SC Urges Parliament for amendment

SC Urges Parliament for amendment

Tuesday, 24 September 2024 | Pioneer News Service | New Delhi

Quashing the Madras High Court order, the Supreme Court on Monday held that watching and downloading child pornography are offences under the POCSO Act and the information technology law. SC suggested Parliament to consider amending the term ‘child pornography’ with “child sexually abusive and exploitative material” by bringing changes in...

Delhi welcomes Atishi as its youngest Chief Minister

Delhi welcomes Atishi as its youngest Chief Minister

Sunday, 22 September 2024 | Rajesh Kumar | New Delhi

AAP leader Atishi took oath on Saturday as Delhi’s third woman Chief Minister and became the youngest of all three to hold the top office in the national Capital. She also became the 17th woman to hold the post of Chief Minister in independent India. Along with her, five other ministers...

Gems, jewellery sector in India vulnerable to money laundering, terror financing: FATF

Saturday, 21 September 2024 | Pioneer News Service | New Delhi

The Financial Action Task Force (FATF) report pointed out that India’s gems and jewellery sector is vulnerable to money laundering, terrorist financing as large amounts of funds are not showing ownership trails. The Paris-headquartered global body said in its mutual evaluation report for India released on Thursday that the money...

EOW arrests relative of BharatPe co-founder EOW arrests relative of BharatPe co-founder

Saturday, 21 September 2024 | Staff Reporter | New Delhi

Delhi Police’s Economic Offences Wing (EOW) has taken Deepak Gupta, close relative of BharatPe co-founder and former Managing Director (MD) Ashneer Grover in connection with the alleged misappropriation of funds from the fintech firm. Deepak Gupta, who is married to the sister of Madhuri Grover, wife of Ashneer Grover, was taken...

Give up violence or face action: Amit Shah to Naxals

Saturday, 21 September 2024 | Pioneer News Service | New Delhi

Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Friday appealed to Naxals to give up violence, lay down arms and surrender, saying an all-out operation will otherwise be carried out against them. Addressing 55 victims of Naxal violence of Chhattisgarh virtually from here, Shah also asserted that Maoists will take their last...

Eight killed, dozens wounded as Israel hits Beirut again

Saturday, 21 September 2024 | AP | Beirut

An Israeli airstrike hit a neighbourhood in Beirut on Friday, killing at least eight people and wounding nearly 60 others, Lebanese health officials said, the first such Israeli attack on Lebanon’s capital in months. The Israeli strike on Beirut’s crowded southern suburbs hit during rush hour, as people headed home from...

Political meltdown over Laddus of Tirupati

Political meltdown over Laddus of Tirupati

Saturday, 21 September 2024 | Pioneer News Service | New Delhi

As the Tirupati Laddu row snowballed into a major national controversy over the alleged use of animal fat in the Tirupati prasadam, Union Health Minister JP Nadda on Friday said that he has spoken to Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu and sought the available report for review. Union Food...

21 Dalit homes set ablaze in Bihar, probe underway

Friday, 20 September 2024 | Pioneer News Service | Patna

Twenty-one houses were set on fire in Bihar’s Nawada district near the Capital city Patna.  Preliminary investigation suggested that a land dispute could be the cause behind the incident that happened in Manjhi Tola in Mufassil police station area on Wednesday late evening. Nawada District Magistrate Ashutosh Kumar Verma said the...

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