Chief Justice of India Justice DY Chandrachud on Tuesday said we must create a multitude of equitable ways for different groups -- women, members of the LGBT+ community, persons with disabilities, elderly, poor and marginalised -- to engage and participate in the process of adjudication.

The police said that the sailor was posted on the ship when he committed suicide. The reason for the suicide is still unknown, as per the police.

Mumbai (Maharashtra) [India], September 30 (ANI): The body of a 40-year-old model was found hanging from a fan in a hotel room in Mumbai's Andheri area on Thursday.

New Delhi Apr 21 PTI Seven electoral trusts received a total amount of Rs 25849 crore from corporates and individuals and the BJP bagged more than 82 per cent of it poll rights body ADR said Electoral trust is a non-profit organisation formed in India for orderly receiving of contributions from corporate entities and individuals to political parties It aims at improving transparency in the usage of funds for election-related expenses The Association for Democratic Reforms ADR in a new report said 16 out of the 23 electoral trusts submitted details of their contribution for the financial year 2020-21 to the Election Commission of India of which only seven declared to have received donations Seven electoral trusts which have declared receiving contributions during FY 2020-21 have received a total amount of Rs 2584915 crore from corporates and individuals and distributed Rs 2584301 cr 9998 per cent to various political parties it said The BJP received Rs 21205 crore or 8205 per cent of these donations while the JDU secured Rs 27 crore or 1045 per cent of the amount Ten other political parties -- Congress NCP AIADMK DMK RJD AAP LJP CPM CPI and the Loktantrik Janta Dal together received Rs 1938 crore According to the rules formulated by the central government electoral trusts are required to distribute at least 95 per cent of the total contributions received during the financial year along with the surplus brought forward from the previous financial year to eligible political parties before March 31 The ADR report analyses the details of donors of seven electoral trusts formed after January 2013 and the contributions made through them to political parties during a given year Of the 23 registered electoral trusts 14 have been submitting copies of their contributions to the Election Commission consistently Another eight trusts declared that they did not receive any contribution or their contribution reports have never been available on the ECI website since their registration About 159 individuals have contributed to electoral trusts in FY 2020-21 Two individuals contributed Rs 350 crore to Prudent Electoral Trust 153 people contributed Rs 3202 crore to Small Donations Electoral Trust three individuals gave a total of Rs 5 lakh to Einzigartig Electoral Trust and one person contributed Rs 1100 to Independent Electoral Trust the ADR said PTI UZM UZM CJ CJ

New Delhi Mar 29 PTI About 44 per cent of the newly sworn-in ministers in Goa have declared criminal cases against themselves out of which three have serious charges filed against them according to poll rights body ADR Goa Election Watch and the Association for Democratic Reforms ADR have analysed the self-sworn affidavits of all nine ministers including Chief Minister Pramod SawantThe ADR said four 44 per cent ministers have declared criminal cases against themselves and three 33 per cent ministers have declared serious criminal cases against themselvesAccording to the ADR report serious criminals cases meant those offences which carry punishment of five years or moreAll the ministers are crorepatis and the average assets of these nine ministers is Rs 1949 crore it saidThe minister with the highest declared total assets is Atanasio Monserrate from Panaji constituency with assets worth Rs 4848 crore Govind Shepu Gaude from Priol constituency has the lowest declared total assets at Rs 267 croreEight Goa ministers have declared liabilities out of which Nilesh Cabral of Curchorem constituency has the highest liabilities at Rs 1197 croreThe BJP had won the recent assembly polls in Goa and formed its government in the statePTI UZM SRY

New Delhi Mar 26 PTI Of the 45 newly sworn-in Uttar Pradesh ministers 22 have declared criminal cases against themselves and most of them face serious charges poll rights body ADR said on Saturday Uttar Pradesh Election Watch and the Association for Democratic Reforms ADR have analysed the self-sworn affidavits of 45 of the total 53 ministers including the chief minister The affidavits of Sanjay Nishad and Jitin Prasada were unavailable for analysis on the election commissions website at the time of bringing out this report while details of ministers JPS Rathore Narendra Kashyap Dinesh Pratap Singh Dayashankar Mishra Dayalu Jaswant Saini and Danish Azad Ansari were not analysed as they are currently not members of either the state assembly or the legislative council According to the ADR report 22 49 per cent ministers have declared criminal cases against themselves and 20 44 per cent ministers have declared serious criminal cases against themselves Of the 45 ministers analysed 39 87 per cent are crorepatis and their average assets are pegged at Rs 9 crore As per his affidavit Mayankeshwar Sharan Singh from Tiloi constituency owns the highest declared total assets worth Rs 5807 crore and Dharamveer Singh an MLC at Rs 4291 lakh is the minister with the lowest declared total assets Twenty seven ministers have declared liabilities Rakesh Sachan of Bhognipur constituency has liabilities to the tune of Rs 817 crore the highest among the ministers the report said It said nine 20 per cent ministers have declared their educational qualification to be between Classes 8 to 12 while 36 80 per cent ministers are graduates and beyond Twenty 44 per cent ministers have declared their age to be between 30 and 50 years while 25 56 per cent ministers stated that they were between 51 and 70 years old Of the 45 ministers analysed five 11 per cent are women PTI UZM CJ CJ

New Delhi Mar 21 PTI Seven of the 11 newly sworn-in ministers in Punjab have declared criminal cases against themselves with four of them facing serious charges poll rights group Association for Democratic Reforms said on Monday The 11 ministers include Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann Punjab Election Watch and the Association for Democratic Reforms analysed the affidavits of all 11 ministers including the CM The ADR said seven ministers 64 per cent have declared criminal cases against themselves Four of them 36 per cent have declared serious criminal cases against themselves Of the 11 ministers nine are crorepatis and the average of their assets is Rs 287 crore The minister with the highest declared total assets is Bram Shanker Jimpa from Hoshiarpur He has assets worth Rs 856 crore Lal Chand from Bhoa Sc constituency has the lowest declared total assets worth Rs 619 lakh Nine ministers have declared liabilities The minister with the highest liabilities is Bram Shanker He has liabilities worth Rs 108 crore The ADR said five ministers 45 per cent have declared their educational qualification to be between Class 10 and 12 while the rest are graduate or above Six ministers 55 per cent have declared their age to be between 31 and 50 years while five 45 per cent are aged 51 and 60 the ADR said Ten AAP MLAs were sworn in as Punjab ministers on Saturday They are Harpal Singh Cheema Harbhajan Singh Dr Vijay Singla Lal Chand Gurmeet Singh Meet Hayer Kuldeep Singh Dhaliwal Laljit Singh Bhullar Bram Shanker Jimpa Harjot Singh Bains and Dr Baljit KaurEarlier Bhagwant Mann had taken oath at a programme in Khatkar Kalan the ancestral village of freedom fighter Bhagat Singh PTI UZM UZM RDK RDK

New Delhi Jan 28 PTI The BJP declared assets worth Rs 484778 crore in financial year 2019-20 the highest among all political parties followed by the BSP at Rs 69833 crore and the Congress at Rs 58816 crore according to poll reforms advocacy group ADRThe Association for Democratic Reforms prepared its report based on its analysis of assets and liabilities of national and regional parties in 2019-20According to the analysis the total assets declared by the seven national and 44 regional parties during the financial year amounted to Rs 698857 crore and Rs 212938 crore respectivelyAmong the seven national parties the highest assets were declared by the BJP Rs 484778 crore or 6937 per cent followed by the BSP Rs 69833 crore or 999 per cent and the Congress 58816 crore or 842 per cent the ADR report saidAmong the 44 regional parties the assets of the top 10 parties were worth Rs 2028715 crore or 9527 per cent of the total declared by them all combinedIn the FY 2019-20 among the regional parties the highest assets were declared by the Samajwadi Party at Rs 56347 crore 2646 per cent followed by the TRS at Rs 30147 crore and the AIADMK at Rs 26761 croreFixed DepositsFDR constituted the largest share of Rs 163951 crore 7699 per cent of the total assets declared by regional parties in the FY 2019-20Under the FDRFixed Deposits category for the financial year the BJP and the BSP declared Rs 325300 crore and Rs 61886 crore the top two among all national parties while the Congress declared Rs 24090 croreAmong regional parties political parties such as the SP Rs 434219 crore TRS Rs 25601 crore AIADMK Rs 24690 crore DMK Rs 162425 crore Shiv Sena Rs 14846 crore BJD Rs 118425 crore among others declared highest assets under FDRFixed DepositsThe total liabilities declared by the seven national and 44 regional parties for the FY 2019-20 amount to Rs 13493 croreThe National Political Parties declared the total liabilities of Rs 7427 crore in FY 2019-20 National Parties declared Rs 426 crore under Borrowings and Rs 7001 cr under Other Liabilities and in the FY 2019-20 Congress declared the highest total liabilities of Rs 4955 crore 6672 per cent followed by AITC that declared Rs 1132 crore 1524 per cent the ADR saidRegional political parties declared total liabilities of Rs 6066 crore in FY 2019-20 it saidRegional Parties declared Rs 3029 crore under Borrowings and Rs 3037 cr under Other Liabilities and in the FY 2019-20 TDP declared the highest total liabilities of Rs 30342 crore 5002 per cent followed by DMK that declared Rs 805 crore 1327 per cent the analysis said PTI UZM TIR TIR

Mumbai (Maharashtra) [India], January 19 (ANI): Mumbai's Colaba Police Station registered an accidental death report (ADR) in the death of three naval personnel, who lost their lives in an explosion in an internal compartment onboard INS Ranvir on Tuesday at the Naval Dockyard in Mumbai, said police on Wednesday.

Thane (Maharashtra) [India], January 7 (ANI): A 30-year-old man was found dead in the Masunda pond near the Gadkari auditorium in Maharashtra's Thane, police said on Friday.