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Mumbai, Sep 24; PTI: A former municipal councillor, a city-based NGO and an advocate have jointly approached the Bombay High Court challenging provisions of an ordinance that makes the practice of instant triple talaq a punishable offence.

President Ram Nath Kovind had last Wednesday signed the ordinance, according to which giving instant triple talaq has been made illegal and void, and will attract a jail term of three years for the husband.

New Delhi Sep 22 (PTI) A Delhi court on Saturday discharged Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia, AAP MLAs Amanatullah and Sanjeev Jha and others in a case related to a protest held by them outside the Tihar jail in 2014.

Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Samar Vishal granted relief to the accused saying there was a delay of four years in filing the charge sheet against the accused without any valid reason.

New Delhi, Aug 23 (PTI) Continuing its attack on the BJP-led Centre over the Rafale deal, the Congress Sunday accused Prime Minister Narendra Modi of violating the oath of confidentiality by leaking information to Reliance Defence chief Anil Ambani about the purchase of 36 fighter jets from France.

Anand Sharma, deputy leader of opposition in Rajya Sabha, demanded that the prime minister respond to the charges made against him in connection with the controversial deal instead of fielding his ministers.

New Delhi, Sep 24 (PTI) Seeking to calm the nerves of worried investors, Finance Minister Arun Jaitley said Monday that the government would take all measures to ensure adequate liquidity for non-banking financial companies (NBFCs) and mutual funds.

The minister's remarks come in the wake of stock markets witnessing sudden and stiff fall in intra-day trade on Friday over concerns of liquidity crisis being faced by some of the NBFCs.

NEW YORK, Sept 23 (NNN-PTI) -- External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj has arrived here to represent India at the 73rd session of the UN General Assembly and hold several bilateral and multilateral meetings with her global counterparts.  

She will address the General Debate in the morning of September 29.  

MUZAFFARNAGAR, Uttar Pradesh state, Indiar, Sept 23 (NNN-PTI) -- Two men have been arrested for allegedly murdering their brother-in-law, a government official, in a case of honour killing, police said Sunday.  

The brothers-in-law, Adesh and Vishal, were arrested for killing Manoj Sharma who worked as a data entry operator in the office of the Comptroller Auditor General, SSP Sudhir Kumar said.  

Three accused in the case were on the run, the official said.  

New Delhi, Sep 22 (PTI) Upping the ante over the Rafale issue, Congress president Rahul Gandhi Saturday alleged that Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Anil Ambani jointly carried out a Rs 130,000 crore "surgical strike" on the defence forces.

His renewed attack on Modi came a day after a French media report quoted former French president Francois Hollande as purportedly saying that the Indian government proposed Ambani's Reliance Defence as the partner for Dassault Aviation in the Rs 58,000 crore Rafale jet fighter deal and France did not have a choice.

Responding to Congress allegations about Rafale deal and NPA, Arun Jaitly said that Rahul Gandhi’s statements are incorrect, and he is a ‘clown prince’.

Jaitly inserted a detailed note on his facebook to refute allegations made by Rahul Gandhi about corruption in Rafale deal and Modi’s waving of loans of 15 businessmen.

You can’t limit public discourse by hugging and winking, said Jaitly.

Ramesh Dahiya, an Assistant Comissioner of Polce in Delhi, has been booked for alleged rape of a woman and molesting her daughter.

According to The Indian Express, “woman had alleged that she came in contact with Dahiya when he was posted as Station House Officer (SHO)”.

Woman alleged that Dahiya raped her. She also alleged that he molested her minor daughter when she was not at home.

In a rally in Rajasthan’s Dungarpur, Rahul Gandhi coined a new slogan: Gali gali me shor hai - Hindustan ka chowkidar chor hai.

Gandhi's visit to Rajasthan followed a roadshow in Madhya Pradesh. This is his second visit to the state since his roadshow in Jaipur on August 11.