The Supreme Court’s vacation bench of Justices AK Sikri and Deepak Gupta on June 8 allowed the Confederation of Indian Alcoholic Beverage Companies to export their stock held out of Bihar which has im...
The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has left the repo rate unchanged for the fourth time in a row at 6.25%, while also keeping the reverse repo rate at 6% and the marginal standing facility rate and the b...
India’s most popular “pain-killer” with the brand name Combiflam, is under fire for being “substandard” and that many batches of the medicine failed to pass a critical test of the Central Drugs Standa...
A new Chinese welcome for India to join – belatedly – the Chinese Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), has come with a caveat and a note that it (China) does not need to “beg” India (and Japan) to join th...
With the debate on the safety of antibiotics and its overuse raging around the world, the WHO has now made its biggest revision of the antibiotics section in the Essential Medicines List’s (EML) 40-ye...
Lucknow’s special CBI court, dealing with the Babri Masjid demolition case, said on June 7 that BJP leaders LK Advani, Uma Bharti and Murli Manohar Joshi need not make personal appearances.
The cou...
The Kerala High Court on June 7 refused to grant an interim stay on the Union environment ministry’s notification on the sale of cattle at cattle fairs for the purpose of slaughter.
The court, howe...
The election for the new President of India will be held on July 17. This announcement was made on June 7 by the Chief Election Commissioner Nasim Zaidi. The counting will be on July 20.
The term o...
The Allahabad High Court has issued a show-cause notice on Anil Kumar Jha, special judge of the CBI court in Ghaziabad, asking for an explanation as to why, despite having granted bail to Ms Kavita wh...
~By Sujit Bhar
The very objective of the EVM Challenge, organised with much fanfare by the Election Commission of India (ECI) on June 3 was defeated in the restricted atmosphere in which the EVMs w...