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SC Begins Live Streaming Itโ€™s Orders On Freebies

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New Delhi: In a historic first, the Supreme Court has on Friday begun live streaming of its order on political freebies.

The live streaming also marks outgoing Chief Justice of India (CJI) NV Ramanaโ€™s last day. The CJI retires today after a tenure of one year and four months.

Reportedly, the apex court hearings โ€“ and judgments โ€“ on some 20 cases will be streamed for the first time.
As per a top court notice, the proceedings of the Chief Justiceโ€™s court, or the Ceremonial Bench, is live streamed through the NIC (National Informatics Centre) webcast portal.

The most important order is on a petition seeking the deregistration of political parties who offer freebies before elections.

Justice Ramana, born in an agrarian family on August 27, 1957, in Andhra Pradesh had enrolled as an advocate on February 10, 1983.

He became a permanent judge of the Andhra Pradesh High Court on June 27, 2000.

He later served as the acting Chief Justice of the Andhra Pradesh High Court.

In 2013 he was elevated as the Chief Justice of the Delhi High Court and in 2014 he became a judge in the Supreme Court.

 

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Nairobi | An Ethiopian Airlines passenger jet scheduled to reach Nairobi crashes, and killed all the 149 passengers and 8 in-flight crew with no survivors on Sunday.

The flight left Bole airport in Addis Ababa at 8.38 am local time, before losing contact with the control tower just a few minutes later at 8.44 am.

A Reuters report quotes, โ€œThere are no survivors onboard the flight, which carried passengers from 33 countries,โ€ said state-run Ethiopian Broadcasting Corporation, quoting an unidentified source at the airlineโ€.

โ€œThe flight left Bole airport in Addis Ababa at 8.38 am local time, before losing contact with the control tower just a few minutes later at 8.44 amโ€, as released by Ethiopian Airlines.

Soon after the crash, an official statement was released by the Prime Minister of Ethiopia confirming the crash.

โ€œThe Office of the PM, on behalf of the Government and people of Ethiopia, would like to express its deepest condolences to the families of those that have lost their loved ones on Ethiopian Airlines Boeing 737 on regular scheduled flight to Nairobi, Kenya this morning,โ€ the office of Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed said on Twitter.


Search and rescue operations are underway, with more information coming in soon.

 

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