-ThePrint.in From Jayalalithaa to Amarinder Singh, chief ministers throughout the years seem to have ignored the seniority principle in choosing chief secretaries. The position of the chief secretary is arguably the most crucial civil service post in any state. Normally, the senior-most serving Indian Administrative Service officer in the cadre is expected to be posted and officers senior to them, who are on central deputation, can be overlooked. Apart from suitability, the...
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Video Of Farmers Run Over Goes Viral, BJP MP Tweets It Too -Alok Pandey
-NDTV.com The video, being shared widely on social media, is yet to be verified by the police. NDTV cannot independently verify its authenticity. It is not clear in the video who is in the driving seat. Lucknow: A video, apparently of an SUV running over slogan-shouting farmers marching in Uttar Pradesh's Lakhimpur Kheri, has surfaced on social media and has even been shared by Varun Gandhi, an MP of the ruling BJP....
More »Supreme Court clears Covid aid, lays down norms
-The Telegraph The relatives of patients who succumb to Covid in the future will also be entitled to the Rs 50,000 ex gratia, according to the order The Supreme Court on Monday approved Rs 50,000 as ex gratia for relatives of the Covid dead over and above other compensation that they are entitled to or have already been given by respective state governments or authorities. The ex gratia should be disbursed by the...
More »SC to examine farmers’ right to protest on sub-judice issue -R Balaji
-The Telegraph The observation came following a request from attorney-general K.K. Venugopal, who was representing the Centre along with solicitor-general Tushar Mehta The Supreme Court on Monday decided to examine the constitutionality of the farmers’ right to protest on a sub-judice issue, particularly when the controversial farm laws had been stayed and were “not in force”. The court said the “central issue” was “whether the right to protest is an absolute right”. It also...
More »Fact-finding team paints a grim picture of Assam government -Pheroze L Vincent
-The Telegraph APCR reproduced an account that sheds more on the ugly backdrop to the police firing and atrocity that followed A delegation of rights defenders who visited Assam’s Darrang district, where a day labourer and a child were killed in a land reclamation drive in a minority-dominated settlement last month, has reconstructed a grim picture of the government and private groups creating a situation that culminated in the police firing. The fact-finding...
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