Morning Digest | 27 dead in massive fire near Delhi’s Mundka metro station; SC declines to stay J&K delimitation report, and more
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Supreme Court declines to stay J&K delimitation report
The Supreme Court on Friday directed the Centre to file an affidavit responding to a challenge to the delimitation exercise undertaken in Jammu and Kashmir following the abrogation of Article 370 and bifurcation of the State. However, the court did not accept an oral plea made by petitioners to stay the tabling of the final draft report of the Jammu and Kashmir Delimitation Commission in Parliament.
27 dead in massive fire near Delhi’s Mundka metro station
At least 27 persons were killed and 12 injured when a massive fire broke out in a four-storey commercial building near Mundka metro station in Delhi’s Outer district on Friday evening, the Delhi police said.
Congress plans massive organisational overhaul
A “one family, one ticket” rule, restrictions on successive tenures for office-bearers, 50 under 50 rule to ensure that half of the party posts are given to people under 50 years of age and in-house survey mechanism are among the major organisational changes that the Congress is all set to bring about after the three-day Nav Sankalp chintan shivir that got under way on Friday.
West Bengal’s jute industry barely hanging by a thread