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🔍‘UFO’ spotted over Imphal airport: A brief history of the term, and the unending curiosity around it

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Modi skips BRICS-Plus meet on Israel-Hamas. Jaishankar attends, says ‘no compromise on terrorism’

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👉China keen to extend Myanmar economic corridor to Sri Lanka ✅

⚡️Central Idea - In a significant move towards expanding the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) in South Asia, China has expressed its commitment to prioritize the extension of the China-Myanmar Economic Corridor (CMEC) to Sri Lanka. ✅

⚡️About CMEC:

🌊CMEC, one of the six land corridors under BRI, gains prominence, replacing the stalled Bangladesh China India Myanmar (BCIM) corridor.✅

🌊India and Bhutan are the only countries in South Asia that have stayed out of the BRI. ✅

🌊Sri Lanka, actively participating in the BRI, sees the extension as part of the second phase, expecting a more substantial economic impact. ✅

🌊China has been supportive of Sri Lanka’s debt restructuring program amid ongoing discussions with official creditors for economic recovery. ✅

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November 21, 1962: Why China called ceasefire in a war it was winning against India 🔗
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🔍What is tantalum, the rare metal found in Sutlej?

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🔍Have we lost the fight against climate change

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SC begins hearing on pleas against parties offering freebies during elections

THE HINDU BUREAU NEW DELHI

🌟The Supreme Court on Wednesday began hearing petitions seeking a judicial declaration that irrational freebies offered by political parties to lure voters during election time should be considered a “corrupt practice”.

🌟In October, a Bench headed by Chief Justice of India D.Y. Chandrachud had sought responses from the States of Madhya Pradesh and Rajasthan on a plea that public funds are being misused to offer outlandish freebies ahead of Assembly elections.

🌟The court has made its anxiety plain about parties which form the government riding a wave created by their pre-election promises of “free gifts”, bleeding the State finances dry by actually trying to fulfil their “wild” promises of largesse using public money.

🌟The amicus curiae, senior advocate Vijay Hansaria, submitted that the court has to decide whether “giving freebies would be a corrupt practice under Section 123 of the Representation of the People Act, 1951 and become a ground for moving court in an election petition”.

🌟Senior advocate Arvind Datar, for petitioners, said parties have been linking freebies to the Directive Principles of State Policy in the Constitution, which obliges the State to aim for certain ideals in social order and governance.

🌟He also submitted that the court should also consider an argument raised by parties that freebies ought to be considered “expenditure defrayable by the Union or a State out of its revenues” under Article 282 of the Constitution.

‘Welfare cause’

🌟Advocate Prashant Bhushan said illegitimate or discriminatory freebies were not the same as legitimate freebies given to the public for a “welfare cause”. “Doing away with the debts of wilful defaulters is an illegitimate freebie. Giving benefits to a particular religious community would classify as a discriminatory freebie,” he explained.

🌟The hearing signified a shifting of stand by the court from its 2013 judgment in the S. Subramaniam Balaji versus Tamil Nadu case. In this judgment, a Division Bench of the Supreme Court had held that making promises in election manifestos do not amount to a ‘corrupt practice’ under Section 123 of the Representation of People Act.