Friday, 30 September, 2022
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Topic: Supreme Court

All women — married or unmarried — entitled to safe and legal abortion, says Supreme Court

ANI -
A bench headed by Justice DY Chandrachud said that the meaning of the rape must include marital rape for the Medical Termination of Pregnancy Act.

Over 7 lakh watch as SC starts live-streaming hearings. ‘Real’ Sena tussle rakes in most views

Bhadra Sinha -
Other proceedings live-streamed included hearing on 103rd Constitutional Amendment and challenge to All India Bar Exam. Blow to team Thackeray, no stay on ECI hearing Shinde’s plea.

Supreme Court reserves order on constitutional validity of reservations for EWS quota

ANI -
The petitioners had submitted before the top court that providing reservation on the basis of economic criteria, excluding SC, ST and OBC, non-creamy layer, breached the equality code.

SC is finally live-streaming hearings. But it shouldn’t be used for grandstanding

ThePrint Team -
ThePrint view on the most important issues.

What is Chhattisgarh’s ‘PDS scam’ & why ED wants SC to allow a CBI investigation into it

Bhadra Sinha -
Alleged PDS scam was unearthed in 2015 by Chhattisgarh's Anti-Corruption Bureau. SC will hear ED's plea to transfer the probe to CBI on 26 September.

Govt a ‘mute witness’ to hate speech problem, says SC, suggests Vishaka-like code for TV debates

Bhadra Sinha -
The problem persists despite a provision to penalise violators, says the top court. It was hearing a plea to bar candidates who deliver hate speeches from contesting polls.

Middle-class Indians want dog-mukt smart cities. But it isn’t possible without mass killings

Sanya Dhingra -
We live in high-rise apartments, called “colonies”, with separate elevators for residents on the one hand, and dogs and domestic staff on the other.

5 yrs back, India ‘legalised’ political corruption. Now, the time to end secret funding is here

Shekhar Gupta -
Nobody believed the BJP govt would keep its promise of further reforms to electoral funding. The real disappointment was the too-hot, leave-it-to-a-wiser-generation response of the SC.

‘Indian courts not equipped to judge Quran’: Petitioners slam Karnataka HC’s hijab ban in SC

Bhadra Sinha -
On fourth day of hearing of multiple appeals against the HC order, petitioners said 'judicial wisdom' of court would have been to not touch a field in which it 'has no expertise'.

Karnataka HC ‘misread’ Quran translation to hold hijab not essential, petitioner tells SC

Bhadra Sinha -
Petitioner compared the Islamic hijab to turban in Sikhism to say they are both essential. 'The practices can't be compared,' said SC hearing plea against hijab ban.
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Koffee With Karan finale saves a boring season. Power has moved from Bollywood to influencers

Nidhima Taneja -
The Koffee with Karan finale was finally entertainment, entertainment, entertainment, after the most boring season in a boycott-Bollywood world.
Priyanka and Sonia Gandhi at a Congress rally in Amethi in June 1991. It was at this rally that Sonia fired the first salvo at the P.V. Narasimha Rao government of going slow on the probe into Rajiv Gandhi's assassination | Praveen Jain/ThePrint

Sonia Gandhi still doesn’t get that meaning of power has changed in India

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Economy

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Modi govt cuts planned borrowing to Rs 14.21 lakh crore for second half of FY23

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Centre plans to borrow Rs 5.92 lakh crore in October-March period, compared with Rs 8.29 lakh crore of borrowing in the first half of the fiscal year that will end on September.

Defence

Pinaka is a multiple rocket launcher produced in India and developed by the DRDO for the Army | Twitter/@DRDO_India

As tensions rise with Azerbaijan, Armenia buys Pinaka rockets & ammunition from India

Snehesh Alex Philip -
The government-to-government contract, valued at about Rs 2,000 cr, is learnt to have been signed earlier this month. Supplies to be fast-tracked according to Armenia's requirement.

National Interest

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AAP’s filling a big vacuum in Indian politics. Question is how long it can sustain without ideology

Shekhar Gupta -
If you find admiration for AAP qualified, if not muted among many of the Modi-BJP’s critics, it is because they question it for its lack of ideological clarity. Especially on secularism.

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