Imphal, April 16 (IANS) Manipur Chief Minister Yumnam Khemchand Singh on Thursday launched four digital platforms aimed at significantly improving governance and service delivery across the state. An official from the Chief Minister’s Office (CMO) said the four portals, the Centralised RTI State Portal, e-Seba Manipur, Explore Manipur, and an AI-enabled Scheme Finder, have been developed by the Department of Information Technology. These initiatives underscore the government’s commitme…
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Bhopal, April 16 (IANS) In a move aimed at strengthening safeguards for arrested individuals, the Madhya Pradesh Police have made it mandatory for police personnel to provide written grounds of arrest to every accused person.To implement this reform, the Madhya Pradesh Police Headquarters (PHQ) in Bhopal has issued directives to all Police Commissioners, Superintendents of Police and field units, in compliance with recent guidelines laid down by the Supreme Court.The Supreme Court, in its Novemb…
Kolkata, April 16 (IANS) The National Investigation Agency (NIA) has sought custody of 12 of the 49 accused arrested in the case of harassing judges assigned to the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) work in Mothabari, Malda district. The remaining 37 have been granted judicial custody. The lawyer of the arrested Mofakkerul Islam has filed a bail application. The state police had described him as the ‘mastermind’ of the incident.The hearing of the Mothabari case was held in the Kolkata …
New Delhi, April 16 (IANS) The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has opposed the additional affidavit filed by Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) national convenor Arvind Kejriwal in support of his plea seeking recusal of Justice Swarana Kanta Sharma from hearing the Delhi excise policy case, terming it a “belated afterthought” aimed at maligning institutions and exerting pressure on the judiciary. In written submissions filed before the Delhi High Court, the Central probe agency contended that K…
New Delhi, April 16 (IANS) Amid the political storm over allegations of forced religious conversion and sexual exploitation at the Tata Consultancy Services’ (TCS) Nashik branch, a fresh application on Thursday has been moved before the Supreme Court in the pending religious conversion case, citing the incident as evidence of “organised religious conversion” and seeking stronger judicial intervention against unlawful conversions across the country.Filed in the pending matter “In Re: The Issue of…
New Delhi, April 16 (IANS) The Supreme Court on Thursday refused to interfere with the Calcutta High Court’s order upholding the Election Commission of India’s (ECI) decision to transfer several senior bureaucrats and police officers in West Bengal ahead of the Assembly elections, observing that such reshuffles before polls are a common practice. A bench, headed by Chief Justice of India (CJI) Surya Kant, declined to entertain the plea challenging the large-scale transfers ordered by the Ele…
Chandigarh, April 16 (IANS) The Punjab and Haryana High Court on Thursday dismissed Khadoor Sahib MP Amritpal Singh’s plea challenging the legality of the third successive detention order issued against him under the National Security Act (NSA).”It is clear as daylight that the impugned order of preventive detention passed against the petitioner is immune from the powers of judicial review. Consequently, the petition stands dismissed,” a Bench headed by Chief Justice Sheel Nagu observed while …
New Delhi, April 16 (IANS) The Supreme Court on Thursday refused to interfere with the Bombay High Court’s order vacating the interim protection granted to industrialist Anil Ambani against the classification of his loan accounts as “fraudulent” by lender banks under the Reserve Bank of India’s 2024 Master Directions. A Bench of Chief Justice of India (CJI) Surya Kant and Justices Joymalya Bagchi and Vipul Pancholi dismissed Ambani’s petitions challenging the Bombay High Court’s division ben…
New Delhi, April 16 (IANS) Anil Ambani-led Reliance Group said on Thursday that Amitabh Jhunjhunwala and Amit Bapna, who earlier held charge of senior positions in the group, are currently not working with it.The duo has been arrested by the Enforcement Directorate in connection with an ongoing money laundering investigation linked to an alleged banking fraud involving group entities such as Reliance Home Finance Ltd (RHFL) and Reliance Commercial Finance Ltd (RCFL).Reliance said that Jhunjhunwa…
Seoul, April 16 (IANS) The Seoul government has submitted a formal opinion letter on the United States’ ongoing probes into South Korea and other nations involving what it calls “unfair” trade practices related to structural excess production and forced labour, officials said on Thursday.The letter was submitted by the Ministry of Trade, Industry and Resources to the office of the US Trade Representative (USTR) ahead of public hearings on the ongoing trade investigation scheduled to begin next m…