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This is the catch upon three things by The Indian
Express and I'm Ichasharma. Today is the twenty third of
December and here how today is headlines starting with an
Express special. Since March twenty twenty four, the Ministry of
Home Affairs or MHA, issued as many as ninety one
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takedown notices in a nearly twenty month span to Xcorp,
red flagging over eleven hundred URLs for violating various provisions
of the law. The MHA issued these notices under section
seventy nine to three B of the IT Act through
its arm of Indian Cyber Crime Coordination Center, even as
Xcorp has resisted onboarding on MHA's Sahyok Portal, which uses
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the same provision of the IT Act to issue takedown notices.
Records reviewed by The Indian Express show that over half,
that is, five hundred and sixty six of these URLs
were fled Act for the offense of disturbing public order,
followed by one hundred and twenty four for targeting political
and public figures. In other news making headlines, Bangladesh has
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temporarily suspended consular and visa services at the Bangladesh High
Commission in New Delhi citing unavoidable circumstances, according to a
notice issued by the mission on Monday. Following this, Indian
High Commissioner to Bangladesh, Pranevarma, was summoned to the Foreign's
Affairs Ministry in Dhaka. He was asked to ensure the
safety of Bangladeshi officials at the missions across India. Meanwhile,
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Bangladesh Chief Advisor Mohammad Yunis told Sergo Gore, who serves
as the U S Ambassador to India, that the country
is poised to hold elections on time scheduled on twelve
of February. Earlier, the central leader of the National Citizens
Party or NCP workers organization, Mohammad Mattalip Sigbar, was shot
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in Kulna on Monday, and now we shift our focus
to news from the North. In a setback to the
Uttar Pradesh government, a court in Suratpurt today rejected the
state's plea to withdraw all charges against the accused in
the twenty to fifteen lunching of Muhammad Aklark and instead
directed fast tracking the trial with daily hearings. The court
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said quote a letter be sent to Police Commissioner of Gotham,
Budhanagar and Deputy Commissioner of Great Anoida to ensure that
all kinds of protection be provided to the evidences. Additional
District Judge Surubdwedi also directed that the case be categorized
as most important and heard on a daily basis. The
court also directed the prosecution to record evidence in the
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case at the earliest. The case will be heard next
on sixth of January. And Now. In news from Rajasthan,
where the Aravli issue is emerging as a flashpoint, with
protests intensifying across the state over new uniform definition of
the hills that could potentially leave more than ninety percent
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of the six hundred and ninety two kilometer long range
vulnerable to mining and construction, with five hundred and fifty
kilometers of the range lying in Rajasthan. The Supreme court
twentieth of November decision to accept the new definition recommended
by a Center lead panel has triggered outrage in the state,
with lawyers, activists, social media influencers and opposition leaders voicing
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their anger. On Monday, protests broke out in several cities
including Jodpur, their poor and sicker leading to clashes between
protesters in the place, while the police resorted to a
batton charge and detained several people. In Jodpur and Siker,
protests scaled Hush Mountain, a nine hundred and forty five
meter peak that is part of the Aravali Range, to
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agitate and in the end. In news making global headlines,
US President Donald Trump has said the release of files
linked to the late financier Jeffrey Epstein is damaging people
who innocently met him, expressing concern that reputations could be harmed.
Speaking to reporters on Monday at his Marlago residence in Florida,
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Trump made his first public comments since the US Justice
Department began releasing the Epstein files last week. According to
The Guardian, he said, quote, I don't like the pictures
of people being shown. You probably have pictures being exposed
of other people that innocently met Jeffrey Epstein years ago,
and they are highly respected bankers and lawyers and others unquote.
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And with that, this was all for today. This was
the catch upon three things by the Indian Express
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