Latest News: Wrestler Babita Phogat Likely to Join BJP Today

Catch all the latest news updates of the day here.BJP MLA from Uttar Pradesh’s Ballia Surendra Singh on Sunday said, “Casteism is alive today only because of the SC/ST Act. If this Act is repealed there will be no untouchability.”Wrestler Babita Phogat is likely to join Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Monday, news agency ANI reported , quoting sources.Two fishermen from Chirayinkeezhu in Trivandrum died after their boat capzised in sea, reports ANI.Police said five children have died in a fire at a Pennsylvania (US) daycare center, reported The Associated Press.Air India received eight sexual harassment complaints internally during the first half of this year as compared to the total 10 complaints in 2018, sources said.On May 16 this year, airline's chief Ashwani Lohani told the employees through a text message that sexual harassment cases are "often" being witnessed in Air India and the airline needs to come down "very very heavily" on such offenders.The chairman and managing director's message came after the airline announced on May 15 that it has set up a high-level inquiry to probe a sexual harassment complaint filed by a woman pilot against a commander.(Source: PTI)Income-Tax Department has attached properties of businessmen Ratul Puri and Deepak Puri under Benami Property Transactions Act, including one immovable property registered in name of Ramaa Advisors Pvt Ltd.Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) of $40 million of Ratul Puri & Deepak Puri has also been attached.(Source: ANI)Former finance minister Arun Jaitley, who has been admitted to the AIIMS, continues to be stable, sources at the hospital said on Sunday.On Saturday, after Vice President Venkaiah Naidu visited the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) to enquire about Jaitley's health, his office said that the former minister is responding to treatment.(Source: PTI)Fighting between pro-government forces and separatists in Yemen's second city Aden has killed around 40 people and injured 260 others including civilians, the UN said Sunday."Scores of civilians have been killed and wounded since August 8 when fighting broke out in the city of Aden. Preliminary reports indicate that as many as 40 people have been killed and 260 injured," a UN statement said.(Source: AFP)Chief Election Commissioner Sunil Arora has said allegations of EVM tampering are “more than unfair” and made with a “criminal intent”.The machines might malfunction occasionally, as does the equipment used for other purposes, but it cannot be tampered with, Arora said at the annual business conclave at IIM-Calcutta on Saturday.“Malfunctioning is very different from tampering. The electronic voting machines (EVM) cannot be tinkered with. If you say otherwise, you have a criminal intent, which we deeply resent,” he maintained.(Source: PTI)Chennai, which is recovering from a water crisis, is set to receive 8 tmcft water from the Krishna river.The government’s announcement comes a day after Tamil Nadu Minister for Municipal Administration SP Velumani and Fisheries Minister D Jayakumar met with Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister YS Jaganmohan Reddy.As part of the Telugu Ganga project, Tamil Nadu will receive water drawn from the Srisailam reservoir. The east-flowing Krishna river, which originates in the Western Ghats, will reach the Poondi reservoir in Thiruvallur district. Poondi, Cholavaram, Redhills and Chembarambakkam reservoirs ran out of water this summer.(Source: The News Minute)China warned Britain to stop "meddling" in Hong Kong, after a top British official called the international financial hub's leader to voice concern about protests that have rocked the city for two months.The pro-democracy protests, which are partly fuelled by widespread anger at an erosion of liberties in Hong Kong, have become the biggest threat to Beijing's rule of the semi-autonomous southern Chinese city since its handover from the British in 1997.A statue of Maharaja Ranjit Singh, who ruled the northwest Indian subcontinent in the early half of the 19th century, was vandalised by two men in this Pakistani city on Saturday.The nine-foot-tall statue of the Maharaja was unveiled at the Lahore Fort in June on his 180th death anniversary. Singh, the first Maharaja of the Sikh Empire, died in 1839.The statue, made of cold bronze, shows the regal Sikh emperor sitting on a horse, sword in hand, complete in Sikh attire.Police have arrested two men and registered a case against them under the country's blasphemy laws.(Source: PTI)(At The Quint, we are answerable only to our audience. Play an active role in shaping our journalism by becoming a member. Because the truth is worth it.)

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Latest News: Wrestler Babita Phogat Likely to Join BJP Today

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Casteism is Alive Only Due to SC/ST Act: BJP MLA

Babita Phogat May Join BJP Today

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