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The Delhi High Court today held that the Centre’s decision to ban controversial preacher Zakir Naik’s Islamic Research Foundation (IRF) was taken to safeguard national security as it dismissed its plea challenging the ban. Holding that Naik’s foundation’s plea challenging the Centre’s decision has “no merit”, the court said the order of the government was

Source:- indiatimes.com CHENNAI: Anguished at the easy availability of alcohol and tobacco products to school children in Tamil Nadu, the Madras high court has cautioned, “if the situation is allowed to continue, then Tamil Nadu might become another Punjab.” Justice N Kirubakaran, hearing a writ petition filed by T C Sharath who sought action against

Source:- indiatimes.com JAIPUR: A court here on Thursday deferred to Saturday the sentencing in the Ajmer Sharif Dargah blast of 2007 which left three people dead. On March 8, the special National Investigation Agency (NIA) court convicted Bhavesh Patel, Devendra Gupta and Sunil Joshi (now dead) and had fixed March 16 for the sentencing. The

Source:- hindustantimes.com To check fleecing of customers by charging value added tax (VAT) on discounted items, the district consumer disputes forum has ruled that “Charging of VAT on the discounted price by the shops is unfair trade practice and a deficiency in service.” Over the past week, the forum has directed three shops and manufacturers

Source:- news18.com Parliament recently passed The Enemy Property (Amendment and Validation) Bill, 2016 which says successors of those who migrated to Pakistan during Partition will have no claim over the properties left behind in India. There are some who argue that it vilfies anyone who was unfortunate enough to have had an ancestor who migrated

Source:- ndtv.com CHENNAI:  A 32-year-old man, claiming to be late Tamil Nadu Chief Minister Jayalalithaa’s son, has been ordered by the Madras High Court to appear before the Chennai Police commissioner on Saturday. The man, identified as J Krishnamurthy, has also been warned that he would face arrest should the documents he presented are found

Source:- indiatimes.com KOLKATA: Financial behemoth State Bank of India will have to alter its recruitment procedure after a transgender person took it to court for not providing the third gender category in its application and won the case. The Calcutta high court on Thursday directed SBI to not only accept Atri Kar’s application for the

Source:- thehindu.com The Supreme Court Collegium has handed over the finalised Memorandum of Procedure (MoP) for appointment of judges to the government. While maintaining the government’s proposal for a national security clause in the MoP, the Collegium has reserved to itself the right to reiterate a name rejected by the government. In the final draft

Source:- intoday.in A Haryana court on Saturday sentenced 13 former workers of Maruti Suzuki India Limited (MSIL) to life imprisonment, in connection with the 2012 Maruti factory violence and rioting case. The court also sentenced four other accused to five years’ imprisonment, and said the sentence already served by the remaining 14 accused was sufficient.

Source:- bbc.com Bhanwari Devi is an unlikely heroine. Nearly a quarter of a century after the illiterate, low-caste woman was allegedly gang-raped by her high-caste neighbours in the western Indian state of Rajasthan, she refuses to give up her fight for justice. It was her case that resulted in the Indian Supreme Court formulating guidelines