Source: dnaindia.com The Supreme Court has come to the rescue of a whistleblower lawyer who blew the lid off a racket involving law interns appearing as lawyers in Bombay’s district courts and even getting accused released on forged sureties. After one of the affected interns lodged a molestation case against the lawyer as a counter-blast,

Source: financialexpress.com The government is unlikely to put a ban on the controversial herbicide Glyphosate as there is no proven record to establish its effects on health or environment, an official source said. The demand to restrict the herbicide, largely used in tea and now HT Bt cotton, has been made by activists alleging it

Source: news18.com Hong Kong: Hong Kong carrier Cathay Pacific warned staff on Monday that they could be fired for supporting “illegal protests”, as the firm comes under pressure from Beijing over pro-democracy demonstrations. The flagship carrier’s stock plunged more than four percent in Hong Kong trade on Monday after Beijing imposed new rules banning airline staff

Source: deccanherald.com The legal trouble for 26-year-old Congress leader Hardik Patel, who has been touring the state to raise issues of government’s failure in resolving issues such as unemployment, privatisation of education and farm crisis among others, looks far from getting over. The state government wants to proceed with a criminal case against the Patidar leader

Source: deccanherald.com The Supreme Court has declined to consider a plea against the Karnataka High Court’s judgement that had quashed the Special Deputy Commissioner’s order confirming allotment of free sites to the homeless persons in Bengaluru on the basis of ‘hakku pathras’ issued in 1979. A bench of Justices A M Khanwilkar and Dinesh Maheshwari,

Source: news18.com Noida: Seven contractual staffers of the Kalindi Kunj toll plaza were arrested by the Noida Police for allegedly killing a commercial truck driver after he failed to pay Rs 14,000 demanded by them, officials said on Monday. The 30-year-old canter truck driver was on his way from Sector 59 in Noida to Ghitorni in

Source: bloomberg.com Singapore’s Minister of Law and Home Affairs doesn’t believe the island city-state stands to benefit from any instability in Hong Kong, as protests stretch into a third month. The rival financial centers are widely seen as investor-friendly havens from which to tap into fast-growing Asian markets. Since protests started in June, sparked by a proposal

Source: tribuneindia.com Justice Udai Umesh Lalit of the Supreme Court on Saturday opined that legal literacy could make a difference by making people understand their rights and duties. “Empowerment comes from knowledge, which brings enlightenment to help people from deprived sections of society,” he said. He was addressing students during the state-level annual students legal

source: hindustantimes.com When the first of this monsoon’s waterlogging occurred in Mumbai in early July, Mumbai municipal commissioner Pravinsinh Pardeshi blamed climate change for the crisis. “The city’s infrastructure is not capable of handling climate change and change in rainfall pattern,” he told this newspaper on July 5. Indeed, in a matter of just eight days, from 8.30 am

Source: asianage.com Mumbai: Muslims in Kolhapur, one of the worst flood-affected areas in Maharashtra, have decided to donate money that would otherwise have been spent on sacrificial cattle to flood-affected people. On an average, a person spends Rs 10,000 to Rs 20,000 on goats and still higher amounts on bovines. Haji Abdul Qadar Malbari, the superintendent