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RTI activist Abhimanyu Panda was standing in front of his house in Patrasahi locality when he was attacked by motorcycle-borne youths, Sub-Divisional Police Officer (SDPO), Balliguda, MR Barik said.

BJP leader Kailash Vijayvargiya said that if the state government fails to expose the bureaucrats, he would make sure that the IAS and IPS officers are exposed.

Dr AS Bhalla was recently in the news when the Gwalior physicians had riled against the administration’s ‘high-handedness’ after it razed down his Sahara hospital.

Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern said the volcanic island -- also known as Whakaari -- off New Zealand's north coast had erupted while groups of tourists were visiting.

Flight operations have been affected at the Srinagar airport for the past five days because visibility is as low as 100 to 500 meters due to heavy fog.

The bill proposes amendments to the Citizenship Act of 1955 to provide citizenship to persecuted non-Muslims of Bangladesh, Afghanistan and Pakistan.

This included Indian Made Foreign Liquor (IMFL) costing Rs 231 crore, beer worth Rs 17.79 crore and country- made liquor amounting to Rs 3.12 crore, Chief Minister Vijay Rupani informed the Assembly.

The government wants the finance minister and RBI governor under its control, an editorial in Sena mouthpiece 'Saamana' claimed, adding that the government is not ready to listen to economists.

The incident took place near here on Sunday night and the accused, identified as Rajesh Suresh Kambli -- who is known to the victim -- was arrested on Monday afternoon.

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The students, who had joined the northeast unit of the right-wing students’ body as its office-bearers, said they resigned after ABVP members organised a rally in Guwahati in support of the Bill.

They said that after the incident in which 43 people died, the resident commissioner of Bihar in Delhi approached Railway Minister Piyush Goyal for help to send the bodies home.

The bench also directed the governments of Uttar Pradesh, Punjab and Haryana to furnish before it the updated report on stubble burning up to December 11.

While introducing the Citizenship (Amendment) Bill 2019, Amit Shah said the proposed legislation is being brought on the basis of reasonable classifications provided under the Constitution and it does not violate any of its provisions.

Raising slogans like 'Pakistan is Taliban', 'Pakistan a terror state,' and 'Where was (Osama) Bin Laden', the protestors demanded Pakistan be declared a State Sponsor of terrorism.

The fire department officials said they received a call at around 7.50am after which two fire tenders were rushed to the scene.