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[00:00:09] Hello, this is your Daily Dose of News from Onmanorama. I'm your host, Kannan, and these are the major news stories of Tuesday, December 17, 2024.
[00:00:21] Amid vociferous protests by opposition parties, the Lok Sabha on Tuesday conducted a division vote to introduce two bills aimed at amending the Constitution to enable simultaneous federal and state elections, a cornerstone of the ruling BJP's One Nation, One Election initiative.
[00:00:40] The bills were passed by a simple majority, with 269 MPs voting in favour and 198 opposing them.
[00:00:50] The ONOE bill seeks to synchronize Lok Sabha and state assembly elections by aligning their tenures. After the division vote, the bill were referred to a joint parliamentary committee.
[00:01:04] The JPC will be formed on a pro-rata basis, reflecting each party's strength in the Lok Sabha. As the largest party, the BJP is likely to secure the chairmanship and multiple seats on the committee.
[00:01:20] Schools in Delhi and National Capital Region, NCR, switch to a hybrid mode of conducting classes following the re-imposition of anti-pollution measures under the Stage 4 of the Graded Response Action Plan, or DRAP.
[00:01:38] According to the revised DRAP schedule, classes for students in grades 6 to 9 and 11 in Delhi, Gurugram, Faridabad, Ghaziabad and Godambut Nagar must operate in hybrid mode, i.e. physical and online, under Stage 4.
[00:01:57] However, students of Class 10 and 12 have to attend school in person.
[00:02:02] The air quality in the National Capital Region was in severe category on Tuesday morning with an AQI of 427.
[00:02:12] The Stage 4 restrictions were imposed shortly after the Commission for Air Quality Management implemented measures under Stage 3 earlier in the day, when Delhi's AQI breached the 350 threshold.
[00:02:29] Canadian Finance Minister Christy Freeland quit on Monday after clashing with Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on issues including how to handle the possible UF tariffs, dealing an unexpected blow to an already unpopular government.
[00:02:44] Freeland said she was quitting in the wake of a meeting last Friday with Trudeau, who asked her to take on a lesser post after two had been arguing for weeks over spending.
[00:02:55] The resignation of Freeland, who also served as a Deputy Prime Minister, is one of the biggest crises Trudeau had faced since taking power in November 2015.
[00:03:07] It also leaves him without a key ally when he is on track to lose the next election to the official opposition Conservatives.
[00:03:17] Weighed down by Reliance Industries, Infosys and HDFC Bank, Indian benchmark indices Sensex and Nifty 50 fell sharply for the second straight day on Tuesday as investors stayed cautious ahead of the US Fed's December 18 meeting for rate cut signals.
[00:03:35] Sensex fell over 1000 points to end the day at 80,684.45 points, while broad-based NSE Nifty 50 fell by 1.35% or 332 points to 24,336.
[00:03:53] The market capitalization of all BSA listed companies fell by 2.35 lakh crore to 257.73 lakh crore.
[00:04:05] HDFC Bank, the heaviest stock on Nifty 50, dropped by over 1% to 1,829.90 after it received a warning letter from the markets regulator alleging its disclosures
[00:04:19] regarding the resignation of a senior employee were non-compliant with certain provisions.
[00:04:27] In a major development in Malangara Orthodox Jacobite Church dispute,
[00:04:32] the Supreme Court on Tuesday ordered the maintenance of the status quo with respect to the management and administration of the churches as they exist today.
[00:04:41] The churches have been asked to follow this order till the next hearing date in this case.
[00:04:47] At the same time, the Apex Court added that the state can intervene in case of any untoward incident.
[00:04:54] A bunch of Justice Sudikant and Justice Ujjal Bhuyan adjourned the hearing and posted the matter for a detailed hearing on January 20 and 30, 2025.
[00:05:06] The SEA asked the Kerala government to furnish details regarding the population of Orthodox and Jacobite groups in the sub-region Ograma Panjait.
[00:05:16] That brings us to the end of this episode.
[00:05:18] Thanks for listening to Daily News Dios, hosted by me, Kannan, and produced by Vishnu Murilitharan.
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