VK News Today https://validator.w3.org/feed/docs/rss2.html He quit a Rs 13 lakh job to study AI in the US, then reportedly landed a Rs 1.5 crore AWS role ‘Al Pachino to Amitabh Bachchan, Shah Rukh Khan, itne saare log mere andar naachte hai,’ says Ravi Kishan as he reacts to becoming a meme sensation Rohit Shetty Parenting Style: “I have never scolded my son”: Rohit Shetty reveals the parenting rule he follows; why letting children make mistakes can build stronger trust People born on these dates are traditionally considered ruled by Rahu: Check your date of birth Wyoming’s Casper landfill buried 1,124 turbine blades after each was cut into three pieces; a Missouri plant offers another route by turning old blades into cement feedstock ‘US has similar laws’: Indian envoy Vinay Kwatra clarifies FCRA Bill, shares ‘myth vs reality’ check British national killed in PoK clashes; another held for over 2 months: Report NEW DELHI: Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla on Monday made an emotional appeal to floor leaders of all parties to end the logjam in the Lower House and allow Parliament to function without disruptions.During a meeting of the Business Advisory Committee, Birla urged floor leaders to “let the voice of the people be heard”, news agency ANI reported, citing sources.The Lok Sabha speaker said key bills should be discussed in the House and there should be no disruption so that members can express their views on legislation being passed by Parliament, sources added.”Emphasising the importance of constructive deliberations, meaningful participation and adherence to the highest parliamentary traditions, the Speaker appealed to all parties to extend their cooperation in ensuring the smooth and orderly conduct of the proceedings so that issues concerning the people can be discussed in a comprehensive and productive manner,” sources said.The appeal comes amid continued disruptions by the Opposition during the Monsoon Session. Opposition parties have been demanding a response from home minister Amit Shah over alleged police brutality against students protesting the NEET paper leak across the country, as well as a debate on alleged embezzlement of donations from the Ram Temple in Ayodhya.Join conversationView All Comments →Share your thoughts in the commentsInsightfulAgreeDisagreeSkepticalConcerningPromisingWorth ReadingBig DevelopmentPost CommentBe respectful · TOI community guidelinesFor the 16th consecutive day, the Lower House failed to complete Question Hour due to persistent sloganeering by Opposition members. As many as nine bills have been passed by the Lok Sabha during the ongoing session, but only two have been debated.Earlier in the day, parliamentary affairs minister Kiren Rijiju said the government was ready for a debate in the Lok Sabha on the student protests and police action. He said the home minister would reply to the debate, but the Opposition should assure the government that it would “not run away” from the debate and listen peacefully.Despite the government’s assurance, the bill to establish a National Tribunal Commission was passed by the House without a debate as the Opposition continued its noisy protests.Get the latest India News and Live updates. Download the TOI app.About the AuthorTOI News DeskThe TOI News Desk comprises a dedicated and tireless team of journalists who operate around the clock to deliver the most current and comprehensive news and updates to the readers of The Times of India worldwide. With an unwavering commitment to excellence in journalism, our team is at the forefront of gathering, verifying, and presenting breaking news, in-depth analysis, and insightful reports on a wide range of topics. 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Download the TOI app.About the AuthorTOI News DeskThe TOI News Desk comprises a dedicated and tireless team of journalists who operate around the clock to deliver the most current and comprehensive news and updates to the readers of The Times of India worldwide. With an unwavering commitment to excellence in journalism, our team is at the forefront of gathering, verifying, and presenting breaking news, in-depth analysis, and insightful reports on a wide range of topics. 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Must-do Hanuman, Shiva, and Vishnu remedies to protect your mind & family After weeks of violent protests, PoK votes in final election phase amid PTI, JAAC boycott calls Hoover Dam’s construction submerged a US town in 1935: 90 years later, Lake Mead’s falling water levels are helping it reemerge NEW DELHI: Bharatiya Janata Party on Monday questioned Congress’ silence over the recent conviction of former Tehelka editor-in-chief Tarun Tejpal in a 2013 sexual assault case.In a press conference, BJP MP Sudhanshu Trivedi accused Congress and other opposition parties of having a “one-dimensional, one-sided and prejudiced” thinking on issues like freedom of expression or the persecution of women.”Just recently, Tarun Tejpal, the editor-in-chief of the controversial magazine Tehelka, was found guilty by the Goa Bench of the Bombay High Court in a 2013 rape case and sentenced to 10 years of rigorous imprisonment. This matter is important today because, even after so many days have passed, not a single word has been heard from the Congress side,” Trivedi said.”Nor from any opposition party, nor from any institution that proclaims itself the self-appointed protector of women’s interests. This shows how one-dimensional, one-sided, and prejudiced the thinking is on issues like freedom of expression or the persecution of women,” he added.During the press conference, the BJP leader also alleged that Tejpal had a connection with Congress leadership, claiming that Sonia Gandhi wrote a letter to then finance minister P Chidambaram directing him not to harass the magazine. He also said that UPA government awarded Tejpal the Excellence in Journalism Award in 2010.”This is the very business house that had conducted a bizarre kind of sting operation. When Atal Ji’s government constituted an inquiry commission under the chairmanship of Justice Phukan, it was an opportunity when the sting-operating group refused to hand over the entire tapes for verification. There couldn’t be more suspicion than this. And when the inquiry report came, by then the government had changed, and the Congress government never even tabled that inquiry report on the floor of the House,” he said.”When the BJP government raised the issue, a 41-page summary report was tabled on the floor of the House. And today, when the culprits have been proven guilty, I want to remind everyone that their connection is with Congress… During the UPA era, Supreme Leader Sonia Gandhi ji wrote a letter to the then finance minister P Chidambaram sahib on September 25–27, 2004, stating that there should be no harassment of Tehelka and its financier in any manner. Positive treatment should be accorded to them. Today, I want to ask the Congress: Was your government engaging in unfair treatment at that time? In 2010, the then law minister Veerappa Moily sahib awarded him the Excellence in Journalism Award. Today, this is their situation, and not a single word is coming out of your mouth,” he added.This comes after Bombay high court found Tejpal guilty of rape and sentenced him to 10 years’ rigorous imprisonment. The sentence was pronounced in the state’s challenge to Tejpal’s acquittal by the trial court in 2021.This comes 13 years after Tarun Tejpal was arrested in November 2013 following allegations that he had sexually assaulted a junior colleague inside a hotel elevator during an event organised by Tehelka magazine in Goa.Join conversationView All Comments →Share your thoughts in the commentsInsightfulAgreeDisagreeSkepticalConcerningPromisingWorth ReadingBig DevelopmentPost CommentBe respectful · TOI community guidelinesThe sessions court at Mapusa acquitted him in May 2021, prompting Goa government to challenge the verdict before the HC.The high court termed the trial court’s verdict as “perverse”, noting that it fell for the notion that a sexual assault complainant must be a “perfect victim” and conduct herself in a certain way so as to appear credible.The court asked Tejpal to surrender within two weeks but later extended the period to four weeks at the request of his lawyers. The journalist has claimed that he was a political victim and would approach the Supreme Court to challenge his conviction.Get the latest India News and Live updates. Download the TOI app.About the AuthorTOI News DeskThe TOI News Desk comprises a dedicated and tireless team of journalists who operate around the clock to deliver the most current and comprehensive news and updates to the readers of The Times of India worldwide. With an unwavering commitment to excellence in journalism, our team is at the forefront of gathering, verifying, and presenting breaking news, in-depth analysis, and insightful reports on a wide range of topics. 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Problems are sorted out when we talk to each other. And I have full confidence that people are together, and the solution will definitely happen… it will happen. I am very confident. There is nothing negative here; everything is positive,” Trivedi said.”The Prime Minister of Bangladesh… we all respect him a lot. I have listened to his speeches many times, and he talks from his heart. This, I have seen. He is a people’s person. And our Prime Minister is also of the people,” Trivedi added.The latest diplomatic engagement follows a virtual press interaction by former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina in New Delhi on August 5, marking the second anniversary of her ouster in a student-led uprising in 2024. The event drew strong objections from Dhaka.Join conversationView All Comments →Share your thoughts in the commentsInsightfulAgreeDisagreeSkepticalConcerningPromisingWorth ReadingBig DevelopmentPost CommentBe respectful · TOI community guidelinesHasina fled Bangladesh on August 5, 2024, and took refuge in India following the political upheaval that ended her long tenure as prime minister.India has distanced itself from Hasina’s engagement, saying the government has no involvement in the event held in the national capital. Addressing a media briefing on Tuesday, Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) spokesperson Randhir Jaiswal said the event was organised by a “private media entity” and that New Delhi does not endorse any views expressed there.”The interaction you refer to is being organised by a private media entity. The government has no involvement whatsoever in it. Neither does it endorse any views that may be expressed at the forum,” Jaiswal said.The meeting also comes ahead of India’s invitation to Rahman to attend the BRICS Summit in September in his capacity as the current chair of BIMSTEC.Get the latest India News and Live updates. Download the TOI app.About the AuthorTOI News DeskThe TOI News Desk comprises a dedicated and tireless team of journalists who operate around the clock to deliver the most current and comprehensive news and updates to the readers of The Times of India worldwide. With an unwavering commitment to excellence in journalism, our team is at the forefront of gathering, verifying, and presenting breaking news, in-depth analysis, and insightful reports on a wide range of topics. 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The saffron party also alleged that Kejriwal’s party aimed at targeting Prime Minister Narendra Modi rather than addressing education reforms or the NEET paper leak.BJP IT department head Amit Malviya made the allegation on X while targeting former Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal over remarks he allegedly made in a video circulating online.Malviya shared the purported video in which Kejriwal can be heard saying in Hindi, “Is baar jitne log aaye the sadkon par, wo kis liye aaye the? Wo kewal mujhe nahin lagta ki Dharmendra Pradhan ka istifa mangne aaye rahe. Matlab agar main crude bhasha mein boloon, to Modi ji ko thokne aaye the. (The people who took to the streets this time, what did they come for? I don’t think they came merely to demand Dharmendra Pradhan’s resignation. To use crude language, they came to take on Modi ji).”However, the video’s authenticity could not be verified.Several BJP leaders, including former Delhi BJP chief Virendra Sachdeva, also condemned Kejriwal over his alleged remarks about Modi.The BJP’s Jammu and Kashmir unit said in a post on X, “Kejriwal has finally exposed his pet project — the Cockroach Janta Party. The agenda was never accountability or education reform. From day one, it was about one thing: targeting PM Modi.”BJP IT cell chief alleged that Kejriwal had effectively admitted that the Jantar Mantar protest, presented as a students’ movement, was actually a sponsored political campaign against the prime minister.”It was always evident that Cockroach Janta Party (CJP) founder Abhijeet Dipke and “his gang” had deep links with the AAP, Malviya said.”But after the protest, the cockroaches went rogue, stopped taking Arvind’s calls and forced the insecure Kejriwal to spill the beans on the true motive behind the protests,” he claimed.The BJP leader further accused the opposition parties of using students for political purposes.”Your children were used as cannon fodder for the AAP and Congress’s political agenda. Never forget that. They could have been hurt, embroiled in violence, or had their lives ruined. But that didn’t happen, thanks to the exemplary restraint shown by the law-enforcement agencies,” Malviya added.He also called for those who allegedly led the protest to be exposed, accusing them of abandoning it at the right moment to protect themselves and their alleged sponsors, naming Rahul Gandhi and Arvind Kejriwal.BJP Rajya Sabha member Swati Maliwal also hit out at Kejriwal, alleging that students had been peacefully raising their concerns until he attempted to “hijack the movement and turn it into a political opportunity”.”Arvind Kejriwal says in an interview: ‘Jo log sadak pe aaye the, wo Modi ji ko thokne aaye the.’ What kind of a language is this? Does he even know what he’s saying?” Maliwal said in a post on X, referring to the purported video.”First he founded, funded and directed CJP, then hijacked the peaceful movement of students and tried to turn it violent as was done in Bangladesh and Nepal!… His dictatorial tendencies are out in the open, and it’s clear that he can do anything to capture power. Such people are a danger to democracy!” the BJP MP added.Delhi minister Kapil Mishra also targeted Kejriwal, accusing him of using “Maoist-style language” while referring to the prime minister.”This is not a symbol of any ‘revolutionary uprising’ on his part, but rather the final, desperate cry of his moral and linguistic bankruptcy,” Mishra said on X.Join conversationView All Comments →Share your thoughts in the commentsInsightfulAgreeDisagreeSkepticalConcerningPromisingWorth ReadingBig DevelopmentPost CommentBe respectful · TOI community guidelinesFormer Delhi BJP president Virendra Sachdeva also condemned Kejriwal’s alleged remarks, saying they reflected his mental state.”He has gone crazy,” Sachdeva said.”The people of Delhi have given him a fitting reply. They have also responded to his corruption. And the way he is looting the tax money of the people of Punjab to nurture his own party, the people of Punjab will also give a fitting reply,” Sachdeva told PTI Videos.Get the latest India News and Live updates. Download the TOI app.About the AuthorTOI News DeskThe TOI News Desk comprises a dedicated and tireless team of journalists who operate around the clock to deliver the most current and comprehensive news and updates to the readers of The Times of India worldwide. With an unwavering commitment to excellence in journalism, our team is at the forefront of gathering, verifying, and presenting breaking news, in-depth analysis, and insightful reports on a wide range of topics. 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