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After being suspended by Rajya Sabha Chairman Jagdeep Dhankhar on Monday, the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) MP sat on a sit-in protest near Mahatma Gandhi Statue in the Parliament premises.He was joined by several other opposition MPs on Monday afternoon and Monday night, including Congress MPs Syed Naseer Hussain, Imran Pratapgarhi, Shiv Sena (UBT) RS MP Priyanka Chaturvedi, Trinamool Congress MP Sushmita Deb and others.On Tuesday morning too, Singh continued with his sit-in protest over his suspension.The Opposition MPs have been demanding a detailed statement of Prime Minister Narendra Modi in Parliament and a detailed discussion over the Manipur situation.–IANSaks/dpb

Launched in 2019, Samsung Finance+ has driven smartphone business worth over $1 billion (by the end of 2022). Park’s vision in India was to democratise technology, which is not possible without providing affordability to the consumers. “India is fast moving on digitally empowering its citizens and affordability is a very important part in driving the adoption of technology. Every consumer has a different income level but if you spread your payment over say 24 months, and you don’t need to pay anything upfront, then the game changes,” Park told IANS here. To serve the Indian market better, Samsung has several…

A statement issued by the Massachusetts State Police on Monday night said that the 45-year-old “Campbell was employed by former President Barack Obama and was visiting Martha’s Vineyard at the time of his passing”. The Obamas were not present at the residence at the time of the accident, it said.According to the police, Campbell was reported missing on Sunday evening after going paddleboarding.He went “into the water, appeared to briefly struggle to stay on the surface, and then submerged and did not resurface”, the state police said in an earlier release.Another paddleboarder on the pond with him at the time…

“In the intervening night of 24/25 July, the vigilant BSF troops neutralised a Pak smuggler while he was trying to smuggle Narcotics through Ramgarh border area,” the BSF said.”During the initial search of the area four packets of suspected narcotics (weighing approx 4 Kgs) were found along with the dead body of the Pak smuggler.”The BSF said further search of the area is under progress.–IANSzi/dpb

Unrelenting heat and humidity pushed up the demand.Earlier, the highest power demand was recorded at 27,622 mw on July 22 and 27,611 mw in June.Officials claimed that the power corporation was meeting the entire demand by providing electricity to consumers as per the schedule, but the ground reality was a bit different.Complaints about undeclared load shedding, apart from power disruptions caused by failure of overloaded transformers continued to be reported from all over the state.UPPCL chairman M. Devraj said, “Power demand has reached 28,043 mw for the first time in the state’s history. We are ensuring a record supply of…

As a result, Afzal’s membership of Parliament will not be restored. Afzal, who is the elder brother of jailed don Mukhtar Ansari, was disqualified as an MP following a judgment of special MP-MLA court in Ghazipur by which he was convicted and sentenced for four years imprisonment and fined Rs 1 lakh. Later, he challenged the sentence by filing the present criminal appeal. The high court had on July 12 reserved its judgment. Disposing of the application of Afzal, Justice Raj Beer Singh observed: “After giving thoughtful consideration to all attending facts of the case, nature of offence of which…

After locals near Pakri Pul in the city’s Ashiana area raised an alarm, the accused loaded the stray dog in a two-wheeler and fled the scene, said Ankit Rawat, who lodged an FIR in Aashiana police station on Monday.According to Rawat, he heard the voice of a dog whining when he got back to his house with his German Shepherd dog around 11.30 p.m. on Sunday night.When he went out, he saw that 5-6 persons were beating the stray dog mercilessly.When he tried to stop them, they threatened him with dire consequences.“Since I was alone, I filmed them on camera…

According to medics in Arizona, some patients were injured after falling onto asphalt which had been heated by the scorching sun, the BBC reported on Tuesday.The inside of a car or the dark asphalt surface of a road can be far hotter than the air temperature, research has shown. Touching metal or asphalt for only a few seconds can be enough to cause severe burns.Arizona’s capital city of Phoenix has now witnessed a record-breaking 24 consecutive days of temperatures above 43 degrees Celsius, well past the previous record of 18 days set in 1974.Kevin Foster of the Arizona Burn Centre…

In the lawsuit, the Department of Justice is asking the US District Court in the Western District of Texas to force the state to remove the existing marine barriers and stop building more in the border river, Xinhua news agency reported.The department on Monday alleged that Texas and its Republican Governor Greg Abbott violated the Rivers and Harbors Appropriation Act by building a structure in US water without permission from the US Army Corps of Engineers.The marine barriers “constitute an unauthorized obstruction to the navigable capacity of waters of the United States”, according to the lawsuit.”We allege that Texas has…

“The Danish authorities must act within the framework of their international responsibilities and take the necessary measures to prevent these heinous acts that fuel hatred against the religion of Islam and its billions of followers,” the ministry said in a statement.Earlier on Monday, two protesters from the far-right Danish group of Danske Patrioter set fire to a copy of the Quran in front of the Iraqi embassy in Copenhagen, where it held a similar demonstration days ago in protest against the Iraqis’ storming of the Swedish embassy in Baghdad, Xinhua news agency reported.The incident is the second in just a…