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 To protect cows and prevent their slaughter, the Uttar Pradesh government on Tuesday approved a draft ordinance, providing a maximum rigorous imprisonment of 10 years and a fine up to Rs 5 lakh
 

Several Muslim leaders have thrown their weight behind Delhi minorities commission chief Zafarul Islam Khan and asked the Delhi police to withdraw sedition case against him.
American lawmakers want unused green cards to be given to foreign nurses and health officials.
 

The Bombay High Court directed the Maharashtra government to take an appropriate policy decision to tackle the spread of Covid-19 at Arthur Road Jail in central Mumbai.
 

The Supreme Court has sentenced three people, held guilty of contempt of court for making "scurrilous and scandalous allegations" against two sitting judges of the apex court, to 3-month jail observing that it was a "concerted effort to virtually hold the judiciary to ransom".

The Bihar health department has banned spitting in public place, in the wake of coronavirus outbreak.

Karnataka and Kerala have arrived at a truce in relation to non-Covid patients being let into Mangaluru. A Tablighi attendee who had misbehaved with a nurse at a hospital in Uttar Pradesh has been sent to jail

A Tablighi attendee who had misbehaved with a nurse at the Deen Dayal Upadhyay hospital in Uttar Pradesh, has been jailed 

The Union home ministry has written to the states that violators of lockdown must be sent to jail under different section of the IPC.  Instead of lending unconditional support to PM Modi during the ongoing coronavirus pandemic, AICC chief Sonia Gandhi hit out at the centre saying its lockdown formula is flawed.

In an interview with a Pakistan media channel, Geo TV's show called Capital Talk, Pakistan foreign minister Khawaja Asif had then delivered some shocking statements on Salman Khan's five-year-term in prison.

Is love possible without freedom? Does politics define the fine lines of a personal love relationship? These question arises when one reads the 18-month correspondence between Madhu Dandavate, a five-time Member of Parliament from the Rajapur constituency of Maharashtra and his wife Pramila, a political activist, who were imprisoned during the Emergency imposed by then Prime Minister Indira Gandhi. Lodged in separate jails — Madhu in Bangalore Central Jail and Pramila in Yerwada Central Jail – they wrote nearly 200 letters to each other during captivity. Let’s find out more about their story in this episode of India Untold with Sunita Iyer.

The Health and Family Welfare Ministry has proposed the draft amendment to the Drugs and Magic Remedies (Objectionable Advertisements Act, 1954), seeking to introduce a jail term of up to five years and a fine of up to Rs 50 lakh for advertisements for drugs, ‘magic remedies’ and other products promoting fair skin, enhancing sexual performance, treating stammering, infertility in women, premature ageing and greying of hair and so on.

FM Nirmala Sitharaman has given tax relief to the common man in her second budget, but only conditionally. As a Delhi court adjourned the hanging of Nirbhaya convicts sine die, Tihar authorities have approached Patiala court for a fresh date.

The authorities at the Tihar jail have put the four killers of Nirbhaya on suicide watch. The four are set to be hanged on February 1.
 

Standing Counsel for Tihar Jail authorities Advocate Rahul Mehra said that the execution of convicts in the 2012 Nirbhaya gang-rape and murder case will not take place on January 22. Watch MyNation in 100 seconds for the top headlines from across the country.

While Akshay, Vinay and Pawan decided to work in prison, Mukesh had decided not to work. The Nirbhaya gang-rape convicts are slated to be executed on January 22 at 7 am in Tihar Jail premises.