Defending the recent appointment of two new election commissioners (ECs) by a panel that excluded the Chief Justice of India, the Centre on Wednesday said that the independence of the poll body does not arise from the presence of a member of the judiciary in the selection committee. The remark came in an affidavit filed by the Union Law Ministry in the Supreme Court against a batch of pleas, one of which claimed that the two election commissioners were hastily appointed on March 14 to “pre-empt” the orders of the top court the next day, when the matters challenging the…
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Spiritual leader Sadhguru of Isha Foundation underwent an emergency brain surgery at a private hospital in New Delhi, a statement from the hospital said on Wednesday. The surgery was carried out on March 17 to remove bleeding in the skull. Sadhguru was weaned off the ventilator post-surgery, the statement from Indraprastha Apollo Hospital said, adding he has shown “steady progress and his brain, body and vital parameters have improved”. The 66-year-old spiritual guru is the founder of the Isha Foundation and has launched campaigns like ‘Save Soil’ and ‘Rally for Rivers’ for environment conservation. He had been suffering from severe…
In the first such action since Lok Sabha elections were announced, the Election Commission on Wednesday directed the Karnataka Chief Electoral officer to take appropriate action as per the Model Code of Conduct against Union Minister of State Shobha Karandlaje for alleging that people from Tamil Nadu were responsible for the recent blast at a Bengaluru cafe. The EC forwarded a copy of the complaint it received from DMK organisation secretary R.S. Bharathi earlier on Wednesday and asked the CEO to “ensure that immediate appropriate action may be taken on the complaint in accordance with Model Code of Conduct.” The…
* International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination For the International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination, 21 March, the global trade movement says that without racial justice, there is no democracy. As part of the For Democracy campaign, the International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC) affiliates are mobilising around the world against growing authoritarianism and for greater democracy at work, in society and in global institutions. We know that dividing people by ethnicity, religion, class or migration status is often used by far-right movements and even employers to suppress the rights of working people. A healthy democracy means that everyone participates.…
The International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC) welcomes two, new historic EU directives on platform work and corporate sustainability and due dililgence. Although they do not fully meet the needs of working people, they are a step in the right direction, it said. The directive on platform work introduces a presumption of employment at the national level to address the widespread abuse of misclassifying workers as ‘bogus self-employed’. This means that platform companies will now bear the responsibility of proving that individuals are not their employees, with a focus on the degree of control and direction exercised over workers. The Corporate…
India on Wednesday rejected China’s claims on Arunachal Pradesh as “absurd” and “baseless” while asserting that the northeastern state is an “integral and inalienable” part of the country. The firm response from the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) came two days after the Chinese military called Arunachal an “inherent part of China’s territory”. “We have noted the comments made by the Spokesperson of the Chinese Defence Ministry advancing absurd claims over the territory of the Indian State of Arunachal Pradesh. Repeating baseless arguments in this regard does not lend such claims any validity,” said a statement issued by MEA Spokesperson Randhir Jaiswal.…
The National Investigation Agency (NIA) on Monday traced and arrested a key absconding member of the banned Popular Front of India (PFI) for the 2022 gruesome murder of RSS leader Srinivasan in Kerala. Shafeekh, who had been absconding since the targeted killing of Srinivasan in Palakkad on 16th April 2022, was tracked by the NIA Absconder Tracking Team to Kollam district. He was taken into custody by the anti-terror agency for his involvement in the case. A total of 71 persons have been identified as being part of the horrendous conspiracy, in which NIA has already filed two chargesheets, on March…
Jharkhand governor CP Radhakrishnan on Tuesday was given the additional responsibility as the in-charge governor of Telangana, in place of Tamilisai Soundararajan, who resigned from her constitutional post on Monday. The appointment of Radhakrishnan as the in-charge Governor for Telangana comes in the wake of resignation of Dr Tamilisai Soundararajan from her position as the Telangana Governor and the Lt Governor of Puducherry. The President of India, has accepted Dr Tamilisai’s resignation, the communique said. A communique from Rashtrapati Bhavan said the resignation of Tamilisai was accepted with immediate effect and in her place, Radhakrishnan was given the additional charge…
BRS leader K Kavitha and some others “conspired” with top AAP leaders, including Arvind Kejriwal and Manish Sisodia, to get favours in the now-scrapped Delhi excise policy by paying Rs 100 crore to the political party that rules Delhi, the Enforcement Directorate alleged on Monday. Forty-six-year-old Kavitha, the MLC daughter of former Telangana chief minister K Chandrashekar Rao, was arrested by the federal agency last week from her Hyderabad home and she is in the ED custody till March 23. Probe found, the ED claimed in a statement, that Kavitha along with others “conspired with the top leaders of AAP…
The NDA on Monday finalised its seat-sharing formula in Bihar for Lok Sabha elections, announcing the BJP will contest 17 constituencies, the JD(U) 16 and Chirag Paswan’s LJP (Ram Vilas) five, while rebuffing the claims of the LJP faction led by Union minister Pashupati Kumar Paras. Two other NDA allies — Hindustani Awam Morcha (HAM) and Upendra Kushwaha-led Rashtriya Lok Morcha — will contest one seat each, Vinod Tawde, the BJP’s in-charge for elections in Bihar, told a press conference at the BJP headquarters here. This will be the first time the BJP has got more seats than Chief Minister…