Mandatory implementation of FASTag from today; hybrids lanes to remain operational till Feb 15
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January 1, 2021
New Delhi, Jan 1: Ministry of Road Transport and Highways mandated fitment of FASTag with effect from Friday, in M and N categories of motor vehicles sold before December 1, 2017.
Notably, category M stands for a motor vehicle with at least four wheels used for carrying passengers, while category N stands for a motor vehicle with at least four wheels used for carrying goods, which may also carry persons in addition to goods.
The Ministry in an official release clarified that the Central Motor Vehicle (CMV) Rule stands in force as it is.
Haryana’s ruling BJP-JJP faces defeat in civic bodies poll
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December 30, 2020
Chandigarh, Dec 30: In another humiliating defeat to Haryana s ruling BJP-JJP combine, it lost mayoral polls in two municipal corporations but won in one civic body on Wednesday.
The opposition Congress won the post of Mayor for the Sonepat Municipal Corporation, while the BJP won the post in Panchkula Municipal Corporation.
In the Ambala Municipal Corporation, Congress rebel Venod Sharma s Haryana Jan Chetna Party won.
BJP s Kulbhushan Goyal won the Panchkula mayor election by defeating Congress Upinder Kaur Ahluwalia by a margin of 2,057 votes. Goyal got 49,860 votes, while Ahluwalia polled 47,803 votes.
Called terrorist, beaten again in jail: Former Congress councillor Ishrat Jahan to court
When ASJ Rawat asked the Assistant Superintendent of Mandoli jail if such an incident has occurred, she confirmed the same and said necessary steps have been taken. The matter will be heard next on January 5. Updated: December 23, 2020 12:11:11 pm
The petition claimed the investigation by the Crime Branch in the past nine months was a “sham”.
Former Congress councillor Ishrat Jahan, facing trial in an UAPA case in connection with the Northeast Delhi riots, Tuesday told a Delhi court that she was assaulted and called a terrorist by inmates at Mandoli jail.
Branded Terrorists , Beaten by Inmates, Untreated: How Delhi Riots Accused Are Faring in Jail
Ishrat Jahan, for one, has said she was beaten up by fellow inmates when she attempted to pray in the morning. The Mandoli Jail authorities have agreed with her account.
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New Delhi: Former Congress councillor Ishrat Jahan alleged in court on Tuesday that she was beaten brutally by inmates of the Mandoli jail where is is lodged and continues to face harassment in prison. Jahan is not the only accused in the Delhi riots cases â investigation into which is already a matter of deep controversy â who has said that she has been severely mistreated in jail.
When the hearing began, Additional Sessions Judge Amitabh Rawat asked Ishrat if her problem was solved.
Ishrat said, “Sir, it has been the second time that I have been attacked by the same group. There is a woman in this group who provoked them… I had handled her bedding on the day I wanted to read the Namaz, and they started hurling abuses at me, pulled my hair and tore my clothes. There is another woman, who hurled very bad abuses at me. I have also given a written complaint. This woman had given a handwritten note to me asking for 8 dupattas. There is another woman who asks me for half a kilogram of milk every day. They are all led by an inmate who was transferred from Tihar jail as punishment. Even after your intervention, on the evening at 4 pm, she, in presence of the jail staff, told me I am not my father’s child if I do not ruin your face. I called the staff and told them I was being threatened again, and they said they can not plaster her mouth with tape.”