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[00:00:00] Hello, this is your Daily Dose of News from Onmanorama.
[00:00:15] I am your host Meenu and these are the major news stories of Menestay March 20th, 2024.
[00:00:24] India's largest food delivery firm Samato, dishplans for green uniforms for a new vegetarian
[00:00:29] only service, citing concerns that the country's worst vegetarian population might then shine
[00:00:35] its regular service.
[00:00:39] The nomination process for 102 parliamentary constituencies spread across 21 states and union
[00:00:45] territories where polling would be held in the first phase of Locks of Elections on
[00:00:50] April 19th began on Menestay with the issuance of a notification.
[00:00:57] The Election Commission declared that the media personnel covering polling day activities
[00:01:01] with authorized session letters from the poll body as well as those employed in essential
[00:01:06] services like metros, railways and health care are eligible to vote via postal ballots
[00:01:12] in the Locks of Bar and four state assembly elections.
[00:01:18] The Supreme Court casted the enforcement directory to our filing of supplementary charge sheets
[00:01:22] to deny default, bail for an accused and to keep such persons in jail for an indefinite
[00:01:29] period.
[00:01:32] The parents of an Indian student studying in the US have received a ransom call demanding
[00:01:36] nearly a lakh rupees after their son who went missing.
[00:01:41] Let's get into the details.
[00:01:46] India's largest food delivery firm Samato and Menestay dishplans for green uniforms for
[00:01:50] a new vegetarian early service citing concerns that the country's worst vegetarian population
[00:01:56] might then shine its regular service.
[00:01:58] The decision was taken less than 24 hours after Samato's CEO, debing the goal announced
[00:02:04] a green-colored pure wish fleet different from its normal red to bring orders from vegetarian
[00:02:10] early restaurants.
[00:02:11] Samatos moved to launch a vegetarian only delivery fleet through criticism including
[00:02:16] from politicians or next with the users saying it is discriminatory and promoted caste
[00:02:21] divides.
[00:02:22] Meanwhile, supporters praised it saying it would help them easily locate vegetarian early
[00:02:27] restaurants in the Samato app and avoid any possibility of food getting mixed up.
[00:02:33] More than one third of India's 1.4 billion people are estimated to be vegetarian as they
[00:02:38] followed diets promoted by groups within Hinduism and other religions.
[00:02:46] The nomination process of 102 parliamentary constituencies spread across 21 states and
[00:02:52] union territories where polling would be held in the first phase of locks by elections
[00:02:56] on April 19 began on Wednesday with the issuance of in-notification.
[00:03:02] According to the notification issued by the election commission on behalf of the president,
[00:03:06] the last date for filing nomination purpose is March 27.
[00:03:10] However, due to a festival, March 28th is the last date for filing nomination for locks
[00:03:16] by seats in Bihar going to polls in the first phase.
[00:03:20] Voting in 4 out of 40 seats in Bihar will be held in the first phase.
[00:03:25] Nomination purpose will be scrutinized on March 28th.
[00:03:29] For Bihar it would be done on March 30th.
[00:03:32] The last date for withdrawal of candidature is March 22nd while for Bihar it is April
[00:03:37] 2nd.
[00:03:38] The elections for the 18th locks above will begin on April 19th followed by subsequent
[00:03:43] faces on April 26th, May 7th, May 13th, May 25th and June 1st.
[00:03:50] The counting of votes is on June 4th.
[00:03:56] Media personal covering polling activities with authorised session letters from the election
[00:04:00] commission as well as those employed in essential services like metros, railways and health
[00:04:05] curve are eligible to vote via postal ballots in the Luxubar and four state assembly elections.
[00:04:12] The election commission has disseminated a notification to all state chief electoral officers
[00:04:16] outlining the categories of absentee voters on essential service who have been designated
[00:04:22] for postal ballot voting while journalists on poll take coverage and those involved in
[00:04:27] essential services harping using poll ballots during assembly elections.
[00:04:31] The facility has been extended for locks above polls.
[00:04:37] The Supreme Court kissed in the enforcement directory to overfiling of supplementary
[00:04:41] charge sheets to deny default bail for an accused and keeps its persons in jail for
[00:04:46] an indefinite period.
[00:04:48] A bench of justice sent Chief Khanna and justig de Bangadatta told the central agency
[00:04:52] the strategies effectively keeping the accused in jail without a trial troubled the top
[00:04:57] court.
[00:04:58] Under current laws and arrested individual is eligible for default bail if the authorities
[00:05:03] are unable to complete the investigation or file a final charge sheet within timelines
[00:05:08] set by the CFPC or Court of Criminal Procedure.
[00:05:13] This time period is either 60 or 90 days depending on case circumstances.
[00:05:20] The parents of an Indian student studying in the US have received a ransom call demanding
[00:05:26] nearly a lakh rupees after their son went missing.
[00:05:29] As Indity reported, the unidentified caller informed the parents that their son had been
[00:05:34] kidnapped and also threatened to sell his kidney.
[00:05:38] Abdul Mahamad, a 25-year-old from Hyderabad, left home last May to pursue a master's degree
[00:05:43] in information technology at Clevel & University Ocho.
[00:05:48] His family claims he has not spoken to them since March 7th.
[00:05:53] Mohamad Selin, Abdul's father received a call last week from an unknown number informing
[00:05:58] him that his son had been kidnapped by drug sellers in Clevel & the unidentified caller
[00:06:04] then demanded $1200 to release him but did not specify the mode of payment.
[00:06:13] That brings us to the end of this episode.
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