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The vanity project, of absolutely no use to most Indians, will suck money that could be used for health and education, says Aakar Patel.
The ceasefire violation coincides with Home Minister Rajnath Singh's four-day visit to the state.
Buffalo meat exporters faced supply problems due to the Centre's ban on animal sales
13 rhinos, 188 hog deer, four elephants, two swamp deer, four wild boars, two buffaloes, one Royal Bengal Tiger and one Porcupine have died in the floods.
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Naidu was an ABVP activist during the Emergency and was arrested and jailed.
The human toll in the floods and relentless rain across the country reached almost 200 by Thursday, even as thousands in Gujarat, Rajasthan, Assam, Odisha, West Bengal, and elsewhere were forced out of their homes into temporary shelters.
A senior politician Naidu respected once tried to convince the firebrand student leader to quit the Jana Sangh.
No arrest has been made yet in this connection.
India has lost almost the entire buffalo meat export market to Brazil, Australia and the US.
CM Sangma, introducing the resolution, alleged that the notification was "designed to affect" the people of the north-east in general and Meghalaya in particular.
'We are asking for the resignation of the Shivraj Singh Chouhan government for killing six farmers in Mandsaur district.' 'His is a killer government.' 'The anti-farmer policies of these state governments have brought ruin for the farmers.'
Because of weak availability, buffalo meat exports have also declined over the last few weeks
Under NSA, the government can detain a person for as long as it wishes and the authorities need not disclose the grounds of detention. A person booked under the provision of Gangsters Act becomes part of a gang listed in police records. It entitles the police to keep track of those booked under the Act and issue summons to them for attendance at the local police station for questioning even if no fresh case is lodged against them.
Environment Minister Harsh Vardhan said the intention behind the notification was not to harm any particular group.
Jaitley insisted the new central notification will not interfere with state laws on slaughtering animals.
'The idea behind the new rules is that slaughter markets must buy directly from the farms as is the case in the bloody world.' 'The cattle markets have become centres for the organised beef mafia.'
Here are 10 things you should know about the new rules.
'By equating slaughter with cruelty, you are paving the way for all other animal slaughter to be stopped in the future.'
"The new cattle trade and slaughter rules framed by the central government are against the interest of the people. We will not carry out the new rules," Tripura's Agriculture and Animal Resource Development Minister Aghore Debbarma said.
The environment ministry has received several representations on the recent ban on sale and purchase of cattle for slaughter from animal markets
More than 50 students supported the cause by participating in this fest late on Sunday night. Earlier on May 27, Students' Federation of India staged similar protest in Kerala by eating beef outside University College, Trivandrum.
We need to clarify the rules for legal slaughterhouses and make sure that these can be enforced.
Kerala, West Bengal, Puducherry slam the government's decision to ban sale and purchase of cattle from animal markets for slaughter; meat traders fear spike in cow vigilantism.
Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan dashed off a letter to Prime Minister Narendra Modi, seeking his intervention for repealing the measure. He said the Centre's decision amounts to an "intrusion" to the rights of the states in the country's federal structure.
The new IIP numbers should spread cheer among those who were part of the Manmohan Singh-led United Progressive Alliance, earlier accused of having presided over a steady deterioration in industrial performance, particularly in the last two years of its tenure, says A K Bhattacharya.
'There is an observable difference between Nepalis and Lankans and the rest of us.' 'It would serve us well to understand where this difference comes from and, if it is something that is better in some way, how it is that we can access it,' says Aakar Patel.
'All the bride's beleaguered parents wanted, they said, was a simple wedding without any unnecessary problems.'
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'This is India, bhai. This kind of country does not exist anywhere in the world.'
Police, activists allege that the arrested men were cruel to buffaloes.
'It's not only holy reverence that drives them to such vigilantism -- there is adventure too.' 'Some of the younger gau rakshaks enjoy the thrill of the chase: Stopping vehicles, wielding weapons, badgering passengers and then gloating.'
On Friday, he clarified that he was referring to Gujarat, Madhya Pradesh and Uttar Pradesh where no such incident had taken place. "We do not justify anarchy and hooliganism," he said, adding that the incident in Alwar did take place and an FIR has been registered against six persons.
In Yogi Adityanath's Uttar Pradesh wayward Romeos would all be in the lock-up, says Sunil Sethi.
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Pehlu Khan, the man who died after gau rakshaks beat him and four others for allegedly smuggling cows, was a dairy farmer and had the receipts of the cow purchase.
UP is estimated to account for more than half of the country's $4-bn annual buffalo meat exports, says Ajay Modi.
Banning meat is cruel demonetisation. It is stealing from the poor, nothing less, writes Sunita Narain.
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