News in brief from India for July 7: Court in BJP-ruled Uttarakhand okays animal slaughter for Eid al-Adha

• Shubham
• 07 July, 2022

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By: Shubham Ghosh

HERE are some news in brief about India for Thursday, July 7, 2022:

Uttarakhand High Court allows animal slaughter in Haridwar for Eid: The Uttarakhand High Court on Thursday stayed a notification by the state’s Hindu right-wing Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) government declaring the entire district of Haridwar as a “slaughter-free area” and allowed the slaughter of animals for Eid al-Adha on July 10 at a slaughterhouse in the district’s Manglaur municipality, The Indian Express reported.

Companies who operate in India need to follow the land’s law, Indian foreign ministry says on Vivo case: India’s ministry of external affairs on Thursday said that companies who operate in India should follow the law of the land. It said this in connection to the ongoing investigation related to Vivo Mobile Communications and some other firms from China.

Eknath Shinde formally takes charge of Maharashtra chief minister’s office: Maharashtra chief minister Eknath Shinde on Thursday formally took charge of the chief minister’s office in the presence of deputy chief minister Devendra Fadnavis. Shinde on Monday won the floor test in the state legislative assembly.

PM Modi interacts with schoolchildren in his constituency Varanasi: Indian prime minister Narendra Modi, who arrived in his parliamentary constituency Varanasi in Uttar Pradesh to participate in an event called Akhil Bharatiya Shiksha Samagam on Thursday, interacted with school children and encouraged them to develop their talent.

CBI arrests senior Power Grid official, five others in corruption case: India’s Central Bureau of Investigation on Thursday said that it has arrested an executive director of Power Grid Corporation of India Ltd, Itanagar, Arunachal Pradesh, and five employees of Tata Projects Limited in a bribery case.

Punjab chief minister Bhagwant Mann gets married for second time: Bhagwant Mann, the first Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) chief minister of the northern Indian state of Punjab, got married to Gurpreet Kaur, a doctor, in what was his second wedding. AAP leader and Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal congratulated Mann on his marriage.