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Supreme Court dismisses plea to clear road blockade caused by farmers’ protest

New Delhi, Dec 9 (PTI) The Supreme Court on Monday dismissed a plea seeking directions to the Centre and other authorities to immediately clear blockades on national and state highways in Punjab where farmers are staging protests. A bench of justices Surya Kant and Manmohan said the matter is already pending before the court and it cannot entertain repetitive petitions on the same issue. “We are already examining the larger issue. You are not the only conscience keeper of society. Don’t file repetitive petitions. Some are filing for publicity interest and some are filing to play to the gallery. We

CCI seeks Supreme Court hearing to expedite Amazon, Flipkart cases

NEW DELHI, Dec 9 (Reuters) – The CCI (Competition Commission of India) has asked the Supreme Court to hear legal challenges to an investigation of Amazon and Walmart’s Flipkart e-commerce platforms, saying those challenges, filed by Samsung, Vivo and others at Indian high courts, were aiming to scuttle the probe. In a filing on Dec. 3, reviewed by Reuters and not released publicly, the Competition Commission of India asked the court to hear 23 challenges, filed by Samsung, Vivo, and several vendors on the Amazon and Flipkart platforms, to enable the case to be decided quickly. Amazon declined to comment,

INDIA bloc MPs protest over Adani issue in Parliament complex

New Delhi, Dec 9 (PTI) Leaders of some INDIA bloc parties on Monday protested inside Parliament complex and raised slogans to demand a joint parliamentary probe into the Adani issue. Leader of Opposition in the Lok Sabha Rahul Gandhi and Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge along with MPs of other opposition parties stood outside the Makar Dwar of Parliament and raised slogans of “Modi, Adani ek hain” and “we want justice”. The Trinamool Congress, Samajwadi Party and Aam Aadmi Party were not part of the protest. The BJP has been alleging that the INDIA bloc is disintegrating. However, Samajwadi Party leader

Dozens of schools in Delhi get bomb threats

NEW DELHI, Dec 9 (Reuters) – At least 40 schools received a bomb threat by email in Delhi on Monday demanding $30,000, ANI news agency said, while police officials conducted initial searches on school premises. Schools, railway stations and airports this year have been subject to hundreds of bomb threats, which have later turned out to be hoaxes. Airlines and airports in India received 999 hoax bomb threats from the start of the year until mid-November, and 12 people had been arrested during the same period, government data shows. Two schools got the threatening email on Sunday night, which said

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