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The Supreme Court on Thursday cited its own ruling that barred protesters from blocking public roads and said farmers’ grievances could be addressed either by Parliament or judiciary but they cannot be seen to cause harassment to commuters through sit-in dharnas on highways, hindering traffic to and from Delhi to neighbouring Haryana and Uttar Pradesh. from India News | Latest News Headlines & Live Updates from India - Times of India https://ift.tt/3BcoA7r

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The crisis in Congress escalated on Thursday with former Punjab chief minister Amarinder Singh saying he will quit Congress soon, and senior leader P Chidambaram joining veteran partymen Ghulam Nabi Azad, B S Hooda and Anand Sharma to criticise protests by a group of workers outside ‘G23’ leader and former Union minister Kapil Sibal’s house.​ from India News | Latest News Headlines & Live Updates from India - Times of India https://ift.tt/3F6WOvi

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As many as 31 states and UTs have covered more than 60% of their adult population above 18 with at least one dose of Covid vaccines and 25% of this cohort has received the full two doses. Overall, 69% of the total adult population of the country has received at least one dose of vaccine. As a share of the entire population, the coverage works out to 46% and India has administered 889 million shots. from India News | Latest News Headlines & Live Updates from India - Times of India https://ift.tt/3omuSh9

Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) national president Mohan Bhagwat arrived in Jammu on a four-day visit on Thursday. This is the first visit of Bhagwat to J&K after the removal of the special status of the erstwhile state on August 5, 2019. An RSS official in a statement said, "During his stay at Jammu, Dr Bhagwat will meet various sections of society, hold deliberations and also discuss the situation post-Article 370 in Jammu and Kashmir." from India News | Latest News Headlines & Live Updates from India - Times of India https://ift.tt/3AX1txf

Unknown gunmen shot dead a Unani physician belonging to the Sikh community in Pakistan’s northwestern city of Peshawar on Thursday, triggering panic among the tiny minority community in the provincial capital of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. The Sikhs have demanded that the Pakistan government ensure their security and rein in the elements targeting them. from India News | Latest News Headlines & Live Updates from India - Times of India https://ift.tt/3uoxEDu

Reasi Police on Thursday claimed to have arrested 21 criminals in one month, who had been evading arrests for long, including five surrendered terrorists who later turned absconders. Reasi SSP Shailender Singh said, "In another round of chase, raids and searches, multiple police teams arrested 21 more absconders evading arrests and executed 35 warrants in the last four weeks." from India News | Latest News Headlines & Live Updates from India - Times of India https://ift.tt/3CZMuDp

The four-month summer monsoon ended as ‘normal’ rainy season on Thursday by bridging the earlier deficit and its withdrawal from northwest India will start from October 6 - the second most delayed withdrawal after 1960, said India Meteorological Department (IMD) while predicting ‘normal’ winter (October-December) monsoon rainfall that occurs in south Peninsular India. from India News | Latest News Headlines & Live Updates from India - Times of India https://ift.tt/3F56O8g

The Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Thursday attached 29 land parcels admeasuring 13,600 square meters having book value of Rs 30.29 crore in relation to the investigation being conducted against Unitech Group. The land parcels are situated in sectors 96-98 in Uttar Pradesh's Noida. These land parcels were illegally allotted to Carnoustie Management (India) Pvt Ltd (CMPL) by Chandras of Unitech Group, the ED said on Thursday. from India News | Latest News Headlines & Live Updates from India - Times of India https://ift.tt/3F3qitX

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The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) on Thursday issued a detailed standard operating procedure (SOP) as schools in Mumbai are set to resume physical classes for classes 8 to 12 from October 4. from Mumbai News: Latest Mumbai News Headlines & Coronavirus News Updates from Mumbai - Times of India https://ift.tt/3oAJNED

A 25-year-old man from Uttarakhand drowned allegedly in a swimming pool at a farmhouse in south Delhi's Maidan Garhi area, police said on Thursday. from Delhi News: Latest Delhi News Headlines & Live Updates from Delhi - Times of India https://ift.tt/3ilRvOI

The order limited crowd size at 100 for indoor wedding functions and "not more than area size" in open venues, while stating that shopping malls, restaurants could operate at maximum 50 per cent crowd capacity. from Delhi News: Latest Delhi News Headlines & Live Updates from Delhi - Times of India https://ift.tt/2ZBzANs

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India hit out at China on Thursday for once again holding it responsible for the eastern Ladakh standoff, asserting that the "provocative" behaviour and "unilateral" attempts by the Chinese military to alter the status quo resulted in a serious disturbance of peace and tranquillity in the region. from India News | Latest News Headlines & Live Updates from India - Times of India https://ift.tt/3ime85I

The capital recorded 41 cases of Covid-19 with a positivity rate of 0.06% and zero fatality due to the infection on Wednesday. With the fresh cases, the infection tally in the city has climbed to 14.38 lakh. Over 14.13 lakh patients have recovered, while the death toll stands at 25,087. Delhi has recorded just five fatalities due to the viral infection in September so far. from Delhi News: Latest Delhi News Headlines & Live Updates from Delhi - Times of India https://ift.tt/2XWyhbc

Amid growing defections from the party and the chaos in the Punjab unit, Congress veteran and G-23 leader Ghulam Nabi Azad has asked the leadership to convene a meeting of the Congress Working Committee. from India News | Latest News Headlines & Live Updates from India - Times of India https://ift.tt/3ilr2kl

The turmoil in Punjab Congress and the G-23 offensive against the leadership has triggered a bitter war of words, with Congress leaders slamming Kapil Sibal and some others for raising concerns about “instability in Punjab”. Former MP and Delhi leader Ajay Maken said, “Sonia Gandhi had ensured that Sibal became a minister at the Centre despite not having an organisational background. Everyone in the party is being heard. Want to tell Sibal and others that they shouldn’t degrade the organization that gave them an identity.” from India News | Latest News Headlines & Live Updates from India - Times of India https://ift.tt/2ZKu37u

Congress veteran and ‘G23’ leader Ghulam Nabi Azad has asked the party brass to convene a CWC meeting to discuss the problems in Punjab. Another ‘G23’ leader, Kapil Sibal, said the party was “headless” and no one knew who was taking decisions. ​​Leaders close to “them” (leadership) have left the party, while “we” (G23) are standing by them, he added. Suggesting they were loyal but not blind, Sibal said, “We are G23, not Ji Huzoor 23”. from India News | Latest News Headlines & Live Updates from India - Times of India https://ift.tt/3AXM0go

Former Punjab CM Captain Amarinder Singh on Wednesday called on Union home minister Amit Shah at the latter’s residence here. The two leaders had a meeting of over 50 minutes, boosting speculation about the Congress leader either joining BJP or allying with it for the Punjab polls. from India News | Latest News Headlines & Live Updates from India - Times of India https://ift.tt/3ATzGxR

The Supreme Court on Wednesday warned that chronic mudslingers taking potshots at the judiciary and judges cannot escape the rigour of punishment under the contempt of court law by tendering an apology, which is not borne out of remorse but is an attempt to save their skin when caught in an inescapable situation. from India News | Latest News Headlines & Live Updates from India - Times of India https://ift.tt/3ijVL1k

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More people are now undergoing a one-off genetic test costing Rs 8,000 to assess if they are born with a predisposition to heart diseases. The genomic risk score, also called polygenic score, currently prescribed for high-risk individuals — with family history of heart diseases, uncontrolled diabetes, hypertension or cholesterol levels — helps doctors assess risk, prevent or delay heart diseases, said senior cardiologist Dr S Ajit Mullasari at the Madras Medical Mission. from India News | Latest News Headlines & Live Updates from India - Times of India https://ift.tt/3uqewFh

Ahead of Diwali, six big firecracker manufacturers on Wednesday faced the ire of the Supreme Court, which asked them to explain why contempt of court proceedings be not initiated against them for using the banned chemical barium and its salts in producing crackers. from India News | Latest News Headlines & Live Updates from India - Times of India https://ift.tt/3m7yv7T

A fortnight after the Directorate of Revenue Intelligence seized 3,000 kg of Afghan heroin worth approximately Rs 21,000 crore from two containers at Mundra port in Gujarat, DRI’s Lucknow and Noida units in a joint operation arrested the head of the drug cartel in India from Shimla. from India News | Latest News Headlines & Live Updates from India - Times of India https://ift.tt/3oy7PjB

The Supreme Court on Wednesday sought response from Tirumala Tirupati Devasthanam (TTD) to a year-and-half old complaint by a devotee of Lord Balaji that irregularities have crept into the daily “puja and archana” in the temple causing consternation among devotees of the principal deity.​ from India News | Latest News Headlines & Live Updates from India - Times of India https://ift.tt/3oi0Dro

Breastfeeding is an inalienable constitutional right of a lactating mother and the right of the infant needs to be assimilated with the mother’s right, the Karnataka high court observed on Wednesday. It was disposing a batch of petitions filed by the biological mother and foster parents of a toddler. from India News | Latest News Headlines & Live Updates from India - Times of India https://ift.tt/3m3zXrO

The Union Cabinet on Wednesday scaled up the national mid-day meal scheme as ‘PM-POSHAN’ which will also cover students of ‘Balvatikas’ (pre-primary classes) and provide hot cooked meals to students of elementary classes in government and aided schools. from India News | Latest News Headlines & Live Updates from India - Times of India https://ift.tt/3F26JCg

India is likely to send a three-member team to participate in a Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) anti-terror exercise in Pakistan next week, TOI has learnt. The Pabbi anti-terror Exercise 2021 is being held at Pabbi in Pakistan’s Nowshera district from October 3 under the aegis of SCO Regional Anti-Terrorist Structure (RATS) which seeks to promote counter-terrorism cooperation between SCO member-states. from India News | Latest News Headlines & Live Updates from India - Times of India https://ift.tt/3EW0P5A

BSF inspector general (Jammu frontier) N S Jamwal on Wednesday was promoted to the rank of additional director general (ADG) and posted to the prestigious Western Command in Chandigarh. Jamwal, a native of Jammu, has 37 years of professional experience working in different fields. from India News | Latest News Headlines & Live Updates from India - Times of India https://ift.tt/3F2fuw2

Above-normal rainfall this month, which turned out to be the second wettest September in the past 27 years, has almost bridged the deficit of the monsoon season with the cumulative rainfall showing the gap to be narrowed down from 9% on August 31 to merely 1% on Wednesday, indicating the four-month season may finally be logged as ‘near normal’ monsoon. from India News | Latest News Headlines & Live Updates from India - Times of India https://ift.tt/3CYqady

The curious case of Navjot Singh Sidhu’s resignation as Punjab PCC chief within 10 days of his bête noire Amarinder Singh’s exit as CM unravelled on Wednesday when he declared the new-look Congress government’s choice of advocate general and the re-entry of “tainted” ministers into the restructured cabinet forced his hand. from India News | Latest News Headlines & Live Updates from India - Times of India https://ift.tt/3upACaJ

Jammu and Kashmir National Conference president and former chief minister Dr Farooq Abdullah was due to address the Hindus for Labour event at the Hilton Hotel, Brighton, via video link on Wednesday as its keynote speaker. TOI has seen a letter from him confirming he would address the conference. from India News | Latest News Headlines & Live Updates from India - Times of India https://ift.tt/3CVD1wX

In the fourth leopard attack in Goregaon's Aarey Colony in suburban Mumbai, a woman resident was injured two days after the animal's failed attempt at carrying off a child. from Mumbai News: Latest Mumbai News Headlines & Coronavirus News Updates from Mumbai - Times of India https://ift.tt/3CTQs0k

A social worker poured his creativity on the streets of Mumbai as he warned people against potholes as well as Covid-19. Check out some photos here from Mumbai News: Latest Mumbai News Headlines & Coronavirus News Updates from Mumbai - Times of India https://ift.tt/3mdtmLm

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The Supreme Court on Tuesday threw out Adani Gas Ltd’s challenge to the decision of the Petroleum and Natural Gas Regulatory Board (PNGRB) to award the city natural gas distribution (CGD) network for Sanand, Bavla and Dholka in Gujarat to Gujarat Gas. from India News | Latest News Headlines & Live Updates from India - Times of India https://ift.tt/2Wlporj

The Supreme Court on Tuesday said the West Bengal government has made out a case for entertaining its appeal challenging a Calcutta high court order directing CBI and SIT probe into post-poll violence in May after Trinamool Congress, led by Mamata Banerjee, romped home in the assembly elections with a massive mandate. from India News | Latest News Headlines & Live Updates from India - Times of India https://ift.tt/3CVQAfW

To ensure that those approaching courts in commercial disputes “understand that courts are not playgrounds, and litigation is not a pastime,” the Bombay HC recently directed a private company to pay Rs 25 lakh to a party against whom it was seeking orders. from India News | Latest News Headlines & Live Updates from India - Times of India https://ift.tt/3AQI2X0

Come October 1, senior citizens seeking work opportunities will be able to register themselves on a first-of-its-kind dedicated employment exchange portal for the elderly. The ‘Senior Able Citizens for Re-Employment in Dignity (Sacred)’ portal, being steered by the ministry of social justice and empowerment (MoSJ&E), will enable “virtual matching” of employable elderly of 60 years and above with employers who come forward and register on the platform. from India News | Latest News Headlines & Live Updates from India - Times of India https://ift.tt/3m1O1C6

The north-eastern states generally have the highest ratio of female workers in managerial positions, with Meghalaya topping the chart with 34.1%, followed by Sikkim and Mizoram, according to the annual bulletin of the Periodic Labour Force Survey (PLFS).​ from India News | Latest News Headlines & Live Updates from India - Times of India https://ift.tt/3kQQSyy

Builders cannot get away by handing over maintenance and administration of a housing society to the residents’ welfare association if the project remains unfinished without all infrastructure and facilities promised to the homebuyers and will need to compensate the RWAs, the Supreme Court said.​ from India News | Latest News Headlines & Live Updates from India - Times of India https://ift.tt/3kOW85K

After the central leadership completely owned the Punjab restructuring and felt it had settled the chaotic unit, the surprise resignation by state president Navjot Singh Sidhu caught everyone by surprise and threatened to destabilise its stronghold and cast the Gandhi leadership in poor light. from India News | Latest News Headlines & Live Updates from India - Times of India https://ift.tt/3kVnbMR

Hours before Navjot Singh Sidhu quit from the post of Punjab Congress president, chief minister Charanjit Singh Channi on Tuesday defended his decision to appoint senior advocate A P S Deol as new advocate general (AG) of the state.​ from India News | Latest News Headlines & Live Updates from India - Times of India https://ift.tt/3oeL57M

Former Punjab chief minister Amarinder Singh on Tuesday said Navjot Sidhu’s resignation as PPCC chief within two months of taking over the vital post had proved beyond doubt that the cricketer turned politician was an “unstable” man, who could not be relied upon to lead the ruling party, especially in a border state like Punjab. from India News | Latest News Headlines & Live Updates from India - Times of India https://ift.tt/2WkZTWZ

It’s a season of open discontent in the Kerala unit of Congress but those in the know say that it is not likely to extend beyond a lot of sound and some fury. Reason: The Congress high command in Delhi wants the old guard sidelined and rampant factionalism neutralised, and to that purpose it will be willing to put up with KPCC president K Sudhakaran’s rather brash and authoritarian style of functioning.​ from India News | Latest News Headlines & Live Updates from India - Times of India https://ift.tt/3kRaUsJ

The discussion between the All-India Congress Committee (AICC) and the Kerala Congress leadership on the appointment of new KPCC office-bearers, scheduled to be held in New Delhi, was postponed on Tuesday. KPCC chief K Sudhakaran and opposition leader VD Satheesan were supposed to reach New Delhi on Wednesday for discussions but have deferred their travel plans. from India News | Latest News Headlines & Live Updates from India - Times of India https://ift.tt/3kMctYQ