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Mehbooba told the media on Wednesday that the census of 2011 had stated that there are only 19,047 homeless in J&K while the Lt Governor, Manoj Sinha said that so far 1.45 lakh landless people had been provided 5 Marlas each to build their homes.In a detailed rebuttal to Mufti’s allegations, the government said, “PMAY (Grameen) phase -1 started on 1.4.2016 in which 2,57,349 houseless cases were identified in J&K in SECC data 2011 and after due verification by Gram Sabhas, out of which 1,36,152 cases were sanctioned for J&K under the overall commitment of Hon’ble Prime Minister for ‘Housing…

Lawyers are officers of the court, so when a lawyer visits a prison to meet his client, it is the duty of the concerned authorities to facilitate the same, it observed.Emphasising that it is the Constitutional right of a convict to get legal assistance, the court said, “It is the right of a lawyer to see his client in connection with his professional duties, if his client also wants to meet the lawyer. There cannot be any restrictions from the police or the prison authorities. But I make it clear that the action of the lawyers should be in connection…

Four people were killed and seven others were injured in a shooting at a Fourth of July celebration party shortly before Tuesday midnight in Shreveport, Louisiana, Xinhua news agency quoted authorities as saying on Wednesday.At least one gunman opened fire at a gathering of about 100 people in the community event, that has reportedly taken place for more than a decade, police said.Hours after President Joe Biden lamented the new “wave of tragic and senseless shootings” on Tuesday, nine people, including two minors, were injured shortly before 1 a.m. on Wednesday when a shooter from a vehicle opened fire at…

The class-action lawsuit, filed in the Northern District of California, claims that “Twitter has refused to engage in arbitration — despite having compelled employees to arbitrate their claims”.Since Elon Musk’s acquisition of Twitter in October 2022, the company has been accused of a variety of unlawful acts, including failing to pay laid off employees promised severance payments, discriminating against employees on the basis of sex, race, age, and disability, failing to pay promised bonuses, violating the WARN Act and FMLA, and other violations.”Approximately 2,000 of Twitter’s former employees have attempted to pursue arbitration claims against the company, following Twitter’s successfully…

The league will start a week earlier and the regular season will conclude at Sydney Showground Stadium when Sydney Thunder host Melbourne Renegades.The new-look four-match Finals Series, similar to the one in the Indian Premier League (IPL), will begin two days later, with the Final to be held during the school holidays on January 24, the Big Bash Leagues, announced on Thursday.The Finals Series will see the top two teams compete for a spot in the Final via The Qualifier, with the third and fourth-placed teams taking part in The Knockout. The winner of the Knockout will progress to the…

This means that users can now open Twitter links in a browser without an account, reports TechCrunch. When Twitter began enforcing the login requirement last week, Twitter-owner Elon Musk said that he took these “temporary” measures to stop data scraping. “Temporary emergency measure. We were getting data pillaged so much that it was degrading service for normal users!” Musk had said in a tweet. The company hasn’t made any official announcements about allowing users to browse links even if they are not signed in. Over the weekend, Musk also implemented read limitations of 1,000 posts per day for unverified users…

State Tourism Minister Jayanta Mallabaruah said:“The state cabinet in a meeting on Wednesday evening approved spending Rs 167 crore to provide bicycles to 3.78 lakh Class 9 students enrolled in government and provincialized schools.”It was also decided to give scooties to girls who scored 60 per cent or higher in their class 12 exams and to boys who scored 75 per cent or higher.However, from next year, Mallabaruah said that cut-off marks for both girls and boys will be 75 per cent and above to get a scooty.The Minister said that the cabinet also decided to request the Indian Olympic…

“Threads is a new app, built by the Instagram team, for sharing text updates and joining public conversations,” Meta said in a blogpost on Wednesday.”You log in using your Instagram account and posts can be up to 500 characters long and include links, photos, and videos up to 5 minutes in length.”The company is also planning to integrate the ActivityPub protocol — the open social networking protocol — on the new platform.”This would make Threads interoperable with other apps that also support the ActivityPub protocol, such as Mastodon and WordPress, allowing new types of connections that are simply not possible…

Passing the order, the bench observed, “Mere languishing in jail during trial cannot be a ground for granting bail if the conspiracy and fraud is of very high magnitude.”A bench of Justice Dinesh Kumar Singh passed this order rejecting bail plea of the accused Anil Rai on Wednesday.The court had earlier also turned down his plea, but in reference to an order of the Supreme Court, the court was hearing his bail plea afresh.Anil Rai was said to have received Rs 2. 8 crore out of Rs. 9. 72 crore paid by the complainant to co-accused Ashish Rai and other…

After his arrest, Munir Alam, resident of Muzaffarnagar, was brought to Lucknow on Wednesday and produced in the ATS court here which remanded him in 10-day judicial custody.“Munir has an active involvement in the group despite it being a banned organisation. He is a part of an ad hoc committee and has been given responsibility to increase stronghold in east Uttar Pradesh to work on the hidden agenda,” said ATS official.Munir did his education from Islamia Inter college in Muzaffarnagar and, after three years, joined Chaudhary Charan Singh University in Meerut to study law.During interrogation, he told police that he…