Union law minister Ravi Shankar Prasad introduced a new bill to make the practice of triple talaq or instant divorce, practiced in the Muslim community, illegal, in the Lok Sabha saying rights of Muslim women will be protected.
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Congress chief Rahul Gandhi accepted in the Supreme Court that he had wrongly attributed the “chowkidar chor hain” slogan to the court’s ruling on the Rafale fighter deal. He said he had made the remarks in the “heat of the political campaigning”.
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The Bhartiya Janta Party announced the names of 40 candidates for the Lok Sabha elections in Bihar, where in Ravi Shankar Prasad replaced Shatrughan Sinha in one of the seats.
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A special NIA court in Haryana’s Panchkula acquitted all the four accused, including Aseemanand, in the 2007 Samjhauta Express blast case, in which 68 people, mostly Pakistanis, were killed. The BJP termed the verdict as “historic”.
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The chief election commissioner, Sunil Arora, on Thursday, said there’s no question of reintroducing ballot papers and the Election Commission “will not be intimidated, bullied or coerced into giving up EVMs”.
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Shashi Tharoor has filed a criminal defamation case against law minister Ravi Shankar Prasad for calling him “accused in a case of murder” in case of his wife, Sunanda Pushkar’s death.
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