Publication of criminal antecedents of candidates a must: EC

with Global South, the PM said, “Our development partnerships cover all geographies and diverse sectors. We supplied medicines and vaccines to over 100 countries during the pandemic. India has always stood for greater role of developing countries in determining our common future.”

“Most of the global challenges have not been created by the Global South. But they affect

Extraordinary attack on Judiciary: Congress

Agency News: New Delhi us more. We have seen this in the impacts of Covid pandemic, climate change, terrorism and even the Ukraine conflict,” he said. The PM further said, “To re-energise the world, we should together call for a global agenda of Respond, Recognise, Respect and Reform .” “Respond to the priorities of the Global South by framing an inclusive and balanced international agenda. Recognise that the principle of ‘Common but Differentiated Responsibilities’ applies to all global challenges. Respect sovereignty of all nations, rule of law and peaceful resolution of differences and disputes; and Reform international institutions, including the United Nations, to make them more relevant,”.

Congress General Secretary Jairam Ramesh on Thursday dubbed Vice- President Jagdeep Dhankhar’s criticism of Kesavananda Bharti Judgement an “extraordinary attack” on Judiciary.

“In my 18 years as an MP, I’ve never heard anyone criticise the 1973 Kesavananda Bharati judgment of Supreme Court. In fact, legal luminaries of BJP like Arun Jaitley hailed it as a milestone. Now, Chairman of Rajya Sabha says it was wrong. Extraordinary attack on the judiciary!” Ramesh said. The reaction comes a day after the VicePresident insisted on Parliamentary supremacy. Vice-President Dhankhar on Wednesday reiterated that the power of Parliament to amend the constitution and deal with legislation is not subject to any other authority and all constitutional institutions — the judiciary.

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All political parties and candidates will have to publish criminal antecedents of their candidates at least three times in newspapers, television channels and on their websites, Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) Rajiv Kumar said here on Thursday. The CEC said that all political parties and candidates would have to publish the criminal antecedents of their candidates at least three times in newspapers, television channels and on their websites with reasons for the selection of such candidates.

“People must know the background of all candidates before the election,” the CEC told the media after the

Rs 100 crore swindler Praveen

Rana arrested by Kerala Police

Agency News: New Delhi full commission headed by Kumar and two Election Commissioners — Anup Chandra Pandey and Arun Goel - reviewing the poll preparedness of Tripura Assembly elections, expected to be held in later next month. He said that anyone, including the voter, can lodge complaint with the commission through the cVIGIL app launched by the poll panel. “Through the cVIGIL app, the Commission deals with any complaint on a fasttrack basis within 100 minutes. The cVIGIL is an innovative mobile application for citizens to report about the violation of Model Code of Conduct and expenditure during the elections. The cVIGIL stands for Vigilant Citizen and emphasises the proactive and responsible role citizens can play in the conduct of free and fair elections,” the CEC said. The uniqueness of the app is that it only allows live photo and video with auto location capture from within the app to ensure digital evidence for flying squads to act upon in a time-bound manner, he added

Praveen Rana, who was heading an investment and marketing company near here and was on the run after being taken into custody by the Kerala Police on Wednesday from near Coimbatore, was brought to Trissur and his arrest was recorded. Feeling the heat from his depositors who had invested around Rs 100 crore after he promised a huge return on investment - which was as high as 42 per cent - Rana whose company Safe and Strong went into trouble after he ducked the investors and the police on January 6, and went into hiding.

However, he was traced out to a quarry in Coimbatore when he made a call to his wife using a quarry workers mobile phone. This call of his was traced by the Police and he was picked up on Wednesday by the Kerala Police. Later he was brought to Trissur and after the preliminary paper work.

College student held for smuggling firearms in Bihar’s Arwal

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A female college student was arrested on charges of smuggling firearms on Thursday in Bihar’s Arwal district. Mohammad Kasim, the Superintendent of Police (SP) of Arwal confirmed the incident. The student was travelling with two youths, including her boyfriend Ranjit Kumar on a bike. The arrest was made during the vehicle checking campaign on NH 139 under the Kinjar police station.

“The accused was travelling with two youths on one bike.

The SHO of the Kinjer police station, who was also patrolling the road, suspected something fishy as they were travelling at a high speed and did not stop the vehicle after policemen signalled them for checking. Our officers suspected that the accused probably kidnapped the girl and therefore were driving at high speed,” Kasim said. “The SHO and other police teams chased the bikers. After a brief chase, the two youths including Ranjit Kumar managed to flee from the spot while the girl failed to run. She was carrying a bag. When our cops opened the bag, they found four country-made Kattas, a magazine of a pistol, cash Rs 13,240, a smart phone, a button phone and an Apache bike,” Kasim said.