Delhi Court extends Arvind Kejriwal's judicial custody in excise policy case till April 23 | Top News of Apr 15, 2024

[00:00:00] I am your host Vishnu and these are the major news stories of Monday, April 15, 2024.

[00:00:21] Donald Trump made history on Monday by becoming the first former president to face a criminal

[00:00:25] trial when jury selection began in Manhattan in a case involving Hush Money paid to pawn

[00:00:30] star Stormy Daniels.

[00:00:34] Delhi Court extended Chief Minister Irwin Kejriwal's judicial custody in the excise policy case

[00:00:39] to April 23.

[00:00:42] US President Joe Biden warned Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu the US will not

[00:00:47] take part in a counter offensive against Iran and option Netanyahu's war cabinet

[00:00:51] favours after a mass drone and missile attack on Israeli territory.

[00:00:57] The India meteorological department said India was likely to experience above-normal rainfall

[00:01:01] in the 2024 months soon season with La Nina conditions likely to set in by August-September.

[00:01:09] PM Modi addressing a rally in Kerala's Trishur said 10 years of NDA rule was only a trailer

[00:01:14] and that there was more to be done for Kerala.

[00:01:16] Meanwhile, the Congress' Rahul Gandhi said in Vineyard that India didn't get freedom

[00:01:20] to be colonised by RSS ideology.

[00:01:25] Let's get into the details.

[00:01:27] Donald Trump became the first former president to face a criminal trial on Monday when jury

[00:01:31] selection began in Manhattan in a case involving Hush Money paid to pawn star Stormy Daniels

[00:01:36] with the US election looming in less than 7 months as he seeks a return to the White

[00:01:40] House.

[00:01:41] Trump has three other criminal cases that are bogged down by legal wrangling and

[00:01:44] may not occur before the election in which he is a Republican candidate challenging

[00:01:49] Democratic President Joe Biden.

[00:01:51] Two of the other cases concern his attempts to overturn his 2020 election defeat and one

[00:01:55] involves his retention of classified documents after leaving office in 2021.

[00:02:00] He is accused of falsifying records to cover up a $130,000 payment he arranged to be made

[00:02:06] by his then lawyer and fixer Michael Cohen to Daniels in the waning days of the 2016

[00:02:11] presidential campaign to buy her silence about a 2006 sexual encounter she has

[00:02:16] said she had had with him at a Lake Tahoe hotel.

[00:02:19] Trump has denied any such relationship, a conviction would not prevent Trump from running for or

[00:02:23] taking office.

[00:02:24] A delhi court on Monday extended till April 23rd judicial custody of Chief Minister

[00:02:31] Adwin Kejriwal in a money-launching case linked to the alleged excise scam.

[00:02:35] The enforcement directorate sought extension of Kejriwal's custody by 14 days saying

[00:02:39] the investigation was at a crucial stage.

[00:02:42] The judge extended custody noting that the judicial custody of some of the co-accused persons

[00:02:46] in the case including BR's leader Keca Vida is ending on that date.

[00:02:51] The court had on April 1st sent Kejriwal to judicial custody till April 15th in the case.

[00:02:55] The enforcement directorate has accused the Ahmadmi Party leader of being involved

[00:02:59] in the entire conspiracy of delhi liquor scam in drafting and implementation of the

[00:03:03] policy for favoring and benefiting from the quid pro, receiving kickbacks and eventually

[00:03:08] using part of proceeds of crime generated out of the scheduled offense in the campaign for

[00:03:12] Goa assembly elections.

[00:03:16] US President Joe Biden warned Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu the US will not take part

[00:03:21] in a counter-defensive against Iran and option Netanyahu's war cabinet favors after a mass

[00:03:26] drone and missile attack on Israeli territory according to officials.

[00:03:29] The threat of open warfare erupting between the arched Middle East force and dragging

[00:03:33] in the United States put the region on edge, triggering calls to restrain from

[00:03:37] global powers and Arab nations.

[00:03:39] The Middle East is on the brink.

[00:03:41] The people of the region are confronting a real danger of a devastating full-scale conflict.

[00:03:44] Now is the time to diffuse and de-escalate.

[00:03:47] United Nations Secretary General Antonio Guterres told a Security Council meeting called on

[00:03:52] Sunday in response to the strikes.

[00:03:54] Biden told Netanyahu the US would not participate in any Israeli counter-defensive against Iran

[00:03:58] over the attack, a White House official said.

[00:04:01] Iran launched the attack over an Israeli strike on its embassy compound in Syria

[00:04:05] on April 1 that killed top revolutionary guards commanders and followed months of clashes between

[00:04:10] Israel and Iran's regional allies triggered by the war in Gaza.

[00:04:13] However, the attack by more than 300 missiles and drones caused only modest damage in

[00:04:18] Israel.

[00:04:19] Most were shot down by Israel's iron dome defense system and with help from the

[00:04:23] US, Britain, France and Jordan.

[00:04:27] The Indian meteorological department said on Monday India is likely to receive

[00:04:31] above average monsoon rainfall in 2024 in a potential boost for the country which depends

[00:04:35] heavily on the summer rains for its farm output.

[00:04:38] The lifeblood of India's economy delivers nearly 70% of the rain needed to water crops

[00:04:43] and re-charge reservoirs and aquifers with nearly half of its farmland without any

[00:04:47] irrigation depending on the June-September rains to grow a number of crops.

[00:04:52] The monsoon which usually arrives over the southern tip of Kerala around June

[00:04:55] 1st and Dittries in mid-September is expected to total 106% of the long-term

[00:05:00] average this year, said M. Revachandran, Secretary in the Ministry of Earth Sciences.

[00:05:04] India badly needs good monsoon rains as below normal rainfall in 2023 depleted

[00:05:09] reservoir levels and hit food production.

[00:05:12] The government responded by imposing curbs and exports of sugar, rice, onions and wheat.

[00:05:17] Resuming exports depend on how quickly protection recovers in 2024 which is not

[00:05:21] possible without good monsoon rainfall.

[00:05:23] IMD Chief Mritin Jay Mohapatra said El Nino was weakening and it would enter a

[00:05:28] neutral stage by the time the monsoon sets in.

[00:05:30] La Nina, which increases rainfall in India would then set in by August, he added.

[00:05:37] A day after the BJP released its election manifesto with a slew of promises,

[00:05:40] Prime Minister Narendra Modi said on Monday that what was witnessed in the

[00:05:43] last decade of NDA rule was merely a trailer, asserting more was yet to

[00:05:48] be done for Kerala and the nation's progress and solicited the support

[00:05:51] of the southern state for the BJP-led alliance in the Lok Sabha polls.

[00:05:55] Addressing an election meeting organised by the NDA at Kundam Kulamin Trishur,

[00:05:58] Modi also attacked Rahul Gandhi who was presently in Kerala to campaign for the

[00:06:02] Lok Sabha polls, accusing the Congress leader of being unable to protect his

[00:06:06] family's seat in Uttar Pradesh and being silent on the Kharivnur Bank's scam.

[00:06:10] He said it would be a year of progress in Kerala and referred to the various

[00:06:13] promises and development programs mentioned in the BJP's manifesto called

[00:06:17] Modi Ki Guarantee that was released on Sunday.

[00:06:20] He also criticized the Congress over the support offered to it by the

[00:06:23] Social Democratic Party of India, the political arm of the banned popular

[00:06:26] friend of India for the Lok Sabha elections.

[00:06:29] Modi claimed that it was he who initiated an enforcement directorate probe

[00:06:32] into the Kharivnur Bank's scam and now he was taking legal advice on how

[00:06:36] the money of the depositors could be returned from the amount seized by

[00:06:39] the agencies.

[00:06:40] Meanwhile, Congress leader Rahul Gandhi launched the second phase of his

[00:06:43] Lok Sabha poll campaign by attacking the BJP analysis, saying India did not

[00:06:47] get the freedom from the British only to be colonised by the ideology of the

[00:06:51] Sankh Parivar.

[00:06:52] He said the BJP and Prime Minister Modi see only one nation, one language

[00:06:56] and one leader and this is a fundamental misunderstanding of our country.

[00:07:00] While addressing party workers and voters in Mayanad, the MP also

[00:07:03] exuded confidence that the grand old party would come back to power

[00:07:06] both in the state and at the centre.

[00:07:10] That brings us to the end of this episode.

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