#PrashantBhushanCase: Supreme Court refuses Bhushan's plea to defer hearing on sentence till his review petition against conviction is filed and decided. Court says judgement is complete only after the sentence.
#PrashantBhushan full statement: "I don't ask for mercy or appeal for magnanimity. I find it hard to believe that the Court finds that my tweets have the effect of destabilising the very foundation of this important pillar of democracy."
#PrashantBhushanCase| "We can give you 2-3days time and it is better if you consider it. Think over it": Supreme Court.
#PrashantBhushanCase| Hearing gets concluded for today. Senior Advocate Dhavan concluded his arguments. He referred to High Court judgments that have held that criticism of judges cannot be contempt. Bench of Supreme Court suggested purging of #contempt.
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#HathrasGangrape: Police forcibly cremate victim's body at 2:30 am, family allege to have been kept out of the cremation & weren't allowed to bring the body home. @BDUTT
"We were locked in, weren't allowed for cremation rites," says #Hathras victim's father.
#JustIn: Members of Valmiki Samaj pelted stones at the police and broke the police car in protest, demanding "justice" for the #Hathras gang rape victim.
#MonsoonSession of the Parliament begins today with #COVID19 protocols in mind. The session will run from Sept 14-Oct 1, 2020 in a total of 18 sittings. The Parliament has 46 Bills pending currently.
DMK Presidents MK Stalin (@mkstalin) says 2 days not enough to discuss issues regarding #NEET exams, National Education Policy 2020 as many students died by suicide due to exam issues. "I had also urged the Govt. to pass a resolution for it but my appeal was rejected," he added.
#MonsoonSession: The Parliament adopts motion to withdraw the Banking Regulation Bill Amendment, 2020 after motion was moved by #FinanceMinister Nirmala Sitharaman (@nsitharaman ).
External Affairs Minister @DrSJaishankar met with Chinese counterpart H.E. Wang Yi in Moscow and discussed #IndiaChinaBorder tensions. Ministers agreed that both parties should continue dialogue, abide by all existing protocols and maintain peace in border areas.
"The recently released quarterly GDP growth numbers for FY2020-21 should alarm us all. Need to be frightened out of complacency. India needs strong growth": former RBI chief, Raghuram Rajan said in a social media post about the economy.
Former RBI governor Raghuram Rajan talks about the "alarming" GDP and India's economic growth.
Cabinet approves #MissionKarmayogi, a National Programme for Civil Services Capacity Building to lay the foundation for capacity building for civil servants so they remain entrenched in Indian culture while they learn from best practices across the world: Govt of India
#MissionKarmayogi Institutional framework:
-PM's Public Human Resources Council
-Capacity Building Commission
-Special Purpose Vehicle for owning & operating the digital assets & the technological platform for online training
-Coordination Unit headed by the Cabinet Secretary
#MissionKarmayogi features:
-Support transition from 'rules based' to 'roles based' HR management
-To emphasize on 'on-site learning'
-To create an ecosystem of shared training
-To calibrate Civil Service positions to a Framework of Roles, Activities & Competencies (FRACs) method