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There’s no denying the significance of billionaire Elon Musk as he flexes his muscle tissue in American politics. Musk, nevertheless, isn’t achieved enjoying kingmaker. What’s additionally fascinating is his rising affinity with right-wingers who share roughly Donald Trump’s anti-immigration and populist stances. Final week, Musk took to his social media mouthpiece, X, to endorse an ‘extremist’ far-right political occasion, Various for Germany (AfD). This comes simply weeks earlier than Germany goes to snap elections with the collapse of Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s coalition authorities. Now, there are reviews that Musk is ready to donate to Reform UK, a British right-wing occasion based by Nigel Farage, with its treasurer promising “political disruption like we’ve got by no means seen earlier than”.
With that, let’s get to at present’s version.
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India’s Enforcement Directorate (ED) has been dealing with repeated setbacks in a few of its high-profile cash laundering circumstances. The rationale? The Supreme Court docket had dominated final 12 months that the watchdog can’t rely solely on “legal conspiracy” because the “predicate offence” primarily based on which it registers a case. The offence must also fall inside the ambit of the Prevention of Cash Laundering Act (PMLA) schedule.
For context: A “predicate offence” refers back to the nature of a criminal offense talked about within the major First Info Report (FIR) registered by one other company, primarily based on which the ED builds its case.
Among the circumstances that fell by as a result of they relied on legal conspiracy because the predicate offence embrace these in opposition to Karnataka Deputy Chief Minister D Okay Shivakumar and one other in opposition to a retired IAS officer who had served underneath Chhattisgarh ex-CM Bhupesh Baghel. By the way, each are senior Congress leaders.
The ED has now determined to change tack.
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One thing’s amiss within the quiet Assagao village of Goa. Of the 45 homes round, villagers discovered that 25 had surreptitiously modified palms. The sale deeds, nevertheless, had been solid with Portuguese-era calligraphy. Actually, the sellers included lifeless women and men. The solid deeds additionally discovered their approach into official data, placing authorities officers underneath the scanner.
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Error 404: The Opposition has not taken kindly to the Union authorities’s choice to tweak the Conduct of Election Guidelines. The Congress referred to as it a part of a “systematic conspiracy to destroy the institutional integrity of the Election Fee of India.” The change within the Rule limits public inspection of election papers to solely these paperwork specified within the provisions. This successfully implies that any CCTV footage or digital data of the electoral course of shall be excluded from public scrutiny.
The subsequent stage: India has vital ties with Kuwait. Their bilateral commerce was valued at US$ 10.47 billion in 2023-24. Actually, the Indian group kinds the most important expatriate group in Kuwait. With Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s go to to the Gulf nation, ties had been raised to a “strategic partnership” with agreements on cooperation over defence, sports activities, tradition and extra.
Should Learn
A-Z of Indian economic system: How will India obtain its Viksit Bharat goals by 2047? Is the Indian economic system rising quick sufficient? What ought to the Union Finances give attention to this time round? Former RBI governor Raghuram Rajan solutions all this and extra in an in depth interview with The Indian Categorical.
Disagree: Hyundai was amongst eight automakers which had been unable to satisfy the nation’s second iteration gas effectivity norms for 2022-23. Curiously, Hyundai had sought a deferment of the implementation of those norms by a monetary 12 months, per data obtained by the Proper to Info Act. The request, nevertheless, was rejected by two ministries.
Hit the brakes: The yellow Ambassador taxis have come to be synonymous with Kolkata since they had been first launched within the Sixties. The town of pleasure, nevertheless, is bidding adieu to its icon. Kolkata is ready to part out 80 per cent of the fleet by March. For the drivers of the yellow taxi, it’s an unsure future forward.
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PR Sreejesh, thought of one of many best goalies in hockey, has determined to hold up the boots on his worldwide profession. He now steps in as India’s junior workforce head coach. Within the newest version of Concept Change, Sreejesh appears to be like again on his journey, how he fashioned a bond with the goalpost, and what’s in retailer for the long run.
Earlier than you go, tune in to at present’s episode of the ‘3 Issues’ podcast, the place we focus on the opposition to the Katra ropeway mission in Jammu. We additionally focus on the most recent mannequin of Synthetic intelligence by OpenAI.
Till tomorrow,
Sonal Gupta
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