Month: September 2018

Supreme Court agrees to use AI to improve medical education

  Source- thestatesman.com The Supreme Court has agreed that Artificial Intelligence (AI) can be used in the process of verification of medical colleges by the Medical Council of India (MCI). The apex court has asked Nandan Nilekani, co-founder and non-executive chairman of Infosys, to give concrete suggestions at the earliest. The court said he would be

Bhima-Koregaon violence case LIVE updates: Supreme Court resumes hearing on arrest of 5 rights activists

Source-newsx.com Bhima-Koregaon case: The Supreme Court began the hearing over the arrest of five social activists — Varavara Rao, Vernon Gonzalves, Arun Ferreira, Sudha Bharadwaj, Gautam Navalakha. Earlier, the bench hearing the petition filed by historian Romila Thapar and five other had adjourned the hearing on September 12 observing that advocate Abhishek Manu Singhvi was

Top Court Directs Centre, States For Rehabilitation Of Leprosy Patients

Source-ndtv.com The Supreme Court today directed the Centre to consider framing separate rules for granting disability certificates to leprosy patients for availing reservation and various welfare benefits. A bench comprising Chief Justice Dipak Misra and Justices AM Khanwilkar and DY Chandrachud issued a slew of directions to the Centre and all states for eradication of

Clemency question: The Rajiv Gandhi assassination case

Source- thehindu.com After failing to get the seven convicts in the Rajiv Gandhi assassination case released by exercising its statutory power to remit life sentences, the AIADMK government in Tamil Nadu has taken recourse to a possible constitutional remedy. It has decided to invoke the Governor’s clemency power under Article 161 of the Constitution. The earlier attempt in

India worried about rupee drop, mulls tapping citizens overseas

Source- indianexpress.com India expressed concern about the rupee’s decline for the first time and said it’s considering a plan to tap its citizens overseas, according to a government official. The local currency, Asia’s worst-performing major so far this year, which plunged as much as 1.3 percent to a record low Monday, pared losses after the comments.