Author: wakilsahab

Source – news18.com New Delhi: Bihar chief minister Nitish Kumar is finding it difficult to distance himself from a legal battle that has uncharacteristically nothing to do with his politics. Embroiled in a plagiarism row, the CM has now been issued a notice by the Supreme Court to explain why he should not remain a party

Source – thehindu.com The Cambridge Analytica scandal and reports of alleged breach of the Aadhaar database have provoked a citizen advocacy group to launch a campaign to protect the privacy of individuals in India. A set of lawyers and policy analysts have put together a model Bill — the Indian Privacy Code, 2018, — with an

Source – siliconeer.com The Delhi High Court gave an urgent hearing, June 15, on a plea which dubbed the air pollution in the national capital as “emergency-like situation” and sought answers from the Delhi government and state pollution control committee on the measures taken to curb it. The high court said that the matter brought before

Source  – indianexpress.com The Delhi High Court on Thursday rejected Aam Aadmi Party Rajya Sabha member Sanjay Singh’s plea against Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s “absenteeism” from Parliament, saying the judiciary did not act as the headmaster of the legislature or legislators under the country’s democratic framework. A vacation bench of Justices Sangita Dhingra Sehgal and C Hari Shankar also

Source – indiatimes.com New Delhi: The tourism ministry is not “actively” seeking bids for the Taj Mahal, India’s most famous monument, under its ‘Adopt A Heritage’ initiative, officials familiar with the matter told ET. It’s not even on the immediate adoption list, given the various issues related to the mausoleum. “So much is happening there,” said

Source – indiatimes.com Chandigarh: Even though the office of Haryana advocate general (AG) has given categorical opinion asking to withdraw the petition related to the scams exposed by Magsaysay awardee Indian Forest Service (IFS) officer Sanjiv Chaturvedi, the state government continues to rigorously pursue the case before the Punjab and Haryana high court. The petition was

Source – news18.com New Delhi: In a state of crisis for over four years, madrasas in West Bengal can finally appoint new teachers as a “stop gap arrangement”. The Supreme Court has lifted its restraint order against appointing teachers, enabling 614 government-aided madrasas in West Bengal to appoint more than 2,600 teachers after a hiatus of four

Source – thewire.in The ban on highly hazardous pesticides (HHPs) currently being discussed in India will not only protect the environment and improve the public health but will also achieve another rarely acknowledged goal – a rapid and major reduction in the number of Indians dying from suicide. The Supreme Court, which is currently deliberating on the case

Source – hindustantimes.com B.N. Srikrishna is a genial, 77-year-old former Supreme Court judge who recites Shakespeare and Sanskrit scriptures with equal facility. But he’s making the likes of Google, Amazon and Facebook more than a little nervous. Srikrishna is leading the effort to draft new data-privacy laws for India that will regulate how tech giants from

Source – freepressjournal.in Mumbai: The Bombay High Court today directed the city traffic police to submit a report on the steps it proposed to take to ease commuting woes in crowded market areas such as Crawford Market, Bhuleshwar and Zaveri Bazaar in south Mumbai. A bench of justices Naresh Patil and G S Kulkarni also suggested that