Month: August 2019

Mentioning the matter before a bench headed by Justice NV Ramana, the lawyers said they did not want another Unnao case to happen.

Parents of the missing girl had filed a missing complaint with the police earlier and alleged that former Union Minister and BJP leader Swami Chinmayanand was responsible for their daughter’s disappearance.

On August 24, a video of the missing girl had gone viral in which the law student had alleged that a person from ‘Sant Samaj’ destroyed many lives of women including her’s. Without naming anyone, she also alleged that the person had threatened to kill her parents.

The girl appealed to Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath for her help.

An FIR has been registered against Chinmayanand in the case.

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Addressing a press conference at the party office here Union Minister Prakash Javadekar said remarks of Gandhi has shown India in bad light.

“Never has India been shown in a bad light as the Congress has done. Rahul Gandhi and Congress should apologise to the nation,” he said.

Javadekar referred to Gandhi’s remarks during a Congress Working Committee meeting in which he had told the media that there were reports of violence during restrictions imposed by the government following the repeal of Article 370 of the constitution, which gave special powers to Jammu and Kashmir.

“Acts of violence have been acknowledged by mainstream politicians such as the leader of Congress party Rahul Gandhi noted that people are dying,” Javadekar said quoting Pakistan’s petition.

“This is nothing but vote-bank politics. The Congress party is backtracking because of the anger among the people after Rahul Gandhi’s initial statements.

Earlier in the day, Gandhi had in tweets that while he disagreed with the government on many issues, Kashmir is India’s internal issue and there is no room for Pakistan or any other foreign country to interfere in it.

He had also said that violence in Jammu and Kashmir was due to Pakistan.

“There is violence in Jammu and Kashmir. There is violence because it is instigated and supported by Pakistan which is known to be the prime supporter of terrorism across the world,” he said. (ANI)

A day after the Central Board of the Reserve Bank of India approved transfer of ₹1,76,051 crore to Centre, Congress leader Rahul Gandhi slammed Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman over their ‘self created economic disaster’. Rahul said that ‘stealing’ from RBI will not work.

“PM and FM are clueless about how to solve their self created economic disaster. Stealing from RBI won’t work – it’s like stealing a Band-Aid from the dispensary and sticking it on a gunshot wound. #RBILooted,” Rahul tweeted on Tuesday.

RBI’s decision is in line with the recommendations of the Bimal Jalan Committee.

On Monday, a press note from the RBI said that it has decided “to transfer a sum of Rs 1,76,051 crore to the Government of India comprising Rs 1,23,414 crore of surplus for the year 2018-19 and Rs 52,637 crore of excess provisions identified as per the revised Economic Capital Framework (ECF) adopted at the meeting of the Central Board today.”

It may be recalled that the RBI in consultation with the Government of India had constituted an Expert Committee to Review the Extant Economic Capital Framework of the Reserve Bank of India under the chairmanship of Dr Bimal Jalan.

“The Committee’s recommendations were based on the consideration of the role of central banks’ financial resilience, cross-country practices, statutory provisions and the impact of the RBI’s public policy mandate and operating environment on its balance sheet and the risks involved,” the note said.

The note further said, “The Committee’s recommendations were guided by the fact that the RBI forms the primary bulwark for monetary, financial and external stability… Hence, the resilience of the RBI needs to be commensurate with its public policy objectives and must be maintained above the level of peer central banks as would be expected of a central bank of one of the fastest-growing large economies of the world.”

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It was the third time the two leaders talked to discuss the regional developments since India abrogated special status of Jammu and Kashmir.

Previously, Khan had called MBS and discussed the issue last week.

Pakistan has been rattled by the Indian government’s move to strip the special status to Jammu and Kashmir and has found itself completely isolated despite desperate attempts aimed at internationalising the issue.

Islamabad has been snubbed on all fronts as the international community has made it clear that the Kashmir issue is strictly New Delhi’s internal matter.

The Pakistan government has downgraded bilateral ties with India in the wake of the decision and said it will consider all steps to counter what it described “illegal steps” taken by New Delhi.

Two days after New Delhi revoked the Article, Khan had “briefed” the Saudi prince.

“During the call, they discussed the development of the situation in the region and efforts exerted towards it,” the official Saudi Press Agency(SPA), the agency had reported. (ANI)

Trump also appeared to agree with him when he said the two countries “will do something good”.

“All issues between India and Pakistan are bilateral. We do not want to bother any other country for these issues. And I believe that India and Pakistan, which were one nation before 1947, we will resolve all issues and can find solutions to it,” Modi told the media ahead of his talks with Trump on the sidelines of the G7 summit.

“There are many bilateral issues between India and Pakistan. And after Imran Khan became the Prime Minister of Pakistan, I called him up to congratulate him and told him that Pakistan and India need to fight together many issues like diseases, illiteracy, poverty and let us work together for the welfare of our country. We keep talking about the various bilateral issues between each other,” Modi said watched by Trump and the officials of the two delegations.

On his part, Trump, who said he spoke to Modi last night, said the Prime Minister feels he has control over the issue and hoped the two countries would “do something very good”.

“The Prime Minister feels he has control over the issue. They speak with Pakistan and I am sure they will do something very good,” said Trump who had on three recent occasions offered to mediate in the Kashmir dispute between India and Pakistan.

India had rebuffed claims that Trump had discussed his mediation offer with Modi and had made it clear that Kashmir was a bilateral issue.

The US President also congratulated Modi over his election victory, saying the “Prime Minister is a man who is loved and respected in his country”.

Trump said that the two sides had some great discussions last night, including trade, military and various things of mutual interest.

Meanwhile, expressing gratitude to Trump, Modi said, “Today I am meeting my friend and the President of world’s oldest democracy. This meeting is very important to me. We have been meeting very frequently on many occasions.”

Addressing the issue of ongoing trade negotiations between the two countries, the Prime Minister said, “India and the US have been continuously negotiating over the issue in recent days and we appreciate and welcome their suggestions on the issue.”

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Addressing a condolence meeting to pay tribute to senior party leaders Arun Jaitley and Babulal Gaur, former Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister, she said, “During my election campaign, a maharaj ji (religious person) had told me that the Opposition is resorting to sorcery on your party (BJP) and its leaders. He said it is a very bad time and asked me to be cautious.”

“I had forgotten about this thing after that. But now, when I see that leaders of our party are leaving us one by one, I recall what the Maharaj ji had said. Whether you believe it or not, this is true and it is happening,” Pragya added.

After the meeting, the media tried to elicit some more comments but she refused to elaborate. The party unit has disassociated itself from the Parliamentarian comments.

On August 24, Jaitley passed away in New Delhi at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) He was 66. Gaur, a former Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister from August 2004 to November 2005, breathed his last at a Bhopal hospital on August 21. He was 89.

Earlier this month, former minister Sushma Swaraj had died. In the last one year, former prime minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee and Goa Chief Minister Manohar Parrikar had lost their lives. (ANI)

A bench of Justices R Banumathi and A S Bopanna said the petition has become infructuous as he was arrested on August 21.

The apex court, however, asked him to move a regular bail plea before the appropriate court.

Chidambaram had moved the Supreme court the same day the High Court dismissed his anticipatory bail plea.

During the course of proceeding today, Kapil Sibal, senior counsel representing the former Union finance minister, said that he had mentioned the matter for urgent listing on August 21 but the court did not list it until August 23.

“I have a fundamental right,. It is a matter of my liberty. I should have been heard by the Supreme Court,” the counsel contended.

Sibal argued, “If the arrest had taken place and I had filed it later, the petition against Delhi High Court would be infructuous. I have a right to be heard under the law.”

After the High Court rejected Chidambaram’s pre-arrest bail on August 20, he was arrested and sent to CBI’s custody by a trial court for four days, ending on Monday.

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