Centre and state govt to come up with a rehabilitation scheme for encroachers in Uttarakhand's Haldwani area.
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News Reports

Khalistani terrorist Gurpatwant Singh Pannun tells Canadian MP Chandra Arya to leave the country for condemning attack on Hindu temple, the MP says their...

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Canadian MP Chandra Arya said, "Our land is being polluted by Khalistani extremists abusing our freedoms guaranteed by our Canadian Charter of Rights."
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News Reports

Madhya Pradesh: Mob pelts stones at police, residents demanding the removal of illegal property owned by Rafiq, accused of assaulting old woman; 22 booked

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"When civic staff went to pull down illegal shops of one Rafiq Khan on directives of village panchayat officials, a large crowd comprising local residents and other individuals demanded that his house, too, be razed and later pelted stones at policemen and members of the demolition squad," the police said.
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News Reports

5 months ago, WSJ called this US city ‘America’s Jihad capital’ and the drama hasn’t stopped yet: Pro-Hamas protests, heightened security, politics and more

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In February 2024, the Wall Street Journal published an op-ed written by Steven Stalinsky, executive director of the Middle East Media Research Institute in which he called Dearborn “America’s Jihad Capital”. The assertion was based on the fact that the region became a focal point of intense scrutiny following a series of rallies and protests supporting Hamas, Hezbollah and Iran.
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World

New Zealand: Inquiry finds 200,000 children, vulnerable adults abused in state, church care for 70 years

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The Anglican Church and the Catholic Church have acknowledged the abuses meted out to victims after an inquiry found 200,000 children and adults were subjected to abuse by church care for over 7 decades.
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News Reports

Supreme Court to form a committee to talk to protesting farmers, orders status quo at Shambhu border where protestors have assembled ‘armoured tanks’

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The Supreme Court on Wednesday ordered that the status quo be maintained at the Shambhu border near Ambala, where farmers have been camping since February 13.
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News Reports

Delhi HC orders relocation of all dairies from Bhalaswa to Ghogha Dairy Colony in Delhi, says dairy plots illegally converted to commercial and residential...

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Delhi High Court has directed all statutory authorities to take immediate steps for shifting all the dairies from Bhalaswa to Ghogha Dairy Colony within a period of four weeks.
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OpIndia Explains

Do you know? Nepalese Airlines are banned in Europe: As another plane crashes at Kathmandu airport, here is why they are barred from European...

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Strikingly, on an average, Nepal has suffered one flight disaster a year since 2010, an alarmingly high number as per aviation industry standards.
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News Reports

Pakistan PM Shehbaz Sharif shamed online for using X (Twitter) despite a nationwide ban on the social media platform imposed by his govt

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X (earlier Twitter) was banned in Pakistan by the Shehbaz Sharif government in light of alleged national security concerns.
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World

Germany bans Islamic Centre Hamburg for pursuing radical Islam: Read about its links with Iran and Hezbollah

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Germany banned Islamic Centre Hamburg, one of the oldest Islamic centres in the country, for pursuing radical Islam.
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News Reports

Nepal Plane Crash: 18 bodies recovered after Saurya Airlines test flight crashed during take-off at Kathmandu airport, pilot is the lone survivor

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A Saurya Airlines flight carrying 19 people crashed during take-off at Tribhuvan International Airport (TIA) in Kathmandu, Nepal, on Wednesday, killing 18 and injuring the pilot
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News Reports

‘Bigger than Chandigarh’: Assam CM shares success of anti-encroachment drive, says 167 sq km freed; Here’s how illegal encroachment harmed state’s culture, habitat

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Assam CM Himanta Biswa Sarma said that the state's anti-encroachment drive was moving in the proper direction and that the state had recovered 167 sq km of land from the encroachers
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News Reports

Assam: Rahmania Jame Masjid’s Imam Manzil Islam sentenced to 20 years in jail for sexually abusing a minor boy in 2023

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The court examined all the pieces of evidence that exposed the Imam of having sexually abused a minor child. The accused also had threatened the victim of death.
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News Reports

Bengaluru: Irfan Khan arrested for kidnapping, raping and murdering a 4-year-old girl

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Irfan Khan tempted the minor with the promise of getting her an ice cream before raping and killing her.
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News Reports

Delhi court summons Dhruv Rathee in Rs 20 lakh defamation case filed by BJP leader Suresh Nakhua for calling him ‘violent and abusive troll’

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Dhruv Rathee had uploaded a video on his YouTube channel referring to BJP leader Suresh Nakhua as a "violent and abusive" troll.
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News Reports

Delhi HC orders X and Google to take down defamatory posts against Speaker Om Birla’s daughter Anjali: How she was vilified by trolls

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Senior Adv Nayar, appearing on bihalf of Anjali Birla, told the court, "I became an officer in the year 2021 but now suddenly these things have come up again because of the NEET and UPSC exams controversy.
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News Reports

Assam: Mangaldoi Police and VHP rescue minor Hindu girl from grooming trap, accused Sajel Ali taken into custody

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Subsequently, she was taken to Mangaldoi Civil Hospital for emergency medical care. Meanwhile, accused Muslim youth Sajel Ali was also nabbed by the police with the help of Vishwa Hindu Parishad activists.
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News Reports

TMC supporter told she is Hindu and BJP supporter, denied residential certificate by Panchayat chief’s husband Kader Molla; BJP shares testimony

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West Bengal BJP on Tuesday, July 23 shared a video testimonial of a Hindu woman detailing how Mamata Banerjee's authoritarian rule is depriving Hindus of their fundamental rights based only on their religious identity
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News Reports

Assassination attempt on Trump: US Secret Service Director resigns a day after admitting failures in Trump’s security during Congressional hearing

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The development comes a day after she admitted failures and security lapses at a congressional hearing over the Trump assassination attempt.
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News Reports

‘Mamata’s remark may create confusion’: Bangladesh makes clear International issues are handled between Central govts, not by state CM

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On July 21, while addressing her party’s ‘Martyrs Day’ rally in Kolkata, Mamata Banerjee had said that West Bengal will surely keep its door open for ‘helpless people’ who have been affected by violence in Bangladesh and offer them shelter. 
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World

British-Pakistani preacher convicted of terrorism offences; was earlier jailed for 5 years for encouraging support for ISIS

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In 2016, Anjem Choudary was sentenced to five years in prison for encouraging support for the Islamic State group.
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News Reports

Bhutan King, PM visit Adani Group’s 30 GW renewable energy site in Khavda, Mundra Port

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Adani Green Energy Limited is developing a 30 GW renewable energy plant on barren land at Khavda in Kutch, Gujarat, covering an area of 538 sq km, making it the planet's largest power plant once completed.
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OpIndia Explains

SC stays Kanwar Yatra order on displaying eatery owners’ names: How the order leaves a window open for the govt to ensure vendors display...

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The SC said, "In furtherance to this, the competent authority may perhaps issue orders under the Food Safety and Standards Act, 2006 and the Street Vendors Act, 2014."
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