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Vice President Jagdeep Dhankhar on Monday said there is a need to hit hard at subtle discrimination against women and urged the "male society" to change its mindset before it is too late. He also condemned the rape-murder of a trainee doctor in Kolkata and said people must condemn remarks that the incident was of "symptomatic malaise". Addressing the News 18 She Shakti Conclave 2024 in Delhi, the vice president said after the women's reservation law comes into force, more women will be part of decision-making and governance. There will be less disturbance and disruptions (in Parliament and state legislatures), he said. People who term women as the weaker sex are wrong, he asserted and said women empowerment will be boosted by women themselves. Mr Dhankhar was of the view that education cuts into inequality. "Gender discrimination has vanished but has assumed certain forms. Overt discrimination can be fought but not subtle discrimination. We have to hi...

The idea of One Country One Election -- under discussion for long in the corridors of parliament -- will be implemented during the current tenure of the Narendra Modi government, sources have said. Prime Minister Narendra Modi had mentioned this in his Independence Day speech this year and the government is committed to implementing it, sources said. The government has already formed a committee under the chairmanship of former President Ramnath Kovind, which has submitted its report.  The panel has recommended simultaneous elections for the Lok Sabha and state assemblies as a first step, which would be followed by synchronised local body polls within 100 days. It is likely that the Law Commission will also recommend it soon. The Commission is likely to recommend that all three tiers of government -- Lok Sabha, state assemblies and local bodies like municipalities and panchayats -- have simultaneous polls starting 2029 and a provision for unity government in cases like hung house...

ब्रिटेन के प्रधानमंत्री कीर स्टारमर यूक्रेन को समर्थन देने के अगले कदमों को लेकर बातचीत के लिए अमेरिकी राष्ट्रपति जो बाइडेन से मुलाकात करने वाले हैं. दोनों नेताओं के बीच बातचीत का मुख्य विषय यह है कि रूस में लक्ष्यों को भेदने के लिए पश्चिमी मिसाइलों के इस्तेमाल की इजाजत दी जाए या नहीं? समाचार एजेंसी रॉयटर्स की एक रिपोर्ट में यह बात कही गई है.  यूक्रेन के राष्ट्रपति वोलोडिमिर जेलेंस्की कई महीनों से अपने सहयोगियों से अनुरोध कर रहे हैं कि वे यूक्रेन को लंबी दूरी की अमेरिकी एटीएसीएमएस और ब्रिटिश स्टॉर्म शैडो सहित अन्य पश्चिमी मिसाइलें रूस में गहराई तक दागने दें, ताकि मास्को की हमले करने की क्षमता सीमित हो सके.  न्यूयॉर्क टाइम्स ने यूरोपीय अधिकारियों के हवाले से बताया कि, अमेरिका यूक्रेन को रूस में लक्ष्यों के खिलाफ लंबी दूरी की मिसाइलों के इस्तेमाल को मंजूरी देने के लिए तैयार है, बशर्ते कि इस्तेमाल होने वाले हथियार अमेरिका द्वारा प्रदान किए गए न हों. ...तो पश्चिम का रूस से युद्ध होगा रूसी राष्ट्रपति व्लादिमीर पुतिन ने गुरुवार को कहा कि अगर यूक्रेन पश्चिमी देशों द्वारा निर्मित ...

Prime Minister Narendra Modi, addressing his first poll rally in J&K ahead of the coming elections, on Saturday cited his government's efforts to bring peace and development to the troubled region as he lashed out against the "most corrupt" Congress and the other dynastic parties like the NC and the PDP, who had "sinned" against the people by depriving them of their rights and allowed terrorism to flourish. In his address at the rally in Doda district, the PM said, "The Congress is the most dishonest and misleading political party in the country. And its 'Royal Family' (the Gandhis) is the most corrupt political family of the country." "The petty politics and mean thinking of the Congress leaders became clear during the Congress President's (Mallikarjun Kharge) visit to J&K recently. He said if their party had 20 more seats in the Lok Sabha, they would put BJP leaders, including Modi, in jail... 2014, 2019, and 2024. After 60...

A 30-year-old woman from Mumbai has been arrested by Telangana's Cyber Security Bureau for allegedly trafficking youth from India to Cambodia to be kept as cyber slaves there. The woman, who worked with the director of a Chinese-owned company, was paid Rs 30,000 for every person that she managed to trick and send to the country.  'Cyber slave' is a term used for youth who are taken to a country by deceit, after being promised a legal employment opportunity, and are forced to participate in cyber frauds, sometimes under a threat of violence and confinement. Their passports are taken away, shutting off any way of returning home, and they are told there is a contractual obligation to stay. Sometimes, they are also 'sold' to other agents, often Chinese, for a price. In July, the Indian embassy in Phnom Penh had said it had rescued 14 Indians who had been pushed into cyber crime in Cambodia. The embassy had said that, in collaboration with Cambodian authorities, it had...

A man, his two sisters and 11-month-old nephew were killed on Thursday in Chhattisgarh's Balodabazar-Bhatapara district on suspicion that a member of the family was practising black magic, a police official said. The murders took place at 6pm in Chharchhed village under Kasdol police station limits and a man and his two sons have been detained and are being interrogated, he added. "Chaitram Kaivartya (47), his sisters Jamuna (28) and Yashoda (30), and Jamuna's son Yash were killed with sharp weapons and a hammer. We have detained Ramnath Patle and his two sons. They are from the same village. Patle's daughter had taken ill recently and he suspected it was due to black magic practised by Chaitram Kaivartya's mother," the official said. "Chaitram's mother was not at home when the attack, allegedly by Patle and his two sons, took place. Further probe into the incident is underway," he added. (Except for the headline, this story has not been edit...

A 26-year-old software engineer was arrested from Bengaluru for allegedly misappropriating cryptocurrency worth Rs 56 crore from a city-based firm where he had worked previously, police said on Wednesday. The accused, Shubhang Jain, who hails from Haryana, allegedly had access and control to all the company wallets which he misused, changed the account password and later transferred crypto currencies to other wallets, which he had created using fake identities, they said. The matter came to light during a company audit. Police said that accused was on the run for the last two years was arrested from Mumbai where he fled after committing the fraud at the city based cryptocurrency management firm he was working for. "During the investigation, it was found that the accused had committed fraud by transferring the cryptocurrencies from the wallet belonging to the complainant company to the wallets of his, his family members and friends wallets which he had created to divert the fir...