The Election Commission of India (ECI) on Tuesday issued notice to former chief minister and Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) national convener Arvind Kejriwal in the wake of complaints filed by the BJP and Congress over his remarks on “poisoning” of Delhi’s water supply.
Taking cognizance of the firing incident between former BJP MLA Pranav Singh Champion and his successor independent MLA Umesh Kumar, the Uttarakhand High Court on Tuesday asked the Haridwar administration to present a detailed report on the incident before it.
With farmers committing suicide allegedly due to crop loss and debt-related issues resurfacing across Odisha in the recent past, the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) has asked the Centre and State to furnish Action Taken Reports (ATRs) within six weeks to arrest the disturbing trend.
A bench of Chief Justice Sanjiv Khanna and Justice Sanjay Kumar asked the Central government and the oil panel to file their reply before the week commencing on March 17.
The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) has directed the Union Ministry of Environment, Forest & Climate Change and the Secretary, National Tiger Conservation Authority (NTCA) to submit Action Taken Reports (ATRs) on the alleged human misery due to displacement of 65,000 villagers of 591 villages in Odisha and other States.
According to the notice, on August 14, the Minister in-charge had directed that a full-page advertisement bearing the photograph of the Chief Minister (CM) of Delhi be released in line with the previous year's practice.
In response to the petition filed by human rights lawyer Radhakanta Tripathy, the NHRC passed the order recently.
The rights body asked the respondents to submit a detailed report in the matter within two weeks.
The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) on Saturday said it has issued notices to Delhi Chief Secretary and Police Commissioner over several deaths at Asha Kiran shelter home being run by the city government in Rohini here.
Notably, Air India’s Delhi-San Francisco flight was delayed for more than 20 hours due to a technical issue with the aircraft. AI 183, which was to depart from Delhi at 1530 IST on May 30, has been rescheduled and will now take off at 1500 IST on May 31.
