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Delhi riots: Govt sanctions sedition charges against Umar Khalid, Sharjeel Imam, others

Source:-https://www.hindustantimes.com The Delhi government on Wednesday gave its sanction to the police to charge 18 people accused in the Delhi riots case — including former JNU students Sharjeel Imam, Natasha Narwal, Devangana Kalita, former JNU student Umar Khalid, and local politicians Tahir Hussain and Ishrat Jahan — under sections of the Indian Penal Code that

Video: SC on Central Vista project, SC on Maharashtra Governor Bhagat Singh Koshyari

Source:-https://www.indialegallive.com The Supreme Court has stayed the contempt proceedings which was sought to be initiated against Maharashtra Governor Bhagat Singh Koshyari by the Uttarakhand High Court which had issued a notice on the same. The contempt proceedings stem from the alleged failure of the Governor to follow an order of payment of market rent for

It isn’t too late to hold a judicial inquiry into the exodus of Kashmiri Pandits

Source:-https://www.nationalheraldindia.com Former Chief Minister of Jammu and Kashmir Farooq Abdullah recently called for a probe by a judge of the Supreme Court, into the exodus of Kashmiri Pandits from the Kashmir valley in 1989-1990. He chose to blame the then Governor Jagmohan for the exodus saying that he ‘took them away’ on the false promise

Puerto Ricans get their 3rd governor in 6 days

Source: abcnews.go.com Justice Secretary Wanda Vázquez became Puerto Rico’s new governor Wednesday, just the second woman to hold the office, after weeks of political turmoil and hours after the island’s Supreme Court declared Pedro Pierluisi’s swearing-in a week ago unconstitutional. Accompanied by her husband, Judge Jorge Díaz, and one of her daughters, Vázquez took the