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[00:00:11] Hello, this is your Daily Dose of News from Onmanorama. I am your host Vishnu and these are the major news stories of Tuesday, June 25th, 2024. The Delhi High Court stated the trial court order granting bail to Chief Minister Arvind
[00:00:26] Kejriwal in the money-laundering case stemming from the alleged excise scam. Meanwhile, the Ahmadmi Party said it would move the Supreme Court against the order. WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange is due to plead guilty on Wednesday to violating U.S. espionage
[00:00:42] law in a deal that will end his imprisonment in Britain and allow him to return home to Australia ending a 14-year legal odc. BJP's Om Berla will fight it out with Kudukun al-Suresh of the Congress for the Lok Sabha Speaker's post after efforts to reach a
[00:00:57] consensus between the government and the opposition failed on Tuesday. The voting will take place on Wednesday. Israeli forces killed at least 24 Palestinians in three separate airstrikes early on Tuesday on Gaza City and the dead included a sister of Ismael Haniye, the chief of the militant
[00:01:15] Islamist Hamas group, according to Gaza health officials and medics. KLA urged the centre to provide the overdue grant of over Rs 600 crore and to sanction the first instalment of the current financial year for the operations of the National Health Mission in the state. Let's get into the details.
[00:01:36] The Delhi High Court on Tuesday stated the trial court order granting bail to Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal in the money-laundering case stemming from the alleged excise scam. A vacation bench of Justice Sudhir Kumar Jain said the trial court failed to appreciate
[00:01:48] the material placed before it by the enforcement directorate and did not apply its mind while deciding the Ahmadmi party leader's bail plea. The judge also said the trial court ought to have given adequate opportunity to the agency to argue its case.
[00:02:01] The trial court had granted bail to Kejriwal on June 20th and ordered his release on a personal bond of Rs 1 lakh. ED moved the High Court the next day and contended that the trial court's order was perverse, one-sided and wrong-sided and that the findings were based on irrelevant
[00:02:16] facts. The excise policy was scrapped in 2022 after the Delhi-Leftonian governor ordered a CBI probe into alleged irregularities and corruption involving his formulation and execution. According to the CBI and the ED, irregularities were committed while modifying the excise policy and undue favours extended to the license holders.
[00:02:34] Meanwhile, the Ahmadmi party said it disagrees with the Delhi High Court order staying the bail granted to Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal by the trial court and would challenge it in the Supreme Court. WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange is due to plead guilty on menace to violating US
[00:02:51] espionage law in a deal that will set him free after a 14-year British legal odyssey and allow his return home to Australia. Assange has agreed to plead guilty to a single criminal count of conspiring to obtain and disclose classified US National Defence documents, according to filings in
[00:03:06] the US District Court for the Northern Mariana Islands. The deal marks the end of a legal saga that has seen Assange spend more than five years in a British high-security jail and seven holed up in the Ecuadorian Embassy in
[00:03:17] London as he fought accusations of sex crimes in Sweden and battled extradition to the US where he faced 18 criminal charges. He is due to be sentenced to 62 months of time already served at a hearing in Saipan.
[00:03:30] The island in the Pacific was chosen due to Assange's opposition to travelling to the mainland US and for its proximity to Australia, prosecutors said. WikiLeaks in 2010 released hundreds of thousands of classified US military documents on Washington's wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, the largest security breaches of their
[00:03:46] kind in US military history along with swathes of diplomatic cables. Assange was indicted during former President Donald Trump's administration over WikiLeaks' mass release of sacred US documents, which were leaked by Chelsea Manning, a former US military intelligence analyst who was also prosecuted under the Espionage Act.
[00:04:05] The ruling BJP-led NDA on Tuesday maintained its streak of continuity in its third term by fielding previous Lok Sabha speaker Rumbir La for the crucial parliamentary position again, but its bid for a consensus was thwarted by the opposition which forced
[00:04:17] an election by nominating Kodi Kunal Suresh as its candidate. The opposition's last-minute decision to go for a rare contest came after senior BJP leaders did not agree to its precondition that the India Bloc must be offered the
[00:04:29] post of deputy speaker in lieu of supporting Birla, who is the clear favourite in case of an election. With the NDA having 293 MPs in its kitty and the India Bloc 233, numbers clearly Birla in Lok Sabha, which currently has 542 members of the Dalhul Gandhi, resigned from
[00:04:45] one of the two seats he was elected from. At least three independent members also support the opposition. Israeli forces killed at least 24 Palestinians in three separate airstrikes early on Tuesday on Gaza City and the dead included a sister of Ismael Haniye, the chief of the militant
[00:05:01] Islamist Hamas group, Gaza Health officials and medics said. Israeli tanks also pressed deeper into western areas of Rafah in the south of the enclave overnight, blowing up homes, residents said. Two of the Israeli airstrikes hit two schools in Gaza City, killing at least 14 people, medics said.
[00:05:18] Another strike on a house in the beach camp, one of the Gaza Strip's eight historic refugee camps, killed 10 others. Israel's military said its forces had targeted militants overnight in Gaza City who had been involved in the planning of attacks on Israel.
[00:05:31] Hamas denies using civilian facilities such as schools and hospitals for military purposes. The group described the attacks on the two schools and the house in Shatty camp as massacres. Kerala on Tuesday urged the center to provide the overdue grant of over Rs 600 crore and
[00:05:48] to sanction the first installment of the current financial year for the operations of the National Health Mission in the state. The office of the state health minister Veena George said that she has written to Union Health Minister Jagat Prakash Nanda regarding this matter.
[00:06:01] The state government informed the center that due to the nonallocation of central funds to Kerala, many areas of the health sector are facing difficulties. This has affected various sectors like emergency ambulance services, biomedical equipment, salaries of NHS staff, incentives for Russia workers, palliative care, dialysis etc.
[00:06:17] are the really said. Currently these services are operating with funds from the state government. That brings us to the end of this episode. Thanks for listening to Daily News Toys, hosted and produced by M.A. Vishnu Murlidhan with technical support from Idaibu Studios.
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