Speaker 1: This is the catch upon three things by the Inn
Speaker 1: Express and I'm i Chasharma. Today is the twentieth of August,
Speaker 1: and here today's headlines, starting with major news. The Center
Speaker 1: today told the Supreme Court that it is reconsidering the
Speaker 1: controversial University Grants Commission regulations aimed at preventing KRS discrimination
Speaker 1: in higher education institutions. The rules that have put the
Speaker 1: government in a politically difficult position by drawing objections from
Speaker 1: both upper cass groups and sections of Dullethan OBC communities.
Speaker 1: Solicitor General Tushar Mahka told a three judge bench preceded
Speaker 1: over by Chief Justice of India Surikan that the regulations
Speaker 1: are being reconsidered. The bench was hearing a clutch of
Speaker 1: petitions that primarily challenged the definition of cars based discrimination
Speaker 1: in the UGC Promotion of Equity in Higher Education Institutions
Speaker 1: Regulars of twenty twenty six, notified on thirteenth of January.
Speaker 1: The regulation sought to strengthen institutional mechanisms to address discrimination
Speaker 1: on campuses, including through equity committees. Meanwhile, last month, the
Speaker 1: Junta Manda protests demanding a leak proof exam system ended
Speaker 1: with the medher Udhan resigning as the Union Education Minister,
Speaker 1: and an assurance by the Center and States that the
Speaker 1: police will not pursue any case against the protesters. In
Speaker 1: sharp contrast, back in April, factory workers in Noida got
Speaker 1: no such assurance despite a week long protest to demand
Speaker 1: higher wages instead of police crackdown saw up to two
Speaker 1: hundred people taken into custody, including two booked under the
Speaker 1: stringent National Security Act, which allows detention without trial for
Speaker 1: up to a year. On fourteenth of April, the Uta
Speaker 1: Pradesh government raised the wages, but it took the courts
Speaker 1: to grant relief to most of the jailed esters. The
Speaker 1: Nian Express investigated one hundred and six such arrests with
Speaker 1: substantive allegations ranging from writing and arson to attempt to murder.
Speaker 1: The average period of protesters spent in custody was fifty
Speaker 1: three days. These arrests led to two hundred and twenty
Speaker 1: two bail orders linked to seven fi rs in other
Speaker 1: major Yews. Former Congress Member of Parliament Sadjuhan Kumar, who
Speaker 1: was sentenced to life imprisonment in a murder case linked
Speaker 1: to the nineteen eighty four anti sik violence in Delhi
Speaker 1: has died. The eighty year old Kumar had been suffering
Speaker 1: from multiple ailments. Kumar had been lodged in Tihar Jail
Speaker 1: since twenty eighteen and he was brought to Sudarjyung Hospital
Speaker 1: from the prison today and was declared dead at the hospital.
Speaker 1: The Delhi High Court had sentenced Kumar to life imprisonment
Speaker 1: in twenty eighteen in a case relating to the killing
Speaker 1: of five six at Rajnaggar Part one in Palam Colony
Speaker 1: on first and second of November nineteen eighty one and
Speaker 1: the burning down of a gurdwara in Rajnagar Part two. Meanwhile,
Speaker 1: the Supreme Court today formed a five member inquiry panel
Speaker 1: led by Justice are Subhash Ready to probe the alleged
Speaker 1: excessive and disproportionate use of force by the police and
Speaker 1: other security personnel at Delhi Jhantarmantar and at other locations
Speaker 1: across the country during last month's protests in the wake
Speaker 1: of the neat Yuji question paper league. Besides Justice Ready,
Speaker 1: a former Supreme Court judge, the other members of the
Speaker 1: panel are former Punjab and Haryana High Court Chief Justice
Speaker 1: rab Shankaja, former Delhi High Court Judge Justice Shalain Rakoor,
Speaker 1: formered CBI Director Rishi Kumar Shukla and former Meghalia Director
Speaker 1: General of POLIS L R. Bishnoi. Taking into consideration the
Speaker 1: suggestions given by the petitioners and the respondents, a three
Speaker 1: judge bench of Chief Justice of NGHA Surikant and Justices
Speaker 1: Joimalabakchi and V. Muhanna set out the issues that the
Speaker 1: panel will examine and in the end in newsmaking global headlines,
Speaker 1: the US Citizenship and Immigration Services has issued new guidance
Speaker 1: on how immigration officers will determine whether certain applicants for
Speaker 1: lawful permanent residents are likely to become a public charge,
Speaker 1: as the Trump administration replaces the Biden era framework with
Speaker 1: a broader case by case assessment. The new rule, finalized
Speaker 1: by USCIS, comes into effect on eighteenth of September and
Speaker 1: adheres to congressional intent that foreigners in the United States
Speaker 1: be self sufficient and not dependent on taxpayer funded government benefits.
Speaker 1: The change could effect Indian national supplying for US permanent
Speaker 1: residency through categories subject to the public charge ground of admissibility.
Speaker 1: And with that this was all for today. This was
Speaker 1: the catch upon three things by the Inn Express,