s is the Catch Up on 3 Things for the Indian Express and I'm Flora Swain.
It’s the 15th of July and here are today's headlines.
The Supreme Court has dismissed a plea seeking review of its January 3 verdict by which it refused to transfer the probe into allegations of stock price manipulation by the Adani Group to a special investigation team or the CBI. A bench comprising Chief Justice of India D Y Chandrachud, Justice J B Pardiwala and Justice Manoj Misra dismissed the review plea filed by one of the PIL petitioners, Anamika Jaiswal, against the January 3 verdict. In a significant win for the Adani Group, the top court had declined to order a CBI or SIT probe.
Wholesale inflation in the country rose for the fourth consecutive month in June at 3.36 per cent on account of the rise in prices of food articles, especially vegetables and manufactured items. The wholesale price index based inflation was 2.61 per cent in May. It was (-) 4.18 per cent in June 2023. The Ministry of Commerce & Industry said in a statement that the positive rate of inflation in June 2024 is primarily due to increase in prices of food articles, manufacture of food products, crude petroleum & natural gas, mineral oils, other manufacturing etc.
The Pune police have not been able to get in touch with Manorama Khedkar, mother of controversial probationary IAS officer Puja Khedkar, in connection with a case registered against her over a land dispute, a senior official said on Monday. The police have registered an FIR against Manorama and her husband Dilip Khedkar besides five others, after a video showing her allegedly threatening some persons with a gun over a land dispute emerged. A team with a senior officer of the Pune Rural police have been visiting Manorama’s bungalow at Baner Road in the city but have not been able to track her down, the official said.
In a major development, the Pakistan government has announced its decision to ban the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) party, led by jailed former Prime Minister Imran Khan, citing alleged involvement in anti-state activities. Information Minister Attaullah Tarar made the announcement on Monday, stating that the federal government believes there is substantial evidence to justify the ban. Responding to the ban, the PTI took to social media platform X and urged the government to ‘not shake the foundations of Pakistan’. It also castigated Pakistan’s Chief of Army Staff General Asim Munir and his ‘puppet government’.
Former US President Donald Trump, who narrowly escaped an assassination attempt, recounted the moment when he was shot at, attributing his survival to his decision to glance at a screen displaying a chart during his public rally in Pennsylvania. Trump told the New York Post on his way to the Republican Party convention in Milwaukee, quote, "I'm not supposed to be here, I'm supposed to be dead,” He told the Washington Examiner on Sunday, quote, "That reality is just setting in. I rarely look away from the crowd. Had I not done that at that moment, well, we would not be talking today, would we?"
This was the Catch-Up on the 3 Things by The Indian Express.
