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SC asks Allahabad HC to ‘urgently’ hear plea against UP Govt’s decision to take over land of Muhammad Ali Jauhar University

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On January 28, the Uttar Pradesh government cancelled the lease of Maulana Mohammad Ali Jauhar Training and Research Institute and decided to take back over 13,000 square metres of land granted to Samajwadi party leader Azam Khan.

Published Date – 03:30 PM, Fri – 1 December 23


SC asks Allahabad HC to ‘urgently’ hear plea against UP Govt’s decision to take over land of Muhammad Ali Jauhar University


New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Friday asked the Allahabad High Court to ‘urgently’ list the plea filed by Maulana Muhammad Ali Jauhar University against the Uttar Pradesh government’s decision to take back the land alloted to the University.

On January 28, the Uttar Pradesh government cancelled the lease of Maulana Mohammad Ali Jauhar Training and Research Institute and decided to take back over 13,000 square metres of land granted to Samajwadi party leader Azam Khan.

A bench of Chief Justice of India DY Chandrachud and also comprising justices JB Pardiwala and Manoj Misra granted liberty to the petitioner to go to Allahabad High Court with his plea for interim relief, clarifying that it shall be considered on its own merits.

The court also clarified that petitions shall be shown as “urgent” and must be listed before the acting Chief Justice of Allahabad High Court.

The top court noted that the judgement in the case was reserved some time ago. One of the judges who reserved the matter was transferred to the High Court at Calcutta and thus the proceedings would be heard before a fresh bench.

After the decision of the Yogi cabinet on January 28, the government cancelled the lease of Rs 100 per annum and ordered to take the institute’s building and land, with an area of about 13,000 square meters, under the government control. The district administration sealed the Jauhar Shodh Sansthan campus and handed it over to the minority department.

Former cabinet minister Azam Khan had taken land for Maulana Mohammad Ali Jauhar Training and Research Institute on lease for 100 rupees annually for 33 years during the Samajwadi Party government regime with the provison that the lease term can be extended twice for 33-33 years.

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Hamas says Israel, US responsible for truce expiration

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Hamas top official Osama Hamdan said the “responsibility for not extending the ceasefire lies with the Zionist regime and the United States”.

He said the Palestinian resistance was seriously looking for a ceasefire and is still pursuing it.

Meanwhile, according to Press TV, Ezzat al-Rashq, a member of the Hamas political bureau, said, “What Israel did not achieve in the 50 days before the ceasefire, it will not achieve with the continuation of its aggression.”

Israel launched the war on Gaza on October 7 after the Palestinian resistance movement Hamas waged the surprise Operation Al-Aqsa Storm against the occupying entity in response to the Israeli regime’s decades-long campaign of bloodletting and devastation against Palestinians.

Tel Aviv also blocked water, food, and electricity to Gaza, plunging the coastal strip into a humanitarian crisis.

More than 15,000 Palestinians, most of them women and children, have been killed in the Israeli strikes.

The Israeli violence in Gaza has also raised tensions in the West Bank, where nearly 240 Palestinians have been killed by soldiers or settlers since October 7, according to the Ramallah-based Palestinian health ministry.

The truce saw the release of 105 Israeli captives held in Gaza and 240 Palestinian prisoners.

The ceasefire had allowed some humanitarian aid into Gaza but the aid supplies were far below what is needed, according to aid workers.

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UNSC unable to call for lasting ceasefire in Gaza

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Rahshan Saglam

Press TV, Istanbul

The UN Security Council held a high level meeting on Wednesday to discuss Israel’s war on the Gaza Strip. Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan made a blistering attack on the council for its failure to call for a permanent ceasefire in the besieged Palestinian territory.

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End Of Road For Rahane, Pujara? Report Says Duo's Slots "Now Belong To…"

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Amidst the headline grabbing news on Rohit Sharma and Virat Kohli missing the white-ball leg of Indian cricket team’s Tour of South Africa, there was another news about two veterans that got lost. Veteran stars Ajinkya Rahane and Cheteshwar Pujara were not named in for the two tests that Indian cricket team will play in South Africa. Star pacer Umesh Yadav is also not part of the squad despite the fact that there are question marks over Mohammed Shami‘s availability due to his ‘medical treatment’.

Ajinkya Rahane and Cheteshwar Pujara have been long-serving servants of India in Tests. In 85 matches in the longest format, Ajinkya Rahane has 5077 runs at an average of 38.46. He last played a Test match in July in West Indies. Cheteshwar Pujara has so far played 103 Tests and scored 7195    runs at an average of 43.60. He last played a Test in June against Australia.

According to news agency PTI, Ajinkya Rahane, who scored 89 in the World Test Championship final, has probably played his last Test along with Chesteshwar Pujara.

“The two slots that Rahane and Pujara had now belong to KL Rahul and Shreyas Iyer. Also, Gill will bat in the middle order and Yashashvi will get a long rope,” PTI quoted a source as saying.

One of the veterans of the game, Rahane has done wonders for India whenever he has been asked to take up the leadership role. The manner in which Rahane led the team in 2019-20 Border-Gavaskar trophy, earned him plenty of plaudits.

But, since that campaign, it was all downhill for the right-handed batter. The BCCI selection committee’s decision to hand him the team’s vice-captaincy for the West Indies series wasn’t a decision that was welcomed by all.

Former India captain Sourav Ganguly expressed his astonishment at the decision, suggesting Ravindra Jadeja would’ve been a better choice for the role.

“I won’t say it’s a step backward. You have been out for 18 months, then you play a Test and you become a vice-captain. I don’t understand the thought process behind it. There is Ravindra Jadeja, who has been there for a long time and a certainty in Test matches, he is a candidate,” Ganguly had told PTI after the Test squad for the Caribbean tour was announced.

India’s squad for Tests: Rohit Sharma (C), Shubman Gill, Yashasvi Jaiswal, Virat Kohli, Shreyas Iyer, Ruturaj Gaikwad, Ishan Kishan (wk), KL Rahul (wk), Ravichandran Ashwin, Ravindra Jadeja, Shardul Thakur, Mohd. Siraj, Mukesh Kumar, Mohd. Shami*, Jasprit Bumrah (VC), Prasidh Krishna.

Note: Mohd. Shami is currently undergoing medical treatment and his availability is subject to fitness.

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UK's Killer Nurse Lucy Letby Moved To Cushy Jail With Phone And TV: Report

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UK's Killer Nurse Lucy Letby Moved To Cushy Jail With Phone And TV: Report

Lucy Letby was sentenced in August this year.

Lucy Letby, the former British nurse who was jailed in August this year after she was found guilty of killing seven newborns in a neo-natal unit, has been moved to a cushy private jail with round-the-clock protection. According to The Sun, Letby has her own cell with a shower, a desk, phone and television. The outlet quoted a source as saying that she is being treated with ‘kid gloves’ because of her status. The 33-year-old is serving a whole life sentence for killing seven babies and attempted murder of six others.

The treatment she is receiving – despite the crimes she has committed – is said to be infuriating fellow inmates, The Sun said in its report.

The outlet said that she has been moved from the notoriously tough Low Newton jail in County Durham to the private HMP Bronzefield in Ashford, Surrey.

“Letby seems happy as Larry. She is in a nice cell and on her own. The facilities at Bronzefield are much nicer than most jails, because it’s privately run,” The Sun quoted a source as saying.

“She is with prisoners who have earned more rights to watch TV, spend their cash and have visits. It is a disgrace and it’s no wonder she’s been looking so happy,” the source added.

Meanwhile, a spokesperson of Bronzefield said, “We can’t comment on individual cases.”

Letby is only the fourth woman ever in the UK to get a whole life sentence, which means she will die in jail.

Originally from Hereford in western England, Letby studied nursing at the University of Chester. She graduated in 2011 and started full-time at the Countess of Chester Hospital the following year, joining the neo-natal unit.

In 2015, Letby qualified to work on intensive care babies, which would have allowed her to work with the sickest babies in the unit.

Letby was accused of harming 17 babies, some of them just days old, between June 2015 and June 2016. In the majority of cases she is believed to have injected them with air but prosecutors also accused her of introducing insulin or too much milk.

Among the items found during a search of Letby’s home was a Post-it note on which she wrote: “I don’t deserve to live. I killed them on purpose because I’m not good enough to care for them”. “I am evil I did this,” she wrote in capital letters.

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Iran owns biggest number of merchant ships in Middle East

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In a report on the naval fleets in the Middle East region, the economic analysis of Central Intelligence Agency of America (CIA) revealed that with 942 ships, Iran was the largest maritime trade power in the region in 2022. According to the report, Iran has 32 bulk carriers, 31 container ships, 83 oil tankers, 393 general cargo ships and 403 ships of other types in 2022.

Iran had the largest number of merchant ships in 2022 among the 12 countries in the Middle East. Iran stood well above with 306 ships above the second country. 

Iran owns biggest number of merchant ships in Middle East

Iran’s number of ships is more than twice that of Saudi Arabia. The CIA has announced the number of Saudi ships in 2022 was 413 and has introduced this country as the third maritime trade power in the Middle East region. Bahrain with 190 ships and Kuwait with 166 ships stood in fourth and fifth places, respectively.

Qatar with 123 ships, Iraq with 75 ships, Oman with 57 ships, Lebanon with 49 ships, Jordan with 35 ships, Yemen with 30 ships, and Syria with 22 shipswere the sixth to twelfth, respectively.

The total number of operating commercial ships in the Middle East last year was 2,738, and more than one-third of these ships, equivalent to 34%, belonged to Iran.

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We Will "Entirely Secure" Pak, Bangladesh Borders In 2 Years: Amit Shah

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We Will Entirely Secure Pakistan, Bangladesh Borders In 2 Years: Amit Shah

Amit Shah was speaking on the occasion of BSF’s 59th Raising Day celebrations

Hazaribag (Jharkhand):

Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Friday said India’s two major borders with Pakistan and Bangladesh will be completely secured in the next two years, with work underway to plug gaps in about 60 km stretch along these two fronts. Shah was speaking after taking salute from a ceremonial parade of the Border Security Force (BSF) on the occasion of its 59th Raising Day celebrations here.

The minister said the Narendra Modi government has fenced and plugged gaps in about 560 km of the India-Pakistan and India-Bangladesh borders in the last nine years since it came to power at the Centre.

He said all the gaps in these two borders on India’s western and eastern flank respectively are being plugged and work in only about 60 km is continuing.

In the next two years we will entirely secure these two borders, Shah said.

The two borders– 2,290 km of the India-Pakistan International Border and 4,096 km of the India-Bangladesh border– are marked by long riverine, mountainous and marshy areas where it is very difficult to erect fences and hence the BSF and other agencies use technical gadgets to check infiltration.

“I firmly believe that a country cannot develop and prosper if its borders are not secure…the government of Prime Minister Narendra Modi has led the country to the moon with the Chandrayaan mission, G20 Summit and brought the economy from the 11th to the fifth spot, and this was all possible due to our forces deployed for securing the borders like the BSF,” he said.

“You, the BSF, are the essential pillar of this journey,” the minister told the BSF personnel at the ‘Meru’ training camp here.

“I believe that the border fence does not alone protect the country, it only helps in rendering this task. It is the brave BSF jawan who does this task,” he said.

The border force, about 2.65 lakh in strength, was raised on December 1, 1965, and is primarily tasked to guard the over 6,386 km-long Indian fronts with Pakistan and Bangladesh.

The home minister asserted that whenever a BJP government took the reins of power in the country, border security was prioritised, from the government of former PM A B Vajpayee to the Modi government.

While Atal Ji’s (Atal Bihari Vajpayee) government brought a “integrated” approach for border security, the Modi government assimilated security, development and democratic processes along with strong infrastructure and initiation of welfare measures for the local population living on the front, he said.

“We strengthened rail, road, waterways and telephone communication connectivity apart from land trade,” he said.

The home minister said his government created 452 new border posts, 510 observation towers, got electricity connection to 637 borders posts while 500 such facilities were linked with piped water across various fronts over the last nine years.

Talking about Left Wing Extremism (LWE), Shah said the country was close to eliminating this armed and violent movement being carried out by Maoist cadres.

In the last ten years, he said, the incidents of Naxal violence have gone down by 52 per cent, deaths in these incidents declined by 70 per cent and the number of affected police stations have come down from 495 to 176.

“The last strike against LWE by forces like the BSF, CRPF and ITBP is in the process. We are determined to end Naxalism in the country,” he said.

The minister added that as many as 199 new security forces camps were established in the LWE affected areas over the last ten years.

“I am sure we will win this battle,” he said.

In the last ten years of the Modi government, we have been able to win the battle in the “hotspots” of Jammu and Kashmir, LWE and insurgency in the north east and the security forces have been able to establish their domination in Jammu and Kashmir, he said. 

(Except for the headline, this story has not been edited by NDTV staff and is published from a syndicated feed.)

Hyderabad

KCR to chair cabinet meet on December 4

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According to an announcement from the Chief Minister’s Office, the meeting will be held at 2 pm.

Updated On – 03:15 PM, Fri – 1 December 23


KCR to chair cabinet meet on December 4

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Hyderabad: The Telangana state Cabinet will meet on November 4 at Dr.B.R.Ambedkar Telangana secratariat under the chairmanship of Chief Minister K. Chandrashekar Rao. According to an announcement from the Chief Minister’s Office, the meeting will be held at 2 pm.

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Isha Ambani's Golden Flapper Dress Shines So Bright, She Doesn't Even Need A Medal

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Isha Ambani's Golden Flapper Dress Shines So Bright, She Doesn't Even Need A Medal

Isha Ambani’s golden dress is perfect for a boss woman turned party host

One can easily trust Isha Ambani to go from boss woman to party-ready in an instant. At the recent exhibit launch at NMACC, the young Ambani heiress logged off from work early to get ready for a festive party ahead of Christmas or so her outfit gave us that stylish first impression. There are two wholly different vibes that combine together to give this dress a very modern-day flapper-girl aesthetic. The bright gold chainmail dress with large tassels at the end is perfect to shimmy through the most sparkling time of the year. Combined with golden heels, we don’t think this boss woman turned fashionista needs a gold medal for this winning look. Her dark hair was styled to a blowout perfection and her eyes being the focal point of her makeup with a natural sheen was the perfect round-up to the start of the end of this year of parties.

Also Read: Orhan Awatramani a.k.a. Orry And Isha Ambani Pair Up In Prints, Looking Like The Most Chic Besties In Town

Isha Ambani at the NMACC

Isha Ambani at the NMACC

Isha Ambani is a part-time party guest but a full-time boss woman. At the recently launched Jio World Plaza in Mumbai, the entrepreneur was dressed in a black ensemble which included a black satin shirt and an intricately embroidered skirt in contrasting tones of red, yellow and green. This outfit from Dior, not only highlights her boss lady characteristics but also how she can have a little fun with it. Doubled with a truly Indian narrative at play on this outfit, Isha Ambani stays rooted in her culture with a truly international essence behind it.

When business is as fun as one big party, one can always find Isha Ambani playing host to both her stylish sides. 

Also Read: Less Is Most Certainly More For Isha Ambani In A Pastel Green Fusion Outfit

Middle East

At least 10 killed in Iraq roadside bomb attack

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The sources told Reuters that the attack near the town of Amraniyah targeted relatives of a local MP and began with the detonation of two roadside bombs that destroyed a vehicle in which several people were travelling. Locals who arrived to the scene to help were then targeted with sniper fire, the sources said.

They did not elaborate further on possible motives for the attack.

Security forces announced the imposition of a curfew in the area and the search was ongoing to detain those responsible on Thursday night.

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