The Catch Up: 30 September

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This is the Catchup on 3 Things by The Indian Express and I'm Flora Swain.
Today is the 30th of September and here are the headlines.
The Supreme Court stated today the lab reports prima facie indicate that the samples of ghee tested belonged to the cooking medium which was not used in the preparation of the laddus at the Tirupati temple in Andhra Pradesh. Additionally, while hearing a clutch of petitions, the Bench also sought to know why Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu went public with the matter without waiting for the report of the investigation ordered by his government. The court asked the Centre to respond if the Special Investigation Team set up by the Andhra Pradesh Government should continue to probe the allegations. Fixing the matter for hearing again on October 3, the court asked the state to lay its hands off till then.
The first case was registered today on the basis of the Justice Hema Committee report, which was released last month and detailed problems faced by women in the Malayalam film industry. After the Kerala High Court directed authorities to “go through the entire Hema Committee report and take action if any offences are made out in it”, police registered a case against a noted makeup artist, whose alleged sexual misconduct was mentioned in the testimonies given to the committee by women working in the Malayalam film industry. Earlier this month, the High Court had come down heavily on the state government’s four-year-long inaction on the Hema Committee report.
The ED is likely to register a case of money laundering against Karnataka CM Siddaramaiah and his wife, among others, in connection with the MUDA case. Sources said an Enforcement Case Information Report may be registered by the end of the day or by tomorrow, based on an FIR registered by the Karnataka Lokayukta. A senior ED official said quote, “We are in possession of the details of the FIR and relevant case details. The offences fall under the schedule of the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA). A case will be registered soon after completing necessary formalities.”
While 29,466 of the 73,138 Indians who travelled to Cambodia, Thailand, Myanmar and Vietnam on visitor visas from January 2022 to May 2024 are yet to return, more than half, over 17,000, of these are in the 20 to 39 years age group. These new details have emerged in data compiled by the Bureau of Immigration, under the Ministry of Home Affairs, amid reports of some Indians being trapped in “cyber slavery” in some Southeast Asian countries. Over 21,000 are males; belonging to three states — Punjab, Maharashtra and Tamil Nadu and Thailand accounts for over 69 per cent of the total at 20,450.
Landslides and floods triggered by torrential rains have left at least 170 people dead and 42 missing in Nepal. According to the authorities, rescue operations are underway as the number of casualties is expected to be higher than the officially announced number. On Sunday, police recovered 13 bodies trapped in a Kathmandu-bound bus that was swept away by the Jhyapke river in Dhadong district , around 40 km away from the capital. Energy Minister Deepak Khadka said, the preliminary damage to property and standing crops due to the floods was estimated at over 1.5 crore.
This was the Catch Up on 3 Things by The Indian Express.