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Crises of Migrant Workers Continue, Need Action: Supreme Court Issues Notices to Centre and States

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4 years ago

May 27, 2020

Migrant workers and their families wait to get on a bus to reach a railway station to board a train to their home state of Uttar Pradesh, during an extended lockdown to slow the spreading of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), in New Delhi, India, May 26, 2021. Photo: (REUTERS/Adnan Abidi)

A bench headed by Justice Ashok Bhushan took suo motu cognisance of the issues relating to migrant workers and sought a response from Solicitor General Tushar Mehta.

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Last Updated: May 27, 2021, 12:00 AM IST

Edited by: Moonmoon Ghosh

After innumerable stories of their plight and agony, the Supreme Court on Tuesday decided to finally look at the problems being faced by migrant workers left stranded in different parts of the country due to the coronavirus-induced lockdown.

The top court admitted that “crises of migrant labourers is even continuing today with large sections still stranded on roads, highways, railway stations and state borders”, requiring effective concerted efforts to improve the situation.

A bench headed by Justice Ashok Bhushan took suo motu cognisance of the issues relating to migrant workers and sought a response from Solicitor General Tushar Mehta.

Fixing the matter for hearing on Thursday, the bench recorded in its order that “there have been inadequacies and certain lapses” although the Centre and states have maintained they were taking all necessary steps.

“We are of the view that effective concentrated efforts are required to redeem the situation,” said the bench, which also included Justices Sanjay K Kaul and MR Shah.

The bench asked the law officer to assist it and bring to the notice of the Court all measures and steps taken by the Government of India and to be taken in this regard. It also issued notices to all the states and union territories, seeking their responses at the earliest.

In its order, the bench referred to newspaper reports and media reports that have been “continuously showing the unfortunate and miserable conditions of migrant labourers walking on-foot and cycles from long distances”.

“They have also been complaining of not being provided food and water by the administration at places where they were stranded or in the way i.e. highways from which they proceeded on-foot, cycles or other modes of transport,” it said.

The bench was ostensibly referring to the incident wherein a 16-year-old girl rode 1,300 kilometress on a bicycle, with her father as pillion, from Haryana’s Gurugram to Bihar’s Darbhanga.

The court emphasised the present situation of lockdown in the entire country and said this section of the society needs succour and help by the concerned governments, especially steps need to be taken by the government of India, state governments or union territories in this difficult situation to extend helping hand to these migrant labourers.

The Supreme Court order has come more than a month after the problems being faced by migrant workers came to light. Not only this, when a few petitions relating to migrant workers were taken up by the apex court earlier, it expressed satisfaction at the steps being taken by the central government and did not seem it to be a “crises” — used today in the suo motu order.

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Uttar Pradesh Lok Sabha Election Phase 2 : Key seats, candidates in the fray

Published

7 hours ago

April 26, 2024

Manoj Nair

Uttar Pradesh Lok Sabha Election Phase 2 : Key seats, candidates in the fray

The massive electoral exercise of the Lok Sabha Elections for 2024 is in full swing and the second phase of the election has commenced. In the second phase the fate of the candidates of 89 constituencies spread across 13 states will be decided by the voters. Uttar Pradesh is the most important state with more than 80 Lok Sabha seats. In the second phase of the election voters will vote for eight Lok Sabha seats.

Uttar Pradesh Lok Sabha seats which will go for the polls include Ghaziabad, Gautam Buddh Nagar, Amroha, Meerut, Aligarh, Bulandshahar, Mathura, and Baghpat. Amroha, Meerut, Baghpat, and Gautam Buddh Nagar will see a triangular contest between NDA bloc, the Opposition INDIA alliance, and the Bahujan Samaj Party. Mathura and Ghaziabad will see a straight contest between BJP and Congress. In Aligarh and Bulandshahr the BJP will lock horns with the Akhilesh Yadav-led Samajwadi Party.

The Details are as follows-

Amroh -Kanwar Singh Tanwar(BJP) ,Danish Ali (Congress).Mujahid Hussain(BSP)
Meerut – Arun Govil (BJP),Sunita Verma Pradhan (Samajwadi Party),Mujahid Hussain(BSP)
Mathura-Hema Malini (BJP),Mukesh Dhangar (Congress) —
Baghpat-Rajkumar Sangwan (RLD),Amarpal Sharma (Samajwadi Party),Praveen Bansal(BSP)
Aligarh-Satish Kumar Gautam (BJP),Bijendra Singh (Samajwadi Party) —
Ghaziabad-Atul Garg (BJP) ,Dolly Sharma (Congress) —
Budh Nagar-Dr Mahesh Sharma (BJP),Mahendra Nagar (Samajwadi Party),R.S.Solanki(BSP)
Bulandshahar-Bhola Singh (BJP),Shivram Valmiki (Samajwadi Party) —

Many prominent personalities will find their fate locked in the EVM machines and this includes Hema Malini who will be eying for her third win from Mathura. She is pitted against Mukesh Dhangar from the Congress party.

Another star Arun Govil is standing from the BJP from Meerut and he is pitted against Sunita Verma from the SP and Devvrat Tyagi from the BSP. Arun Govil had played the character of Lord Rama in the Ranananda Sagar 1987 serial Ramayan

MP Kunwar Danish Ali has changed party and is now standing as a Congress candidate Amroha, a constituency historically without a strong allegiance to any particular party. He stood and won as a BSP candidate in 2019. He will be pitted against Kanwar Singh Tanwar of the BJP and Mujahid Hussain of the BSP.

As per reports in the first four hours a voter turnout of 24.31 per cent was recorded in the eight parliamentary constituencies of Uttar Pradesh in phase two of the Lok Sabha elections on Friday. The polling began at 7 am and will continue till 6 pm.

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Video of Isha Arora, Saharanpur Polling Agent Takes the Internet By Storm

Published

6 days ago

April 20, 2024

Priyadarshi Shastri

Video of Isha Arora, Saharanpur Polling Agent taking the internet by storm

A video is currently going viral on the internet, showing Saharanpur polling agent Isha Arora doing the rounds in the Gangoh assembly constituency during the Saharanpur Lok Sabha elections. Since then, netizens have been going gaga over her charm and personality.

Meanwhile, many are curious to know more about her. A wide range of memes and reels are also being shared on Twitter and Instagram.

According to social media, Isha Arora is a State Bank of India (SBI) employee, currently employed on polling duty for the Saharanpur Lok Sabha Election 2024 in Madari village of the Gangoh assembly constituency.

#WATCH | Saharanpur, UP: Polling Agent Isha Arora says, "I think that if you get any duty, you should be punctual and that's the reason I have assumed my duty on time. Every man and woman should be punctual to let the functioning be smooth."

Regarding her video going viral, she… pic.twitter.com/Xo44vVeYyQ— ANI (@ANI) April 19, 2024

Video of Isha Arora dominates the internet

There she serves as the first polling officer at Garhi village’s polling booth. It got to a point that national news agencies were trying to get her on camera.

Images of UP polling officer #IshaArora are widely circulating on various social media platforms. Her pictures, captured by media cameras in #Saharanpur with necessary election materials, have caught the public's eye.#viral #viralvideo pic.twitter.com/IqW3EQuuWz— Madhuri Adnal (@madhuriadnal) April 19, 2024

Many of Isha Arora’s photos and videos are circulating on various social media platforms, generating millions of clicks and views. While talking to ANI, she stated:

“I think that if you get any duty, you should be punctual and that’s the reason I have assumed my duty on time. Every man and woman should be punctual to let the functioning be smooth.”

On being asked about her election duties, she said:

“I’ll say that people should be punctual and they are, otherwise conducting such big elections wouldn’t have been possible. I didn’t get time to watch it (comments) in the video. It’s election time and it was my duty to come on time hence I was busy. It goes viral due to my punctuality and devotion…”

Back in 2019, during the Lok Sabha elections, a clerk from the Public Works Department in Lucknow, Reena Dwivedi, gained national media attention because of her beauty. Her pictures in a yellow saree on duty went viral on various social media platforms.

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Raj Kundra ED Case Explained: Properties Worth Rs 98 Cr Seized

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6 days ago

April 20, 2024

Subhashree Panda

Raj Kundra ED Case Explained: Properties Worth Rs 98 Cr Seized

Raj Kundra, the famous businessman and husband of Bollywood actress Shilpa Shetty, has had properties worth Rs. 98 crore seized by the Enforcement Directorate.

The ED has also seized Shilpa Shetty’s Juhu flat. The Mumbai Zonal Office has seized movable and immovable properties worth Rs. 97.79 crore belonging to Raj Kundra (also known as Ripu Sudan Kundra) under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA), 2002, as reported by The Economic Times.

The seized properties include equity shares in Raj Kundra’s name, a residential bungalow situated in Pune, and a flat in Juhu under Shilpa Shetty’s name.

The investigation was initiated by the ED based on multiple FIRs registered by the Delhi Police and Maharashtra Police.

The FIRs were registered against several MLM agents: Mahender Bhardwaj, Simpy Bhardwaj, Vivek Bhardwaj, Ajay Bhardwaj, the late Amit Bhardwaj, and M/s Variable Tech Pte Ltd.

ED, Mumbai has provisionally attached immovable and movable properties worth Rs. 97.79 Crore belonging to Ripu Sudan Kundra aka Raj Kundra under the provisions of PMLA, 2002. The attached properties include Residential flat situated in Juhu presently in the name of Smt. Shilpa…— ED (@dir_ed) April 18, 2024

According to News18, allegations prevail that they collected funds worth Rs. 6,600 crore in 2017 in the form of Bitcoins. Moreover, they falsely promised a 10 percent return per month in the form of Bitcoins.

Investors were led to believe they would get higher returns on crypto assets, and the Bitcoins were purportedly taken to be used for Bitcoin mining in Ukraine. However, the promoters cheated the investors.

The promoters concealed the “ill-gotten Bitcoins in obscure online wallets.”

Investigation on Raj Kundra and Other Suspects

The ED investigation into Raj Kundra revealed that he received 285 Bitcoins from Amit Bhardwaj, the mastermind.

As the deal didn’t materialize, Raj Kundra still possesses 285 Bitcoins, worth Rs. 150 crore at present value, as per Mint.

In this case, Nikhil Mahajan was apprehended on January 1, 2023, Nitin Gaur on December 29, 2023, and Simpy Bhardwaj on December 17, 2023. Currently, all three of them are in judicial custody.

However, the masterminds, Mahendra Bhardwaj and Ajay Bhardwaj, are yet to be caught.

Further investigation in the case is under progress.

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