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The Catch Up: 11 March
This is the Catch Up on 3 Things for the Indian Express and I'm Niharika Nanda.
It’s the 11th of March and here are today's headlines.
The Supreme Court, in a hearing on Monday, directed the State Bank of India to furnish the details of individuals and companies who bought its electoral bonds to fund political parties by Tuesday. The court gave the order after rejecting a plea by the government-run bank seeking more time to do so. The SBI had earlier requested time till the 30th of June to disclose details of electoral bonds encashed by political parties.
In further news from the Supreme Court, it rejected a plea by the Maharashtra government seeking a stay on the March 5 Bombay High Court order acquitting former Delhi University professor G.N. Sai Baba and others in a UAPA case over alleged Maoist links. The court noted that the acquittal of Saibaba and others was prima facie well reasoned, as reported by the news agency PTI.
The much-anticipated Mumbai Coastal Road Project was partially inaugurated today by Chief Minister Eknath Shinde, along with Deputy Chief Ministers Devendra Fadnavis and Ajit Pawar. With a cost of nearly 14 thousand crore, the 10.58 km long high-speed corridor will link Marine Drive with the Bandra-Worli Sea Link, representing the BMC’s most expensive undertaking to date. The BMC states that the coastal road will result in a 34 percent reduction in carbon footprint.
At the 96th Academy Awards ceremony held today in in Los Angeles, Christopher Nolan’s epic biographical thriller Oppenheimer swept seven awards, including Best Picture, while also earning Nolan and actors Cillian (KILL-IAN) Murphy and Robert Downey Jr awards for Best Director, Best Actor and Best Supporting Actor, respectively. In the Best Actress category, Emma Stone won the Academy Award for her performance as Bella Baxter in Yorgos Lanthimos’ Poor Things.
The Enforcement Directorate has arrested Subhash Yadav, a man allegedly associated with the Rashtriya Janata Dal, in Patna as part of a money laundering probe related to alleged illegal sand mining in Bihar. On Sunday, the ED had also carried out search operations at six locations linked to Yadav and his close associates.
This was the Catch-Up on the 3 Things by The Indian Express.
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