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Here are the daily updates that the internet is talking about through various news websites.
Indie Journal brings you the daily updates that the internet is talking about through various news websites. Here's a glance through some of the National and International news updates, from Israeli air strike on central Beirut, Supreme Court on Delhi air pollution, to Mohammed Azharuddin summoned by ED in money laundering case.
Supreme Court pulls up Centre, Haryana and Punjab over Delhi air pollution: Hindustan Times
Hindustan Times reports that the Supreme Court on Thursday pulled up the state governments of Punjab and Haryana for collecting just nominal compensation from farmers burning paddy stubble, leading to poor air quality in Delhi. The apex court also slammed the Commission for Air Quality Management (CAQM) for its failure to control to control stubble burning around Delhi and said the panel made no effort to implement its direction to prevent such incidents, the report adds. Read the ful report here.
BBC report on six killed in Israeli air strike on central Beirut
At least six people have been killed and eight wounded in an Israeli air strike on a building in central Beirut, Lebanese officials have said. BBC reports that the multi-storey block in Bachoura housed a Hezbollah-affiliated health centre, which Israel's military said was hit in a "precision" attack. This is the first Israeli strike close to Beirut's centre, the report says, just metres away from Lebanon's parliament. There were five other air strikes overnight against targets in the southern suburb of Dahieh. Read the full report here.
Mohammed Azharuddin summoned by ED in money laundering case, Indian Express
The Enforcement Directorate on Thursday summoned cricketer-turned-politician Mohammed Azharuddin in relation to a money laundering case during his tenure as the president of Hyderabad Cricket Association (HCA), Indian Express reports. The Congress leader has sought time to appear in front of the agency, say sources. As part of a Prevention of Money Laundering (PMLA) case, the ED is probing alleged financial irregularities in the HCA, for which it conducted searches in November last year. The PMLA case follows three First Information Reports (FIRs) and chargesheets filed by the Telangana anti-corruption bureau (ACB), the report adds. Read the full report here.
Thousands in US's North Carolina still without water days after Helene, The Straits Times
Tens of thousands of North Carolina residents remained without running water on Wednesday, six days after Hurricane Helene slammed into Florida and carved a destructive path through much of the US South-east, killing more than 160 people. The Straits Times reports that the powerful storm inundated the western part of the state with catastrophic flooding, destroying pipes, damaging water plants and cutting off power. One-fifth of the one million residents in the western half of North Carolina either had no water at all or low system pressure on Oct 2, according to an online state database. Read the full report here.
The Wire on SC ruling: Provisions Related to Caste-Based Discriminatory Practices in Prison Manuals Unconstitutional
The Supreme Court on Thursday declared that impugned provisions relating to caste-based discriminatory practices in prison manuals unconstitutional, The Wire reports, and directed all states and Union Territories to revise the Prison Manual. The Division Bench headed by Chief Justice of India DY Chandrachud and Justices JB Pardiwala and Manoj Misra also ruled that references to habitual offenders in prison manuals were to be declared unconstitutional and in case there is no amended definition of it in the state, the state shall make one. The report adds that the Supreme Court directed all states to make necessary changes. Read the full report here.
