Latest News, Live Updates Today April 13, 2024: Deployment of cops dressed as priests at KV Temple sparks row

Latest news on April 13, 2024: Police personnel dressed as priests assist a devotee at the Kashi Vishwanath Temple.

• Samajwadi Party president Akhilesh Yadav slams the state police’s decision, saying allowing cops to dress in anything other than their uniforms poses a big security risk

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• The trio was booked by the crime branch along with Salim Fruit, Riyaz Bhati and some others in 2022 for allegedly trying to extort ₹62 lakh from a businessman who deals in catering and gold

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• Experts of the Central Building Research Institute (CBRI), Roorkee, who carried out the trial are camping in Ayodhya now to make the ‘Surya Abhishek’ successful. Director of the CBRI, Roorkee, Prof Pradeep Kumar Ramancharla and Prof Devdutt Ghosh are overseeing the project.

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• Supporters of BSP candidate Anis Ahmed Khan are raising the “local versus outsider” issue terming the BJP and SP candidates as outsiders who will leave the constituency once the election is over

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• The first clue that investigators found was CCTV footage of one of the accused leaving a bag that contained the IED device near the restaurant’s cash counter.

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• According to people aware of the details, the two accused – Abdul Matheen Ahmed Taahaa and Mussavir Hussain Shazib – were held from a hotel in New Digha in East Midnapore

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• SP chief launches poll campaign for INDIA bloc candidates from Pilibhit seat that will go to polls in the first round of the seven-phase Lok Sabha elections on April 19

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• The government has started several schemes to help early-stage startups, entrepreneurs grow businesses in India

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• A Karnataka police officer said that the state government will seek custody of the suspects within the next few days.

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• Saarthi Greentech launches Pune’s first hydrogen fuel systems factory, while Nalco Water’s solutions reduce freshwater usage for Lindstrom Group in India.

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• Ignore the facts, believe in conspiracies

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• With general elections looming, the party faces a crisis as leaders defect and others remain conspicuously silent, leaving the party’s future in doubt.

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• With Mann as the face of the party in Punjab, the plan was to make his government’s achievements, especially poll guarantees such as 300 units of free power and 43,000 government jobs, the central theme of the campaign. But, a month later, the party has been compelled to change tack and focus on the incarceration of Kejriwal, who was arrested by the ED in the Delhi excise policy case three weeks ago.

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• Parambans Singh Romana on Friday asked chief minister Bhagwant Mann to make public the “underhand deal he had arrived at with Congress leader Sukhpal Singh Khaira by agreeing not to prosecute him” and alleged that the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP), Congress and the BJP were forging a joint alliance against the Akali Dal.

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• MLA Vikramjit Singh Chaudhary said, “The Punjabi society stands as a beacon of communal harmony and brotherhood among people of all religions, but Channi was told to leave from a religious place due to his conduct.”

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• The man, sentenced to death for an accidental killing from 2006, is likely to be pardoned as “blood money” has been raised to save him from the gallows.

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• “It is not right to say or comment anything when I have no knowledge of the case in which Kejriwal has been arrested,” said Seechewal, adding that he would go and meet Kejriwal’s wife once his health improves.

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• Punjab State Power Corporation Limited (PSPCL) has already set up a control room to prevent the wheat yield from catching fire caused by sparks emanating from electric transformers and wires ahead of the wheat harvesting in the state.

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• The Lok Sabha elections have gained additional significance in the region because it will be the first major direct election since special status and statehood were taken away in August 2019

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• India advises citizens not to travel to Iran or Israel due to rising tensions. Indians in these countries urged to take precautions for safety.

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• The accused has been identified as Saaraj of Khilchian Kadim village in Ferozepur district. He reportedly smuggled the heroin from Pakistan. Commissioner of police (CP) Swapan Sharma said acting on a tip-off, the police intercepted a Maruti Suzuki Swift car bearing number PB05-AE-9641 approaching from the Verka milk plant service road. However, the car driver abruptly reversed the car to flee.

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• Electioneering by BJP candidate from Faridkot Hans Raj Hans and AAP nominee from Bathinda Gurmeet Khudian is witnessing protests by villagers for being ‘anti-farmers’.

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• Police on Friday arrested the third accused for allegedly gang-raping an 18-year-old student on a government college premises in Nabha. An FIR in the incident was lodged on April 8, and two accused, Davinder Singh and Ravneet Singh, had already been arrested.

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• The deceased have been identified as Darshan Singh (66), his wife Jaswinder Kaur (65), son Gurpreet Singh (44) and their family friend Jaskaran Singh Sidhu (42). They belonged to Muktsar town.

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• Police retrieved her body from one of the classrooms. She was teaching in Kapurthala’s school for special children for the past four years. The incident came to light on Friday morning when the peon opened the classroom.

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• The district administration said that 527 schools have been divided into five clusters and their buses will be checked according to the prescribed standards and safety rules at five designated places in Gurugram, Sohna and Pataudi

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