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Jaipur, June 6 (IANS) A woman in Rajasthan's Banswara district has filed a police complaint after allegedly receiving a triple talaq notice from her husband via WhatsApp while he was living in Kuwait.Police have registered a case and initiated an investigation into the matter.According to officials, the woman submitted a written complaint at the Women's Police Station on Friday, alleging that her husband ended their marriage by sending a triple talaq message to her WhatsApp number on May 17.The accused, identified as Ashiq Iqbal, a resident of Gorakh Imli, has reportedly been working in Kuwait for the past year.Women's Police Station SHO Urmila said the police have registered a case based on the complaint and will issue a notice to the accused, summoning him for questioning.Necessary legal...

Rajkot, June 6 (IANS) A consignment of Indian Made Foreign Liquor (IMFL) worth more than Rs 63 lakh was seized from a truck parked at a hotel on the Rajkot-Bhavnagar highway during a prohibition raid conducted by the State Monitoring Cell (SMC) on Saturday, officials said.According to the SMC, the raid was carried out at the parking area of Tulsi Hotel near Halenda village under the jurisdiction of Aji Dam Police Station in Rajkot city.During the operation, officers recovered 5,280 bottles of IMFL valued at Rs 63.14 lakh from a Tata truck.Police also seized the truck, valued at Rs 20 lakh, along with 2,340 bags of Mor Light liquid detergent worth Rs 14.01 lakh that were allegedly being used as cover cargo. The total value of the seized property and goods amounted to Rs 97.16 lakh.A case ...

Jaipur, June 6 (IANS) Rajasthan Medical Minister Gajendra Singh Khimsar's son, Dhananjay Singh, has allegedly received death threats from an unidentified person through a phone call and social media messages, police said on Saturday. Taking the matter seriously, the Khimsar Police have registered a case and initiated an investigation.According to the complaint filed by Dhananjay Singh, the incident occurred on the morning of Friday while he was at his office, Atal Bhavan, located within Khimsar Fort.He received a call from an unknown number, during which the caller inquired about his plans to visit Jaipur.Dhananjay Singh informed the caller that he was scheduled to travel to Jaipur in two days to attend a Rajasthan Cricket Association (RCA) meeting.The caller then allegedly began threateni...

Mumbai, June 6 (IANS) Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis has questioned the intentions behind the protest held at Delhi's Jantar Mantar on Saturday by the 'Cockroach Janata Party', led by US-returned Abhijeet Dipke.While the protest has received support from Opposition leaders as well as youth active on social media, Chief Minister Fadnavis said the motives of those participating in the demonstration at Jantar Mantar had been thoroughly exposed. He asserted that such intentions would never succeed and that the agitators had failed to garner public support.Reacting strongly to the ongoing demonstration, Fadnavis said: "You all must have witnessed the speeches and slogans raised at Jantar Mantar today. One thing has become clear from it -- this is not the true expression of India's...

Thiruvananthapuram, June 6 (IANS) Veteran Congress leader and former KPCC president V.M. Sudheeran has sought a fresh and impartial investigation into the suicide of K.K. Maheshan, former Kanichukulangara Union Secretary of SNDP Yogam, alleging that key evidence was ignored and crucial aspects of the case were not properly examined.In a letter submitted to Chief Minister V.D. Satheesan, Sudheeran, a former Minister, Speaker and Lok Sabha member, forwarded a petition by Maheshan's wife, Usha Devi, seeking justice and requested the appointment of a Special Investigation Team (SIT) comprising senior police officers with an independent track record.Maheshan, who was also the SNDP Yogam Devaswom Treasurer and State Coordinator of the organisation's microfinance programme, died by suicide in 202...

Agartala, June 6 (IANS) Union Home Minister Amit Shah has directed the authorities to organise awareness and training camps for people living along the India-Bangladesh border to help them tackle the growing threats posed by narcotics trafficking and illegal arms, officials said on Saturday.The Union Home Minister emphasised the need for greater public participation in strengthening border security and preventing cross-border criminal activities, particularly drug smuggling and the movement of illegal weapons, an official statement said.Union Minister Shah chaired a meeting on Friday at the BSF Tripura Frontier headquarter Shalbagan, near Agartala, regarding issues related to border areas in Tripura.He directed that camps be organised to train people living along the India-Bangladesh bo...

Kolkata, June 6 (IANS) Mohammed Ajmal Siddique, who resigned as the Trinamool Congress West Bengal Secretary (Minority Cell) as well as from the primary membership of the party, alleged that he was forced to join the Mamata Banerjee-led political outfit due to "fear of Trinamool Congress General Secretary and MP Abhishek Banerjee".In an interaction with IANS, Siddique said: "I was forced to join the party. In 2015-16, on behalf of Abhishek Banerjee, Binoy Mishra demanded money from me while I was doing business. I didn't give money due to which false cases were registered against me. After that, I had to take bail from the Supreme Court and the High Court."The former Trinamool leader said he was forced to join the party "as it was not possible to do business in West Bengal without being a ...

New Delhi, June 6 (IANS) A Delhi court on Saturday directed the All India Mahila Congress President Alka Lamba to be released on probation of good conduct for a period of one year in a case arising out of a protest demanding implementation of women's reservation ahead of the 2024 Lok Sabha elections.The Rouse Avenue Court directed that Lamba be released on a good conduct bond for one year and ordered her to furnish a bail bond of Rs 1 lakh. Reacting to the court order, the Congress leader said that she would challenge her conviction before the Sessions Court. "I have indeed been convicted by the Rouse Avenue Court, and I will certainly challenge that conviction through my lawyers. This fight for women's rights will continue," Lamba told IANS.Last month, the court had convicted Lamba in ...