BJP MLA Ramdular Gond from UP gets 25 years jail for raping minor
BJP MLA Ramdular Gond was disqualified from the Uttar Pradesh Assembly on Friday after a court sentenced him to 25 years of hard prison for raping a girl nine years before.
‘Home Minister owes…’: CPI MP seeks Amit Shah’s statement over Parliament security breach
TMC leader Shashi Panja earlier said that the two men with gas canisters who caused a security breach inside Lok Sabha were issued Parliament passes on the recommendation of BJP MP Pratap Simha.
State of the Race: How House Republican impeachment inquiry could impact Biden in 2024 election
This week’s vote entirely along party lines by the Republican-controlled House of Representatives to formally launch an impeachment inquiry into President Biden immediately impacted the president’s 2024 re-election campaign. A fundraising email sent hours later by Vice President Kamala Harris instantly caught fire. A source familiar with the Biden re-election team’s thinking told Fox News that the email was the most lucrative that has been sent so far this month. “It was the best performing fundraising email the vice president has signed this cycle,” the source added. HOUSE VOTES TO AUTHORIZE BIDEN IMPEACHMENT INQUIRY The impeachment vote formalized an inquiry that began in September to investigate whether the president financially benefited from some of his family’s business dealings. POLL: SUPPORT FOR BIDEN IMPEACHMENT INQUIRY GROWS Three Republican-led House committees are looking into connections between the president and his son Hunter Biden’s business dealings from 2014-2017, during the elder Biden’s final three years as vice president, and after he left office. Hunter Biden reiterated this week that his father was not involved in his dealings as a board member of Ukrainian energy company Burisma, or in his partnership with a Chinese private businessman. Republican investigators have so far not found any solid evidence that Biden personally benefited, but they argue there’s more to uncover. While the vote to formalize the inquiry is apparently boosting Biden’s 2024 re-election fundraising, it may also pay dividends in other ways. It could energize the base of a party that polls suggest is anything but energized by the president’s re-election drive. The Biden campaign launched a blistering broadside against House Republicans early this week, ahead of Wednesday’s vote, accusing them of doing the bidding of Biden’s likely GOP challenger next November – former President Donald Trump, the commanding front-runner for the 2024 Republican nomination. “The only, single fact in this entire sham impeachment exercise is that it’s a nakedly transparent ploy by House MAGA Republicans to boost Donald Trump’s presidential campaign,” Biden campaign communications director Michael Tyler charged in a memo. The memo spotlights a quote that went viral from Republican Rep. Troy Nehls of Texas, who said the impeachment inquiry would give the former president “a little bit of ammo to fire back.” But the impeachment inquiry also provides plenty of downsides for Biden’s re-election effort. Republicans for years have viewed Hunter Biden’s controversies as a political liability for his father. And now, a formal impeachment investigation – with public hearings – could give the Biden campaign lots of headaches. “It keeps the negative story about his family in the news,” longtime Republican strategist and communicator Ryan Williams told Fox News. “The impeachment inquiry highlights potential wrongdoing on the part of the president’s son and brother and tries to link it directly to him.” Republicans can also leverage the impeachment proceedings – as well as Hunter Biden’s legal cases – to deflect attention away from Trump’s extremely serious court cases. Trump made history earlier this year as the first former or current president to be indicted for a crime, but his four indictments — including in federal court in Washington, D.C., and in Fulton County court in Georgia — on charges he tried to overturn his 2020 presidential election loss. “It tries to distract from the serious legal issues Trump is facing and basically at the end of the day,” said Ryan, a veteran of multiple GOP presidential campaigns. He emphasized that inquiry “shows voters both candidates are facing investigations. It muddies the waters. It tries to make things murky even though the criminal trials that President Trump is facing are much different than the Republican-led inquiry in the House.” Rep. Dean Phillips of Minnesota, who’s running a long-shot Democratic primary challenge against the president, made a similar argument. “I don’t see the evidence of it, but yes, when your own son and your own brother are clearly, at the very least unethical and at worst, doing illegal things — my goodness, of course the country pays attention to it,” Phillips said in an interview with the news website Semafor. “People do believe that it perhaps makes him unelectable — somehow, it conflates him with the Trump family’s indiscretions.” But Democratic strategist Chris Moyer, who served on a handful of presidential campaigns, disagreed. “No one is Donald Trump when it comes to corruption, breaking the law, and violating his oath of office,” he argued, when asked if the inquiry lessens the sting of Trump’s own legal controversies. Biden became the second straight president to face an impeachment inquiry as his re-election was underway, following Trump. Veteran political scientist Wayne Lesperance spotlighted that “perhaps the biggest casualty of the recent vote is the impeachment process itself. Long gone are the days when impeachment was a last resort for members of Congress who have exhausted all other options of holding the President accountable.” Lesperance, the president of New Hampshire-based New England College, said that “the frequency with which impeachment has occurred in recent years has reduced the process to yet another partisan tool for whichever party is in power. The real loser in these processes has become the American people, who continue to lose faith in their beleaguered system of government.” Get the latest updates from the 2024 campaign trail, exclusive interviews and more at our Fox News Digital election hub.
J-K: Security personnel recovers IEDs and grenades in Dara Peer Makal area of Rajouri
Four remote IEDs (improvised explosive devices), six UBGL (Under Barrel Grenade Launcher) grenades, five detonators, four fuses, two small box packages, and other unnamed items were recovered from the area.
Parliament security breach: What was Lalit Jha’s backup plan if Plan A went South? Explained
The Parliament security breach was meticulously planned for months. Lalit Jha, the main conspirator has explained the backup plan if Plan A had gone wrong.
‘Government is trying to scare…’: SP chief Akhilesh Yadav on Parliament security breach
”The government should think seriously, the youth took this step to convey their message to the deaf and dumb government,” Akhilesh Yadav said.
World’s largest office built for Rs 3400 crore in this Indian city; check all details here
The Diamond Bourse is the world’s largest interconnected building, with over 4,500 interconnected offices.
Friends star Matthew Perry died of ketamine overdose, autopsy finds
Los Angeles medical examiner says drowning and heart disease were contributing factors in actor’s accidental death. Friends actor Matthew Perry, who was found dead in a jacuzzi at his Los Angeles home in October, died from an accidental ketamine overdose, an autopsy has found. Perry, who played the wise-cracking Chandler Bing in the popular US sitcom, passed away from the “acute effects” of the sedative, with drowning a secondary cause in his October 28 death at age 54, the Los Angeles County Medical Examiner’s Office said on Friday. Heart disease and “the effects of buprenorphine”, a drug used to treat opioid abuse, were also contributing factors, the autopsy report said. Perry, who spoke openly about his struggles with alcohol and opiate addiction, had reportedly been undergoing ketamine treatment for anxiety and depression but took his last known infusion more than a week before his death, which would have been long enough for the drug to have left his system. “The exact method of intake in Mr Perry’s case is unknown,” the report said. The autopsy did not detect alcohol or other drugs such as cocaine, heroin or fentanyl in Perry’s system. In his 2022 memoir, Friends, Lovers, and the Big Terrible Thing, Perry wrote about taking ketamine daily at certain points to help with addiction, pain and depression. “Has my name written all over it – they might as well have called it ‘Matty’,” he wrote of the drug. Perry became one of the world’s most recognised actors during Friends’ 10-year run, from 1994 to 2004. The sitcom, also starring Jennifer Aniston, Courteney Cox, Lisa Kudrow, Matt LeBlanc and David Schwimmer, followed the ups and downs of six young singletons in New York. Perry’s sudden death stunned his castmates, friends, family and fans worldwide, drawing heartfelt tributes for the Canadian-born actor. “Oh boy, this one has cut deep,” Aniston, who played Rachel on Friends, said on Instagram shortly after his death. “He was such a part of our DNA. We were always the [six] of us. This was a chosen family that forever changed the course of who we were and what our path was going to be.” Adblock test (Why?)
Vijay Diwas 2023: 10 important facts you must know about the day
December 16 marks an important day in India’s history, known as Vijay Diwas, observed annually to commemorate a significant event.
‘Money has nothing…’: Congress MP Dhiraj Prasad Sahu breaks silence on IT raids at his premises
“In the last 30-35 years of my political career, this is the first time that this kind of incident has taken place, due to which I am hurt,” Congress MP Dhiraj Prasad Sahu said.