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Amid the unparliamentary words row, senior Congress leader Shashi Tharoor on Sunday said he would treat the list of words as indicative rather than definitive and "speak normally" in the House and see whether it is applied in a "draconian manner" to stifle meaningful criticism. http://dlvr.it/SV2MHM

The government has called an all-party meeting on July 19 on the Sri Lankan crisis which will be briefed by Union ministers Nirmala Sitharaman and S Jaishankar, parliamentary affairs minister Pralhad Joshi said on Sunday. http://dlvr.it/SV2M3P

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If children can go to school at seven in the morning, why cannot judges and lawyers start their day at 9am, Supreme Court judge Justice UU Lalit remarked on Friday. Justice Lalit said if the courts can start early, it can finish the day's work early and judges would get more time in the evening to read the case files for the next day. http://dlvr.it/STx6VF

Under attack from its rivals over the economy, the BJP has launched a counter-offensive in order to defend the Narendra Modi government at the Centre. On Thursday, Congress's Rajya Sabha MP P Chidambaram took a dig at Union finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman for posting pictures of Nasa on Twitter and attacked her over economic indices such as inflation and unemployment. http://dlvr.it/STx6Gk

Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama on Friday said that India and China must solve the border dispute through talks and peaceful means. "India and China are both competitive nations and neighbours, sooner or later you have to solve this problem through talks and peaceful means. The use of military force is outdated," the Dalai Lama told ANI. http://dlvr.it/STx5y5

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Uddhav Thackeray cited the party’s support to Pratibha Patil and Pranab Mukherjee to back Murmu. When Pratibha Patil’s name came up, Sena chief Balasaheb Thackeray had backed her, going beyond party politics. Even in the case of Pranab Mukherjee, support was given to elect the right person, he said. http://dlvr.it/STnPHM

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Serum Institute of India CEO Adar Poonawalla on Tuesday said the company plans to launch its indigenously-developed vaccine to treat cervical cancer in women later this year. http://dlvr.it/STmzjM

Congress filed disqualification petitions against former Goa CM Digambar Kamat and former leader of the opposition Michael Lobo on Monday, a day after MLAs led by Kamat failed to garner the support of the stipulated two-thirds of the party’s legislative strength needed to join BJP. http://dlvr.it/STkBMf

The Supreme Court said that the Centre was bound by “national commitment” given to Portugal to get back Abu Salem, currently serving life imprisonment for his complicity in the 1993 Mumbai blasts, but said that the gangster cannot come out unless he has completed 25 years, which means he will have to be in jail till October 2030. http://dlvr.it/STkB5T

The Supreme Court on Monday sentenced fugitive former liquor baron Vijay Mallya, holed up in London, to four months’ imprisonment and ordered him and his three US-based children to return $40 million, which was contemptuously siphoned out by Mallya, within four weeks with 8% interest. http://dlvr.it/STk9vD

The Supreme Court on Monday urged the Centre to frame a law to restrain investigating agencies from arresting the accused unnecessarily saying that indiscriminate arrests reflect a colonial mindset and create the impression of a "police state". http://dlvr.it/STk9sy

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Symptomatic patients without lab-confirmed Covid are now allowed to get a vaccine shot right after full recovery, but testing positive still means deferring the jab by three months as the original protocol remains unchanged, officials of ICMR’s national Covid task force said. http://dlvr.it/STgFB5

The increasing stray cattle menace around railway tracks is taking a toll on the punctuality of trains. On an average 11 trains were delayed per day due to “cattle runover” on rail tracks during the past two months compared to only six trains getting impacted daily for the same reason during the last financial year (2021-22). http://dlvr.it/STgDzG

The National Investigation Agency (NIA) on Saturday arrested a seventh accused in the case pertaining to the killing of Udaipur tailor Kanhaiyya Lal Teli, purportedly after he made some social media posts in favour of former BJP spokesperson Nupur Sharma. http://dlvr.it/STgDlb

Police in Madhya Pradesh’s Barwani have registered a case against Narmada Bachao Andolan leader Medha Patkar and 11 others for alleged misappropriation of funds collected by an NGO for the education and welfare of tribal children in the state and neighbouring Maharashtra. http://dlvr.it/STgDj7

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The armed forces are undertaking major search and rescue operations for Amarnath yatris after flash-floods hit Baltal on Friday. While the IAF is flying relentless sorties with Mi-17V5 and Cheetal helicopters, the Army has deployed a large number of soldiers with specialized equipment and dog squads. http://dlvr.it/STdDr4

Karnataka has proposed teaching all schoolchildren Sanskrit as a third language and introducing Manusmriti and ancient numerical systems like Bhuta-sankhya and katapayadi-sankhya paddhati in the syllabus. Besides, one of its proposals for inclusion in the new NEP school syllabus says students should be encouraged to question “how fake news such as Pythagoras theorem, apple falling on Newton’s head etc. are being created and propagated”. http://dlvr.it/STdDp5

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Refusing to marry after having sex with a willing partner does not attract the offence of rape, the Kerala high court said in a judgment on Friday while granting bail to a rape-accused lawyer. It is rape only if there was no consent or the consent was vitiated, the court said. http://dlvr.it/STb1Py

External affairs minister S Jaishankar held discussions on regional and global issues, with focus on the Ukraine situation, in bilateral meetings with his US and Russian counterparts, Antony Blinken and and Sergey Lavrov, on the sidelines of the G20 foreign ministers’ meeting in Bali. Jaishankar also met French foreign minister Catherine Colonna. http://dlvr.it/STb16m

India’s export of arms and defence technologies touched a record Rs 13,000 crore in the financial year 2021-22, with 70% contribution coming from the private sector and the remaining 30% from the public sector. The defence exports, which witnessed a substantial increase over the preceding fiscal, were mainly to the US, the Philippines and other countries in South-East Asia, West Asia and Africa. http://dlvr.it/STb14k

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India on Thursday said it has a consistent policy to treat Tibetan spiritual leader Dalai Lama as an honoured guest and that Prime Minister Narendra Modi's birthday greetings to him should be seen from the overall context. MEA spokesperson Arindam Bagchi was talking about China's reaction to Modi's phone conversation with the Dalai Lama on Wednesday, where he extended birthday greetings to the latter. http://dlvr.it/STWVB5

West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee on Thursday said 'people make mistakes but they can be rectified'. "We make mistakes while working but they can be rectified. Some people don't see all the good work and suddenly start shouting. Negativity affects our brain cells so let's think positively," Mamata said while addressing an event in Kolkata. http://dlvr.it/STWTX8

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