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READ MORE New Year’s celebration turned unpleasant for two young men in Gurgaon after they were beaten black and blue by policemen for alleged ‘hooliganism’. The incident took place outside Sahara Mall in Gurgaon’s Mehrauli late last night. In a video of the incident, shared by news agency ANI on Twitter, two young men can been seen getting attacked by policemen and what looks like mall guards. The video shows a crowd of people gathered outside the mall and uniformed policemen raining slaps and blows on one of the youth. Baton-wielding policemen soon join the melee and start attacking another young man. Men dressed in green reflector jackets – possibly mall guards – can also been attack the two men. The video ends with the police chasing one of the men away from the mall. #WATCH : Police thrashed, baton-charged youth outside Sahara Mall on Mehrauli Gurgaon Road, last night, for indulging in hooliganism pic.twitter.com/NK7oXDpvDs – ANI (@ANI) Ja...

READ MORE Late last night, the Assam government came out with the first draft of its much-awaited National Register of Citizens (NRR). The draft includes names of 1.9 crore people out of a total 3.29 crore applicants in the state. The draft recognises these 1.9 crore people as legal citizens of India. However, those who find their names missing from the draft should not worry since it is just that – a draft. “It [updating the NCR] is a tedious process to verify the names. So there is a possibility that some names within a single family may not be there in the first draft,” NRC State Coordinator Prateek Hajela was quoted as saying by news agency PTI. “There is no need to panic as rest of the documents are under verification,” Hajela added as he promised that the entire process of preparing Assam’s National Register of Citizens, which is being carried out under the watch of the Supreme Court, will be completed by this year. All the people who don...

READ MORE New Delhi: A bench led by acting Chief Justice Gita Mittal and Justice C Hari Shankar recently ruled that government land cannot be used as a burial ground. The bench was considering a petition by the NGO, Kabristan Intzamia Association, which claimed that on the basis of a statement by an MLA, the Muslim organisation had started using the land near West Delhi’s Vipin Garden as a burial ground. The bench ruled that no person a right to use any open land or government land ‘indiscriminately’ as a burial ground. “No legal right is either pointed out or made out with respect to the subject land. No person has any right to use any open land, especially government land, indiscriminately as a burial ground,” ruled Delhi High Court. However, the bench led by the acting CJ stated that “no legal right is either pointed out or made out with respect to the subject land.” The court further said that the Dwarka sub-divisional magistrate passed ...

READ MORE New Delhi: As the country continues to witness incidents of increasing illegal cattle smuggling or transportation of animals in unhygienic conditions, a Delhi High Court bench has noted that no authority has submitted any data on prosecution and evidence shows “no compliance with Prevention of Cruelty to Animals Act, 1960.” Petitioner Saurabh Gupta had complained that a certificate from the veterinary expert was not being obtained prior to the animals being herded together in transport vehicles and being moved from one place to another. She also complained that such an act was in gross violation of the Rules 47 to 56 of the Transport of Animals Rules, 1978 which were exercised under Section 38 of the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals Act, 1960. The bench of Acting Chief Justice Gita Mittal and Justice C Hari Shankar noted that no affidavit filed by the respondent revealed compliance with the law to prevent cruelty to animals. It also noted that authorities had n...

READ MORE President Ram Nath Kovind, Vice President M Venkaiah Naidu, Prime Minister Narendra Modi, External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj and several other leaders wished the nation on Monday on the occasion of New Year. By Zee Media Bureau | Updated: Jan 01, 2018, 10:21 AM IST Article source: https://www.technobuffalo.com/2017/10/03/google-allo-for-web-rolls-out-ios-support-plus-more-web-browsers/ Best Wordpress Plugin development company in India       Best Web development company in India

READ MORE The 8 states will send 99 MPs to 17th Lok Sabha in 2019  By Zee Media Bureau | Updated: Jan 01, 2018, 10:36 AM IST Article source: https://www.technobuffalo.com/2017/10/03/google-allo-for-web-rolls-out-ios-support-plus-more-web-browsers/ Best Wordpress Plugin development company in India       Best Web development company in India

READ MORE Kochi : Alleging “illegality” in provisions of the bill that criminalises instant triple talaq, an Indian Union Muslim League (IUML) leader on Sunday said Muslim bodies would challenge it in the Supreme Court if the Rajya Sabha also passes it. The Lok Sabha had last week passed the bill that makes triple talaq punishable by up to three years imprisonment for the husband. IUML leader in the Lok Sabha PK Kunhalikutty alleged there were many “lacunae” and “contradictions” in the bill passed by the Lower House last week. IUML national general secretary said various Muslim bodies in the country would move the Supreme Court if the bill was also passed by the Rajya Sabha. “We will challenge it in the Supreme Court. We will move the apex court if the Rajya Sabha also passes the bill. The IUML will be a party to it,” Kunhalikutty told PTI. Hitting out at the BJP government, he alleged the ruling party’s move to “criminalise...

READ MORE Happy New Year! Let’s admit it, 2017 has been quite a ride. And, when the last day of the year is when Rajinikanth joins politics— you know— 2018 is only going to get exciting. Lest we forget, Sanjay Leela Bhansali’s ‘Padmavati’.. errr.. ‘Padmavat’ will be released, and according to our Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Muslim women finally have their freedom. On the first day of the year, here’s a look back at the events that unfolded. Here’s a list of the best stories from News18.com in the last one year. Take a look at our coverage of #KashmirBeyondCliches — a nine-parties of the country’s most militarised zone. There’s the story of the b oy who aspired to be the Osama Bin Laden  of Kashmir, the story of the photo journalists who are caught in the  crossfire of pellets and stones , witnessing a  militants’s funeral  to understand why thousands of people, including women an...

READ MORE Three questions need answers. Post the Gujarat elections, is the Congress’ existential crisis over? Is the Congress changing its ideological position to face the BJP’s merciless electoral machine? And finally what strategy will it acquire to deal with its potential non-BJP allies? A few might be disappointed that I did not ask the most expected question — is Rahul Gandhi ready to lead the Congress? With his spirited assault and witty attacks on (PM Narendra) Modi during the Gujarat elections, that debate should now end. Rahul is now officially the president of the party and Sonia has retired. The Rahul era has started for the Congress, but will he lead the country is the question. Since meeting the most humiliating defeat in its history, the Congress had gone into a shell. It had lost the will to fight. Rahul was seen as a reluctant warrior who had been thrust onto the battlefield against his own will. It was at a time when he was faced with the most battle-...

READ MORE Chennai: Naa eppo varuven epadi varuven nu yarukkum theriyadhu, aana varavendiya nerathula correct ah varuven (No one can say when or how I’ll come, but I will come at the right time) – one of superstar Rajinikanth’s legendary dialogues from the 1995 film Muthu came true on Sunday. Just like he prophesied, the actor, 22 years after Muthu was released, entered Tamil Nadu politics and promised to launch a party that will fight on all 234 assembly seats in the next state elections. With the demise of former chief minister J Jayalalithaa in December 2016 and DMK patriarch Karunanidhi’s fading presence in the political scenario, there currently exists a power vacuum in the state. Rajini, just like his colleague Kamal Haasan, has realised this and has thrown his hat into the ring . Looking back at his illustrious career, Rajini’s punch lines have been the highlights of his films. These cleverly crafted catchphrases have always contained a strong ...

READ MORE The researchers’ camp on Blåskimen Island in Antarctica. Photo provided by study authors. (Vikram Goel) Happy New Year 2018: Greetings, Wishes, Cards, Images, Messages, Photos, SMSs WhatsApp and Facebook Status Quotes VIDEO SPECIAL: The news that made the loudest headlines in 2017 Happy New Year 2018: 12 inspiring quotes for the 12 months of 2018 It is a piece of a larger puzzle that begins with an ice rise in East Antarctica. Vikram Goel, 28, says he is not answering any big questions yet but is hopeful that what he has researched will be a step towards a larger understanding of how ice sheets in the region will behave with change in climate. Goel is a PhD scholar, one of two students on a Ministry of Earth Sciences scholarship, to study at the Norwegian Polar Institute in Tromso. He has now co-authored a study in The Cryosphere, “Glaciological settings and recent mass balance of Blåskimen Island in Dronning Maud Land, Antarctica” ...

READ MORE The Americans also led 4-2 but Finland rallied with two quick goals in the third to tie the score. Fox took a pass down the right wing in full flight and beat goalie Ukko-Pekka Luukkonen with a shot through the pads to give the U.S. a win to close out the round robin for both teams. The U.S. finished with three wins (one in a shootout) and a loss while Finland had two wins and two losses. Captain Joey Anderson had two goals today; Fox and Casey Mittelstadt had a goal and two assists each; and, Brady Tkachuk had three assists. Mittelstadt now leads all scorers with nine points.  Both teams had already qualified for the quarter-finals, though their opponents won’t be known until later tonight once all round-robin games have been completed. “We’re finiding a way to win, and that’s the main thing right now,” said Anderson. “We didn’t play our best hockey at all times tonight. There were periods of time when we stopped moving our feet....

READ MORE New Delhi: While debates on nationalism and patriotism continue to rage since the Narendra Modi government took office, the government is going full steam ahead by broadcasting ‘patriotic’ films on Doordarshan National. According to figures tabled in the Lok Sabha on Thursday, a total of 17 patriotic films were telecast on the national TV channel. This is a sharp rise from just one patriotic film telecast in 2014, when the Modi government first took office. Harish Dwivedi, BJP MP from Basti in Uttar Pradesh, asked the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting in a written question, “Will the Minister of Information and Broadcasting be pleased to state the number of patriotism based films made and broadcast by Doordarshan during each of the last three years and the current year; whether a sharp decline in the making of patriotism based films have been observed during the past few years; if so, the details thereof, and the reasons therefor; whether the Govern...

READ MORE Guwahati: About 1.9 crore of the 3.29 crore Assam residents have been tagged as ‘legal’, while the rest await further verification. The much-awaited first draft of the National Register of Citizens (NRC) was published on the last day of 2017. The rest of the names are under various stages of verification, Registrar General of India Sailesh said at a press conference held at midnight where he made the draft public. “This is a part draft. It contains 1.9 crore persons, who have been verified till now. The rest of the names are at various stages of verification. As soon as the verification is done, we will come out with another draft,” he said. However, NRC State Coordinator Prateek Hajela assured that those whose names have been excluded in the first list need not worry as the body will come out with more names to add to the list. “It is a tedious process to verify the names. So there is a possibility that some names within a single family may n...

READ MORE Imphal:  Some tension prevailed along the India-Myanmar border in Manipur’s Tengnoupal district on Sunday, a day after Myanmar Army started levelling the no-man’s land, officials said. Tengnoupal’s Collector K. Raghumani, who toured the area with Superintendent of Police S. Ibomcha, said the official team inspected illegal constructions like pig pens of Indians at the no man’s land and told told the owners to dismantle these illegal constructions failing which the district administration shall move in.  On Saturday, the Myanmarese officials had started levelling the ground in the no man’s land.  Mr Ibomcha said that as both countries should not encroach upon the no man’s land, police stopped it. Mr Raghumani said that there was no official word to the district administration from the Myanmarese authority about the levelling works. He clarified that Indians also cannot construct anything on the no man’s land.  Offic...

READ MORE New Delhi: One a sporting icon with demi-god status who is rarely away from the headlines and the other a relatively low profile parliamentarian, the two Tendulkars in the Upper House of Parliament are a study in contrasts. Both Sachin Ramesh Tendulkar, 44, and Vinay Dinu Tendulkar, 56, are debutants in the Rajya Sabha. But that’s where their similarity perhaps ends. While the cricket ace, a nominated member of the House, makes news just by attending the Rajya Sabha, Vinay Tendulkar is the BJP’s man from Goa who stays behind the headlines, a quiet organisational worker who is chief of the party’s unit in the coastal state. Sachin Tendulkar’s first term began in 2012, and will end in April 2018, but Vinay Tendulkar’s run in the Rajya Sabha has just begun. He was elected to the House from the lone seat of Goa in July 2017. The Bharat Ratna awardee hit the headlines last week after he rose to speak on ‘the right to play and future of sports in ...

READ MORE The incident happened on Saturday when GoAir flight 140 landed at Patna airport. By Zee Media Bureau | Updated: Dec 31, 2017, 15:30 PM IST Article source: http://www.freepressjournal.in/weekend/the-burning-forest-indias-war-in-bastar-by-nandini-sundar/1145972 Best Wordpress Plugin development company in India       Best Web development company in India

READ MORE New Delhi:  If you have tears, prepare to shed them now – these words Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar could be relevant for citizens of Delhi. Only, you may not have to prepare to shed your tears, they may force themselves out owing to the pollution. There are currently three pollution plans for Delhi and while one of them is officially in play, there is little or no understanding of what is to be done with the other pollution plans. Also, few seem to have an answer for why there is no plan for the rest of India which has many cities that are often more polluted than the national capital. The plan currently in action is the GRAP or Graded Response Action Plan laid out by a Supreme Court-mandated panel called EPCA about a year ago. Since then, the National Green Tribunal has come up with one as well as the Prime Minister’s office. The PMO’s pollution task force came up with a 12-point action plan with the Central Pollution Control Board. But as sources...

READ MORE Happy New Year 2018: Greetings, Wishes, Cards, Images, Messages, Photos, SMSs WhatsApp and Facebook Status Quotes Happy New Year 2018: 12 inspiring quotes for the 12 months of 2018 VIDEO SPECIAL: The news that made the loudest headlines in 2017 Next stop Titan @tweetsoutloud Bobak Ferdowsi, NASA engineer NASA engineer Bobak Ferdowsi tweeted his congratulations to the teams behind the Caesar and Dragonfly robotic missions selected for launch in the next decade as part of the New Frontiers programme. Dragonfly, led by Johns Hopkins University’s Applied Physics Laboratory, is a rotorcraft that will land on Titan, Saturn’s largest moon, which has a dense atmosphere and a hydrological cycle similar to Earth’s and is flowing with organic material essential to life. Dragonfly will “explore diverse locations” for evidence of “water-based and/or hydrocarbon-based life”. According to the concept paper, prepared by researchers from v...

READ MORE While many of the sites you frequent might publish year-end wrap-ups, you might prefer to look ahead at what’s to come. Ready to get your fix of virtual reality games? Below, we’ll look at 10 offerings to put on your “must check out” list. 1. Rick and Morty’s Virtual Rick-ality for PlayStation VR Featuring a full assortment of voices from the Adult Swim TV show featuring Rick, a mad scientist, and Morty, his grandson, this VR game comes to the PlayStation VR platform for the first time in 2018 . While playing it, you’re Morty’s clone, embarking on a journey spanning multiple dimensions and places. Also, learn the essentials of intergalactic car repair and put objects in the Combinator to make new items. A price for the game has not been published. 2. Sairento VR (Full Version) Although this game has had several release dates that were ultimately false alarms, the full version is finally set to come out this January . The game lets you ...

READ MORE Mumbai: Eleven women were among 14 people killed in a massive fire near the London Taxi Gastrobar in Mumbai’s Kamala Mills Compound early on Friday. The fire broke out around 12:30am on the top floor of a four-storied building in the commercial hub which houses several restaurants, pubs and offices of television channels. The massive fire quickly engulfed the entire building after it started at a rooftop restaurant and raged for several hours before it could be brought under control. According to eyewitness accounts, in the ensuing chaos after the fire broke out, several women entered the men’s washroom, which had no ventilation outlet. “My sister Preeti Rajgariya, 48, was there to have dinner with her daughter Ruchi. They started rushing out when they got to know of the fire, but got separated. Her daughter ran down the staircase, but my sister was stuck in the washroom and died of suffocation,” the victim’s brother Ajay Agarwal told CN...

READ MORE New Delhi: Delhi Traffic Police has made various arrangements on routes across the city with a special focus in and around Connaught Place, in a bid to provide a hassle-free experience to commuters on the eve of New Year. All private and public transport vehicles shall be restricted from 8.30 pm onwards at Connaught Place in central Delhi till the celebrations end, an official release said. “Vehicular traffic in the inner, middle or outer circle area of Connaught Place will be restricted,” it said. Vehicles will not be allowed to proceed towards Connaught Place beyond R/A Mandi House, R/A Bengali Market, North foot of Ranjit Singh Flyover, Minto Road Deen Dayal Upadhaya Marg crossing, Chelmsford Road near Munje Chowk (New Delhi Railway Station), RK Ashram Marg-Chitragupta Marg Crossing, R/A Gole Market, R/A GPO, Patel Chowk, Kasturba Gandhi Road -Ferozshah Road Crossing, Jai Singh Road-Bangla Sahib Lane, R/A Windsor Place, the release said. However, vehicles wi...