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Supreme Court noted the Election Commission of India’s (ECI) submission that it was willing to deliberate over the demand for uploading polling booth-wise voter turnout data on its website and asked the petitioners to make representations before the poll panel in 10 days. | Photo Credit: The Hindu The Supreme Court on Tuesday (March 18, … Read more
A Bench of the Supreme Court’s senior-most judges headed by Justice B.R. Gavai on Tuesday (March 18, 2025) decided to examine in detail if judges of constitutional courts come within the jurisdiction of the country’s top ombudsman, Lokpal, like public functionaries including the Prime Minister, Union Ministers, Members of Parliament and Central government officials. “We … Read more
Former IAS trainee Puja Khedkar | Photo Credit: ANI The Supreme Court on Tuesday (March 18, 2025) told former IAS probationer Puja Khedkar — who’s accused of cheating and wrongly availing OBC and disability quota benefits in the civil services examination — that she cannot avail separate attempts to clear the test as an “able … Read more
Sonia Gandhi accused the BJP-led Centre of systematically undermining of the rural employment guarantee scheme MGNREGA Congress leader Sonia Gandhi on Tuesday (March 18, 2025) accused the BJP-led Centre of systematically undermining of the rural employment guarantee scheme MGNREGA, and demanded a raising of minimum wage under it to ₹400 per day and the number … Read more
DMK members demand a discussion in the Lok Sabha on the delimitation issue on March 18, 2025. | Photo Credit: Screenshot from YouTube/@SansadTV DMK members on Tuesday (March 18, 2025) walked out of the Lok Sabha claiming they were not allowed to raise the issue of delimitation of parliamentary and Assembly constituencies in the Lower … Read more
Representative image | Photo Credit: The Hindu The Supreme Court has expressed dismay over rejection of bail pleas by trial courts in “not very serious cases” despite the completion of investigations. A bench comprising justices Abhay S. Oka and Ujjal Bhuyan on Monday (March 17, 2025) said a democratic country must not function like a … Read more
Union Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan said the Centre will not discriminate against farmers from any state Agriculture Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan on Tuesday (March 18, 2025) said the Centre will not discriminate against farmers from any state, be it from Kerala or Karnataka, if a natural disaster strikes. Replying to supplementaries in the Lok Sabha, … Read more
Union External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar addresses a session at the ‘Raisina Dialogue 2025’, in New Delhi, on March 18, 2025. | Photo Credit: PTI The “longest-standing” illegal occupation of a territory after World War II has been experienced by India in Kashmir, External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar said on Tuesday (March 18, 2025) as … Read more
A few days before his assassination on May 21, 1990, Mirwaiz Moulvi Mohammad Farooq, a prominent cleric in Srinagar, reached out to public intellectual and long-time friend Balraj Puri. Fearing for his life, Farooq requested Puri to use his influence to persuade the authorities to arrest him. His concerns arose from the prevailing atmosphere of … Read more
Representational file image. | Photo Credit: PTI The Enforcement Directorate on Tuesday (March 18, 2025) searched the premises of U.S. billionaire George Soros-backed Open Society Foundations (OSF) and some linked entities in Bengaluru as part of a foreign exchange “violation” investigation against them, official sources said. The premises of OSF and some international human rights … Read more