[ad_1] Stand-up comedian Samay Raina (ANI file photo) NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court on Thursday directed comedian and YouTuber Samay Raina, along with three other comedians, to host shows on their platforms featuring specially-abled individuals who have inspiring success stories. The top court said the events should be used to raise funds that would support…
[ad_1] NEW DELHI: Segregating petitions challenging the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls in West Bengal, Tamil Nadu and Kerala from the challenge to the constitutional validity of the pan-India SIR, Supreme Court on Wednesday sought responses from EC, state ECs and state govts while posting these pleas for hearing on different dates.For the…
[ad_1] NEW DELHI: Supreme Court on Wednesday turned its critical gaze on its own functioning. On the growing trend of benches overturning orders of earlier ones within days or months of them being pronounced – such as on the menace of dog bites, retrospective environmental clearance, Bhushan Steel Ltd’s insolvency and the ban on fire…
[ad_1] NEW DELHI: India on Wednesday slammed Pakistan for its comments on the flag-hoisting event in Ayodhya, saying that instead of delivering hypocritical homilies, Pakistan would do better to turn its gaze inwards and focus on its own abysmal human rights record.Pakistan had earlier expressed deep concern over the event and called it a “deliberate…
[ad_1] NEW DELHI: NHRC has issued a notice to railways on a complaint alleging that “only halal-processed meat” is served in non-vegetarian meals which creates an “unfair discrimination” and amounts to “violations of human rights”.It is further alleged in the complaint that the practice in trains excludes people from Hindu Dalit communities, who traditionally work…
[ad_1] NEW DELHI: For the first time, Supreme Court on Wednesday assembled a global bench as chief justices and the most senior judges of six countries joined CJI Surya Kant and Justice Joymalya Bagchi to watch first-hand how the highest court in India conducts its proceedings.Chief justices and judges from foreign countries sitting as guests…
[ad_1] BENGALURU: A local court in Chitradurga on Wednesday acquitted Murugha Mutt seer Shivamurthy Murugha Sharanaru and two others in a Pocso case registered in Aug 2022. The seer, however, faces another Pocso case filed on Oct 13, 2022, in which Karnataka HC has stayed the investigation.Two girls from a hostel run by the mutt…
[ad_1] BENGALURU: After months of uncertainty, the Congress high command has decided to hold a meeting to address growing speculation over a change of Karnataka CM. Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge confirmed this in Delhi on Wednesday, saying, “The high command – Rahul-ji, Sonia-ji and I – will together take a decision to resolve this issue.”…
[ad_1] The Bihar win is the triumph of NDA’s unity and resolve, he said at a dinner meeting at BJP chief J P Nadda’s residence to felicitate party members from different states who were deployed in the Bihar campaign.Sources said Shah also heartily praised JDU members and emphasised that people have supported the “Modi-Nitish jodi”…
[ad_1] NEW DELHI: PM Narendra Modi marked Constitution Day on Wednesday by urging citizens to never miss out on their constitutional right to vote and renewed his pitch for balancing rights with duties.PM Modi has often emphasised that while the issue of people’s rights has received attention, the Constitution’s similar focus on their duties was…