The plea, filed by Satish Kumar Agarwal, alleged failure of state in protecting life & property. Justice Surya Kant found no reason to entertain the petition in SC & suggested Agarwal approach the High Court.
Since BJD's 2024 defeat in the state & LS elections, leaders have been questioning Patnaik over VK Pandian's role, party's policy in its current Oppn position & now, the waqf bill U-turn.
The house was adjourned for three hours Wednesday—last day of the Budget session—amid sloganeering from both the ruling National Conference & Opposition BJP.
The Bill was passed in the Rajya Sabha with 128 members voting in favour and 95 opposing it; and in Lok Sabha early Thursday, with 288 members supporting it and 232 against it.
Mohammad Jawed’s plea says the Waqf Bill restricts new converts from creating Waqfs, violating Articles 15 and 25 by discriminating on religion and curbing freedom of practice.
Is there a place for a counter-bureaucracy, or a separate and competing bureaucracy to counterbalance the force of the executive’s bureaucracy, asked author MH Mody in 1980.
With bad loans shrinking & capital buffers stronger, urban co-op banks’ new umbrella body NUCFDC is now prioritising rollout of digital transformation.
If deal goes through, Greece will be 2nd foreign country to procure vehicle. Morocco was first; TATA Group has set up manufacturing unit there with minimum 30 percent indigenous content.
Many of you might think I got something so wrong in National Interest pieces written this year. I might disagree! But some deserve a Mea Culpa. I’d deal with the most recent this week.
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