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Govt wants special panel to deal with emergency abortion cases

A number of cases have come to the Supreme Court and to other courts in the recent past in which women whose pregnancies have run over 20 weeks have asked for permission to abort. The legal maximum li...

SC appointed ex-judge refuses to oversee NIA probe into Hadiya case

Above: Shafin Jahan (left) and Hadiya The inter-religion marriage between Kerala’s Shafin Jahan and Hadiya (formerly a Hindu girl Akhila, who converted to Islam even before her marriage to Jahan) r...

NGT fixes Himachal Pradesh taxi drivers’ Rohtang Pass trips to three a week

The Rohtang Pass, a little distance up from Manali in Himachal Pradesh, is a beautiful place, covered in snow, but also, now, full of filth and dirt. Vehicular pollution has made the area polluted and...

Sunanda Pushkar death: Delhi HC gives Delhi Police two weeks to file status report

BJP MP Subramanian Swamy has filed a PIL with the Delhi High Court seeking a time-bound court-monitored multi-disciplinary probe into the death of Sunanda Pushkar, the wife of Congress leader Shashi T...

61 more children die in Gorakhpur’s BRD Hospital in 72 hours

Above: The latest spate of deaths at BRD Hospital was reported on August 27, 28 and 29, 2017 Photo: UNI With the state government silent, can the courts take suo motu action, is the question As ...

Three other Aadhaar matters to be listed in the first week of November, says SC

Attorney General assures top court that Aadhaar-related benefits for welfare schemes will be extended to Dec. 31 With the privacy matter related to Aadhaar already settled by the Supreme Court, thr...

Delhi HC defamation case: MP Venugopal deliberately created a false controversy, says Jaitley

On the second day of the fresh cross examination of finance and defence minister Arun Jaitley by Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal’s counsels—senior advocate Anup Chaudhari and advocate Anupam Sriv...

Ram Rahim acted like a “wild beast”, said court in its judgment

Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh has been packed off to jail and he has said that he will appeal to the high court against the special CBI court’s judgment. Meanwhile, it would be pertinent to know what mad...

Rampal, another godman, acquitted of two charges, though murder charges remain

Above: Self-styled godman Rampal (centre). Photo: UNI A day after superstar godman Gurmeet Ram Rahim was sent to 20 years in prison for raping two of his ‘sevikas’ at his Panchkula Dera Sacha Sauda...

NGT says ASI official responsible for Purana Qila lake

Above: The Purana Qila lake has now completely dried up. Photo: Anil Shakya The National Green Tribunal (NGT) on Tuesday (August 29) directed that a senior official of the Archaeological Survey of ...

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