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Modi govt mulling options to enforce ban on e-cigarettes & e-nicotine flavoured hookah

Source: theprint.in New Delhi: The government is mulling various options including bringing an ordinance to enforce a ban on manufacture, sale and import of ENDS devices including e-cigarettes if it fails to get a reprieve from the Delhi High Court, which had earlier stayed its order to ban such products, sources said. Banning such alternative smoking

Supreme Court punishes CBI’s Nageshwar Rao

Source- telegraphindia.com The Narendra Modi government’s preferred trouble-shooter in the CBI was on Tuesday convicted of contempt by the Supreme Court for defying a transfer ban and sentenced to confinement in the court till it rose at 4 pm. Additional director M. Nageshwar Rao, now the virtual No. 2 in the CBI and twice chosen by

Madhya Pradesh: Rally against quota, SC/ST Act change in Bhopal

Source-indianexpress.com Thousands of protesters, mainly upper castes, trooped to Bhopal from other parts of Madhya Pradesh for a ‘Kranti Sabha’ rally on Sunday to express their anger over the Centre’s amendment to the Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Act. Targeting Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan, who had asserted two years ago that

In a first, Modi govt changes collegium’s recommendation on HC judge’s appointment

Source – theprint.in New Delhi: For possibly the first time since the collegium system was introduced, the Centre has unilaterally amended the recommendation of the judicial appointments body to apply its own writ, considered a violation of settled law and procedure. Last month, the Supreme Court collegium had recommended that Punjab and Haryana High Court additional judge