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6-year-old boy made hoax call to airport - Times of India
PATNA: It was a six-year-old child who had made the hoax call to the Patna airport saying a bomb had been planted on the airport premises on September 7. Patna DSP (Sachivalaya) Rajesh Singh Prabhakar told this reporter police investigations tracked the call to Belaganj in Gaya district . “Soon after watching a TV serial on crime, the Class I student saw an aircraft in the sky from his window.
UIDAI dismisses reports on Aadhaar software hacking - Times of India
NEW DELHI: The Unique Identification Authority of India ( UIDAI ) on Tuesday dismissed a news report appearing in social and online media about Aadhaar Enrolment Software being allegedly hacked as completely incorrect and irresponsible.The UIDAI said the claims lack substance and are baseless.The authority claimed that no operator can make or update Aadhaar unless a resident himself or herself give their biometric details."No operator can make or update Aadhaar unless a resident himself give...
Can include suggestions of TMC MLA in UIDAI's proposal on social media agency: Centre to SC - Times of India
NEW DELHI: The Centre on Tuesday told the Supreme Court it was willing to accommodate the suggestions of Trinamool Congress MLA Mahua Moitra in the proposal of the Unique Identification Authority of India ( UIDAI ) to hire a social media agency to monitor online platforms.A bench of Chief Justice Dipak Misra and Justices A M Khanwilkar and D Y Chandrachud was told by the attorney general KK Venugopal that he would file an affidavit and, in all probability, the suggestions of Moitra are likely...
Nawaz Sharif's wife Kulsoom Nawaz dies in London
LONDON: Begum Kulsoom, the wife of Pakistan's jailed former prime minister Nawaz Sharif , died Tuesday in London after a prolonged illness, Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz president Shehbaz Sharif said.Kulsoom, who was under treatment at London's Harley Street Clinic since June 2014, was placed on life support earlier Tuesday as her health deteriorated, Geo TV reported.The 68-year-old former first lady was diagnosed with lymphoma (throat) cancer in August 2017.She had married Sharif in April 1971.
BJP leadership adopting double standard on Ram temple issue: Pravin Togadia - Times of India
MATHURA: Accusing the BJP leadership of adopting double standard on the Ram temple issue , Antarrashtriya Hindu Parishad (AHP) president Pravin Togadia said on Tuesday that the party doesn't have any moral right to remain in power if it cannot fulfil its promise of constructing the temple in Ayodhya.Togadia, who launched AHP after his ouster from the Vishva Hindu Parishad (VHP), targeted Prime Minister Narendra Modi and said if the could bring in a legislation to ban instant triple talaq, why...
Asaram moves mercy plea, seeks dilution of life sentence - Times of India
JODHPUR: Self-styled godman Asaram, who was convicted for raping a minor girl, has sent a mercy plea to the governor of Rajasthan seeking dilution of his life sentence On April 25, a Jodhpur court had sentenced Asaram to life in prison after finding him guilty of raping a teenage girl in his ashram five years ago.Challenging the sentence, Asaram had moved high court on July 2 but the petition is yet to be listed for hearing.Governor Kalyan Singh , who recently received Asaram's mercy plea,...
Congress Northeast bastion defies bandh call, total shutdown in BJP states - Times of India
GUWAHATI: The Bharat Bandh called by Congress against rise in fuel prices on Thursday failed to have any impact in Mizoram, the party's last bastion in the northeast. In contrast, the BJP-ruled states of Assam, Manipur, Arunachal Pradesh and Tripura witnessed near-total shutdown.
Hinduism has taught world tolerance: Venkaiah Naidu - Times of India
NEW DELHI: Vice-President M Venkaiah Naidu hailed Indian thought and philosophy for being "holistic, integrated and universal" and said Hinduism had taught the world tolerance and universal acceptance.Elaborating on various aspects of India's world view during his address at the three-day Second World Hindu Congress in Chicago, Naidu said Hinduism was more a way of life than a dogmatic religion.
Case going on for 41 years over 'missing' court fee of Rs 312 ends, but woman who won dead - Times of India
VARANASI: Ganga Devi was always a fighter. So when the Mirzapur district magistrate served a property attachment notice on her after a dispute in 1975, she protested vehemently. Then 37, she challenged the action before the civil judge and won the case two years later in 1977.Fate though had another, harder battle in store for her. During the course of the trial, the judge had asked Ganga to pay a court fee of Rs 312, which she did.
China promises retaliation if US imposes more tariffs
BEIJING: China's government says it will retaliate if Washington goes ahead with more tariff increases following President Donald Trump 's comment that he was considering extending penalties to more Chinese imports.A foreign ministry spokesman, Geng Shuang, said Monday that Beijing "will definitely take countermeasures to safeguard its legitimate rights" if Trump goes ahead with a new round of tariffs.Beijing and Washington have imposed 25 percent import duties on $50 billion of each other's...
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