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Allahabad High Court disposes of petition on Rahul Gandhi’s Indian citizenship

Lucknow, May 5 (PTI) The Allahabad High Court’s Lucknow bench on Monday disposed of a petition questioning Congress leader Rahul Gandhi’s Indian citizenship and allowed the petitioner to explore other alternative legal remedies. A bench of Justices AR Masoodi and Rajiv Singh said that as the central government is not able to give any time limit to resolve the petitioner’s complaint, there is no justification to keep this petition pending. The court told petitioner S Vignesh Shishir, a BJP worker from Karnataka, that he is free to adopt other alternative legal remedies. In the PIL, Sishir had claimed that he

Study finds abnormalities in brain common to insomnia, anxiety, depression

New Delhi, May 5 (PTI) A new study has found three brain abnormalities common to insomnia, anxiety and depression — and one of them is a smaller thalamus in the brain, which is linked to attention and memory problems. The other two are — a weaker connectivity which hampers communication between brain regions and a reduced area of the cerebral cortex, a form of brain damage also impacting memory and language. Insomnia, or having trouble falling or staying asleep, has been studied to increase the risk of mental disorders, including anxiety and depression. “In addition, some abnormalities are unique to

Supreme Court seeks Centre’s response on plea against blocking of YouTube channel ‘4PM’

New Delhi, May 5 (PTI) The Supreme Court on Monday sought responses from the Centre and others on a petition seeking quashing of an order blocking a widely viewed YouTube channel ‘4PM’. The plea has claimed that the blocking was effected by the intermediary pursuant to an undisclosed direction allegedly issued by the Centre citing vague grounds of “national security” and “public order”. A bench of Justices B R Gavai and K V Viswanathan agreed to hear the plea and issued notices to the Centre and others seeking their responses on the petition. The plea, filed by Sanjay Sharma who

Trump’s trade demands go beyond tariffs to target perceived unfair practices

FRANKFURT, Germany, May 5, 2025 (AP) — The Trump administration says the sweeping tariffs it unveiled April 2, then postponed for 90 days, have a simple goal: Force other countries to drop their trade barriers to U.S. goods. Yet President Donald Trump’s definition of trade barriers includes a slew of issues well beyond the tariffs other countries impose on the U.S., including some areas not normally associated with trade disputes. Those include agricultural safety requirements, tax systems, currency exchange rates, product standards, legal requirements, and red tape at the border. He’s given countries three months to come up with concessions

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