Month: December 2019

Fake news alert: No, AMU hasn’t fired its registrar over citizenship law violence.

Source – indiatvnews.com A forged note doing the rounds of social media claims that the university has terminated the services of its registrar, IPS officer Abdul Hamid, for allowing the cops on campus on December 16.  The forged note states that Vice Chancellor Professor Tariq Mansoor is using his special power under the AMU Act 19 (3)

Telangana encounter: AIIMS New Delhi team arrives in Gandhi Hospital for re-postmortem.

Source – newindianexpress.com HYDERABAD: Three-member team of forensic experts from All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) New Delhi arrived at the Gandhi Hospital on Monday amidst high security in the hospital, for conducting the re-postmortem of bodies of four accused in veterinary doctor rape and murder case, allegedly killed in an encounter with the

Delhi High Court restrains Eveready, McLeod Russel from sale of assets.

Source – business-standard.com In a blow to McLeod Russel, Eveready Industries and other Williamson Magor Group (WMG) companies, the Delhi High Court has passed an ad-interim ex parte order of injunction preventing all these companies from selling or transferring any of their assets, changing their capital structure, or opting for any debt restructuring proposal. While McLeod Russel and McNally Bharat Engineering

Calcutta High Court asks West Bengal government to take down all anti-CAA advertisements.

Source – indiatoday.in In what seems to be a setback for the West Bengal government, the Calcutta High Court on Monday directed all state-sponsored advertisements against Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) and National Register of Citizens (NRC) to be removed from public platforms. The court, in an interim direction, asked the Bengal government to suspend all

Supreme Court to Hear If Catholic Schools May Discriminate in Hiring.

Source – theepochtimes.com WASHINGTON—The Supreme Court has agreed to hear arguments from two Catholic schools in Los Angeles that maintain the religious exemption in the First Amendment shields them from employment discrimination lawsuits brought by two former instructors. The Supreme Court ordered Dec. 18 that the two cases, Our Lady of Guadalupe School v. Morrissey-Berru and St.

Most Chandigarh residents oppose Tribune flyover project.

Source – hindustantimes.com Chandigarh A majority of 80-odd city residents — including senior advocates, social activists, retired engineers, architects, members of resident welfare associations and even students — opposed the ₹183-crore Tribune flyover project, claiming that it will prove disastrous for Chandigarh and plunge it into chaos, like one seen beneath the Zirakpur flyover. They

‘Only one lawyer at a time’: Supreme Court irked over loud arguments during CAA hearing.

Source – hindustantimes.com The Supreme Court on Wednesday got irked when several lawyers simultaneously started arguing loudly during the hearing on a batch of pleas challenging the constitutionality of the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA). It was Attorney General K K Venugopal, representing the Centre, who first objected to the noisy arguments advanced simultaneously by several

How Gauhati HC Order on Lifting Ban Brings Hope in the Land of Maximum Internet Shutdowns.

Source – news18.com New Delhi: People’s Daily, the official newspaper of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, cited India’s example to justify Internet shutdowns. “India recently ordered a shutdown of the Internet… to control protests over the controversial new Citizenship Amendment Bill. It means that shutting down the Internet in a state of