The notice was issued on February 6, a day before Imran Pratapgarhi visited the region to address protesters. Pratapgarhi, who unsuccessfully contested the Lok Sabha polls from Moradabad on a Congress ticket, joined the protest on February 7.

The “Birthday party and pre-wedding celebrations on wheels” policy launched by GMRCL in August 2019, which was hardly publicised and remained in the confines of its website, was withdrawn due to lack of response. The metro officials said they plan to reintroduce it after June 2020.

Originally, the Bill proposed that a taxpayer would be required to pay 100 per cent of amount of the disputed taxes and get complete waiver of interest and penalty provided he pays by March 31, 2020. Now, the Cabinet has passed this amendment to include two rates to quickly meet targets under the scheme.

AGR dues: Bharti Airtel wrote to DoT offering to pay Rs 10,000 crore by February 20. Vodafone India, which owes around Rs 53,000 crore did not comment on the issue.

The apex court’s observations came during the hearing of a plea moved by telecom companies in which they sought the court’s permission to negotiate with the DoT on the payment schedule for AGR.

On Wednesday, the Muzaffarnagar Additional District Magistrate (ADM) ordered 53 people to pay a total of Rs 23.41 lakh for damage caused to property during an anti-CAA protest on December 20.

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The Election Commission has written to SY Qurashi pointing out that no legal action was taken during his tenure as CEC under the Representation of the People Act and the IPC for violation of Model Code of Conduct.

Ram Vilas Paswan said: “All the MPs who attended the meeting demanded reservation in the judiciary and the creation of an Indian Judicial Service because whenever a matter related to the weaker sections goes to the Court, it gets stuck.”

Speaking to reporters in Kolhapur, Pawar said, “As per the Constitution, law and order is a state subject. It is wrong to take away the rights of the state."

The Court said that an agitation cannot be suppressed only on the ground that people are agitating against the government.

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Nehra said the wall was “only being rebuilt in place of an existing one that was broken”. The over half-kilometre wall is being built along the road connecting Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel International Airport to Indira Bridge.

According to the poll-eve survey conducted by Lokniti-CSDS, available exclusively to The Indian Express, women were 11 percentage points more likely to have voted for AAP in this Assembly election than men, 60% to 49%.

Significantly, of the 1,53,000 employees working for BSNL when the VRS scheme was approved in October 2019, over half — 78,569 employees in all — have opted to retire.

Manpreet Singh, who made his debut in 2011, and now has 260 international appearances under his belt, learnt the basics of the game at the hockey stadium at Mithapur village in Jalandhar.

The survey system is already in “deep trouble” and given the increasing instances of such attacks, conducting household surveys with the Census as the frame would be “very tough” going ahead, said Pronab Sen.

Hafiz Saeed, who in November 2018 was set free from a 300-day-long house arrest, is considered the mastermind and planner of the Mumbai terrorist attack in 2008 which claimed the lives of 166 people.

By Wednesday evening, Congress president Sonia Gandhi had accepted the resignations of Chacko and DPCC chief Subhash Chopra — AICC general secretary Shaktisinh Gohil was made the interim party in-charge of Delhi.

Anand Singh, a party-hopping legislator, was elected on a BJP ticket from Vijayanagara seat in Ballari in December 2019, after he defected from the Congress along with 14 others to enable Yediyurappa to wrest power.

The government’s action came a day after The Indian Express reported that the state’s home department, under the then Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis, had awarded the project for digitising Mumbai police’s official records to a private company in October.

The spike in retail inflation was stoked by higher price levels of food items such as vegetables, eggs, meat and fish and fuels.