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Recently, the Indian government's Department of Consumer Affairs announced that 1600 metric tons of onions procured by the National Cooperative Consumers Federation of India Ltd was shipped by the railway from Nashik to Delhi. The quantity of 42 BCN (Bogie Covered New) was enough to fill 53 trucks. The initiative was taken under the price stabilisation fund, and it's the first time that onions were transported in bulk by railway under this programme. The shipment was expected to reach Delhi on October 20 and be released in Delhi-NCR, increasing the availability of onions in the market and stabilising the price in the festive season.

Recent unveiling of a changed Lady Justice statue in the Supreme Court of India by the Chief Justice of India Justice D.Y. Chandrachud, traditionally depicted with a blind fold and a sword, now opens with eyes wide open, holding the Constitution of India in place of a sword. However, the scale of justice remains as usual. While inaugurating it, Justice Chandrachud said, “Law is not blind. Justice sees everybody equally," critics see in it a linkage with RSS ideology.

Successive pronouncements by the Supreme Court have revealed a growing judicial sense against the potential for abuse in the draconian anti- money laundering laws. This has an important bearing on the pending petitions for the review of the apex courts verdict in the 2022 verdict by a three-member bench upholding all the provisions of the controversial Prevention of Money Laundering Act.

In 2019, M.K. Ranjitsinh Jhala, the renowned wildlife conservationist, joined hands with other conservationists to file a writ petition before the Supreme Court of India (SC) against the government of India regarding the protection of the great Indian bustard. They argued that the overhead transmission lines used for the supply of electricity generated through wind and solar energy resulted in the loss of the population of the great Indian bustard in Gujarat and Rajasthan.

People of India’s National Capital Delhi rose to see the city covered is such a suffocating thick layer of smog that almost all weather-monitoring stations fell into red zone in the morning on October 23, 2024. With it more areas moved into severe level of air pollution. By noon, the Supreme Court of India pulled up Centre for framing ‘toothless’ environmental laws, apart from criticizing Haryana and Punjab for failing to control stubble burning, one of the chief causes of yearly worsening of air pollution in Delhi.

KOLKATA: “We have no inhibition in socialising over a bowl of soup or a cup of tea or coffee; but thereafter it is ‘thus far and no further for us’. We have our long-standing demands and we are firm on pursuing those”, important Kuki and Naga leaders told IPA when asked about the meeting the Union home ministry held in New Delhi on Tuesday, October 15 with Manipur MLAs representing the Kuki-Zo-Hmar, Meitei and Naga communities in the strife-torn state. The brief statement of the ministry on the meeting called it a quest for peace but it was very economical on details. The statement was silent on the absence of chief minister N Biren Singh from the meeting.

Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M K Stalin wants eligible Tamilians to have larger families. He said he was speaking in jest, but such childish jokes don't draw genuine laughter. Who is Stalin to offer unsolicited advice, asking "why not have 16 children"? He wasn't alone, his Andhra Pradesh counterpart Chandrababu Naidu spoke first, saying couples having more children will be rewarded.

Probably we could not perceive that the moral crisis in our society has deepened to alarming levels until we heard the news of rape and gruesome murder of a young female doctor in Kolkata. The junior doctors in West Bengal are continuing their movement largely demanding proper Inquiry and rapid trial of suspects, safety and security at hospitals, updating infrastructure at Government hospitals and thus improving the quality of patient care.

It is good to note that the proposed India-UAE food corridor has already roped in a third partner, Israel. The project is expected to eventually involve the United States as well. The US was a key initiator of the historic four-nation I2U2 virtual summit in July 2022 bringing together leaders of India, Israel, the UAE and the US to promote joint investment in food, water, energy, transportation, health, and space. The complex tri-nation food corridor requires the commitment and cooperation of all the partners and other related stakeholders as well. The corridor promises to contribute significantly to food security for the three countries and serve as a model for similar initiatives globally. The US is expected to benefit from its participation in the corridor as the country looks to bolster its strategic presence in Asia.

Who will be the next President of the BJP? The suspense is building up as the current President, J.P. Nadda, is on an extension, and the party is looking for a new leader. The party has grown enormously, from its early days, when it had only two members in Lok Sabha after 1984 elections, to now having Prime Minister Narendra Modi leading the country for a third term. It currently has 18 crore members and aims to add another nine crore during the ongoing membership drive. The signal came when Nadda was taken into the Modi 3 cabinet and made the leader of the Rajya Sabha. It was clear that there would be a successor to Nadda very soon.