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The Catch Up: 16 February

The Catch Up: 16 February

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The Catch Up: 16 February

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Feb 16, 2024
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This is the Catch Up on 3 Things for the Indian Express and I'm Flora Swain.It’s the 16th of February and here are the top stories of the week.A five-judge bench of the Supreme Court gave its verdict on the legality of the electoral bonds scheme on Thursday, holding it “unconstitutional”. Prioritising voters’ right to information regarding political parties’ sources of funding, the Supreme Court struck down the EBS. Introduced by the Centre in 2018, EBS allowed individuals and corporations to anonymously fund political parties by purchasing electoral bonds from the State Bank of India.The Dilli Chalo march of the protesting farmers of Punjab and Haryana has been making headlines this week. While chaos ensued during the march on Wednesday, security personnel fired tear gas shells to disperse the crowds. Delhi’s borders were further fortified, with security personnel deployed in large numbers and barricades laid out across all possible entry points. Farmers staged ‘rail roko’ at several locations across Punjab on Thursday.Prime Minister Narendra Modi attended the World Governments Summit, inaugurated Bochasanwasi Akshar Purushottam Swaminarayan temple,UAE’s first Hindu stone temple and addressed a diaspora event on a two-day UAE trip this week. Post that, he visited Doha where he was accorded a ceremonial welcome and also held a bilateral meeting with Emir of Qatar Sheikh Tamin bin Hamad Al Thani on Thursday.Prior to the PM's visit, Qatar freed 8 ex-Indian Navy men jailed on espionage charges. Three months after they were sentenced to death, seven out of the eight former Indian Navy personnel were released from Qatar’s custody and brought back to India. While seven sailors returned to India early Monday morning, Commander Purnendu Tiwari, whose death sentence was commuted but still received the harshest punishment of a 25-year life term, hasn’t returned yet. He, too, is expected to be back in India soon.With the deadline to submit nomination papers for the February 27 Rajya Sabha elections over on Thursday, the BJP and Congress released their official list of candidates for the polls. Among the 28 names announced by the saffron party – the same as the number of seats held by it currently – 24 are new, with only four repeated. The Congress’s current strength in the Upper House is 30, which will remain the same after the February 27 elections, with the party hoping to win 10 seats amid an equal number of its retiring MPs.This was the Catch-Up on the 3 Things by The Indian Express.
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