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Source: thehindu.com The Supreme Court has ordered the Kerala government to pay ₹5 lakh compensation to four minors affected by the toxic pesticide Endosulfan in the State within two months. If the victims are not paid the money within the period, they are at liberty to revive the contempt action against the Kerala government, the court said. Thousands affected The order

Source: indianexpress.com Calling the petitions before it “a claim for urban-centric elitism”, the Bombay High Court said that students seeking admissions in top colleges have no fundamental right to prestige. Advertising A division bench of Justice S C Dharmadhikari and Justice Gautam Patel on Friday dismissed two petitions filed by 15 engineering colleges challenging the

Source: business-standard.com With the arrest of two persons, the Punjab Police Saturday claimed to have unearthed an illegal operation of selling and purchasing second-hand vehicles which was being run in collusion with some officials of the state Transport Department. Around 93 vehicles, running illegally in the state and valued at Rs 4 crore, have been

Source: scroll.in The main convict in the Kathua gangrape and murder case on Friday appealed against his conviction to the Punjab and Haryana High Court, which admitted the petition on the same day. The court listed July 18 for the hearing of all the appeals by the six convicts in the case, The Indian Express reported. “Admitted. Recovery of

Source: newindianexpress.com BENGALURU: Students of the National Law School of India University staged a silent protest against a fee hike at their campus on Saturday. Representatives of the Student Bar Association put forth three demands in a meeting with the executive council. “One is to rollback the fee hike from `1.80 lakh to `2.30 lakh

Source: theprint.in Mumbai: “Are you ostriches,” an angry Bombay High Court bench Friday asked the censor board for refusing to issue a universal (U) certificate to a children’s film and asserted the board will “not decide what one wants to watch and see”. In strongly-worded observations, a division bench of justices S C Dharmadhikari and Gautam

Source: theprint.in Srinagar: Barely nine months after panchayat elections were held in Jammu and Kashmir, elected members in the Valley are demanding another round of polls, opposing a decision by the state to appoint government employees as administrators to look after panchayat affairs. The elected members, mostly affiliated to the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), are also

Source: indiatoday.in Anon-profit organization engaged in promoting financial literacy has moved the Supreme Court, alleging cheating, especially of senior citizens, by the Life Insurance Corporation (LIC) through its Jeevan Saral policy, in which nearly 5 crore policy holders have “lost a big chunk on their principal investment”. The Mumbai-based Moneylife Foundation said it has received

Source: dnaindia.com The Maharashtra government’s petition against an order of the Bombay High Court that tied the hands of the state’s planning authorities from regularising any unauthorised construction got admitted in the Supreme Court on Friday. A bench of Chief Justice of India (CJI) Ranjan Gogoi, Justices Deepak Gupta and Aniruddha Bose issued notice on

Source: newindianexpress.com THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The Kerala Government has decided to conduct a judicial probe into the custodial death of K Rajkumar at Nedumkandam. “The incident at the Nedumkandam police station is unjustifiable. Strict action will be taken against the criminals in the force,” Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan told media persons after the cabinet meeting on Friday.