Bengaluru will face long power cuts every day from 6:00 am to 10:00 pm until February 9, affecting several parts of the city. Areas around Hebbal and large parts of north Bengaluru will be the worst hit. The scheduled outage is expected to disrupt daily life, office work
Rush Hour: Justice Varma’s plea against probe rejected, NDA leads in Maharashtra civic polls & more
The Supreme Court rejected Justice Yashwant Varma's petition challenging the legality of the inquiry committee constituted by the Lok Sabha speaker to look into corruption charges against him. The bench held that Varma is not entitled to any relief and that “no interference is called for”.
Cash that was unaccounted for was allegedly recovered at Varma's official residence in Delhi when emergency services responded to a fire there on March 14. He was a judge at the Delhi High Court at that time. The judge said he was in Bhopal when the cash was discovered and claimed that it did not belong to him or his family.
Varma had argued in his petition that although impeachment notices had been submitted in both the Lok Sabha and the Rajya Sabha, Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla constituted the committee unilaterally without waiting for the chairperson of the Upper House to admit the motion. Read on.
The Bharatiya Janata Party and its allies were leading in Mumbai, Pune, Thane and Nagpur as counting of votes is underway for 29 civic bodies in Maharashtra, which went to polls the previous day. In Mumbai, the BJP has won 21 seats and Eknath Shinde's Shiv Sena faction has secured 10 seats.
Together, they were also leading in 119 seats out of 227 of the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation, crossing the halfway mark.
In Pune, the BJP has won 29 seats and is leading in 43 others. In Nagpur, the BJP was leading in 84 seats and the Congress in 41. In Thane, the Shinde Sena has won 33 seats and the BJP five.
Shrikant Pangarkar, an accused in the 2017 murder of activist-journalist Gauri Lankesh, won the Jalna Municipal Corporation election as an Independent candidate. Read on.
A day after marker pens were used on electors' fingers instead of indelible ink in the municipal corporation polls in Maharashtra, Congress leader Rahul Gandhi said that the Election Commission's gaslighting of citizens was “how trust has collapsed in our democracy”. “Vote chori is an anti-national act,” he said about a report about the poll panel's response to concerns raised by the Opposition parties on the matter.
The State Election Commission on Thursday said that it would investigate the quality of the indelible ink in the marker pens used for the municipal polls. Read on.
‘Money and muscle': Why Opposition workers are crying foul in Maharashtra civic polls
The Supreme Court has given two weeks to the speaker of the Telangana Assembly to decide on pending disqualification petitions against MLAs who defected from the Bharat Rashtra Samithi to the ruling Congress. The speaker is yet to decide on petitions against three of the 10 BRS MLAs who switched over to the ruling party after the 2023 Assembly elections.
On November 17, the Supreme Court issued a contempt notice to the speaker for refusing to act within the timeline and was hearing the matter on Friday. Read on.
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Bengaluru will face long power cuts every day from 6:00 am to 10:00 pm until February 9, affecting several parts of the city. Areas around Hebbal and large parts of north Bengaluru will be the worst hit. The scheduled outage is expected to disrupt daily life, office work
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