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Was Lucknow encounter target Saifullah dead by 5 pm on March 7?
As the Uttar Pradesh police have now reversed their initial stand that the so-called Lucknow-Kanpur module of ISIS was behind the March 7 Bhopal-Ujjain train blast, but it has emerged that slain terror suspect, Saifullah, may have been killed within two hours of the siege that began at 2pm on March 7, says The Quint.
RSS activist was conduit for illegal pro-BJP exit poll in Dainik Jagran
The exit poll published by Dainik Jagran in contravention of election laws right after the first phase of voting ended in Uttar Pradesh was supplied by a senior business executive at the mass circulation Hindi daily, Tanmay Shankar—who just also happens to be an activist of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh, The Wire has established.
Leaders must tell voters not to take bribes, says CEC Nasim Zaidi
CEC Nasim Zaidi tells The Hindu that the Election Commission is seeking to make bribery a cognisable offence as under current laws police cannot take action. Leaders must speak out against accepting bribes unequivocally, he said.
South Korean president Park Geun-hye forced from office by court
Park Geun-hye has become the first democratically elected South Korean president to be forced from office, after the country’s constitutional court upheld a parliamentary vote to impeach her over a corruption and cronyism scandal, reports The Guardian.
Three international publishers—Oxford University Press, Cambridge University Press and Taylor & Francis—on Thursday moved court to withdraw a five-year-long lawsuit against photocopying of textbooks for use as study material in Delhi University, reports The Telegraph.
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- Uttar Pradesh
- Election Commission
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- Dainik Jagran
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- Oxford University Press
- Cambridge University Press
- Taylor & Francis
- South Korea
- Lucknow
- Nasim Zaidi
- encounter
- Delhi University
- exit poll
- ISIS
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- Bhopal-Ujjain train
- Tanmay Shankar
- CEC
- Park Geun-hye
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