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November 29, 2016
The Gujarat HC permitted a 19-year-old Hindu girl to live-in with her Muslim boyfriend, who is just 20 years old and is currently ineligible for marriage.
According to the case details, the boy and girl studied together in school and were in love since their school days.
In a case not unusual for India’s syncretic and plural society, the Gujarat High Court permitted a couple...
November 29, 2016
The human rights activist's date of detention was wrongly mentioned as September 19, instead of September 21 by the jail authorities.
Despite Jammu and Kashmir High Court on Friday ordering the state government to release Khurram Parvez, the human rights activist is still locked up in jail owing to a “minor clerical error”.
The date of detention in the Public Safety Act...
November 28, 2016
Recently the brutal attack on eight undertrials outside the Bhopal Central jail had generated national outrage. Will these killings in Kerala, at the moment under the Left Democratic Front (LDF) government, also generate the same kind of opposition and criticism?
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The brutal shooting down of two persons, alleged to be Maoists have brought the spectre of extra-judicial...
November 28, 2016
Witness Protection Programme is a real need and States are expected to be pro-active, says the Supreme Court. Again. Despite these consistent and repeated judicial pronouncements, there has been scant response from across the political spectrum. Indian federalism and democracy boasts of different parties with ideological variants holding political power (in states and at the centre); but the...
November 28, 2016
Does criticism of a chief minister invite arrest? In a dictatorship, yes. So also it seems in BJP-ruled Madhya Pradesh where a simplesocial media post by 19-year old, Abhishek Mishra got the young man behind bars!
Madhya Pradesh police arrested a 19-year-old engineering student for a social media post on demonetisation and attacking chief minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan and the BJP on...
November 28, 2016
For them, Tina Dabi’s Constitutionally Guaranteed Freedom to Choose a Life Partner is Love Jehad says Akhil Bharatiya Hindu Mahasabha
IAS Topper, Tina Dabi, who broke multiple glass ceilings to receive accolades in a male world is facing the ire of the Akhil Bharatiya Hindu Mahasabha: her decision to marry her colleague , IAS second topper, Athar Aamil-ul Shafi has attracted an...
November 28, 2016
केंद्रीय सूचना आयोग (सीआईसी) ने कहा है कि उद्योगपति गौतम अडाणी द्वारा प्रवर्तित कंपनियों को दिए गए कर्ज से जुड़े रिकॉर्ड का खुलासा नहीं किया जा सकता है क्योंकि भारतीय स्टेट बैंक ने संबंधित सूचनाओं को अमानत के तौर पर रखा है और इसमें वाणिज्यिक भरोसा जुड़ा है।
रमेश रणछोड़दास जोशी की याचिका पर आयोग ने यह आदेश दिया। जोशी यह जानना चाहते थे कि गौतम अडाणी समूह को किस आधार पर बड़ी मात्रा में कर्ज दिए...
November 28, 2016
A spate of deaths due to hospitals refusing to accept invalid currency notes has come to attention after Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s announcement invalidating 86% of India’s currency on November 8, 2016.
Mahavir Malhar, 52, from Jharkhand came to Mumbai for his wife’s cancer treatment. Their sons cannot send the couple money because of long lines at banks back home. The...
November 27, 2016
Official reports belie the cash flow scenario within Indian banks: It could be “several months” before RBI is able to plug the Rs 14.18 lakh crore hole left behind by the withdrawal of the 2,203 crore pieces of Rs 500 and Rs 1,000 notes, as per the estimates.
As the country struggles to cope with a desperate shortage of currency, new notes worth only Rs 1.5 lakh...
November 27, 2016
Border Guard Bangladesh in Cox's Bazar district has pushed back at least 95 Rohingya Muslims who fled the country in the face of ongoing crackdown in Rakhain state by Myanmar troops
Photo credit: Dhaka Tribune
The 95 Rohingyas including women and children were sent back home from different border points of Teknaf till Sunday morning starting in the dead hours of the night....