Yediyurappa also said that a Special Investigation Team (SIT) had been set up to probe the violence after a mob attacked two police stations and a Congress MLA's house after the social media post was put up by the legislator's nephew on August 11.

Apart from seeking that the judgment be kept in abeyance, the statement urged the Supreme Court to hold an open hearing after the pandemic by a larger bench to “review the standards of criminal contempt”.

Officials say the workers were trained for a week on safety measures and assistance in Covid wards, including how to change oxygen cylinders, check blood pressure, etc. In Kolkata, they have been housed in the youth hostel at Salt Lake stadium.

According to police, the drive to trace missing or abducted children in Gujarat was initiated by Director General of Police (DGP) Ashish Bhatia from August 6.

Two Army personnel were injured during the search operation, and one is reported to be critical. The operation was still on till late night.

The police said that Hetal Solanki, 30, a forest guard of Godhana beat in the Bhanvad range of the sanctuary had gone out on routine patrol on Saturday afternoon.

“Life cannot be stopped. We have to move ahead with all safeguards... Can we just stop exams? We should move on,” said Justice Arun Mishra, heading a three-judge Bench hearing the petition.

The activist, who has been fighting corruption at the local level, had alleged that his son was framed by the people he was trying to unmask, and that they were in league with the local police.

Sources said the committee Secretariat will write to Facebook Monday demanding its explanation and is also likely to summon the social media company.

Chauhan succumbed to multiple organ failure after he had tested positive for Covid last month. He was 73.

Maharashtra, Tamil Nadu had 40% cases, but posted sharp rise in goods movement.

Across the state, several such examples of government teachers’ innovation through the vatara shale model abound.

According to information provided by the bank — accessed by The Indian Express – from 2011 to 2020, it has written off a total of Rs 7,400 crore. The major write-offs have come in the last four years when Rs 7,000 crore has been written off.

This loss occurs at the 'farmer level' between harvesting, transporting to mandis and storing by farmers at home for their own consumption or sale at a later stage.

The CBI was acting on an FIR it had registered on the basis of a complaint filed by Sonipat resident Manoj Kalra, who runs a business of manufacturing medicines.

Dhoni was last seen wearing India colours in July last year when he left the field after his heartbreakingly close runout in the World Cup semi-final, a dismissal that dashed a billion dreams.

“We have set up a committee to reconsider the minimum age of marriage for girls. The Centre will take a decision after the committee submits its report,” Modi said during his Independence Day address from Red Fort.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi has often referred to terrorism and Pakistan in the same context previously, and recently spoke about expansionism during a visit to Ladakh in early July following the border clash with Chinese troops on June 15.

Facebook's top public policy executive in India “opposed applying hate-speech rules” to at least four individuals and groups linked with the BJP despite the fact that they were “flagged internally for promoting or participating in violence.”

On Friday evening, Satyamev, a first-time pradhan of Bansgaon, was shot dead, allegedly by the upper castes. A day later, there is heavy police presence in the village, with the upper caste houses locked, and the Dalits alleging Satyamev was killed for refusing to kow-tow to the Thakurs.

The phone call, according to a statement from the Ministry of External Affairs, lasted 11 minutes during which Oli greeted the Indian government and the people of India on their 74th Independence Day.

“I am pleased to share with you that the mission will be launched on pilot mode in the six Union Territories of Chandigarh, Ladakh, Dadra and Nagar Haveli and Daman and Diu, Puducherry, Andaman & Nicobar Islands and Lakshadweep,” PM Modi said.

The four had banded together in 2010 in an attempt to bring attention to the pollution in the area, and they decided to take the issue to the courts after failing to make any impression with their small campaigning on the state government.

At the site of the tragedy, notebooks of children still lie in the slush, amid mangled remains of vehicles and what were once homes. A long brown gash on the side of a hill indicates the path of the landslide, believed to have originated at least five kilometres above.