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A “ decision is being taken by the government to remove all restrictions, which were in force till now. Now, all social, political, sports, enter- # ' )*,( ''3 /. , (*)$ - .* *1 ( ,,$ " ) /- *! ( -&- $- (/-. (/./ ' $-. ) )'3 .#*- -#*+& + ,- 1#* # 0 "*. *.# *- - *! ''*1 .* +/. /+ -#*+- $) ! $,$) 1$'' 0 *0$ *.# *- - , ( ) .*,3 !*, "*$)" .* .# $) ( " ..$)" ",* ,3 !,*( , .$*) -#*+ # 0$*/, $- (/-. *0$ ++,*+,$ . *.# *- - , (/-. !*, / .$*) ' $)-.$./.$*)- ) -./ ).- -. 3$)" $) #*-. '*.# *- - , ( ) .*,3 !*, "*0. - ,0 ).)-/, $) .$*) $- .* 0 3 tainment, cultural and religious events will be held . with full capacity Night curfew is being ended from tonight,” said Chouhan. As per the CM’s announcement, fairs would be organised at different places in the state. Processions can now be taken out and there will be no restrictions on number of participants in marriages and funerals. Elaborating lifting of restrictions, the CM said: “Cinema halls, malls, swimming pools, gyms, yoga centres, restaurants, clubs etc can now be opened with . 100% capacity Schools, colleges, hostels, coaching classes can now be operated . with full capacity All kinds of activities can be started following Corona appropriate behaviour.” Justice Jain to monitor probe KHERI CASE The Supreme Court on Wednesday appointed former Punjab and Haryana High Court judge Rakesh Kumar Jain to monitor the investigations into the Lakhimpur Kheri violence in UP on Oct 3, killing eight, including four farmers and a journalist killed as vehicles in the convoy of Ashish Mishra, son of Union Minister Ajay Kumar Mishra ploughed into the protesting farmers' march. The judge replaces a former Allahabad HC judge appointed by the state government as the court said this is done to "ensure fairness, transparency and absolute impartiality" in the investigation. Chief Justice NV Ramana and Justices Surya Kant and Hima Kohli also reconstituted the SIT probing the incident since it comprised only the local police officers. The new team consists of 3 IPS officers-Padmaja Chauhan, S B Shirodkar and Deepinder Singh, who will continue the SIT investigation, monitored by Justice Jain. The CJI ordered listing of the matter "after chargesheet is filed on the basis of status report by the learned judge." The decisions come after the UP govt agreed to the SC's suggestion to appoint a former judge from another state. The Bench had then also observed that the SIT needs to be upgraded. 2-yr extension to foreign secy too NEW DELHI: The Government on Wednesday allowed extension up to two years in service to the foreign secretary as well besides the extension granted to half a dozen other posts through a gazette notification. Others who were granted the extension up to two years are: De, fence secretary home secretary, director of IB, secretary of RAW, the external intelligence agency, as also the directors of CBI and Enforcement Directorate. The Supreme Court on Wednesday witnessed heated arguments on air pollution in Delhi and its neighbourhood, as it remained dissatisfied with the action plan to tackle the issue. It fixed the next hearing on Wednesday (March 24), after it was told that "relatively strong winds" Sunday onwards will improve . the air quality It blamed bureaucratic inertia and apathy even as Delhi's air quality remained in the "very poor" category for the third day, with the air quality index touching 389 in Delhi at 9 AM, better than Tuesday's 403 at 4 PM, and nearly the same status in the neighbourhood.The government must take responsibility and "not everything can be done through judicial order," the court said. As a blame game erupted over the data on farm fires and the Chief Justice pulled up the officials concerned: "Debates on TV are causing more pollution than any other source. 'Deserter' jawan India reported over 24L online Dead cows tied to shoots parents for tractor & dragged child abuse cases in 2017-20 in Guna district asking him to rejoin, arrested 80% VICTIM girls below 14: Interpol Irked over continuous prodding by his parents to re, join duty a 'deserter' jawan of the Army shot at his parents and injured them in Rewa district, police said on Wednesday, adding that the accused was arrested. The incident occurred at Pidariya village under the limits of the Laur police station, about 55 km from the Rewa district headquarters, around 7 pm on Tuesday, said Additional Superintendent of Police (ASP) Shivkumar Verma. The accused, identified as Abhishek Pandey, was arrested and the gun used in the incident seized, he said. As per the preliminary investigation, the licensed gun belonged to the father of the accused. Both the injured were admitted to the Sanjay Gandhi Memorial Hospital, said CMO Alakh Prakash. He said both the victims suffered injuries on their legs but are out of danger. , Ambika Pandey an ex-serviceman and the father of the accused, told reporters that he and his wife were shot at by their son as they were continuously asking him to rejoin the service. "My son was in the Army but he ran away and has been a deserter for the last one year. India reported over 24 lakh instances of online child sexual abuse during 3-year period between 2017 and 20 with 80 per cent of the victims being girls below the age of 14 years, according to Interpol data. The figures had prompted CBI to start a massive operation against the alleged peddlers of online child sexual " abuse material (CSAM) with several websites under the scanner for their liability in hosting such material, officials said. The Interpol data indicates that content and consumers of CSAM are growing at a sharp rate with one finding reporting that 1.16 lakh queries on child pornography were made on a single internet search engine. The central probe agency plans to take up the matter with social media websites and hosting platforms under the relevant legal provisions to examine ! # , + (' # &'( + ( - # &)#' # ( &" ' $& %( # $ ( &)#' + ! their role and liability, sources said. "The data from Interpol is worrisome. It shows 2.4 million instances of online child sexual abuse with 80%t victims being young girls," an official said. The CBI operation is targeted at 50 online social media groups having 5,000 participants from across the globe. The groups have 36 members from Pakistan, Canada (35), USA (35), Bangladesh (31), Sri Lanka (30), Nigeria (28), Azerbaijan (27), Yemen (24) and Malaysia (22), the sources said. ( # " # %)& )&, ' ## # ' )" & * GUNA: Three dead cows were allegedly tied to a tractor and dragged on the road while the carcasses were being taken for disposal in Guna district, prompting the local civic administration to issue a notice to one of its workers on Wednesday after a video of the incident surfaced. The alleged incident occurred in Kumbhraj town of . Guna district on Tuesday After the video surfaced on social media and a complaint was received in this regard, Nagar Kumbhraj the Parishad administration issued a notice to an employee in connection with the inci, dent and sought his reply said SDM Vandana Rajput. Further action will be taken after receiving the reply from the civic employee, she said. The management of Ramanand Gaushala (cow shelter), located on Bhamawad Road in Kumbhraj, around 55 km from the district headquarters, informed the local civic body that three cows had died at the facility on Tuesday and requested it to dispose of the carcasses, sources said. In the video, the carcasses of the cows are purportedly seen tied to the tractor and dragged while being taken to the disposal site. , On Wednesday local Hindu outfits submitted a memorandum to officials seeking action in the matter. ) * *( . +*''/.$*) +,$0 . *!!$ - $) '#$ # 0 *! .# $, *(($.. .* -& . ' -. 3 0$(+'*3 - .* 1*,& !,*( #*( /).$' /) 3 ) .# *.# , 1*,& !,*( #*( '' -. . "*0. *!!$ - 1$'' !*''*1 # ) .# . $. * - )*. )., . ''$)" .# )*,( .#$- -+$. .# ! 0*/, 1*,& !,*( #*( - .# -$./ .$*) $- %/-. , ./,)$)" .* )*,( ' !. , *0$ , -.,$ .$*)- $2 * ' !$, +*1 , +' ).) *) .# .# , $) . (+*, ,$'3 '*) , '#$ # 0 ).,3 *! .,/ &- ,,3$)" )*) -- ).$ ' $. (- $) .# $.3 ) '*-/, *! - #**'- ) *'' " - 1$'' *).$)/ .$'' !/,.# , *, ,Everyone has his own agenda. We are trying to work out a solution here." He intervened when Solicitor General Tushar Mehta complained about "nasty comments" by the TV media misquoting him and the court to create confusion. A special bench of Chief Justice of India N V Ramana and Justices D Y Chandrachud and Surya Kant is hearing a petition filed by 17-year old Delhi , student Aditya Dubey concerning rising levels of pollution in the national capital. In a related development, a construction workers' body has moved the court, seeking ex gratia relief for daily workers due to the sudden ban on constructions, to curb pollution caused by dust. Jadhav can file review petition Pakistan's Parliament in its joint sitting on Wednesday enacted a law to give Indian death-row Kulbprisoner hushan Jadhav the right to file a appeal review against his conviction by a military court. Jadhav, a 51-year-old retired Indian Navy officer, was sentenced to death by a Pakistani military court on charges of espionage and terrorism in April 2017. India had moved the International Court of Justice against Pakistan for denial of consular access to Jadhav and challenged the death sentence. After hearing both sides, the Hague-based ICJ, in July 2019, asked Pakistan to give India consular access to Jadhav and also ensure review of his conviction. , On Wednesday the joint sitting comprising members of the Senate and the National was Assembly called to pass a set of laws which were passed by the latter in June this year, including one to enable Jadhav to appeal against his conviction, but those laws failed to get the nod of the upper house. 28 Indian pilgrims to visit Kartarpur Sahib LAHORE: The first batch of 28 Indian Sikhs, including women, arrived at the revered Gurdwara Kartarpur Sahib in Pakistan on Wednesday by using visa-free corridor, some 20 months after the pilgrimage was suspended in March 2020 following the Covid-19 outbreak. , Similarly over 2,500 Indian Sikhs arrived in Pakistan via Wagah border crossing to take part in the annual commemo. ration of the birth of Sikhism founder Guru Nanak Dev "As many as 28 India Sikhs including women visited the Kartarpur Sahib on the first day (Wednesday) after the Indian government reopened the corridor,” Evacuee Trust Property Board (ETPB) spokesperson Amir Hashmi told PTI. The ETPB looks after the holy places of minorities in Pakistan. Hashmi said that Kartarpur Corridor chief executive officer (CEO) Muhammad Latif, Pakistan Sikh Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee (PSGPC) Pardhan (president) Sardar Ameer Singh and Dr Mampaal Singh greeted the Indian pilgrims at the Sikh shrine. Cong to turn legal heat on Kangana Netaji's daughter says Gandhi felt he could not control Bose A Maha Vikas Aghadi partners Shiv Sena, the NCP and the Congress have lashed out at actor Kangana Ranaut after she mocked the father of the nation, Mahatma Gandhi, by saying that offering ‘the other cheek’ gets one ‘bheekh’, not freedom. MPCC president Nana Patole said the party would take legal action against Ranaut for her alleged defamatory statement against Mahatma Gandhi. “Congress will register an official complaint against her with Mumbai Police,” he said. The Centre should immediately take back the Padmashri awarded to her, he added. Patole alleged that demeaning the father of the nation and other freedom fighters amounted to sedition and action should be taken against her. What Ranaut was blabbering was “part of a cunning ploy by the BJP and the RSS to discredit the freedom struggle. We allege that the BJP also supports this and it should clarify its position in this regard,” Patole said. He urged media not to give Ranaut a platform in the future if she continued to make such derogatory remarks against freedom fighters. day after actor Kangana Ranaut claimed that Subhas Chandra Bose and Bhagat Singh got no support from Mahatma Gandhi in the struggle for freedom, Bose’s daughter, Anita Bose Pfaff, has said that her father and Gandhi shared a difficult relationship as Gandhi felt that he could not control Netaji. She added that her father was “a great admirer of Gandhi.” “Both of them (Netaji and Gandhi) were great heroes who fought for India’s Independence. One could not have done without the other. It was a combination. It’s not like what some Congress members tried to claim for a long time — that only a non-violent policy was responsible for India’s Independence. We all know that Netaji and INA’s actions, too, contributed to India’s freedom,” Pfaff told India Today TV in response to Ranaut’s comment that Mahatma Gandhi and Jawaharlal Nehru were ready to hand Netaji over to the British. , On Tuesday Ranaut shared an old newspaper article on her Instagram story section, saying that, “Either you are a Gandhi fan or Netaji supporter. You can’t be both, choose and decide." The said newspaper cutting was an article from the 1940s with a headline that read, “Gandhi, others agreed to hand over Netaji.” In a separate Instagram Sto, ry she wrote: “Those who fought for free- dom were “handed over" to their masters…by those who had no courage…to fight their oppressors…’’ Taking a dig at Mahatma Gandhi, she further wrote, “Those are the ones who taught us, if someone slaps you, offer another cheek for one more slap and that is how you will get aazadi. That’s not how one gets aazadi, one can only get bheekh like that. Choose your heroes wisely." She continued, “So you need to choose who you support because just placing them all in one box of your memory and every year wishing them all on their birth anniversaries is not enough. In fact, it is not just dumb, it is highly irresponsible and superficial. One must know their history and their heroes.” A day after actor Kangana Ranaut claimed that Netaji and Bhagat Singh got no support from Gandhi in the struggle for freedom, Bose’s daughter, Pfaff, has said that her father and Gandhi shared a difficult relationship as Gandhi felt that he could not control Netaji. She added that her father was “a great admirer of Gandhi.” “Both of them (Netaji and Gandhi) were great heroes who fought for India’s Independence. One could not have done without the other. It was a combination.