DHAKA: Bangladesh high court on Thursday declined to issue a suo motu order banning Iskcon’s activities in the country, the decision coming despite a petition by a Supreme Court lawyer and calls from student groups for such action in the wake of clashes that erupted after denial of bail to the organization’s “former” priest Chinmoy…
West Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee KOLKATA: No religion should be harmed and any incident ending in violence “because of religion” is condemnable, West Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee said Thursday while reacting to the attack on minorities in Bangladesh, report Dwaipayan Ghosh & Tamaghna Banerjee.Banerjee said she was saddened by the events, but the Bengal administration…
Ashwini Vaishnaw, minister for information and broadcasting NEW DELHI: Union I&B minister Ashwini Vaishnaw Wednesday said there is need to have stricter laws to curb vulgar content on social media and on OTT platforms.The minister, however, sought consensus on stricter laws, and urged parliamentary standing committee to take up this matter as a priority. “There…
Amit Shah with Devendra Fadnavis and Eknath Shinde in New Delhi NEW DELHI: A day after Eknath Shinde said he would accept the BJP leadership’s decision on who should be next Maharashtra CM, Mahayuti partners got down to working out details of the govt, which is likely to be formed on Dec 2. Home minister…
KOLKATA: Calling it a “rarest of rare case”, a fasttrack court in Chinsurah in West Bengal on Thursday sentenced seven persons to death in a 2020 murder case, report Dwaipayan Ghosh & Falguni Banerjee. On Oct 11 that year, the criminals killed 23-year-old Bishnu Mal and dismembered his body into six pieces, following animosity created…
Devices like camera traps have curtailed traditional practices, the study said DEHRADUN: Uttarakhand’s forest department has initiated an investigation after a study by researchers from University of Cambridge claimed that “digital technologies such as camera traps and drones, deployed for tracking wild animals at Corbett Tiger Reserve (CTR), are infringing on the privacy and rights…
Collegium recommends elevation of Delhi HC CJ Manmohan as judge to SC (Picture credit: ANI) NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court collegium led by CJI Sanjiv Khanna on Thursday unanimously recommended to the Union govt to appoint Delhi HC chief justice Manmohan as an SC judge. SC, with a sanctioned strength of 34 judges, including the…
RAIPUR: MBBS students at AIIMS-Raipur have alleged that they were ragged through the night on Nov 16, causing a few girls to fall unconscious after being forced to stand till 3am.A group of students have written anonymously to Supreme Court lawyer Meera Patel, who is the convenor and legal head of ‘Society Against Violence in…
Kashmiri separatist leader Yasin Malik (File photo) NEW DELHI: Supreme Court on Thursday agreed to hear Central Bureau of Investigation’s plea to transfer the trial in two cases pending against terror convict Yasin Malik from Jammu to Delhi and issued notice to him and other accused in the case.A bench of Justices Abhay S Oka…
NEW DELHI: Supreme Court flagged the colonial mindset among bureaucrats who habitually attempt to boss over elected representatives, especially women, in grassroots democratic institutions and said they must instead encourage women’s participation and leadership in governance.A bench of Justices Surya Kant and Ujjal Bhuyan noted with concern that this was a recurring pattern of treatment…
