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INDIA NEWS

• Waiver calms markets, but tensions loom - Pg 8

• Faith - Pg 11

THE SUPREME COURT on Tuesday

(8) came down heavily on Tamil

Nadu governor R N Ravi and said

reservation of 10 bills by him for

consideration of the president was

in contravention of constitutional

provisions.

A bench of justices J B Pardiwala

and R Mahadevan said that under

Article 200 of the Constitution,

the governor does not possess any

discretion and has to mandatorily act

on the aid and advice of the council

of ministers. Article 200 of the Con-

stitution deals with assent to Bills.

The governor cannot withhold

assent and adopt concept of absolute

veto or pocket veto, the court added.

It said the governor is obligated

to adopt one course of action - give

assent to bills, withhold assent and

reserve for consideration of the

president. The bench said it was not

open for the governor to reserve Bill

for consideration of the president

after it was presented to him for the

second time.

It said the governor must assent

to the bills produced before him in

the second round and the only ex-

ception is in case the bill is diferent

from the first one.

Ten bills that were cleared twice

by the Tamil Nadu assembly but

were stalled and reserved by gover-

nor, appointed by the federal gov-

ernment, since 2020 finally became

laws after the court's intervention

on Saturday (12).

Peace returns to Murshidabad, curbs stay

Soldier killed in Kashmir gunbattle

AIADMK, BJP join

hands for Tamil

Nadu polls

THE SITUATION in violence-hit ar-

eas of Murshidabad in West Bengal

was peaceful and under control on

Monday, a senior police ofcer said.

Prohibitory orders remain in

force in the violence-hit pockets of

the district where the roads wore

a deserted look and shops downed

their shutters.

The internet remains suspended

in the afected areas while security

forces are conducting checks on ve-

hicles along the main roads.

Three people have died and sev-

eral others injured in the violence

which raged in Suti, Dhulian, Sam-

serganj and Jangipur areas since

Friday (11) afternoon but there was

no report of any fresh incident from

anywhere in the district.

The deceased included father-son

duo - Harogobindo Das and Chandan

- who were found with multiple stab

wounds inside their home in Sam-

serganj area.

The third victim, identified as

21-year-old Ijaz Momin, sustained

bullet wounds during clashes at Sajur

More in Suti.

A total of 180 people were arrest-

ed in connection with the violence

following protests against the Waqf

(Amendment) Act till Saturday after-

noon, the police ofcer said.

‘The situation in and around

these disturbed areas is peaceful and

under control. There is no report of

any untoward incident from any-

where in the district of Murshidabad.

Police deployment is there and we

will not allow any form of nuisance

to disturb peace,’ the police ofcer

told PTI.

The Calcutta High Court on Sat-

urday (12) observed that it cannot

turn a blind eye to reports of van-

dalism and ordered the deployment

of federal troops in Murshidabad

district.

At least 18 police personnel

were injured in the clashes and were

undergoing treatment in diferent

hospitals, he said.

Several vehicles, including police

vans, were set on fire, stones were

hurled at security forces and shops,

and police kiosks burnt down during

the rampage.

The Waqf amendment bill that

set of the protests was passed earlier

this month after heated debate.

The new law makes sweeping

changes in the management of vast

tracts of land set aside solely for

Muslim use, potentially stoking ten-

sions between the government and

minority Muslims. Muslim groups

and political parties say the law, like

many of prime minister Narendra

Modi’s policies, aims to alienate and

discriminate against Muslims.

THREE suspected rebels and a soldier

were killed in separate firefights near

Kashmir's unofficial frontier with

Pakistan, the Indian army said on

Saturday (12).

Indian soldiers killed three fight-

ers in a clash that began on Wednes-

day in a remote forest in Kishtwar in

the south of the disputed territory.

Senior Indian army ofcial Brig-

adier JBS Rathi said troops had dis-

played ‘great tactical acumen’.

‘In the gun battle, three terrorists

were neutralized,’ he told reporters.

A soldier was killed in a separate

incident late on Friday night in Sun-

derbani district along the Line of

Control (LoC), the de facto border

between India and Pakistan.

The White Knight Corps said on

X troops had ‘foiled an infiltration

attempt’ there.

A CATHOLIC body said it was denied

permission for the Annual Way of

the Cross procession, a key religious

event observed by the Christian

community on Palm Sunday, in the

national capital, and condemned it

as ‘shocking and unfair’.

Sources in the Delhi Police said

the permission was denied as it was

a ‘non-traditional procession’, and

added that police can deny such per-

missions due to ‘security concerns’.

Federal minister George Kurian

said the permission for the proces-

sion was denied due to ‘security

reasons‘ and noted that even Hanu-

man Jayanti procession, which was

scheduled for Saturday (12), was not

granted approval.

The denial of permission drew

criticism from opposition parties.

In a statement, the Catholic

Association of the Archdiocese of

Delhi said, ‘This is deeply shocking

and unfair. The procession has always

been peaceful and well-coordinated

with authorities. The reason cited

- law and order and trafc - doesn't

hold when others get approvals for

similar events.’

AMIDST US director of national

intelligence Tulsi Gabbard's claims

of finding evidence of massive vul-

nerabilities in electronic voting

machines,India's chief election

commissioner Gyanesh Kumar on

Saturday (12) stated that electronic

voting machines (EVMs) in the coun-

try were absolutely safe and were not

being tampered with.

‘In India, EVMs made by pubic

sector undertakings were used, and

on these machines, legal scrutiny

had been done, and the EVMs of

India cannot be connected to Blue-

tooth infrared, and so it is not pos-

sible to tamper with them,’ Kumar

stated.

On Friday, Congress leader Ran-

deep Singh Surjewala questioned

the Election Commission of India

and the federal government for not

responding to Gabbard's remarks on

the vulnerability of the EVMs.

Gabbard, speaking to the media

on Thursday, said the US Cabinet

had found evidence showing that

electronic voting systems had been

vulnerable to hackers for a long time.

NEARLY two years after parting

ways, the AIADMK and BJP on Friday

(11) rekindled their alliance, with

federal home minister Amit Shah

declaring that the 2026 Tamil Nadu

assembly election will be fought un-

der the leadership of AIADMK chief

Edappadi K Palaniswami.

He also slammed the ruling DMK

for ‘diverting’ attention from key

issues by raking up matters like de-

limitation, NEET and the three-lan-

guage policy.

Palaniswami, also known as

EPS, said the AIADMK was honored

to be welcomed into a partnership

with NDA. ‘An alliance founded on

a shared vision for Tamil Nadu’s

progress and prosperity,’ he said in a

social media update.

The DMK criticized the AIADMK

for joining hands with BJP, calling

the alliance a big ‘betrayal of Tamil

Nadu.’

On a day of quick turns and

twists, Shah consulted with RSS

idealogue S Gurumurthy and by late

afternoon, stitched up BJP's alliance

with Tamil Nadu’s main opposition

party AIADMK. The two had been

part of the NDA combine that faced

the 2019 Lok Sabha polls and the

state elections two years later.

Meanwhile, Nainar Nagendran

will be next Tamil Nadu BJP chief,

replacing K Annamalai, who is now

all set for a national role that seems

to be an apparent reward for his work

in the Dravidian heartland.

Top court pulls up TN governor over bill delay

Remembering Ambedkar

Delhi police deny

permission to Palm

Sunday event

EVMs ‘safe’,

‘tamper-proof’:

Poll panel chief

Women take part in a rally organized on the occasion of B.R. Ambedkar's birth anniver-

sary, in Beawar, Rajasthan, Monday (14).

Security forces in

Murshidabad, West Bengal

RN Ravi

BJP and AIADMK leaders

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