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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
कुशीनगर। एक तरफ तो बीजेपी खुद को पार्टी विद डिफरेंस कहती है और नैतिकता का दंभ भरती है। लेकिन दूसरी तरफ केंद्र की सत्ता में आने के बाद बीजेपी के नेता कानून को ताक पर रखने लगे हैं। उत्तर प्रदेश की सत्ता में लौटने के लिए बेताब बीजेपी के नेता किसी से भी, कहीं भी मारपीट और गाली गलौज करने को आतुर हो जाते हैं।
ऐसी ही एक खबर बीजेपी की परिवर्तन रैली के दिन कुशीनगर जिले से आई है।...
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
नई दिल्ली। लोकसभा चुनावों के समय भारतीय जनता पार्टी ने चुनाव प्रचार में सबसे ज्यादा पैसा खर्च किया था। प्रचार का आलम यह था कि जहां भी देखो हर जगह भाजपा ही नजर आती थी। अब केंद्र की भाजपा सरकार फिर से खर्चे को लेकर चर्चाओं में आ गई है।
केंद्र की मोदी सरकार ने पिछले दो साल में सिर्फ प्रचार में ही 1100 करोड़ रुपए से ज्यादा की रकम खर्च कर चुकी...
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?
Image: Scroll.in
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 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....
November 27, 2016
Among other issues, four private businessmen from the corporate world were part of the RBI’s Central Board of Directors of the Reserve Bank of India on whose recommendation the central government acted through a mere Notification -- bypassing Parliament -- in gross violation of the RBI Act, Rules and Regulations
Long queue outside the Oriental Commercial Bank, New Delhi. Photo...