In the selection committee meeting, CJI N.V. Ramana referred to the Supreme Court’s 2019 order to make the choice among various contenders easier. But the committee ignored the fact that the same order also disfavoured appointing acting chiefs, which the Centre had done.
Jammu & Kashmir: Flash-floods claim 91 lives in three days
Srinagar: The death toll across Jammu and Kashmir from the past three days touched to 91 as on Friday three more persons including a woman lost their lives due to flood furry. At least 14 persons were trapped while four of them died when a landslide hit Thanamandi town in Rajouri district of Jammu province on Friday, Four persons One person died in Central Kashmir’s Ganderbal district when he came under an electric poll, uprooted due to flash floods. Another person died of heart attacking after he observed gushing waters making entry into his village in Tangmarg area of North Kashmir’s Baramulla district. Two people drowned when strong water currents washed away a bridge at Brazlu in Kulgam district. Three people were washed away when they were crossing Nallah Sukhnag in Khansahab area of Budgam district.
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West Bengal is set to vote Thursday in the last phase of state elections, amid skyrocketing coronavirus infections across India that many have blamed on mismanagement by the Bharatiya Janata Party-led central government.
West Bengal is one of two states where the BJP has been shut out for decades, but which the Hindu nationalist party hopes to control after a hard-fought campaign.
If the state legislature election here was crucial for the BJP before, it’s more so now because the party needs a win to affirm that the Indian public is still on its side, political analyst Subhamoy Maitra said.
Updated Apr 14, 2021 | 13:30 IST
The deaths, all in Cooch Behar s Sitalkuchi, sparked a political slugfest in the politically volatile state, with the ruling TMC and BJP blaming each other for the violence. West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee | Photo Credit: PTI
Kolkata: West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Wednesday visited Cooch Behar that witnessed violence during the fourth phase of polling last week in which five people were killed including four in CISF firing.
The deaths, all in Cooch Behar s Sitalkuchi, sparked a political slugfest in the politically volatile state, with the ruling TMC and BJP blaming each other for the violence.
People must be allowed to vote, Mamata Banerjee said.
Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee has labelled the killing of four people in central force firing at Cooch Behar a genocide and said the victims were sprayed with bullets in the chest and neck . This is genocide. They have fired just like a fire spray. They should have fired below the wait. But they have fired at neck and chest, she said.
Ms Banerjee, who was speaking at a press meet in Siliguri in north Bengal today, said, The CISF is not trained for mob control. Now they want to suppress facts. That s why they banned entry into Cooch Behar for 72 hours, she added.