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A recent ruling of the Madras High Court stands out as a beacon of hope for those who revel in lampooning By SAURAV DATTA Since a cartoonist’s task is to shape public opinion, the threshold for suing them for defamation must… Continue Reading →
Dublin, 18 May 2018 Front Line Defenders today announced the five winners of its 2018 Award for Human Rights Defenders at Risk, naming Soni Sori (India), Nurcan Baysal (Turkey), the LUCHA movement (Democratic Republic of Congo), La Resistencia Pacífica de la Microregión de Ixquisis (Guatemala), and Hassan Bouras (Algeria) as… Continue Reading →
HIGHLIGHTS 31-year-old Brahmananda Sharma, who lost his eyesight due to glaucoma at the age of 22, always wanted to be a judge and did not once think of giving up his dream. Sharma, who hails from Bhilwara and studied in… Continue Reading →
The decision comes in the wake of the drug regulator finding certain discrepancies at the clinical trial site linked to a phase two clinical trial of Glenmark’s osteoarthritis pain drug. Viswanath Pilla Glenmark The Drug Controller General of India (DCGI)… Continue Reading →
SC permits courts to refer to Parliamentary Committee reports The Supreme Court on May 9, 2018 ruled that the courts can look into Parliamentary Standing Committee reports and take them into record while deciding on an issue. The decision was… Continue Reading →
This HC and is taking up matters in Court till Midnight! Justice S J Kathawalla is literally burning the midnight oil to do his bit to reduce judicial delays. Working beyond the 5pm court closure time is nothing new for… Continue Reading →
HIGHLIGHTS Asaram, who’s been in jail since August 31, 2013, was earlier today found guilty of sexual assault on a 16-year-old girl at his ashram in Jodhpur The girl, who’s from Uttar Pradesh, was living in the ashram as a… Continue Reading →
Teenage victim was allegedly kidnapped and repeatedly gang raped in Noida and Ghaziabad last year before being release by her captors a week later. HIGHLIGHTS An 18-year-old girl who says she was raped by two men in 2017 got her… Continue Reading →
NEW DELHI: The CBDT today extended the deadline for the PAN-Aadhaar linking to June 30. The policy-making body of the tax department issued an order extending the deadline from the current last date of March 31. The order said the… Continue Reading →
THANE: “No means no.” The Thane magistrate court recently said these words while convicting a 45-year-old practising lawyer and sentencing him to three years’ rigorous imprisonment for “outraging the modesty” of a colleague who repeatedly rejected his marriage proposal. Magistrate R T Ingale on Monday held advocate… Continue Reading →