AAP Ke News #E488

AAP Ke News #E488

1. Govt's Move to Roll Back Curbs on Laptop, Computer Imports Was Due to US Pressure: Report
   https://thewire.in/trade/govts-move-to-roll-back-curbs-on-laptop-computer-imports-was-due-to-us-pressure-report

2. Modi Govt has been working on ways to counter Democracy Rankings downgrading India's scores, it has tasked an Indian Think Tank to create India's own democracy rankings in line with India's narrative than Western indices.
   https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/3/21/modis-india-plans-its-own-democracy-index-after-global-rankings-downgrade?taid=65fbc25ecb10a20001c8757c

3. Modi's Photo has been replaced across government websites along with his personal radio program maan ki baat websites have been taken offline. His photo on rtionline, where login placeholder has been previously replaced with his photo is also gone.
   https://thewire.in/tech/modis-photo-and-mann-ki-baat-disappear-from-government-websites-with-model-code-of-conduct-in-force

4. CM Mann's convoy halts in Barnala: Engages with SSF employees and assures further recruitment - In the first phase 1300 have been recruited. After this, 5000 more will be recruited.

   

5. CM Bhagwant Mann chairs meeting with AAP MLAs and officials in Bathinda

   

6. ED BJP's political team cannot stop Kejriwal: Bhagwant Mann.

   

7. Electoral Bonds and their donors: What data tells us.
   https://epaper.hindustantimes.com/Home/ShareImage?Pictureid=223153ef3e7

   

8. Election Commission wants the government to stop this WhatsApp message with PDF from PM Narendra Modi
   https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/technology/tech-news/election-commission-wants-the-government-to-stop-this-whatsapp-message-with-pdf-from-pm-narendra-modi/articleshow/108679346.cms

   

9. 'Delhiites and entire nation stand firmly behind Kejriwal'

   

10. 'A scared dictator wants to create a dead democracy'

    

11. "Kejriwal will run government from prison" — Delhi Assembly Speaker says arrest aimed at silencing CM before LS polls.

    

12. Kejriwal has moved the Delhi High Court challenging the summons issued to him by the central probe agency. He has also filed an application seeking interim protection. The matter is fixed for hearing on April 22.
    https://www.livelaw.in/high-court/delhi-high-court/ed-arrests-delhi-chief-minister-arvind-kejriwal-in-liquor-policy-case-253073

13. A report by The Indian Express showed that between 2014 and September 2022, 121 prominent leaders came under ED radar, 115 of them Opposition leaders; the list has grown since The Congress 24, TMC 19, NCP 11, Shiv Sena 8, DMK 6, BJD 6, RJD 5, BSP 5, SP 5, TDP 5, AAP 3, INLD 3, YSRCP 3, CPM 2, NC 2, PDP 2, Ind 2, AIADMK 1, Maharashtra Navnirman Sena 1, Suheldev Bharatiya Samaj Party 1 and BRS 1.
    Kejriwal arrest: 95% of ED cases since BJP came to power in 2014 against Opposition leaders.
    https://indianexpress.com/article/political-pulse/kejriwal-arrest-bjp-liquor-policy-case-modi-9227288/

14. Senior Indian opposition politician arrested ahead of general election ...a move critics of Narendra Modi said was part of a pre-election crackdown by the prime minister.
    https://www.ft.com/content/b3a9821b-3b39-4f5d-a88b-e4abdb145857

15. Delhi liquor policy case: Aurobindo Pharma bought BJP electoral bonds days after arrest

16. Not just electoral bonds, BJP is biggest beneficiary of all political finance

17. Electoral bonds full data |  MEIL’s ₹584 crore to BJP is top donation to any party
    Data released by EC shows that the company donated ₹195 crore to the Bharat Rashtra Samithi and ₹85 crore to the DMK; Trinamool received ₹542 crore from lottery magnate Martin’s company

18. Companies under ED, I-T scanner donated poll bonds to BJP, BRS, Congress

19. Vedanta is biggest donor for Congress, Essel Mining for BJD

20. MEIL’s ₹584 crore to BJP is top donation to any party

21. PM Modi leaves for Bhutan, to receive award from King, discuss bilateral issues

22. Notice to Health Secy for not keeping CM, Balbir in loop over Centre’s letter

23. Keventer group gave BJP Rs 320 crore while ED case was hot.
    https://www.reporters-collective.in/trc/keventer-group-gave-bjp-rs-320-cr

24. Lottery king Santiago splurged largely on regional parties while hollowing out state exchequers
    https://www.reporters-collective.in/trc/lottery-king-splurged-largely-on-regional-parties

25. BJP top pick for two Reliance-linked electoral bond donors. Donated Rs 400 crore in total
    https://www.reporters-collective.in/trc/bjp-top-pick-for-two-reliance-linked-electoral-bond-donors

26. Such decline in the credibility of the institutions. Poor governance at display, fuelling mistrust and resentment in a state engulfed by violence for more than 10 months.

    

27. SBI couldn't link these electoral bonds which every single newspaper and website has been able to do within hours. And they wanted till June 30. The Supreme Court needs to take stern punitive action against the SBI to deter other institutions from misleading the apex court.

    

28. Being transferred out of R&AW back to his CAPF is not a punishment, if this operative had indeed gone "rogue".

    

29. BJP recipient No. 1, its top 10 donors form 35% of its Rs 6,000-crore electoral bond kitty

30. In NDA corner, Ajit Pawar reaches out to Muslims: 'Committed to minorities'.

31. How Arvind Kejriwal's absence could be felt in Delhi's governance

32. The man should have been sacked 10 months ago. Why doesn't he talk about the 6,000 odd weapons from state armouries that are still with the majoritarian militia in the state?

    

33. Censorship, even at the film festival, by the union government.

    

34. The whole idea needed to be junked, not just the pure thing. This excuse of purity is the cornerstone of caste oppression and untouchability.

    

35. After too much democracy, too much development in the Kashmir Valley. This is worse than the worst years of militancy in the early 1990s.

    

36. Why do they want it when the Wildlife Act discourages their issuance and possession?

    

37. Simply put. On The Hindu's Page 1 lead.

    

38. Chrolonology samajhiye. Bonds ki, especially pre-2019.

    

39. For anything else that India's constitutional courts may do right, what they have allowed to be done to Umar Khalid is unconscionable and unforgivable.

    

40. The demographic dividend is vanishing even before it could be paid out.

    

41. Employment, what's that?

    

42. India is sliding into a plutocracy. What is the more worrisome are the changes in wealth and income inequality that have taken place in the last decade, coinciding with the Modi govt.