Month: January 2018

Source – morungexpress.com India’s supreme Court May soon take one of its most interesting and far reaching court decisions, one that could go down as pivotal in Indian history. At stake is the TRIPLE TALAQ_ a Muslim practice in which a Muslim man can legally divorce his wife almost instantaneously by uttering the Arabic word

Source – adageindia.in In its continuous endeavor to strengthen the professional and ethical standards in the advertising industry and ensure responsible advertising and thereby protect the interests of the consumers, The Advertising Standards Council of India (ASCI) has introduced an “Independent Review Process”. This procedure facilitates an independent mechanism to review the recommendations made by Consumer

Source – indianexpress.com The Supreme Court on Monday stayed the Rajasthan government’s order asking mobile operators to remove their towers within 500 metres of jail premises in the state byJune 8. A vacation bench of justices A K Sikri and Deepak Gupta gave four weeks to the state to file its reply. The court was

Source – indiatimes.com “Why censor anything at all…it’s so rigid today,” said a friend who felt that all attempts to ‘curb’ were restrictive and wrong. Films have always been closely associated with Freedom. “But, Freedom comes with riders. Your freedom should not hurt another’s,” I said, “In our quest for freedom, we must ensure not to

Source – Moneycontrol News The Madurai bench of the Madras High Court on Tuesday put a four-week stay on the Centre’s notification on cattle sale in animal markets. The interim order was passed in response to a public interest litigation (PIL).. The PIL said that choice of food is an individual’s choice and no one has

Source – indiatimes.com LUCKNOW: BJP stalwarts L K Advani, Murli Manohar Joshi and Uma Bharati will appear before a special CBI court here on Tuesday for framing of charges in the Babri Masjid demolition case.Besides them, Special CBI judge S K Yadav had asked BJP leader Vinay Katiyar, VHP’s Vishnu Hari Dalmia and a one-time firebrand Hindutva preacher

Source – indianexpress.com The Delhi High Court on Wednesday set up a committee comprising officials from the Centre and the city government to decide the issue of regularisation of unauthorised colonies, including the posh Sainik Farms at New Delhi. A bench of Justices S Ravindra Bhat and Navin Chawla disapproved of the matter going “back and

Source – thehindu.com The Rajasthan High Court on Wednesday recommended that the Centre declare the cow as a national animal and increase the punishment for cow slaughter to life imprisonment. In a slew of directions passed on a Public Interest Litigation (PIL), the court asked the State Chief Secretary to take steps to get the suggestions

Source – scroll.in Shayara Bano, 35, a mother of two was unilaterally divorced by her husband of 15 years, Rizwan Ahmed, when she was visiting her parents in October 2015. The news came to her by post in the form of a talaqnama. Since then she has not been allowed to see her children. The only evidence

Source – indianexpress.com With reports of various organisations and government agencies making private details of individuals such as biometrics and bank account details public, a set of Public Interest Litigations have been filed in the Supreme Court urging it to intervene and stop the government from mandating the compulsory possession of Aadhaar. The government’s decision of