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[00:00:14] I am your host Meenu and these are the major news stories of Wednesday, May 22, 2024.
[00:00:23] Congress leader Rahul Gandhi slammed Prime Minister Narendra Modi for shielding Gowdham
[00:00:28] Adani after an international business newspaper alleged the billionaire businessman of selling
[00:00:34] lock-rate coal to Indian PSU, passing it off as cleaner fuel.
[00:00:41] The Supreme Court pulled up former Jahan Chief Minister Hemansuran for surpassing facts regarding
[00:00:47] the filing of a regular bail plea in the trial court in a money-launchering case.
[00:00:52] This prompted the JMM leader to withdraw his petition challenging arrest by the Enforcement
[00:00:57] Directorate.
[00:01:02] The Election Commission asked BJP and Congress to desist from campaigning along caste,
[00:01:07] community, language and religious lines, asserting that India's socio-cultural milieu
[00:01:11] cannot be made a casualty to elections.
[00:01:18] A 17-year-old boy who allegedly crashed his Porsche car into a motorbike, killing
[00:01:23] two persons in Pune, was granted bail on a surety of Rs 7,500 and an assurance
[00:01:30] from his grandfather to keep him away from bad company.
[00:01:37] Inland fish farmers along the Periyar River in Kuching in Kerala launched a protest
[00:01:41] against the pollution control board a day after they suffered huge losses due to
[00:01:46] a massive fish kill.
[00:01:48] Let's get into the details.
[00:01:53] Congress leader Rahul Gandhi slammed Prime Minister Narendra Modi for shielding Gautam
[00:01:57] Adani after an international business newspaper alleged the billionaire businessman of selling
[00:02:02] log-rate coal to Indian PSU, passing it off as cleaner fuel.
[00:02:07] Courting the report published by the Financial Times, Gandhi said that a Congress-led government
[00:02:13] would investigate the scam.
[00:02:15] The report said the documents that revealed the scam were secured by the Organized Crime
[00:02:19] and Corruption Reporting Project.
[00:02:22] Invoices showed that in January 2014, Adani purchased an Indonesian shipment of
[00:02:28] coal said to contain 3,500 calories per kilogram.
[00:02:33] The same shipment was sold to the Tamil Nadu Generation and Distribution Company
[00:02:37] as a superior 6,000-calorie coal, the report said.
[00:02:42] Adani appears to have more than doubled its money in the process, the report added.
[00:02:50] The Supreme Court on Wednesday pulled up former Jharkhand Chief Minister Hemant
[00:02:53] Soren for surpassing facts regarding the filing of a regular bail plea in the trial
[00:02:58] court in a money-laundering case, prompting the JMM leader to withdraw his petition challenging
[00:03:04] arrest by the Enforcement Directory.
[00:03:07] A vacation bench of justices Deepak Dutta and Sadiq Chandrasharma allowed Soren's
[00:03:12] counsel Kapil Sipal to withdraw his plea after warning that if the court goes into
[00:03:17] the details of the case, it will be damaging for the former Chief Minister.
[00:03:24] Nearly a month after it issued notices to BJP President J P Nanda on opposition
[00:03:30] charge that Prime Minister Narendra Modi gave a divisive speech in Rajasthan's
[00:03:34] Baswada, the Election Commission on Wednesday asked the BJP and the Congress to desist
[00:03:40] from campaigning along caste, community, language and religious lines, asserting that
[00:03:46] India's socio-cultural milieu cannot be made a casualty to elections.
[00:03:51] The poll panel rejected Nanda's defence and asked him that his party start campaigners
[00:03:57] to desist from campaigning on religious and communal lines.
[00:04:00] It also asked the BJP to stop campaign speeches that may divide society.
[00:04:05] However, it refused to name Modi or Home Minister Amit Shah.
[00:04:09] Along with Nanda, the EC had issued a similar notice to Congress President Mallikar
[00:04:14] Jankar Ghe asking him to respond to the complaints filed by the BJP against him
[00:04:19] and Rahul Gandhi regarding their remarks.
[00:04:24] A 17-year-old boy who allegedly crashed his high-end car into a motorbike killing
[00:04:29] two persons in Pune was granted bail on a surety of Rs 7,500 and an assurance from
[00:04:36] his grandfather to keep him away from bad company.
[00:04:39] The Porsche car allegedly driven by the 17-year-old, who the police claim was
[00:04:44] drunk at the time, fatally knocked down two motorbike porn software engineers at
[00:04:49] Kalyaninagar in Maharashtra's Pune city in the early hours of Sunday.
[00:04:54] The teenager, son of a real estate developer, was subsequently produced before
[00:04:58] the juvenile justice board which granted him bail hours later.
[00:05:03] A session scored on Wednesday demanded the father of a 17-year-old
[00:05:06] juvenile and two employees of a pub in police custody till May 24.
[00:05:14] Inland fish farmers along the Periyar River in Kerala, supported by political
[00:05:18] parties, launched a protest against the pollution control board on Wednesday,
[00:05:23] a day after they suffered huge losses due to a massive fish kill.
[00:05:27] The PCB of FIZZ ALO witnessed tense moments after the protesters,
[00:05:32] including activists of the Congress and CPI's Youth Wing All India Youth
[00:05:36] Federation, came face to face with the police.
[00:05:39] The protesters also prevented the chief engineer from entering his office
[00:05:43] before letting him go.
[00:05:45] The protesters threw stale fish on the office premises and protest.
[00:05:50] On Tuesday morning, tons of dead fish were found floating in the Periyar
[00:05:54] as well as caged farms in Erdayal, Elur, Varapuzha, Kodat, Kadamakudi,
[00:06:00] Cher Nellore and Kottoli.
[00:06:02] Fish farmers alleged that pollutants released by industries along the banks
[00:06:06] of the river caused a tragedy.