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Congress chief Rahul Gandhi accused the Bharatiya Janata Party of operating Bihar by “distant management”, whereas utilizing the face of Chief Minister Nitish Kumar. At a rally in Muzaffarpur, Gandhi mentioned that the BJP has “nothing to do with social justice”.
The chief of the Opposition within the Lok Sabha claimed that the voices of essentially the most backward communities aren’t being heard within the state.
Assembly elections in Bihar are scheduled on November 6 and November 11, and the outcomes can be introduced on November 14. The Congress is a part of the Opposition Mahagathbandhan in Bihar, together with the Rashtriya Janata Dal, three Left events, the Vikassheel Insaan Party and the Indian Inclusive Party. Read extra.
The Supreme Court has mentioned it can think about issuing nationwide pointers to set timelines for trial courts to border legal expenses, with the intention to stop delays in proceedings. Such delays, the bench noticed, are among the many major causes for stagnation in legal proceedings.
The observations got here whereas listening to a bail plea filed by Aman Kumar, who has been in jail since August 2024 as an undertrial in a theft and tried homicide case, Bar and Bench reported.
The chargesheet within the case was filed in September 2024.
While listening to his enchantment, the Supreme Court famous that the trial court docket had but to border expenses within the case regardless of the chargesheet being filed over a 12 months in the past. Read extra.
The Aam Aadmi Party questioned the Bharatiya Janata Party authorities in Delhi on the dearth of rain after cloud seeding experiments a day earlier to sort out air air pollution. It accused the Delhi authorities of “losing taxpayers’ cash” and perpetrating a rip-off within the title of the experiment.
Cloud seeding is the method of mixing chemical brokers, together with silver iodide, dry ice and customary desk salt, to condense clouds and improve the probabilities of rainfall.
As the air high quality in Delhi continues to be “poor”, Delhi Chief Minister Rekha Gupta mentioned on Friday that cloud seeding “is a necessity for Delhi”. On Tuesday, two cloud-seeding trials had been held over northwest Delhi’s Burari, Mayur Vihar and Karol Bagh at 12.13 pm and three.45 pm.
However, no rain fell in these areas.
Experts have repeatedly identified that the experiment just isn’t a “very sensible” approach to sort out air air pollution as it’s costly, can solely cowl a restricted space and wishes very particular meteorological circumstances. They have additionally mentioned that the respite from air pollution via synthetic rains is non permanent. Read extra.
Overnight Israeli airstrikes throughout Gaza killed at the very least 104 Palestinians, together with 46 youngsters, the territory’s Hamas-run well being ministry mentioned. Over 250 individuals had been additionally injured within the strikes.
The strikes befell regardless of a United States-brokered ceasefire between Israel and Palestinian militant group Hamas. Both sides have accused one another of violating the truce.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s workplace mentioned that after safety consultations, he had ordered the army to hold out “forceful strikes” in Gaza. The prime minister’s workplace didn’t specify a purpose for the strikes.
However, the Israeli army mentioned that it had struck “dozens of Hamas terror targets” all through Gaza in response to the Palestinian militant group’s “blatant violation of the ceasefire settlement”. Read extra.
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