Month: April 2019

Lok Sabha elections 2019: Ahead of poll results, PM Narendra Modi directs officials to prepare 100-day agenda

Source:- hindustantimes.com The 2019 Lok Sabha results will be announced only on May 23, but Prime Minister Narendra Modi, confident that he will return, has already asked the Prime Minister’s Office (PMO), Niti Aayog and the Principal Scientific Adviser to prepare the agenda for the first 100 days of the next government, with a focus on

Lok Sabha elections 2019: India votes to elect new Lok Sabha, polling underway at 91 seats in 20 states

Source:- hindustantimes.com India’s staggered general elections kicked off on Thursday with 91 Lok Sabha seats spread across 18 states and two union territories going to the polls, the first day of a nearly six-week-long process that constitutes the world’s largest democratic exercise. The first two hours of voting were largely smooth, barring a few EVM glitches

Supreme Court agrees to look into interim ban on Tik Tok

Source .- hindustantimes.com The Supreme Court on Monday said it will look into the order passed by the Madras High Court directing an interim ban on the video mobile application ‘TikTok’. Senior advocate Abhishek Manu Singhvi sought urgent listing of the case. He said that the application had been downloaded on a major scale, has numerous

Ensuring access to justice

Source- thehindu.com The justice system in any democracy is set up, under the Constitution to serve the public without “fear or favour, affection or ill-will” as far as judges are concerned. Yet the protagonists, as far as India is concerned, in operating the system have stopped that very access — judges through lack of prescience, and

Rape acquittal on ‘framing’ doubt

Source- telegraphindia.com The Supreme Court has acquitted a man in a two-decade-old rape case citing insufficient evidence and observing that the complainant had the “habit” of implicating people in false rape cases. The bench of Justices A.M. Sapre and Dinesh Maheshwari listed seven reasons why the rape claim was unacceptable and set aside the convictions and