Month: September 2020

Source:-mid There are only two women judges in the Supreme Court and 78 in various high courts of the country, the government informed Parliament on Wednesday. In a written reply to a question in the Lok Sabha, Union Minister for Law and Justice Ravi Shankar Prasad said the details of the female judges in the

Source:-theprint New Delhi: For over a year, serial sex offender Dhaval Trivedi, 50, had been on the run. Convicted of raping and kidnapping eight women, including minors, Trivedi was planning to write a book on his victims, according to the Delhi Police. ‘Ten perfect women in my life’ was the title he had planned for

Source:-ndtv Lucknow: The Uttar Pradesh government on Sunday said a special force will be constituted on the basis of an order of the Allahabad High Court, which had expressed its displeasure over the security at civil courts last December.Briefing reporters in Lucknow, Additional Chief Secretary (Home) Awanish Awasthi said, “The state government has given orders

Source:-indianexpress National People’s Party (NPP) chief and Meghalaya Chief Minister Conrad Sangma on Sunday kicked off by-election campaign at Wangoi in Thoubal district, one of the five “clear vacant” constituencies in Manipur. Sangma, who is on a two-day visit to the state, arrived in Imphal on Saturday from New Delhi After five assembly constituencies were

Source:-republicworld Maharashtra Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray will address the state via video conference at 1 pm on Sunday, a statement from CMO said. The reason for holding a news conference is not known. However, the decision comes at a time when the Coronavirus cases in the state have crossed the 1 million mark and he

Source:-outlookindia Patna, Sep 13 (PTI) Prayers were offered in temples, mosques and churches, and the poor were fed in the campus of the historic Patna Collectorate as part of events held in the city in September 1943 to celebrate the surrender of Italy during the World War 2, according to archival documents.On September 8, 1943,

Source:-indianexpress National People’s Party (NPP) chief and Meghalaya Chief Minister Conrad Sangma on Sunday kicked off by-election campaign at Wangoi in Thoubal district, one of the five “clear vacant” constituencies in Manipur. Sangma, who is on a two-day visit to the state, arrived in Imphal on Saturday from New Delhi After five assembly constituencies were

Source:-https Guwahati: A journalist was thrashed by unknown people after he criticised Tripura Chief Minister Biplab Deb’s “won’t forgive” comment on the state’s media. Mr Deb had in an event on Friday criticised the media for publishing stories of alleged mismanagement of the coronavirus crisis by the BJP government.Parashar Biswas, a journalist with a Bengali

Source:-gmanetwork Anti-torture advocates and families of victims of enforced disappearances have joined calls for the Supreme Court to strike down several provisions of the Anti-Terrorism Act (ATA) of 2020, saying that the law is “reminiscent of the dictatorship of Marcos.Women and child rights groups are also among the newest petitioners against the heavily challenged law,

Source:-thewire Shanghai: The latest additions to China’s list of controlled technology exports could upset a broad range of industries and raise the possibility that some global tech giants might have to split off their Chinese operations, legal experts said. The new list of technologies under export controls announced on August 28, 2020, came as an