PM Modi to visit Puducherry in July
The Hindu
He will inaugurate national flag flying atop 100-ft-pole
Prime Minister Narendra Modi will visit Puducherry in July to inaugurate the national flag which will be flying atop 100-ft-tall pole near the Gandhi Statue on Beach Road, Minister for Public Works K. Lakshminarayanan said on Monday.
Addressing a press conference along with Speaker R. Selvam, he said the Centre had planned to install 100-foot-tall flag poles across the country as part of the celebrations to mark 75 th Independence of India. The Centre had planned to install such flag poles in 75 places in the country, he said.
“The first such flag will come up in the Union Territory. The Prime Minister will inaugurate it in July. Construction work is fast progressing,” he said.
The Minister said Chakra Vision India Foundation would construct the structure around the flag on the Beach Road free of cost. It would have a wall with names of around 100 freedom fighters. The main aim of erecting such flags across the country was to inculcate a feeling of nationalism and familiarise freedom fighters of the country. The wall would have the names of freedom fighters from all the States and Union Territories, he added.
“We are judges and therefore, cannot act like Mughals of a bygone era ... the writ courts in the guise of doing justice cannot transcend the barriers of law,” the High Court of Karnataka observed while setting aside an order of a single judge, who in 2016 had extended the lease of a public premises allotted to a physically challenged person to 20 years contrary to 12-year period stipulated in the law.
The High Court of Karnataka on Monday declined to interfere, at present, in the investigation against a Bharatiya Janata Party worker, who is among the accused persons facing charges of circulating obscene clips, related to “morphed” images and videos clips related to Prajwal Revanna, former Hassan MP, in public domain through pen drives and other modes.