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News Today Live Updates, 16 September: High drama unfolded on the banks of the flooded Ravi Monday when Congress leader Rahul Gandhi, who was touring flood-hit villages in Amritsar and Gurdaspur, was stopped by local police and NDRF personnel from proceeding to marooned settlements on the Indo-Pak border. Gandhi, who had spent the day meeting victims and assessing damage, was told it was unsafe to attempt the boat crossing to the “zero line” villages that remain cut off due to the swollen river.
Three weeks after it set up a Special Investigation Team (SIT) to probe the allegations against Vantara — Reliance Foundation’s wildlife rescue and rehabilitation centre in Gujarat’s Jamnagar — the Supreme Court on Monday said the SIT’s “exhaustive investigation” had found “no contravention in law”. Saying that it had “no hesitation” in accepting this conclusion, the court closed the suo motu proceedings in the matter.
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Forest officials at Panna Tiger Reserve in Madhya Pradesh have sought a clarification from an Indian Revenue Service (IRS) officer and his wife, who is posted at the Supreme Court, after it was alleged that they had built a hotel/resort in an ecosensitive zone, The Indian Express has learnt.
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