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The practice won in 1984. will now be punishable by jail He saw the 1986 Shah he mysterious disappear- term up to three years. Bano case, where the Congress Tance of VG Siddhartha The Muslim Women did not stick its neck out to Hegde, the owner-founder of (Protection of Rights on support women rights, as the the Café Coffee Day chain, Marriage) Bill was passed by 99 main reason for the downfall of since Monday evening has sent votes in favour and 84 against. the party. The law, he said, was shockwaves in the corporate The ruling NDA, which lacks not being brought due to the world with an intensive search majority in the Upper House, Supreme Court ruling of 2017 operation launched in ' ( " )& was helped by the absence of declaring talaq-e-biddat, com- Karnataka to trace him. %%)P ++,-."" some members of the monly referred to as instant The recovery of a letter Opposition Congress, SP and triple talaq, unconstitutional. purportedly written by the cof- Commissioner of Dakshina Day shares, although revised BSP as well as six members of “I am a Minister of the fee tycoon to the Board of Kannada district Senthil returns have been filed by us TRS (TRS) and two MPs of Narendra Modi Government Directors has given impetus to Sasikant Senthil earlier said. (sic)”. YSR Congress. The ruling $%" "& % !" $# and not the Rajiv Gandhi the theory that he allegedly Mangaluru Police “This was very unfair and NDA has 107 members in the Government,” he said citing the committed suicide. Commissioner Sandeep Patil has led to a serious liquidity 242-member Rajya Sabha. extended support to the Bill. the Congress and the TMC. dignity they deserve in our Shah Bano case of 1986. He He was last seen near a said police are questioning a crunch,” the letter, bearing a Four Congress MPs — The same strategy had Hailing the passage of the society. said he cannot leave in lurch bridge on the Netravati River in fisherman who claimed that he purported signature of Vivek Tankha, Rajiv Bishwal, helped the Government push Bill, Prime Minister Narendra The House rejected an women who have been Dakshina Kannada district on saw someone jumping off the Siddhartha, said. The depart- Mukud Medhi, Pratap Bajwa — through the contentious Modi said that a historic wrong Opposition sponsored motion divorced by triple talaq via Monday night. And that is bridge. Search operations were ment has refuted the charges. were absent during the vote. amendment to the Right To done to Muslim women has to send the Bill to a Rajya Sabha WhatsApp or other such why according to officials, 100 on at the place identified by the “I have failed as an entre- Independent MP KTS Tulsi too Information (RTI) Act last been corrected and an “archa- Select Committee with 100 means. firefighters, 100 policemen, 50 fisherman, he said. Call Detail preneur. I have failed to create did not vote, even though he week despite lacking numbers ic and medieval practice con- votes against it as compared to On Opposition charge of divers and 50 fishermen and 30 Records were also under the right profitable business had moved amendments to in the Upper House. fined to the dustbin of history”. 84 in favour. Once granted targeting Muslims, he said the boats have been deployed for scrutiny, Patil added. model despite my best efforts,” the Bill. RJD’s Ram Jethmalani The Triple Talaq Bill could “This is an occasion to assent by the President, the Bill BJP may be getting a little less search operations. In the unverified letter, Siddhartha, who built the cof- and NCP’s Sharad Pawar and not make it through the Upper salute the remarkable courage will replace an Ordinance pro- votes from the community but Siddhartha had told his widely circulated in the social fee empire over the last 37 Praful Patel were some of the House in the first term of the of those Muslim women who mulgated on February 21 to the it considers them very much a driver he was going for a walk media, Siddhartha alleged he years, said in the letter. other prominent names absent. Narendra Modi Government, have suffered great wrongs just same effect as the Bill. part of the country and works near the bridge, police said. was harassed by the previous As per the I-T department The AIADMK, along with although it was passed by the due to the practice of triple Replying to a four-and- on the principle of “sabka “He (Siddhartha) asked the DG of the Income Tax restrictions, 7.49 million shares the TRS and the JD(U), walked Lok Sabha twice. talaq,” said Modi in his tweet half-hour debate on the Bill, saath, sabka vikas, sabka vish- driver to wait till his arrival. Department in the form of held by Siddhartha and Coffee out terming the Bill “uncon- The Bill was again passed message. He added that the Law Minister Ravi Shankar was”. “More than 20 Islamic When he did not return even attaching “our shares on two Day Enterprises faced the pro- stitutional” thus bringing down by the Lok Sabha last week abolition of the practice will Prasad cited jail provisions in nations have regulated triple after two hours, the driver separate occasions to block hibitory order for six months, the majority mark in the Rajya amid a walkout by several contribute to women empow- the legislations that ban dowry talaq,” he said. approached police and lodged our Mindtree deal and then starting 25 January 2019. Sabha. The BJD, however, Opposition parties, including erment and give women the and multiple marriages by Continued on Page 4 a missing complaint,” Deputy taking position of our Coffee Continued on Page 4 $% " " &' ()$ 3:/&:7$ O & . ! he Unnao rape survivor " # Tand two of her family members had written to the Chief Justice of India (CJI) ! !! three weeks ago apprehending 3:/&:7$ " "$%& "$" threat to their lives by the & '() accused persons in the case. n a day the Opposition L+ M- The letter written on July Oraised the Unnao incident ! . 12 has come to light two days in Parliament, the Centre on after the 19-year-old girl was Tuesday ordered the CBI to / travelling with her family on probe into the road accident in 00$ 3:/&:7$ Sunday when their car was hit which the rape survivor and # by a speeding truck at her lawyer were critically he Comptroller and Gurubakshganj area of injured and her two aunts TAuditor General (CAG) in Raebareli, killing her two aunts. killed, officials said. ' ( its first report on the imple- The girl and her advocate # "" Earlier on Tuesday, the " "$%& "$1 mentation of Goods and are battling for their life in the " #. !" #! Uttar Pradesh Police had con- ')2 Services Tax (GST) has noted Intensive Care Unit. stituted a Special Investigation 2 that the failures in proper News agency PTI quoted ed that on July 7 Naveen Singh, Bangermau, is an accused in Team to probe the “murder- implementation of the GST an official of the Supreme son of rape accused Shashi the rape case and was arrested ous” accident. 3 1 resulted in slowing down of Court saying the letter written Singh, Manoj Singh, brother of last year in April. 4 . growth of indirect taxes to and settlement of tax that was revenues of both the Centre in Hindi has been received by another accused Kuldeep The letter narrates the inci- Singh, Gyandendra Singh, 2 1 5.80 per cent in 2017-18 as envisaged for GST was based and the States, it would lead to the office of Chief Justice of Singh, and one Kunnu Mishra dents of July 7-8 when some Rinku Singh and Awadhesh $ . L 2. 2 compared to 21.33 per cent on one hundred per cent proper settlement of IGST and India Ranjan Gogoi, who has had visited their house and people allegedly associated with Singh as accused. 2 M# during 2016-17. The invoice-matching and avail- would minimise, if not elimi- asked the court’s Secretary threatened to kill them. Sengar threatened the victim’s The rape case had come to Government of India’s revenue ment of input tax credit, as well nate, the tax official-assessee General to prepare a note out The next day, another per- family with dire consequences. light after the victim allegedly (( from goods and services also as settlement of IGST on the interface,” the report said. of it and place it before him. son came to their house with The letter to the CJI also attempted self-immolation out- ' took a 10 per cent dip.

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