Source- indianexpress.com Two persons were killed and over 30 men were injured at the bull-taming festival Jallikattu in Tamil Nadu’s Pudukottai district on Sunday. The bull-taming event was coordinated by Tamil Nadu Health Minister C Vijayabaskar and entered the world record for the maximum number of bulls released into the sporting arena. The event saw the
Source-indianexpress.com The Supreme Court on Monday asked states and union territories to implement within one week its direction to give publicity to its July 17 verdict, in which it had said that “lynching and mob violence of any kind shall invite serious consequences under the law”. “It has to be borne in mind that the
Source-ndtv.com The Supreme Court on Thursday said public prosecutors are expected to act as independent persons and should not be totally guided by the instructions of the government and their actions should not be like a post office. A bench of Chief Justice Dipak Misra and Justice D Y Chandrachud said a public prosecutor
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.
Source – cointelegraph.com India’s central bank, the Reserve Bank of India (RBI), has urged the country’s Supreme Court to regulate cryptocurrencies, local news outlet the Financial Express reports July 21. In April of this year, the RBI announced it will stop providing services to businesses or persons dealing with cryptocurrencies, citing high risks. The RBI’s senior advocate Shyam Divan told a bench led
Source – financialexpress.com Three years after the Lokpal Act came into effect, the Centre is yet to set up the office of the ombudsman and enforce the law. On Thursday, the Supreme Court of India told Modi government at the Centre that there was “no justification” to keep the enforcement of the Lokpal Act 2013
Source – financialexpress.com Tax-payers’ money is “going down the drain” as the authorities are squandering it by delaying development projects, the Delhi High Court has said, terming it as “a very sorry state of affairs”. The sharp observations came when a high court bench was informed that the BJP-run Municipal Corporation of Delhi was yet to complete the construction
Source:- ndtv.com CHENNAI: Ordering status quo on a bid to relocate a liquor shop near an educational institution, the Madras High Court has said it’s time the Tamil Nadu government should review its liquor policy respecting people’s wishes. Rejecting the government’s argument that curbing liquor trade would result in flow of spurious liquor, Justice K
Source:- ndtv.com NEW DELHI: The government has made it mandatory to link existing Aadhaar numbers with PAN of taxpayers with effect from July 1. Amending income tax rules and notifying the same, the government has made quoting of the 12-digit biometric Aadhaar or the enrollment ID a must at the time of application of Permanent
Source:- hindustantimes.com Farmers reeling from drought should not be coerced for recovery of loans and government should interfere if a financial institution is found to be doing so, the Supreme Court said on Friday. “The government’s approach should be preventive rather than compensatory and it should travel the last mile to reach out to the
