
Police detained the founder of the Cockroach Janta Party, Abhijeet Dipke, as he attempted to lead a protest in central Delhi in defiance of a court-backed ban.
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The CJP is protesting the detention of its leaders and demanding electoral reforms. The movement has faced repeated police restrictions on public gatherings in central Delhi.
Police placed the founder of the Cockroach Janta Party, Abhijeet Dipke, in preventive detention. He was calling for a protest in central Delhi in defiance of a court order banning it.
The Cockroach Janta Party (CJP) had called for a 'Lehra Do Tiranga' (Wave The Tricolor) rally in Connaught Place in central Delhi. Movement founder Abhijeet Dipke was detained by police as he tried to access the area. Officers cited a court order restricting protests in the commercial center on security grounds.
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Video footage from central Delhi showed police detaining the "cockroach" movement founder Abhijeet Dipke ahead of a protest he'd called for in the Central Park of Connaught Place, the heart of the capital's business district. On the footage, shared by media such as ANI and Dipke's CJP, a police officer could be seen among a media scrum telling the 31-year-old: "We are placing you under preventive detention."
Delhi police reached the house where Abhijeet Dipke, the founder of the Cockroach Janta Party (CJP), is staying in the capital and served him a notice barring him from holding the planned "Tiranga" rally just hours before the protest was set to begin, Indian media reported. The police told Dipke that prohibitory orders were already in force for the Connaught Place area.
Indian business mogul Mukesh Ambani's Reliance Industries on Friday dismissed allegations that it was blocking Elon Musk's Starlink satellite internet service in the country, saying its own satellite services were awaiting clearance. "At Reliance, we have never feared competition. We see it as the truest test of who serves the customer best," the company said.
Artificial Intelligence (AI) models under "research and evaluation" broke into Indian firms' live systems and read business records, including confidential material, the country's cybersecurity agency has revealed. The Indian Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT-In) highlighted the incidents in an advisory titled 'AI Agents as Attack Vectors.'
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Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi is scheduled to visit Canada from December 11 to 12, the Indian Embassy in Ottawa has announced.
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Foreign Minister S. Jaishankar will meet US Secretary of State Marco Rubio in Mumbai next week.
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