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Madras HC declares amendment to Tamil Nadu law on Waqf properties unconstitutional, rules only Waqf tribunals can evict encroachments

OpIndia Staff -
A Bench of Chief Justice SV Gangapurwala and Justice D Bharatha Chakravarthy struck down the provisions that enabled the Tamil Nadu Wakf Board Chief Executive Officer to order the eviction of encroachers.
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News Reports

INDI Alliance leaders should apologise for committing sin of creating doubt on EVMs, their dreams shattered by SC verdict: PM Modi

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PM Narendra Modi on Friday attacked the INDIA bloc over the Supreme Court decision rejecting the plea for 100 per cent VVPAT verification of EVM votes
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News Reports

‘Maybe I was born here in my last birth, or will be born again as child of a Bengali mother’: PM Modi seeing overwhelming...

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PM Modi said, "You people are showering so much love that I think I have a deep-rooted connection with you all and West Bengal. As if I were born here in my past life or I will take birth here in my coming life."
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News Reports

Supreme Court Registry rejects plea challenging constitutional validity of Collegium system

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Supreme Court Registry rejects plea challenging constitutional validity of Collegium system stating that the plea was filed to overstep established legal principles or with an ulterior motive.
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News Reports

Lok Sabha election: TMC workers attack BJP leader and workers, surround Balurghat candidate Sukanta Majumdar while raising offensive slogans

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Sukanta Majumdar charged that the TMC workers were within 100-meter of the polling booth on the 2nd phase of Lok Sabha poll.
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News Reports

Supreme Court instructs ECI to keep Symbol Loading Units in strong rooms after elections: Read what these devices are and how the order will...

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Symbol Loading Units are used to load candidate names and symbols into the VVPAT machines before the elections
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News Reports

‘Hit them, burn Kafirs to death’: Deadly attack on Hindu trader near Ram temple in Bharuch’s Ochchan; 11 including Abdul, Feroza, Sabina booked

Krunalsinh Rajput -
FIR under Sections 143, 147, 149, 323, 337, 436, 504, and 506 (2) of the IPC has been registered against 11 people, including Abdul, Feroza, and Sabina.
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News Reports

‘Took active part in hatching a conspiracy’: Read what Delhi HC said while denying bail to UAPA accused Salim Malik in Delhi riots case

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The Delhi HC called Salim Malik a "co-conspirator" in Delhi riots case and held that he took active part in hatching a conspiracy to commit the riots.
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News Reports

Eviction, suspension, and arrest: Violent pro-Palestine protests cost dearly to ‘woke’ students across several US universities

Shraddha Pandey -
In the visuals emerging from Emory University, Georgia, security forces are seen tasering the pro-Palestine protestors, launching tear gas, and reportedly firing rounds of rubber bullets at crowds and protesters.
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News Reports

EVM wins again: Supreme Court rejects all petitions asking for 100% verification by VVPAT slips, refuses to take country back to paper ballot age

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Justice Khanna delivered the verdict, stating that the court had thoroughly studied the procedures and technical factors and hence dismissed the request for 100% verification of EVM votes with VVPAT slips.
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News Reports

George Soros and Rockefeller Brothers Fund behind pro-Palestine protests in US universities, had earlier fuelled anti-India propaganda

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"Do the Rockefeller and Soros families want their money to be used to advocate for Hamas’s war aims?" asked Wall Street Journal columnist Ira Stoll.
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News Reports

‘Does not cause fear or alarm to public’: Delhi Police gives clean chit to X user who called Alt News co-founder Md Zubair a...

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The Police said: "Thus, the captioned tweet by the complainant Mr. Jagdish Singh made on 18.04.2020 does not cause fear or alarm to the public or any section of the public whereby any person may be induced to commit an offence against any state or against public tranquillity."
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News Reports

‘India determines its own visa policy, we are not going to opine on it’: US State Dept rejects Pakistani journalist’s question on Avani Dias

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Avani Dias, an Australian journalist claimed that she was not allowed to cover the 2024 Lok Sabha polls and was compelled to leave the country. However, later government sources revealed that her claims are "not correct, misleading and mischievous."
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News Reports

2024 Lok Sabha elections: Polling for second phase begins in 88 constituencies, over 15 crore people to exercise their right to vote

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Chief Election Commissioner Rajiv Kumar has said that adequate arrangements have been made for smooth polling in the second phase of Lok Sabha polls and urged voters to participate in the festival of democracy in maximum numbers.
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News Reports

Horlicks not a ‘health drink’ anymore, rebranded as ‘functional nutritional drink’: Know what happened and what it means

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HUL drops health drink label for Horlicks, Boost after govt directions against the label, rebrands it 'functional nutritional drink'
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News Reports

Somaiya Trust takes note of OpIndia report on Islamist views of Somaiya School principal Parveen Shaikh: Details

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According to Somaiya Trust, it would probe the matter and expressed disagreement with the statements made by principal Parveen Shaikh
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News Reports

Congress notified reservations for all Muslims in Karnataka under OBC quota, document shows, but AltNews’ Zubair tries to shift blame on JD-S to save...

Siddhi Somani -
Zubair tried to blame the Deve Gowda govt for Muslim reservation in Karnataka but forgot to mention that it was introduced by Congress govt led by Veerappa Moily
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News Reports

Lawyers seek contempt of court proceedings against West Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee for saying that Calcutta High Court is purchased, judges are biased

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Plea filed in Calcutta High Court seeking action Against CM Mamata Banerjee for saying HC had been 'purchased' and judges are biased
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Congress leaders and others spread fake news that Jamyang Tsering Namgyal regrets joining BJP after he was denied ticket, the Ladakh MP says he...

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Ladakh MP Jamyang Tsering Namgyal clarifies he never said that he regrets joining BJP after he was denied ticket
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“We are judged by what we do at home, not what we say abroad”: MEA on police crackdown on pro-Palestine protests in American universities

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MEA spokesperson Randhir Jaiswal said democracies should, in particular, display this understanding for other democracies since “we are all judged by what we do at home and not what we say abroad."
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Ministerial Round Table Conference at World Energy Congress discusses pathways to manage the evolving trilemma of energy security, access and sustainability

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The Ministerial Round Table Conference at the ongoing World Energy Congress in Rotterdam, Netherlands discussed how the COP28 UN Climate Change Conference was a game changer
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Opinions

In-house battle in Baramati – A look at how political equations work out for Supriya Sule and Sunetra Pawar in the polls

Vijay Shejval- Patil -
At Baramati, Sharad Pawar’s daughter Supriya Sule will be pitted against her sister-in-law Sunetra Pawar, wife of Deputy CM Ajit Pawar
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News Reports

Congress president Kharge writes to PM Modi seeking time to meet him to explain party’s manifesto, claims he is misinformed

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Congress President Mallikarjun Kharge on Thursday wrote a letter to PM Narendra Modi and sought time from him to explain in person the party's 'Nyay Patra'.
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News Reports

‘We feel ashamed when we look at them’: Pakistan PM Shehbaz Sharif laments over Bangladesh’s economic growth before country’s business community

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Shehbaz Sharif recounted that Bangladesh which was earlier called "East Pakistan" was termed as a burden on Pakistan when he was boy.
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Mass arrests in US after Shaheen Bagh-type encampments in US universities by pro-Palestine protestors: Here’s how US supports the same elements in India

Shraddha Pandey -
Shaheen Bagh-like encatchments are showing up in the United States with pro-Palestine students protesting in varsities across the country
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Delhi: YouTuber Manish Kashyap joins BJP at party headquarters in the presence of Anil Baluni and Manoj Tiwari

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The YouTuber gained national headlines after he was accused of sharing a fake video and spent almost nine months behind bars.
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Law

Wealth redistribution: Supreme Court says ‘won’t go by Marxist interpretation’- Details

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"We don't have to go as far as the Marxist socialist interpretation by Justice Krishna Iyer [of Article 39(b) in Ranganatha Reddy case of 1977]. But community resources will surely include resources which the present generation holds in trust brd on inter-generational equity," the CJI said.
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News Reports

PM Modi hits Congress hard on inheritance tax, recalls how Rajiv Gandhi abolished it just before his children inherited Indira Gandhi’s estate

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PM Modi today slammed the Congress party for revoking the inheritance just before transferring Indira Gandhi’s estate to her grandchildren
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World

Bankrupt Pakistan’s business leaders urge PM Shehbaz Sharif to restore trade ties with India to save the economy

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Pakistan Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif convened with the business community, aiming to rejuvenate the economy through robust exports.
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Manipur govt’s war on drugs: Chief minister N. Biren Singh shares video highlighting success against state’s massive drug problem

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Drugs like cannabis, opium and yaba have catastrophic environmental impacts from deforestation to land sinking in Manipur.
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BJP MP Ram Shankar Katheria’s wife Mridula Katheria to contest against him as independent from Etawah Lok Sabha constituency

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Mridula Katheria, who is the wife of BJP MP Ram Shankar Katheria, has decided to run for the Etawah Lok Sabha seat as an independent candidate
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BJP candidate Madhavi Latha faces hate in Hyderabad, opposition supporters question whether she is a man or a woman

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Several videos of such hate campaigns are making rounds on social media in which the AIMIM leaders or Muslim leaders can be heard saying that they have doubts about whether Latha is a man or a woman.
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Mastermind of the excise policy scam, tempered evidence, destroyed 170 phones: ED challenges Arvind Kejriwal plea against arrest in Supreme Court

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The affidavit highlighted that Arvind Kejriwal had been evading interrogation, despite being summoned nine times by the ED.
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Actress Tamannaah Bhatia summoned by Maharashtra cyber department in illegal IPL 2023 streaming case: Details

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The Fairplay app is a subsidiary app of the Mahadev app, promoters of which have links with Dawood Ibrahim’s D-company and are being probed in a money laundering case by the Enforcement Directorate.
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World

Chinese citizen, who threatened a person for advocating democracy in China, sentenced to prison in USA

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This verdict follows Wu's conviction in January on charges of cyberstalking and interstate transmission of threatening communication, as announced by the US Attorney's Office in Massachusetts.
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Judge RK Diwakar, who ordered videographic survey of disputed Gyanvapi structure, gets threats from international phone numbers

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In a letter to the SSP, the judge stated last week that he has been receiving malicious calls from international numbers, "which is deeply concerning."
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‘Ashok Gehlot was taping phone calls of Sachin Pilot and others, kept Congress high command in the dark’, says his former OSD Lokesh Sharma

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Sharma further stated that the paper he gave to the media contained references to the audio messages in the pen drive, saying that the audio was phone conversations between Union Minister Gajendra Singh Shekhawat, Late MLA Bhanwarlal Sharma, and Sanjay Jain. He added that he was asked by former CM Gehlot himself to circulate them in the media.
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Politics

Wealth re-distribution: Former Karnataka CM Basavaraj Bommai asks Rahul Gandhi to distribute his ‘benami assets’ first

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Former chief minister and BJP candidate from the Gadag-Haveri Lok Sabha constituency Basavaraj Bommai hit out at the Congress and asked Rahul Gandhi to distribute his 'benami assets', before speaking about the re-distribution of the nation's property.
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Haryana: Around 400-year-old idols of Vishnu and Lakshmi unearthed during house construction, ASI rejects demands to place them in a temple

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3 metal idols, estimated to be about 400 years old, were unearthed during excavation for a house construction in Manesar’s Mohammadpur Baghanki village. 
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India had Inheritance Tax for over 3 decades, it was abolished by Rajiv Gandhi govt just a month before transfer of Indira Gandhi’s estate...

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Estate Duty Act 1953 that imposed inheritance act was abolished just a month before transfer of Indira Gandhi’s estate to her grandchildren
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‘Why did you fill the water before us, you Ch*m*r’: Muslim women assault Dalits in Nuh, threaten to kill them if they don’t leave...

राहुल पाण्डेय -
In Nuh, a Muslim mob hurled casteist slurs at a Dalit family and assaulted them for filling water from a tubewell.
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You are cruel, behaya: TMC leader Abhishek Banerjee abuses BJP candidate Sreerupa Mitra Chowdhury; NCW takes cognisance, BJP hits back

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TMC leader Abhishek Banerjee abused BJP leader Sreerupa Mitra Chowdhury and called her "behaya" during an election campaign
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SC is hearing a 30-year-old case to determine if private properties come under ‘Material Resources Of Community’ of Article 39(b): All you need to...

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CJI said, "The dichotomy that Article 39(b) can never include private property, then it is very artificial, because when it says material resources of community it is agnostic to the title."
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‘We can’t control elections, poll body cleared doubts’: Supreme Court on 100% VVPAT-EVM verification pleas, re-iterates EVM Source Code can’t be disclosed

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Supreme Court while highlighting the autonomy of the Election Commission of India observed that they don't control the elections and the poll body has cleared doubts regarding EVMs.
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ABC journalist Avani Dias returned to Australia due to a new job and wedding, not because of any intimidation by Indian govt: Australian media

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As per an exclusive report by 'The Australia Today', Avani Dias returned to Australia due to a new job and her wedding in December 2023, and not due to any political pressure.
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‘Who went from your house to check?’ Congress leader on Bhupat Bhayani’s ‘impotent’ remark for Rahul Gandhi, BJP says it reflects Congress’ DNA

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Congress leader Pratap Dudhat asked who went from their house after a BJP leader's 'impotent' remark on Rahul Gandhi.
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Rahul Gandhi repeats his ‘X-ray’ promise, says Congress will scan wealth held as per caste, hints at private sector reservation too

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Rahul Gandhi reiterated his ‘X-ray’ remark saying that the Congress-led government would conduct a caste census and also scan the wealth held by different caste groups
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Special liking for Hamas, Umar Khalid, ‘liking’ anti-Hindu Tweets and abusing PM Modi: Meet Parveen Shaikh, Principal of prestigious Somaiya School, Mumbai

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OpIndia found a tweet by Parveen Shaikh, wherein she was seen suggesting that Prime Minister Narendra Modi is a 'dog' eager to fetch a ball on the command of Chinese Premier Xi Jinping.
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Kerala police book Manorama for peddling fake news against EVMs: When will they book ‘liberal’ portals and commentators who peddled the same lie

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Kerala police added that a 24-hour cyber patrol has also been launched in the state to detect all kinds of cyber crimes.
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Opinions

Hamid Mir misinterprets Modi’s urban naxal as ‘Arab nasal’: A manifestation of Pakistan’s growing anxiety over India’s ties with Arab nations

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Hamid Mir's diatribe against PM Modi and his wilful misinterpretation of 'urban naxal' jibe as 'Arab Nasal' reflects Pakistan's nervousness with India's deepening ties with Muslim majority countries in the Middle East.
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