showdown in parliament for the second day in a row over T MC MP Kan Banerjee's mimicry B JP MP stood through the whole question hour in Raja Sabha in solidarity with Raja Sabha chairperson Jar. However, in an exclusive conversation with D TV's Rajeev Ranjan, the T MC MP said he was not copying the H. He also claimed that the prime minister himself had mimicked someone in the parliament earlier a mockery of democracy. H Mimi Art a intention after two days of a war of words between the government and opposition over his mimicry of Raj Sabat chairperson J tanker TMC MP expressed regret today, though not an apology and Arif MPs suspensions continued with two more MPs being suspended, Thomas Jadan and AM taking the total suspensions in both houses to 143. Protests by the opposition demanding a statement from the home Minister on security breach on December 13 also continued for the fifth day. Meanwhile, both the prime minister and president extended their support to jit hanker empty benches of opposition as three bills to replace the IPC CRPC and the Indian Evidence Act were passed. The bills look at increasing the ambit of terrorism, bringing in counterfeit notes and smuggling into its ambit. It also has a separate section on mob lynching, equating it to murder. There were also discussions on CGST telecom bill and other bills in Rajasa. But with the opposition readying for a nationwide protest on Friday, a lot of action is anticipated from both sides on Thursday with Gopal ND TV bureau report. Now, as we said, the three new criminal law bills were passed in the Los Aha today. My colleague Nita Sharma explains on how these bills differ from the older laws. The government says that they needed to change, and now the new laws are more victim centric. They are more concentrating on women and Children, the weak a lot, the government says, as far as victim centric are concerned, you know, Earlier, we used to see whenever a victim used to go to a police station to register a I, saying that the crime did not fall in their jurisdiction. They used to make her go from one police station to another. But as per new law that a B a zero F can be registered regardless where the crime has taken place now she would have the right to information. An fir copy would have to be given to her as soon as possible, and she would also have right to get information so far as what investigations are going on within 90 days. That is the stipulated time period prescribed in the law that you need to provide her whatever investigations that you are doing. Another cases of rape, gang rape or sexual assault. Each statement of the victim would be ved. This again is needed because we have seen many a times accused exert pressure on victims to change their statements or also withdraw cases. But now, once her you know, statement is recorded, that would not be that loophole would not be used by the accused party. Secondly, the main important law is as far as the terrorism is concerned. Earlier, they were defined in special laws, whether it's UAP or M. But the union home minister says that in certain states the special laws are not there. In those states, the cases, if any case was being registered, it was registered under CRPC, and the accused used to get a benefit of doubt and his quantum of punishment used to come down, so now there would be a uniform law throughout the country. Now the opposition is putting up a united front in the parliament. But there are new friction points which have emerged within the India B block from the mimicry route to opposition's PM face choice. Parties within the alliance are seen sparring on multiple issues. A unprecedented suspensions of opposition MP S seemed to unite the India bloc, but in reality it split wide open in the opposition bloc. A day after the fourth meeting of India bloc, more differences than points of convergences emerged. T MC supremo Mum Ajee kicking up a new controversy by alleging that it was Rahul Gandhi's recording of mimicry and by Kalyan Banerjee of Jag Dhankar that made it a big controversy just politically. Casually. This prompted a fact check by Rahul Gandhi, who had to clarify that he hasn't shared or given the video he took and it's still with him. MEDIA media This wasn't the only issue that exposed the chinks in opposition unity. Sources say that both the Bihar leaders Lalu Yadav and Nitish Kumar are upset with Mama Abana and Arvind Kal proposing the name of Malik Arjun Karge as the prime ministerial face of the alliance. In the meeting, the 12 other party bosses, in fact batted for KK himself turned it down by saying that leader of the alliance should be decided post the elections, the wedge between the Congress and Samajwadi Party also playing out with some up Congress leaders suggesting that Mayawati's BS P should be invited to join the opposition bloc Samadhi party, threatening to walk out of it if such a proposal is mooted. If this wasn't enough, the North South divide has also created friction between Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar and Tamil NA Chief Minister MK Stalin on the Hindi language issue. With elections just a few months away, opposition's first big event will be nationwide protests against the suspension of its MPs. But the big question remains can just defeat Modi be a glue for this block with Sunil Prabhu. This is Maria Shakil for MDT V shifting focus now and nearly 20,000 people are still stranded in Thu Kuri in southern Tamil Nad Amid unprecedented rains, the army joined rescue operations today as the deluge continued for the fourth day. There were no fresh rains. Now, in fact, that's the case for three days, but snapped rail and road connectivity have emerged as challenges for the rescue teams. Sam Daniel reports from Thu Kuri, three days since the rain stopped, but the desperate need for food and essentials continues for thousands who are marooned in Tutu Karen. More than 20,000 people along the river Tamara Barani are still cut off without electricity, food and water. The Coast Guard and air Force are reaching out, but it's impossible to reach everyone in need. Apollo was struck in neck deep waters. He is now moving to neighbouring Tunnel Valley with his family. The situation is very bad. This is a natural family, right? He couldn't complain to any government. Tempers are running high here. Women are blocking the tunnel valley highway. They have lost everything in floods. But they say not a single Emily has visited them So far, they say they've been left to fend for themselves. Traffic came to a halt on this highway for more than three hours as desperate and angry people protested. The lack of help among the protesters is this single mother who told me she lost everything to the floods and doesn't even have a change of clothing. The army and two teams of D accessed more cut off areas, including the worst affected SRV, but it's taken far too long. Three Lake war flow waters 1004 100 acre water in war flow in three villages building are amid anger over delay in relief supplies. Finally, the army and nd of access several maroon pockets across the gives a ray of hope for the 1000 stranded still without food, water and electricity for the fourth day. This also underscores the quantum of the calamity that MK Stalin, the chief minister, wants the prime minister to declare as a national disaster in Turin with Suresh, Sam Daniel find the TV shifting tracks now, and 21 cases of JN one, a new covid variant, has been reported in the country. SOA Swaminathan, former chief scientist of the WHO, spoke to my colleague Vishnu sh and saying that citizens must be cautious. There's nothing much to worry about now, but they must maintain vigil as the actual spread of the new variant will be clear in a few weeks with more testing. Um, you know, we made taken a lot of steps in India. Oxygen plants being installed in hospitals. Um, you know, more ventilators, more, more devices, more basic care. Do you believe that whatever we had set up to deal with the emergency then needs to be reactivated because we are a huge country and it just just statistically, if you have a large number of infections, there will be that transfer of cases to hospitals. That's right. And I think because it's the season with many respiratory illnesses, it's even more important that hospitals be prepared because most of these the majority of these infections, even if they become pneumonia, they can be treated. We know how to treat covid. Now. You know, we are at a very different stage than we were in 2020. We know how to treat influenza pneumonia. We know how to treat different pneumonias, mycoplasma, whatever infections are going around. So I think the preparation of the hospitals is important. I think mock drills have happened in many states to test the responses as well as to test the adequacy and functioning of the oxygen, the ventilators, all those things that we had prepared. So in a way, it's a good test for our system. To do this once in a while to be absolutely ready and prepared and not have any nasty surprises. When we actually need to use all of those things that you know we have invested in right, we'll slip into a short break. At this point in time, more news and updates will continue on the other side. Stay tuned. Welcome back news. Now from Karnataka, the school bag is often way heavier than it should be, and that has serious consequences for Children. In an effort to cut that burden, the Karnataka government wants to split textbooks and replace notebooks with papers. Will that work? That's what Prati Rahman tries to find out as the school bell rings. The weight on their backs is way too much. Guidelines are that a school bag should not be more than 15% of a child's body weight. But that's just a guideline on paper. It's to lower this load that the Karnataka government has now decided to cut textbook size by 50% for classes 1 to 10 in garment schools. It's too good decision because if we carry more than two of the whole syllabus in a single book. It would be for us. But if they make two partitions, then we can carry each book for each and it will reduce the back. If the state's new measures are followed strictly from the next academic year, then the weight of the bags of Children of class one and two will be between 1.5 KG to two KG, 2 to 3 KG for classes 3 to 53 to 4, KG for class, 6 to 8 and 4 to 5 KG for classes nine and 10. It is not about cost. It is about safety. Somewhere we have to, you know, sometimes it does cost. I won't say no, but the end of the safety and the issue. Uh, that's very important. The government is also looking to replace notebooks with paper sheets. But not everyone agrees that textbooks and notebooks are the problem. Within 15% of the body weight, it is already there. We are not finding any much importance of it, but we have a demand that from 1 to 4 you have to revise par with the ANC and the ANC and the curriculum framework bags are a heavy burden. This welcome move of the Karnataka Education Department may be embraced by the government schools, but by private schools that prescribe to state syllabus. Follow suit with camera person Kumar Pai Barman in Blu for D TV. Now the UP government has announced a major relief measure for real estate sector, announcing that interest and penalties will be waved off for the entire pandemic period. This will help builders to complete several stalled projects which were stuck due to lack of funds and also clear the way for flat registrations which had been on hold in several societies and no up. Now, even as this raises hopes for home buyers, several people say implementation of the measures is key. Yeah, in major relief to Noida builders wheeling on debt and lacks of home buyers waiting for their dream homes, the Uttar Pradesh government has waved off interest and penalty for the pandemic period. The U cabinet has cleared Amit a Kant committee's proposal to declare 46 months under covid curbs as zero period in Noida. There are about 67,000 flats either incomplete or delivered to buyers, but yet to be registered with interest in dues to the Neider authority waved, builders will get the financial elbow room to finish stalled projects, and the Civic Authority will allow registration of completed projects by the builders. While builders are welcoming the decision, home buyers are unsure. The U Cabinet's approval of the Amit Khan committee's proposal seems to be a win win for both buyers as well as builders of the NCR region. While some buyers call it a political gimmick, others are in hope that these proposals will be implemented soon. With camera person Sachin Gupta. This is SR Goswami for ND TV International UPDATES now and former US president Donald Trump has been disqualified from contesting the Colorado primary polls in next year's presidential elections for his role in inciting the capital rights. This after the Colorado court passed the order. Now Trump is the first presidential candidate in US history to face such an action. However, he has in fact been given the option to appeal in the US Supreme Court, another legal setback for former US President Donald Trump as the Supreme Court of Colorado ruled on Tuesday that he is barred from the Colorado primary ballot and disqualified from serving as president again because he engaged in insurrection by inflaming his supporters with false claims of election fraud and directed them to the US Capitol building on January 6th 2021. The court paused the decision to allow Trump the opportunity to appeal, which the Trump campaign has vowed to do swiftly. While it is a historic ruling, it doesn't mean that Trump can't run for the US president come 2024 as the final decision will be taken by the US Supreme Court. After the decision was announced, Trump took to his social media truth social and exclaimed. Election interference! The Trump campaign has said that the Colorado court's decision is completely flawed and the US Supreme Court will rule in Trump's favour. The focus now shifts to the US Supreme Court as it holds the key to Trump's political future with Vishal Vivek Bureau report ND TV And with that, it's a wrap on the bulletin. Keep watching ND TV for more news and updates
