The Catch Up: Uttarakhand landslides, RaGa on EC, and more (19 Sept)

The headlines of the week by The Indian Express

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:03):
This is the Catch upon Three Things by the Indian
Express and I am Ichhasharma. Today is the nineteenth of
September and here are this week's headlines, Starting with major
news this week. At least twelve people went missing on
Thursday after heavy rain buried several houses in Chamboli districts.

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None the Nagar Utra Khant rescue operations were launched as
state and National Disaster response for steams rushed to the
site where roads remain blocked by debris. Tamboli district magistrates
and Deepewari confirmed that ten to twelve homes were destroyed.
The disaster comes just two days after cloudbursts and landslides
killed twenty three people in the Radhun and nearby districts,

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worstening flooding across the state. Officials fear the missing residents
could be trapped under the rubble. Meanwhile, launching a sharp
attack on the Election Commission, Opposition leader Ahul Gandhi on
Thursday alleged mass irregularities and voter lists, accusing officials of
systematically removing millions of names across constituencies. At a press

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briefing in Delhi, he called Chief Election Commissioner Ganesh Kumar
a protector of vote chores and those killing democracy. Gandhi
said his revelations aimed to show youths how elections are manipulated,
warning of a bigger hydrogen bomb exposed soon the Election
Commission dismissed his claims as incorrect and baseless and a

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news from the capital. Navjot Singh, Deputy Secretary in the
Finance Ministry, was killed and his wife critically injured when
their motorcycle was hit by a BMW in Deli Cantonment.
The car, driven by Guganpri Muker, carried her husband and
two children. After the crash, the victims were taken to
Nulif Hospital, but Singh did not survive. Place booked Muker

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under culpable homicide and evidence tampering charges. Eyewitness Muhammad Gulfham
said she directed him to a hospital far from the
accident site. Will As have taken her into custody. In
other major news this week, the Supreme Court on Monday
refused to stay the WUCK Amendment Act twenty twenty five

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requiring WUK registration, but put on hold the clause mandating
five years of Islamic practice to create a WUK. The
Court said the provision could lead to arbitrary power without
player rules. It also state provisions allowing government officers to
report WUK encroachment on state property. The Bench, led by
Cji Biagaway, noted registration had existed earlier and stressed the

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need for safeguards before such provisions are implemented and in
the end. US President Donald Trump's advisor Peter Navarro said
on Monday that India is coming to the negotiating table
ahead of a key US trade teams delivisit. He cited
PMR in remote these conciliatory tweet and Trump's positive response

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last week. Trump said negotiations to resolve trade barriers were
ongoing and predicted no difficulty in reaching a day more.
The echoed optimism, calling India and the US close friends
and natural partners. Both leaders expressed confidence that talks would
unlock vast bilateral potential and with that this was all

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for the week. This was the catch upon three Things
by the Indian Express.