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Hello, this is Saeed Uzzaman from newslaundry.com

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bringing you your daily dose of news.

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Today is

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Friday, the 29th of December. Listeners,

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before I start, there is an

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important announcement. Daily Dose is

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set to be discontinued and will air

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its last episode on the 30th of

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December. This has been done to channel

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and other podcasts such as Let's Talk

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About, Anil Hafta, Awful and Awesome, as

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well as NL Interviews. We're sad

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support us and pay to keep news free. Back

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to the 1543rd episode, let's roll out the news updates from

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today. Bihar

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Chief Minister Nitish Kumar was elected National President

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of the Janata Dal United at a party

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meeting in Delhi today. Nitish was

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reappointed minutes after his aide Lallan Singh stepped

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down from the post, putting an end to

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weeks of suspense. Kumar previously served as the

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National President of the Janata Dal United from

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2016 to 2020. When Kumar stood down

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in 2020, former Union Minister RCP Singh

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took over, handing over the reins to

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Lallan Singh in 2022. According

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to sources, Lallan Singh was ousted because

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he was perceived to be too close

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to JDU's alliance partner Rashtra Janata Dal.

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This comes at a time when seed-sharing talks

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within the opposition Indian National Developmental Inclusive Alliance

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are heating up ahead of the 2024 Lok

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Sabha elections. The

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Gujarat government has cancelled the security granted to

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witnesses, lawyers and a former judge in the

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2002 Gujarat riots cases, Times

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of India reported. Former Major City Sessions

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Judge Jyotsna Yagnik, who convicted 32 of

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the defendants in the Naroda Patia massacre,

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is among those who have lost police

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protection. She was assigned two

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layers of security after allegedly receiving threats

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on 18 occasions. This comes

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after a suggestion by Special Investigation Team

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Leader B.C. Solanki, according to the Times

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of India. assessment a

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decision has been taken to withdraw the

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protection," the newspaper cited the recommendation later

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as saying. It further added,

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and I quote, "...it is requested to instruct

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the respective police station in charge to take

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care of the security of witnesses," unquote. Listeners,

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we have an important story coming up

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tomorrow, reflecting the kind of impact broken

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families and policing failures can have on

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the crime graph of a city or

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state. It is the profile

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of Rohit Godara, once a restrained,

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hard-working mobile technician from Bikaner and

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now the Rajasthan pointsman for the

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Lawrence-Bishnoi gang. It is

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a ground report by Shiv Narayan Rajpurohit

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exclusively for subscribers. To tune

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in, log on to newslondi.com at

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By the way, we have a new announcement in a project.

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January 22, 2024

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is said to mark the dawn of Ayodhya's

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golden age. The Ram Temple's inauguration by no

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other than the Prime Minister himself is expected

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to bring with it a development boom for

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the tranquil town. But what does

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this national reconstruction mean for the town's

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thousands of residents and its economic, social,

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and political milieus? What will the

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culmination of the long-standing struggle for the Ram Temple

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look like? Shweta Desai and Basant

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Kumar will try to answer these questions through

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ground reports and a video in English and

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Hindi. Go to our website, click

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on the Sena button, and contribute an amount of

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your choice to help us tell this story. Health

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services at government hospitals across Haryana

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were disrupted today as around

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2,500 physicians went on indefinite

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strike. This was in response

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to the Haryana Civil Medical Services Association's

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appeal. The doctors demand a

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specialist cadre, no direct recruitment of senior

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medical officers, a lower bond payment for

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PG courses, and a dynamic, secured career

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development programme on par with the

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their central government counterparts. HCMS

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announced on Wednesday that if the government

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does not accept their demands, doctors will

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go on an indefinite strike beginning Friday,

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with a complete shutdown of all services. Government

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doctors in the state have gone on strike for

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the second time this week. The

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first strike was reported on Wednesday. State

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Health Minister Anilvit declared the strike

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unjustified, claiming that the major demand for

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specialist corridor clearance had already been met

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and that Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar

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had given his permission. According

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to the doctors, if the demands have

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already been approved, the government should issue

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an official notification. On Thursday

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night, SCMSA President Dr. Rajesh Khelia met

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with the state director general of health

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services and informed him that life-saving measures

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would be performed by a team of

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volunteer doctors in public interest, but the

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strike would continue. The group

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has assembled a team of doctors to handle

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emergencies. Following

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the annual figure for this year, the Jharkhand police

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today said that 397 Maoist were

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detained, 9 were murdered, and 26

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surrendered to security forces across the state

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in 2023, PTR reported.

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Those arrested included a member of the Special Area

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Committee, a member of the Regional Committee, 5 Zonal

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Commanders, and 11 Sub-Zonal Commanders.

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A bounty of Rs. 1.01

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crore was placed on the heads of these individuals, according

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to a statement. A 152 Americans,

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including 27 police firearms, 10,350 rounds of ammunition, and

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244 improvised explosive

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devices, were seized by the police last

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year. The state police headquarters announced these

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developments on the fourth anniversary of the

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Himant Soreen government. Since January

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1, a total of 1,172 FIRs have been lodged over cyber crimes,

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with 834 people detained. Iran

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executed three men and one woman and

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sentenced several others to prison for having

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ties to Israel's Mossad Intelligence Service today,

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Associated Press reported. Mizan, the

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news website affiliated with the country's judiciary,

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said that the four charged with

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kidnapping several Iranian security forces

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to extract intelligence information. They

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were also accused of setting fire to some

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of Iran's intelligence agents' cars and apartments. The

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executions in West Azerbaijan province on

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Friday came after Iran executed a

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fifth accused Mossad agent in the

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southeastern region of Sistan, Balochistan, in

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mid-December. The executions brought the

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total number of persons executed this month

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to five in a decades-long shadow war,

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Reuters reported. This occurred less

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than a week after an alleged Israeli airstrike

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in Syria killed a high-ranking Iranian general. In

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November, UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres stated

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that Iran was carrying out executions

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at an alarming rate, killing at

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least 419 individuals in

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the first seven months of the year.

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