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POCSO case: Seer files anticipatory bail plea, says will ‘talk to police’

Swami Avimukteshwaranand Saraswati (Image/PTI) NEW DELHI: Swami Avimukteshwaranand Saraswati on Tuesday filed an anticipatory bail petition in the Allahabad high court in connection with alleged sexual harassment charges against him and his disciple, Mukundanand Giri.The seer also said that he will talk to the police about the matter. Speaking to reporters in Varanasi, he said:...

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‘Keralamite, Keralamian’? Shashi Tharoor quips after Centre renames Kerala as Keralam

NEW DELHI: Senior Congress leader Shashi Tharoor on Tuesday reacted with wordplay after the Union Cabinet is understood to have approved the proposal to change the name of Kerala to ‘Keralam’, asking what Anglophones would now call residents of the state.The Thiruvananthapuram MP asked how people from the state now would be referred to, and...

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Bhopal: How 2 sisters and their gang ran a rape-conversion racket

Image Used For Representational Purpose Only. (AI Image) BHOPAL: Acting on complaints filed by two women—a 21-year-old from Chhattisgarh and a 30-year-old Bhopal-based woman—Bag Sewania police on Sunday registered two separate FIRs on charges of rape and forced religious conversion against around half a dozen accused, including two women who are sisters, under relevant sections...

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US moves closer to tougher H-1B wage norms after proposal clears federal review

The United States has moved a step closer to revising wage rules for foreign workers after a proposed regulation affecting the H-1B visa and employment-based green card process cleared federal review — a development that could eventually push up minimum wage requirements for sponsored workers.The proposal was submitted to the Office of Management and Budget...

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Corruption, case backlog, judge shortage: NCERT book outlines judiciary’s key challenges

AI image created by Chatgpt used for representational purpose only NEW DELHI: A newly introduced NCERT social science textbook for class 8 has outlined key challenges facing country’s judicial system, including corruption, a heavy backlog of cases and an inadequate number of judges.According to news agency PTI, the revised chapter, ‘The Role of the Judiciary...

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‘Lack of privacy’: Kerala HC slams govt for using 5L employees’ contacts in CM WhatsApp campaign

NEW DELHI: Kerala high court on Tuesday pulled up the state government for accessing the private contact details of nearly five lakh government employees and sought an immediate explanation.This comes after a plea was filed in the court which alleged that CMO bypassed privacy laws to send unsolicited, personalised WhatsApp messages featuring the chief minister’s...

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IBM stock’s worst single-day drop in 25 yrs over Anthropic tool

IBM shares suffered their worst single-day drop in over 25 years on Monday, February 23 after AI startup Anthropic announced that its Claude Code tool can automate the modernisation of COBOL—the decades-old programming language that sits at the heart of IBM’s mainframe business. The stock fell 13.2% to close at $223.35, wiping roughly $40 billion...

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