Source – thewire.in The ban on highly hazardous pesticides (HHPs) currently being discussed in India will not only protect the environment and improve the public health but will also achieve another rarely acknowledged goal – a rapid and major reduction in the number of Indians dying from suicide. The Supreme Court, which is currently deliberating on the case

Source – hindustantimes.com B.N. Srikrishna is a genial, 77-year-old former Supreme Court judge who recites Shakespeare and Sanskrit scriptures with equal facility. But he’s making the likes of Google, Amazon and Facebook more than a little nervous. Srikrishna is leading the effort to draft new data-privacy laws for India that will regulate how tech giants from

Source – freepressjournal.in Mumbai: The Bombay High Court today directed the city traffic police to submit a report on the steps it proposed to take to ease commuting woes in crowded market areas such as Crawford Market, Bhuleshwar and Zaveri Bazaar in south Mumbai. A bench of justices Naresh Patil and G S Kulkarni also suggested that

Source – indiatimes.com CHENNAI: Three months after a special court for CBI cases discharged former Union minister Dayanidhi Maran and his elder brother Kalanidhi Maran from the decade-old illegal telephone exchange case, the CBI has approached the Madras high court challenging it. Admitting the criminal revision petition, Justice G Jayachandran ordered notice to Maran brothers and seven others accused in the case returnable by June

Source – thehansindia.com By passing guidelines to the Union of India and others for proper management of religious shrines in W.P (Civil) No. 649/2018 a division bench of the Supreme Court has, indeed, done a yeoman service to the humble, submissive and innocent devotees in the country. Responding to the petition filed by Ms Mrinalini Padhi,

Source – dnaindia.com Taking serious note of alleged exploitation of devotees by ‘sevaks’ at the Puri Jagannath temple in Odisha, the Supreme Court today passed a slew of directions to prevent any such malpractices and mismanagement, just ahead of the annual Rath Yatra next month. The top court said it is of prime importance that all

Source – indianexpress.com The Bombay High Court acquitted a man who had allegedly raped his neighbour when she had left her house to attend to nature’s call in an open field. In 2014, the Sessions Court convicted the accused on circumstantial evidence, as the prosecution had failed to examine the woman. The accused was sentenced

Source – indiatoday.in Is it not time to discontinue long vacations for courts, especially the Supreme Court (SC), when the Indian judiciary is grappling with backlog to the tune of a whopping 3.3 crore cases across the country? A first-of-its-kind public interest litigation (PIL) has been filed before the SC demanding that court vacations, a British era practice,

Source – indianexpress.com The Delhi High Court today refused to stay the investigation or grant protection to a journalist, who has sought quashing of a second FIR lodged against him by the CBI on charges of extorting Rs 15 crore from a Mumbai builder by portraying himself as an income tax “power broker”. Justice Mukta

Source – indianexpress.com Social activist Teesta Setalvad and her husband Javed Anand on Thursday moved the Gujarat High Court against a lower court order rejecting their anticipatory bail plea in a fund embezzlement case. Setalvad’s petition challenging the lower court order may come up for hearing on Monday in the high court. The city sessions