Bank credit growth to agri sector, credit card outstanding plummet: RBI

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US halts student visa interviews: Concern among students, edu agencies as applications put on pause

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Turkey cracks down on flyers who stand up too soon, threatening fines

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Andhra Deputy CM Pawan Kalyan orders theatre reforms, seeks regulation of ticket, food prices

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Gujarat Confidential

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Tree census ordered after allegations that hundreds were cut down for cricket stadium in Madhya Pradesh

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Gujarat Confidential: A bus ride

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Trump administration targets Harvard’s China links: What you need to know

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Gujarat Confidential: Keeping it clean

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Kidambi Srikanth uses smart strategy to beat Popov, enters Malaysian Masters semis

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Developmental projects, including Kutch pilgrimage site, worth Rs 53,414 crore on PM’s Gujarat itinerary

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Out of power in MCD, AAP sets sights on 2027 civic polls

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How a Mercedes logo led to the arrest of accused in hit-and-run case, which left footballer critically injured in Ahmedabad

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Asiatic lion population in Gujarat goes up from 674 to 891 in 5 years: CM Patel shares census details

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Held in narcotics case, man linked to D-Company shifted from Arthur Rd to Chennai prison

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Delhi man slaps juvenile for ‘harassing’ his sister — stabbed to death 5 months later

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5 convicted in ‘petty organised crime’ case get one year rigorous imprisonment

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Trump calls for broad drug price cuts in executive order, wants at least 59% drop

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Rights orgs urge President to initiate peace talks with Maoists

Hyderabad: The leaders of rights organisations have appealed to President Droupadi Murmu, urging her to advise the Government of India to declare an immediate and unconditional ceasefire, and to initiate ‘Peace Talks’ with the Communist Party of India (Maoist) on an urgent basis.

Enclosing a memorandum endorsed by hundreds of organisations and individuals across the country on April 4, the activists wrote a letter to Droupadi Murmu on Thursday, April 24, drawing her attention to Schedule 5 of the Constitution, together with Articles 339(1) and 275(1), which conferred upon her office a clear constitutional mandate concerning the welfare of scheduled tribes and the governance of scheduled areas.

“Given the scale and urgency of the present crisis, the constitutional responsibilities vested in your office under these provisions now call for immediate and decisive action,” the activists appealed.

The activists claimed that the constitutional rights and the very lives of Adivasi communities in Bastar (Chhattisgarh), Gadchiroli (Maharashtra), West Singhbhum (Jharkhand), and the adjoining areas
were under an unprecedented and immediate threat.

The activists stated that since January 2024, due to a dramatic escalation in militarisation and intensified operations in Bastar alone, over 400 people have been killed, including civilians and children, with many of these deaths alleged to be fake encounters.

“As the constitutional head of the state, and the first Adivasi President of India, you hold a unique position of moral and political responsibility. In this moment of escalating violence and the resultant loss of hundreds of lives, your voice and urgent intervention are critically needed to impress upon the government, to resort to dialogue as a means of conflict resolution,” the activists urged.

The civil rights activists reminded the president that in the last three weeks, the Maoist party has released three public statements expressing their readiness to observe ceasefire and for peace talks, contingent upon the government halting armed operations.

“It is now incumbent upon the Government of India and concerned state governments to halt all armed
operations immediately, and agree to a ceasefire. While the government has claimed openness to
‘unconditional’ dialogue, in practice, it has imposed pre-conditions—demanding surrender and return to
the mainstream. “Meanwhile, military operations have intensified dramatically. This is not, in our view, how a government committed to peace responds to overtures for dialogue. What is unfolding is a state-driven campaign to shut down the possibility of political resolution altogether,” the letter read.

“Your intervention could determine whether what follows from this moment is more bloodshed or a door is opened to a principled, and constitutional resolution,” the activists implored President Droupadi Murmu.

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Urgent demands put forth by activists to initiate the peace process

1. The government should stop the offensive in Adivasi areas, in order to facilitate a ceasefire.
2. The CPI (Maoist) should cease all hostilities against the state forces to facilitate a ceasefire.
3. Dialogue must begin between the government and CPI (Maoist).
4. Free access to the affected areas should be provided to the independent civil organizations and media.
5. People’s livelihood needs and constitutional rights must be addressed urgently.
6. The state should immediately release Adivasis and other activists jailed for asserting their democratic rights and disagreeing with state policies inimical to Adivasis, so that they can participate in the talks and remain equal stakeholders in this dialogue. (For example, the activists of Moolvasi Bachao Manch).

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Rahul Gandhi moves SC in Savarkar defamation case

New Delhi: Leader of the Opposition in Lok Sabha Rahul Gandhi has petitioned the Supreme Court to quash a 2022 defamation case filed against him over his alleged derogatory remarks on freedom fighter Vinayak Damodar Savarkar.

In November 202, Rahul Gandhi, during his Bharat Jodo Yatra, allegedly passed defamatory comments on Savarkar at a rally in Maharashtra’s Akola.

As per the causelist published on the website of the apex court, a bench of Justices Dipankar Datta and Manmohan will take up the plea of the Rae Bareli MP for hearing on April 25.

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Earlier, the Lucknow Bench of the Allahabad High Court had declined to exercise its inherent powers in favour of Rahul Gandhi, who had sought the quashing of the entire legal proceedings. A single-judge Bench of Justice Subhash Vidyarthi, in its order passed on April 4, said that Rahul Gandhi had the statutory remedy of filing a revision against the lower court order summoning him to face trial for the offences under Sections 153-A and 505 of the now-repealed Indian Penal Code (IPC).

“As the petitioner has got a statutory remedy of filing a revision under Section 397/399 Cr.P.C. this court does not find it a fit case warranting exercise of its inherent powers under Section 482 Cr.P.C.,” the Allahabad HC said.

Under the IPC, 1860, Section 153-A addressed the offence of “promoting enmity between different groups based on religion, race, caste, etc.” and Section 505 dealt with “statements conducing to public mischief”.

In January this year, the Supreme Court, in an interim order, had directed the halting of trial court proceedings in a defamation case filed by a BJP worker against Rahul Gandhi over the latter’s alleged defamatory remarks against Union Home Minister Amit Shah. During one of his public speeches in Jharkhand’s Chaibasa before the 2019 Lok Sabha elections, Rahul Gandhi had called Shah a “murder accused”. In August 2023, the Supreme Court stayed the conviction of Rahul Gandhi in the ‘Modi surname’ defamation case, which had cost him his then Lok Sabha membership, saying that no reasons were given by the trial judge for imposing the maximum punishment of two years in the case.

Following the apex court’s stay order, the Lok Sabha Secretariat restored his membership in Parliament on August 7, 2023. Rahul Gandhi was disqualified as an MP in March 2023 after a Surat court convicted him and sentenced him to two years in prison for his “How come all thieves have Modi as the common surname” remark made during an election rally in Karnataka in April 2019. His remark was interpreted as an attempt to draw an implicit connection between Prime Minister Narendra Modi and fugitive businessmen Nirav Modi and Lalit Modi.

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