Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis said that the Bharatiya Janata Party’s post-poll alliances with the Congress in Thane district’s Ambernath and the All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen in Akola district’s Akot were unacceptable. “It will have to be broken,” he said.
The local alliances were formed after the civic elections in December. Fadnavis said that disciplinary action will be taken if party workers are found to have violated orders.
Meanwhile, the Congress dissolved its Ambernath block committee and suspended 12 of its corporators for allying with the BJP without the approval of the party’s state leadership. Read on.
The Supreme Court directed that the entire audio recording allegedly linking former Manipur Chief Minister N Biren Singh to the ethnic violence in the state be sent to the National Forensic Science University. The bench also directed that voice samples be sent for examination and asked the laboratory in Gandhinagar to expedite the process.
In the recordings believed to be from 2023, a voice purported to be that of Singh is heard taking credit for “how and why the conflict started”, bragging that he had defied Union Home Minister Amit Shah’s order against the use of “bombs” in the conflict and shielding from arrest individuals who snatched thousands of weapons from the state police armouries. Read on.
Five police personnel were injured in clashes that broke out after the Municipal Corporation of Delhi started a demolition drive near a mosque in Delhi’s Ramlila Maidan area. The drive was being carried out on land adjoining the Faiz Elahi Mosque and a nearby graveyard at Turkman Gate.
Around 100-150 persons gathered at the spot when the demolition machinery was about to arrive. Madhur Verma, Joint Commissioner of Police, Central Range, said that “a few miscreants” attempted to create a disturbance by throwing stones.
The Delhi Police has detained five persons and lodged a first information report in connection with the violence. Read on.
The Supreme Court granted interim protection from arrest to Bhojpuri singer Neha Singh Rathore in a case pertaining to her social media posts about the terrorist attack in Jammu and Kashmir’s Pahalgam. The bench also issued a notice on Rathore’s plea challenging the Allahabad High Court order denying her anticipatory bail in the matter.
But the court said that Rathore must appear before the investigating officer when summoned. Rathore was booked in April for a video posted on social media in which she said that the Pahalgam attack was an intelligence and security failure on the part of the BJP-led Union government. Read on.
United States President Donald Trump on Wednesday said that his country will get up to 50 million barrels of oil from Venezuela. The oil will be sold at the market price and the money “will be controlled by me…to ensure it is used to benefit the people” of Venezuela and the US, Trump said.
With the current oil prices of $56 per barrel, the arrangement could be worth $2.8 billion.
This came days after the US military abducted Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro and his wife, Cilia Flores, in an operation for alleged drug trafficking. Read on.
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