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Journalist at @IndiaToday & @AajTak 📺 Often found lurking around Courts 🏛 Views are personal 🖊 📧 nalini.sharma @aajtak .com
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BREAKING: 15 retired judges, 77 retired bureaucrats and 25 retired armed forces officers issue an open statement against the “unfortunate and unprecedented” comments by Justice Surya Kant & Justice Pardiwala while the Supreme Court was hearing the petition by Nupur Sharma.
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BIG BREAKING: Delhi HC says it may consider initiating contempt proceedings against the Centre if 480 MT of oxygen is not supplied to Delhi today. HC says “Now the water has gone above our head. Now we mean business. Enough is enough!”
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BREAKING: Harish Salve appearing before Supreme Court for Vedanta seeks permission to reopen its Tuticorin plant. Salve says Vedanta can manufacture 1000 tonnes of oxygen there everyday and is ready to supply all 1000 tonnes free of cost.
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BIG BREAKING: Supreme Court initiates suo motu contempt of court proceedings against Advocate Prashant Bhushan and Twitter India.
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BREAKING: Supreme Court refuses to interfere into the issue of demolition in Shaheen Bagh. SC says none of the affected parties are before the Court and the petition has been filed by a political party. “Don’t make this Court a platform for all this” SC tells the petitioners.
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UNPRECEDENTED: Calcutta HC judge Justice Abhijit Gangopadhyay who was at the forefront of bringing the SSC scam to light tells journalists in Court to make a video recording of the proceedings. Lawyers object saying videography is not allowed. Judge says “I am allowing it”.
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BIG BREAKING: SG Tushar Mehta tells Supreme Court that the Centre has accepted the request of the Bihar Govt to initiate a CBI inquiry into the Sushant Singh Rajput death case.
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National Herald in Patiala House:
Lawyer: Swamy must be restrained from tweeting about the case.
Judge: We’ll hear it on 27th.
Lawyer: He’ll tweet right now within half an hour of this hearing.
Swamy: They’re feeling bad because they don’t have any followers on twitter.
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BREAKING: Gujarat police have registered case against three accused
1. Former IPS officer Sanjiv Bhatt
2. Former IPS officer RB Sreekumar
3. Teesta Setalvad
Allegations of given wrong and false information about Gujarat riots. Sreekumar & Teesta Setalvad officially arrested.
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BIG BREAKING: Supreme Court takes one step closer to a Uniform Civil Code. Supreme Court agrees to hear a petition asking for a uniform code for all cases of divorce, alimony and maintenance irrespective of religion. Notice issued to MHA and Law Ministry seeking their response.
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BREAKING: 3rd year law student from Delhi moves Supreme Court in a PIL seeking immediate dispersal of farmers from the Delhi borders citing COVID as a concern.
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BIG BREAKING: Centre and the Indian Air Force move Delhi HC against Netflix’s Gunjan Saxena : The Kargil Girl.
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CJI: The petition by N. Ram says that the California Court has observed that some Indian journalists and other persons were also targets. Where in the Court order does it say that? We didn’t see it.
Sibal: It’s not there. You’re right
CJI: Then this statement is incorrect.
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BREAKING: Supreme Court comes down heavily upon the petitioner who filed a PIL challenging the legality of the PM Cares Fund and several CM Relief Funds. Supreme Court says the petition has a “political colour”. Asks the petitioner to withdraw the plea or face a Court fine.
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BIG: National task force set up by the SC on the oxygen crisis finds that FOUR Delhi hospitals gave exaggerated data on O2 requirements. Consumption according to Delhi Govt was shown as 1140MT but after correcting the demand by the 4 hospitals, actual consumption was only 209MT.
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BREAKING: Maharashtra political crisis reaches Supreme Court. Eknath Shinde faction approaches Supreme Court seeking the top court’s intervention on all fronts - disqualification notice, rejection of the no confidence motion as well as appointment of the legislative party leader.
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BREAKING: None of the scathing oral observations made by the Supreme Court today against Nupur Sharma have made it to the actual order passed by the Court. The bench has simply dismissed the petition as withdrawn in a two-line order.
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BREAKING: SC asks Karti Chidambaram to deposit ₹2 crores as security while granting him permission to travel abroad.
SG says certain conditions ought to be imposed.
Sibal for Chidambaram argues: Do you think an MP is going to run away?
SG Mehta: It has happened in the past...
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BREAKING: Supreme Court comes down heavily upon TV channels on the issue of hate speech. SC asks “where is the nation heading?” Bench headed by Justice KM Joseph says law against hate speech is the need of the hour. Further asks “why is Centre treating this like a trivial issue?”
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Bollywood actress Juhi Chawla reaches Bombay Court to act as surety for Shah Rukh Khan’s son, Aryan Khan’s bail.
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On this anniversary of 26/11, remembering the often unsung Ceaser, Max, Sultan and Tiger. Not all heroes don capes or uniforms! ♥️
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“The Delhi HC judgment basically says that if I plant a bomb somewhere and the bomb diffusal squad diffuses the bomb then it reduces the intensity of my crime somehow” : SG Tushar Mehta for Delhi Police in Delhi Riots case
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BIG: Delhi HC on removal of Satyendra Jain from Delhi cabinet says “it is not for the Court to issue directions. It is for Arvind Kejriwal to act in the best interest of the State & consider whether a person with a criminal background should be allowed to continue as a Minister.”
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Govt in Parliament: Can’t respond on Pegasus in Parliament, matter is sub-judice before Supreme Court.
Govt before Supreme Court: Have responded on Pegasus in Parliament. Nothing more required to be said.
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BIG BREAKING: Justice Kaushik Chanda of Calcutta HC imposes ₹5,00,000 cost on West Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee for her and TMC’s attempt at trying to portray the judiciary in a bad light. The plea filed challenging the Nandigram results will be heard by another bench.
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BIG BREAKING: Maharashtra Home Minister confirms - Mahesh Bhatt will be called in for questioning in the Sushant Singh Rajput case. Karan Johar’s manager has also been called in. If required, Karan Johar will be summoned as well.
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Mukul Rohtagi in Delhi HC: I’m appearing for WhatsApp!
Kapil Sibal: I’m appearing for WhatsApp. You’re appearing for Facebook.
Rohtagi: Really? I thought it was the other way round...
Justice Sachdeva: Both of you need to share some data on who is appearing for whom. 😂
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BREAKING: No stay on the Central Vista project. Delhi HC says that since the workers are living on the construction site, no question of stay on construction arises. HC says that Central Vista is an “essential project of national importance” and it cannot be seen in isolation.
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BREAKING: All four lawyers- Colin Gonsalves, Prashant Bhushan, Dushyant Dave and HS Phoolka, who were asked to speak to the farmers yesterday and revert to the Supreme Court today are absent from today’s hearing. Harish Salve tells Supreme Court that this is “a point of concern”.
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This is ABSOLUTE LIES! I’m appalled at how this has been created out of thin air. I was MYSELF standing and reporting on a story that had NOTHING to do with AMU when the students began to heckle and threaten us. We weren’t even speaking to any student in the vicinity!
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BREAKING: Supreme Court stays the FIR against
@OpIndia_com
editor Nupur Sharma amongst others for a story on the death of a Hindu boy.
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BIG: SC says “let it be a message to all States that we will consider it as a contempt of this Court if any citizen in the country is harassed for making a plea for a hospital bed/oxygen on social media. No State can clamp down on info. We are in a position of a national crisis!”
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BREAKING: Solicitor General for the government tells Supreme Court “we have a written communication from the proctor of the Jamia university that some students are creating a law and order problem and police force is requested in the campus”.
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Doctors from Deen Dayal Upadhyay hospital confirm to me that some of the markaz patients brought into the hospital were intentionally spitting everywhere inside the ward and urinating outside toilets because they “didn’t believe in coronavirus” and “thought it was a conspiracy”.
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BIG: Mathura Court rules that the suit to remove the Mathura Shahi Idgah Mosque is maintainable on the ground that it was built over the Krishna Janmbhoomi land. Matter has been sent back to the civil court to be heard on merits.
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Women army officers at the SC tell me: “
@M_Lekhi
ma’am didn’t take a single penny from us for this case. We went to her and said we don’t know about our jobs, we can’t afford her fees. She said - just don’t worry about that. Till date she’s not taken even 1 rupee from us.”
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Meenakshi Lekhi in Parliament: “I say make the IB reports of the judges public so that everyone can know why a certain judge has been transferred”.
#JusticeMuralidhar
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BIG: Supreme Court tells Delhi Govt that the “lame excuses” being made by them on the issue of air pollution in the national capital will compel the Supreme Court to hold a proper audit of the revenues being collected by the State Govt and what is being done with it.
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Oxygen plant owner from Delhi Naresh Gupta tells the Delhi HC that the entire list made by the Delhi Govt of oxygen refillers in Delhi is completely wrong. Only 13 plants are functioning as against the 23 shown by the Govt. Delhi Govt sets up a meeting with Gupta for today 7 pm.
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Tushar Mehta - Can we adjourn the Kashmir hearing to tomorrow?
Kapil Sibal - But tomorrow is not good for us.
Justice Ramana - Why?
Sibal - We have to.. umm.. appear in a case for.. uhh... some colleagues.
(PS - P. Chidambaram’s bail plea is listed tomorrow before SC. 😊)
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Deepika Padukone meets JNUSU President Aishe Ghosh with folded hands in JNU!
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Let me explain what’s happening in the Supreme Court right now. It’s very important for a very prevelant and a very sensitive topic for this country - judicial corruption.
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Karti Chidambaram speaks to family in Tamil inside courtroom.
CBI officer - Speak in English
Karti - If that’s the case you should also only speak in English.
CBI officer - When we are in your custody we will also only speak in English. Right now you are in our custody.
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BREAKING: Delhi Jal Board tells Supreme Court that it is facing an acute shortage of water and might have to cut down on the water being supplied to hospitals in Delhi because of lack of supply from Haryana and Punjab.
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BIG: Supreme Court suggests lockdown in Delhi for a couple of days to curb the levels of pollution in the capital. “How will we live otherwise?” CJI asks the authorities.
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How are these journalists standing in the direct line of fire in front of this gun-wielding psycho? 😳
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CJI Gogoi miffed with “compromise” of CBI’s “integrity” due to media reporting on MK Sinha’s petition. Interestingly, as a judge, Justice Gogoi had held a press conference in the middle of a working day with 3 other judges against the then sitting CJI 10 months back.
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Indira Jaising says “the SC should order an inquiry under a retired Supreme Court judge. It is in the retired judges of the country that the people have the utmost faith. Supreme Court judges, not High Court judges.”
Courtroom laughs; Jaising immediately withdraws her comment.
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*Doctor's kid walks into the OT*
Kid: Papa mujhe bhi surgery karni hai.
Doctor: Haan beta yeh lo scalpel.
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“We are not going to rely on newspapers to arrive at judicial decisions” says CJI S.A. Bobde.
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#BREAKING
: Delhi HC denied bail to P. Chidambaram in the INX media case.
“It cannot be ruled out that Chidambaram might influence the witnesses” says Delhi HC.
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BREAKING: Delhi HC clarifies that no request has been made by the High Court for rooms to be booked in the Ashoka Hotel for the HC judges and staff. HC takes suo motu cognisance of the media reports on the matter.
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BREAKING: All 9 names recommended by the Collegium for elevation to Supreme Court cleared by the Govt. This paves way for India to see it’s first woman Chief Justice of India in 2027.
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Counsel for Disha Ravi: My past has no connection with the Khalistani movement. Either people take up a cause because they personally feel for it or for money. Neither is the scenario in my case.
Judge: There’s a third reason also. Dushman ka dushman bhi toh dost ho sakta hai...
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Centre informs Supreme Court that Sukesh Chandrashekhar has called up some Supreme Court judges from Tihar Jail impersonating the law minister, asking them to pass orders in his favour.
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BREAKING: Delhi HC says they will take up each and every clip where anyone has incited violence in Delhi. We will not let a repeat of 1984 happen. This city has seen more than enough violence. No more!
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"This is not a matter for this court. Go to High Court. The State machinery will take care of you," Supreme Court had told
#AtiqAhmad
a month ago while denying him protection when he said he feared for his life.
Today he was killed at point-blank range.
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Supreme Court recognises the “seriousness” of Sunanda Pushkar’s death.
Says Supreme Court understand’s the importance of the merits of the case.
Asks
@Swamy39
to convince the court on the maintainability of his plea before the Supreme Court.
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BREAKING: CJI strongly criticises the colonial era sedition law. CJI asks AG “this was the law used to silence Mahatma Gandhi. Do you think it is still required”?
CJI: Power to misuse this law is enormous. It’s like giving a saw to a carpenter who cuts down the entire forest.
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BIG BREAKING: UP Police files a 5000 page chargesheet before the District Court in the Lakhimpur Kheri violence case. Union Minister Ajay Mishra Teni’s son Ashish Mishra named as the prime accused.
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In 1978 Justice Leila Seth saw a large crowd in her court. She asked her clerk if there was a newsworthy case listed; the clerk told her that a group of farmers had been invited by the PM to visit Delhi. They had gone to see the zoo and then wanted to come to see a ‘woman judge’.
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Acid attack survivor Laxmi Agarwal’s lawyer Aparna Bhat moves Delhi Court seeking a stay on the release of Deepika Padukone’s Chhapaak. Bhat says despite taking her help in the entire process of writing and shooting the movie, no credits have been given to her by Meghna Gulzar.
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What Will Smith did was completely unacceptable. Seconds before thinking it’s ok to assault Chris Rock, he laughed at the joke himself (though his wife was visibly upset)! Kudos to Chris Rock for handling it in a dignified manner and ensuring that the show goes on!
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JUST IN: CJI while hearing a PIL seeking payment of minimum daily wages to migrant workers during
#COVID19
says that the Supreme Court cannot make better policy decisions than the govt at this time and therefore will not interfere in any govt decision for the next few weeks.
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Hearing before Delhi HC on actress Juhi Chawla’s petition challenging the roll-out of 5G services in India interrupted because someone who got into the virtual hearing started singing songs from Juhi Chawla’s movies.
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BREAKING: Justice B V Nagarathna - who will become the first woman Chief Justice of India in September 2027, takes oath as a judge of the Supreme Court.
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BIG BREAKING: Actress Kangana Ranaut files a counter complaint against lyricist Javed Akhtar before Mumbai Court alleging extortion and invasion of privacy : reports
@journovidya
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Singhvi: Karti is being harassed by the CBI. He is complaining of lack of sleep. He has a sore throat.
Tushar Mehta: Even I have a sore throat.
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HC takes strong objection to the Centre referring to the deaths in Delhi as a mere “rhetoric”.
HC: How can you be so insensitive and call it a rhetoric? People are dying everyday it’s a fact. It’s highly unfortunate that you’re calling it a rhetoric.
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BIG: Delhi Riots of Feb, 2020 “did not take place in a spur of the moment” and was a “pre-planned and pre-meditated conspiracy to disturb law and order in the city”, says Delhi HC
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I have been in Rewari for the past 7 days for the gang rape story and I just need to say this - the law & order in this place is in absolute shambles. The roads are unlit, barely any police checkposts, everything shuts down by 8pm except liquor stores that are open till midnight.
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Harish Salve appearing for Odisha Vikas Parishad before SC all the way from London.
SG asks what time it is there. Salve says 6:40 am. “I wake up in the morning, finish the Supreme Court work and go back to take a nap. Ab iske baad main waapis jaake so jaaoonga” says Salve 😂
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Parthasarathy Sir of the CBI is all set to retire after 4 decades of service. A stellar officer, he has been a part of several high profile cases during his tenure. Two years back he expressed his willingness to retire and I laughed it off saying “Sir they’ll never let you go!”
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Petitioner states that the gathering of farmers on the borders has blocked the roads for emergency and medical services while also restricting the people travelling from neighbouring States to Delhi for medical treatment in "big government hospitals".
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Delhi HC says that the petition filed against the Central Vista project is not a genuine petition and is “motivated”. ₹1 lakh fine imposed on the petitioner for filing the petition seeking a stay on the project during the pandemic.
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Justice Muralidhar really gets farewells like no other judge! Pictures from Delhi High Court (2020) and Orissa High Court (2023).
MUST WATCH: Grand farewell for Justice S Muralidhar as he retires as the Chief Justice of the Orissa High Court. Judges, lawyers, court staff & others assemble together in a large gathering outside Orissa High Court to bid farewell to Justice Muralidhar on his last working day.
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Lawyer for Kamal Nath’s nephew Ratul Puri makes a bizzare statement in Court while discussing Ratul Puri’s bail. Says
@PChidambaram_IN
has been getting bail from the same court for over two years but for Ratul Puri’s bail, they want to hold lengthy hearings.
#AgustaWestland
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22,920 oxygen concentrators pending at the Customs warehouse as of May 3 : Amicus Rajasekhar Rao tells Delhi HC
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Solicitor General Tushar Mehta concludes the arguments in the Sushant Singh Rajput case by saying “all I can say is that both the Bihar govt and the Maharashtra govt have made out an excellent case for the CBI to take over the investigation”.
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Firecrackers in Supreme Court during the hearing regarding migrant workers.
Justice Sanjay K. Kaul says Prashant Bhushan has no faith in the Supreme Court. Asks Bhushan “why should we hear you?”
Bhushan defends himself, says he has only expressed his personal views in the past.
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Singhal Hospital, Aruna Asaf Ali Hospital, ESIC Model Hospital & Liferay Hospital have claimed extremely high consumption with very few beds. Their claims appear to be clearly erroneous leading to extremely skewed info & significantly higher O2 requirement for the entire State.
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BREAKING: NDTV’s Prannoy Roy and Radhika Roy agree to deposit fifty lakh shares of NDTV @ Rs. 37 as security in accordance with the SEBI order imposing a penalty of Rs. 27 crores for failing to disclose price-sensitive information to the shareholders of NDTV.
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Negotiations on for a big Congress name to switch sides soon. Govt expected to upgrade its legal armour in a big way. Interesting days up ahead...
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#BREAKING
: Delhi Police tells HC that they haven’t watched any (except 2 videos) of the speeches made by BJP leaders which allegedly incited violence. “We haven’t watched the Kapil Mishra video” says the official. Justice Muralidhar shocked; says “are you serious?”
#DelhiRiots
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Delhi Police Commissioner Rakesh Asthana in a press conference says 413 rape cases were registered in the capital this year of which in only 1% cases was the accused a stranger. In 99% cases the accused were friends, family, neighbours or other known persons :
@kamaljitsandhu
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This is a man who was well aware of Utsav’s antics. He didn’t feel the need to re-examine everything then. He didn’t think he was guilty then. He wasn’t listening. He didn’t believe it. This is not a wake up call, it’s pressure. Remember that and don’t let men like this fool you.
We as a scene, specifically the men here, need to reexamine everything right now. I myself am guilty of being part of a culture where we haven't listened to the women. And this is the wake up call we need.
We are listening.
And we believe you.
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JUST IN: SC tells Centre & State Govts that to effectively tackle the 3rd wave, they need to start preparing TODAY! Justice Chandrachud says the 3rd wave is likely to impact children in a major way. Govts should ensure complete vaccination of children before the 3rd wave hits: SC
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National Task Force on oxygen crisis finds:
Consumption in 183 Delhi hospitals according to Delhi Govt = 1140 MT
Actual consumption by 183 Delhi hospitals = 209 MT
Requirement after applying Centre’s formula = 289 MT
Requirement after applying Delhi Govt’s formula = 391 MT
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BIG: SC says that prima facie the way the current vaccination policy has been framed, will prove detrimental to the right to public health. Suggests Centre to consider a method where vaccine procurement is done only by the Centre and distribution is done by the States.
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Indira Jaising says “anyone who wants peace will not register over a 100 FIRs against students and arrest them”.
CJI - “What option does the police have if someone breaks the law? When people are throwing stones? Shouldn’t they file FIRs?”
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Solicitor General Tushar Mehta tells Delhi HC that on the issue of oxygen supply, the Delhi Government needs to start communicating with the Centre “rather than acting like an unhappy girlfriend”. 😶
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State of Punjab asks for adjournment in the hearing on don-turned-politician Mukhtar Ansari’s transfer to UP.
Rohatgi for Ansari says: I am a small fly in a fight between two States.
SG Mehta: You are such a big fly that one State is time and again shamelessly protecting you.
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Solicitor General Tushar Mehta also objects to Bhushan’s contentions. SG says “the brilliant ideas of the petitioner are not needed”, every time that Bhushan loses in Court, “he runs to the lawns and calls it a black day. He cannot run the govt as a PIL petitioner” says Mehta.
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Yesterday a fellow reporter requested me for my power bank in the middle of the day on the field and of course I obliged only to realise that he wanted to charge his own power bank using my power bank. THIS is why you never take things on face value, kids.
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Christian Michel’s lawyers allege that Michel is suffering from a disease called dyslexia.
ED lawyer - Dyslexia mein sirf spelling galat hoti hai. Yeh koi “disease” nahi hoti. Hum Christian Michel ko yeh nahi bol rahe “tune iski spelling galat kyun likhi hai?”
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After 4 roller-coaster years at Republic, I have finally bid goodbye to the network! Although change can be a little scary, I’m looking forward to exciting new career opportunities in the coming months. Thanks to all those who lent support, advice & words of wisdom these 4 yrs ♥️
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#BREAKING
: No stay by Delhi HC on Centre’s order directing Herald House to be vacated.
HC agrees to hear the case on 15th.
Govt tells the court that if the Herald House is not vacated by 15th, the department will “initiate proceedings” to have it vacated.
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