VK News Today https://validator.w3.org/feed/docs/rss2.html When Mushtaq Khan recalled Salman Khan’s dating days, ‘Welcome’ actor said, ‘Iss tarah ki baatein humne kabhi kari bhi nahi’ Love Horoscope Today, September 26, 2026: What the stars say about your love life Comedy show row: Professor, student apologise to each other after viral video Sonam Wangchuk SRINAGAR: A day after Leh Apex Body (LAB) member and climate activist Sonam Wangchuk compared situation in Ladakh with Tibet, the Central Tibetan Administration, based in Dharamshala, Friday evening expressed deep concern over remarks of Wangchuk called the comparison misplaced and inaccurate and stating “Tibet continues to remain under China’s authoritarian rule.”“The Central Tibetan Administration expresses deep concern over remarks made by Sonam Wangchuk in his recent public speech in Ladakh, in which he compared the situation in Ladakh with that of inside Tibet,” Tenzin Lekshay official spokesperson of the Central Tibetan Administration said, adding that CTA considers such a comparison misplaced and inaccurate.“His statement doesn’t reflect the real situation inside Tibet. Tibet continues to remain under China’s authoritarian rule. where Tibetans face systematic repression of their fundamental rights, religious freedom; and intensification of measures aimed at erasing its distinct cultural identity,” Lekshay added.Wangchuk, addressing people in Leh on the first anniversary of the Sept 24, 2025 violence, said the alleged breach of promises made to Ladakh over the Sixth Schedule and statehood was the “root cause” of last year’s protests.On September 24 2025, police allegedly opened fire on protesters demanding Sixth Schedule status and statehood for Ladakh after demonstrations turned violent, killing four people and injuring nearly 90.He feared he could be subjected to an “encounter” for speaking out against what he called atrocities in Ladakh, a year after police firing killed four protesters in Leh. Drawing a comparison with Tibet, Wangchuk said Ladakhis had chosen India because of its democracy.“Today, such atrocities are being committed in Ladakh that even China is not doing in Tibet. That is what you are seeing today,” he said.He sought a people’s tribunal to probe the killings, saying a judicial commission set up by Union home ministry had yet to submit its report. “Last year on this day, four people died… Bullets hit their chests, backs, and heads. Those were not pellets that would merely injure you or hurt your eyes. Bullets were fired indiscriminately from automatic weapons, like AK-47s, at the unarmed youth of Ladakh who were peacefully demanding their rights,” Wangchuk alleged. He rejected claims that the protests were triggered by him. He alleged that before the 2020 LAHDC-Leh elections, Ladakhi representatives opposed to holding polls were taken to New Delhi on a special flight and promised statehood and Sixth Schedule status.He blamed “govt failure to honour those promises” for last year’s demonstrations. Authorities imposed curfew-like restrictions in Leh after the alleged “arson and rioting” and subsequent police firing last year. FIRs were filed and 81 people arrested, including Wangchuk. He was charged under NSA and sent to Jodhpur jail. After 170 days, Union govt withdrew his detention on March 14 this year and he was set free.Join conversationView All Comments →Share your thoughts in the commentsInsightfulAgreeDisagreeSkepticalConcerningPromisingWorth ReadingBig DevelopmentPost CommentBe respectful · TOI community guidelinesHe feared further action, saying: “They sent me to jail. Inquiries have been made against me. Only an encounter is left. I am ready for that. It is my last wish. Experts tell me that you will be subjected to an encounter. So be it. Let the country wake up, this is my hope.”A complete shutdown was observed in Leh on Thursday, designated as Martyr’s Day. Wangchuk accused authorities of stopping people from attending the rally, a claim denied by police.Police said the Ladakh Buddhist Association had sought permission for a public meeting at Leh’s NDS stadium, which has a capacity of 10,000. The administration granted permission for a prayer meet from 10am to noon. Police claimed a turnout of 800 at the event and denied allegations that they erected barricades to stop people from reaching the venue.Also read: Wangchuk fears ‘encounter’ after accusing govt of Ladakh atrocitiesGet the latest India News and Live updates. Download the TOI app.End of ArticleFollow Us On Social MediaVideos‘A Terrorist Country Asking Me That Question’: Jaishankar’s Sharp Reply To Pak Journalist At UN’SIR’ Under Fire? 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I am not alone; there are other colleagues with me. We have seen the situation in Punjab over all these years, but at one point, they did not even ask us.”“We are people from here, and it is my duty to tell them what my views and feelings are,” Singh said, according to PTI.Singh, however, said his comments should not be interpreted as an indication that he was leaving the BJP or returning to the Congress.“I have not said that my relevance is no longer there in the Congress or the BJP. Parties keep changing,” he told PTI.“When I was in the Congress, I also went to the Akali Dal over Operation Blue Star and later returned to the Congress. That does not mean I will now leave and join another party,” Singh said.His remarks came amid questions over his political relevance in Punjab and his relationship with the BJP. Singh has been with the BJP since leaving the Congress and forming his own party, Punjab Lok Congress, before merging it with the BJP in 2022.AAP attacks AmarinderReacting to Singh’s remarks, Punjab Aam Aadmi Party general secretary and media in-charge Baltej Singh Pannu accused the former chief minister of being an “opportunistic” political leader.“Captain Amarinder Singh is saying that he achieved nothing by joining the BJP. If a list of opportunistic leaders in Punjab were to be made, Captain Amarinder Singh would be at number one; I have never seen or heard of a more opportunistic political leader,” Pannu said, according to IANS.Join conversationView All Comments →Share your thoughts in the commentsInsightfulAgreeDisagreeSkepticalConcerningPromisingWorth ReadingBig DevelopmentPost CommentBe respectful · TOI community guidelinesPannu said Singh had already been rejected by the people of Punjab and questioned his record as chief minister.“The people of Punjab have already rejected him. Now he is saying that he gained nothing, but the people of Punjab made him Chief Minister twice; what did he do for Punjab? He couldn’t do anything,” Pannu said.Get the latest India News and Live updates. Download the TOI app.About the AuthorAryan SinghAryan Singh is a journalist with The Times of India, covering breaking news, defence and global conflicts. An alumnus of the IIMC, he tracks the people, weapons and geopolitics behind the headlines, with a focus on India’s national security, military affairs and conflicts shaping the world.Read MoreEnd of ArticleFollow Us On Social MediaVideos‘A Terrorist Country Asking Me That Question’: Jaishankar’s Sharp Reply To Pak Journalist At UN’SIR’ Under Fire? IIT-Bombay, Election Commission Face Accountability Questions | PrasangMassive Protest Erupts At Delhi’s Jantar Mantar Against Gyanesh Kumar Over EC-SIR RowUAPA ‘Missing’: What Allowed VanDyke, 6 Ukrainians To Leave India? 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The department said insecticides and pesticides are regulated under Insecticides Act, 1968, and Insecticides Rules. It said no chemical named Cyclosinone was listed in the Act’s Schedule, and the product did not disclose its composition.CCPA rejected the companies’ argument that they could not be held responsible for products listed by third-party sellers.Get the latest India News and Live updates. Download the TOI app.End of ArticleFollow Us On Social MediaVideos‘A Terrorist Country Asking Me That Question’: Jaishankar’s Sharp Reply To Pak Journalist At UN’SIR’ Under Fire? IIT-Bombay, Election Commission Face Accountability Questions | PrasangMassive Protest Erupts At Delhi’s Jantar Mantar Against Gyanesh Kumar Over EC-SIR RowUAPA ‘Missing’: What Allowed VanDyke, 6 Ukrainians To Leave India? 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Solicitor general Tushar Mehta, appearing for the Goa govt, said, “Rape never takes place for years, and only one day is enough.”On Aug 25, SC had directed Tejpal to surrender within three weeks to undergo his 10-year prison sentence, following which he surrendered before the trial court. HC has convicted Tejpal of raping a junior colleague inside a hotel elevator in 2013 during an event in Goa. Get the latest India News and Live updates. Download the TOI app.End of ArticleFollow Us On Social MediaVideos‘A Terrorist Country Asking Me That Question’: Jaishankar’s Sharp Reply To Pak Journalist At UN’SIR’ Under Fire? IIT-Bombay, Election Commission Face Accountability Questions | PrasangMassive Protest Erupts At Delhi’s Jantar Mantar Against Gyanesh Kumar Over EC-SIR RowUAPA ‘Missing’: What Allowed VanDyke, 6 Ukrainians To Leave India? 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Senior advocate Meenakshi Arora, appearing for Singhal, said that a sanction to prosecute an administrative officer as provided under Section 197 of the Code of Criminal Procedure (CrPC) was not granted. Arora said ED argued that under BNSS, there was a provision of “automatic deemed sanction”.Join conversationView All Comments →Share your thoughts in the commentsInsightfulAgreeDisagreeSkepticalConcerningPromisingWorth ReadingBig DevelopmentPost CommentBe respectful · TOI community guidelinesShe said Singhal was not an accused in the corruption case, and so far as the money laundering case is concerned, she was acting in her official capacity. Refusing to grant any relief, the bench said it has to be ascertained whether the officer was discharging her official functions. PTIGet the latest India News and Live updates. 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NEW DELHI: Supreme Court Friday said it would hear after six weeks a plea seeking directions to confiscate the movable and immovable property of offenders and their family members involved in exam question paper leak cases.The matter came up for hearing before Justices P S Narasimha and Alok Aradhe.On Aug 18, SC had sought responses from Centre and the state govts on the plea filed by advocate Ashwini Kumar Upadhyay. The bench asked the respondents to file their counter affidavits and posted the matter after six weeks. During the Aug 18 hearing, Upadhyay submitted that he was not seeking measures to ensure time-bound probe in question paper leak cases, as the Public Examinations (Prevention of Unfair Means) Amendment Bill, 2026, has been passed.The plea sought directions for assessment of entire property of perpetrators and their family, and invoke provisions, including Prevention of Corruption Act and Prevention of Money Laundering Act.Get the latest India News and Live updates. Download the TOI app.End of ArticleFollow Us On Social MediaVideos‘A Terrorist Country Asking Me That Question’: Jaishankar’s Sharp Reply To Pak Journalist At UN’SIR’ Under Fire? IIT-Bombay, Election Commission Face Accountability Questions | PrasangMassive Protest Erupts At Delhi’s Jantar Mantar Against Gyanesh Kumar Over EC-SIR RowUAPA ‘Missing’: What Allowed VanDyke, 6 Ukrainians To Leave India? 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For instance, Para 20 of the SSR exercise ordered by EC on May 29, 2023, with Jan 1, 2024, as the qualifying date, directed the “flagging of marked electors, viz MP/MLA/MLC, holders of declared offices and personalities from fields of arts, culture, journalism, sports, members of judiciary and public services, etc”. Para 21 said the electoral registration officers were to ensure that the names were in the proposed draft roll.The same instruction was reiterated in the SIR order for Bihar dated June 24, 2025, and the orders for SIR Phase 2 and 3.Nowhere in the SIR or SSR instructions has the terminology ‘VIP’ been used. “It somehow made it to the app description,” an officer said. EC officials said the BLO app software update was meant to help such prominent persons “marked” in the electoral database by flagging any notices served and enabling the proof furnished by them to be uploaded on the app without delay.Join conversationView All Comments →Share your thoughts in the commentsInsightfulAgreeDisagreeSkepticalConcerningPromisingWorth ReadingBig DevelopmentPost CommentBe respectful · TOI community guidelinesMeanwhile, EC sources said the postponement of the electoral literacy club conferences in UP had nothing to do with the row and the decision was made on Sept 21.On reports alleging annual confidential reports were held up due to differences between commission members, EC officials said such delays were not unusual. TOI has further learnt there have been few full commission meetings in the past few months.Get the latest India News and Live updates. Download the TOI app.About the AuthorBharti JainBharti Jain is senior editor with The Times of India, New Delhi. She has been writing on security matters since 1996. Having covered the Union home ministry, security agencies, Election Commission and the ‘prime’ political beat, the Congress, for The Economic Times all these years, she moved to TOI in August 2012. Her repertoire of news stories delves into the whole gamut of issues related to terrorism and internal strife, besides probing strategic affairs in India’s neighbourhood.Read MoreEnd of ArticleFollow Us On Social MediaVideos‘A Terrorist Country Asking Me That Question’: Jaishankar’s Sharp Reply To Pak Journalist At UN’SIR’ Under Fire? IIT-Bombay, Election Commission Face Accountability Questions | PrasangMassive Protest Erupts At Delhi’s Jantar Mantar Against Gyanesh Kumar Over EC-SIR RowUAPA ‘Missing’: What Allowed VanDyke, 6 Ukrainians To Leave India? 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