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Why India needs a space law

Source:- thehindu.com India as a space superpower stands mightier than ever, but a law that protects the country’s sovereign, public and commercial interests is needed 05/06/2017, 17:28 IST: ISRO launches most powerful home-made rocket … 20/05/2017, 10:11 IST: NASA, ISRO to build Earth-imaging satellite… 05/05/2017, 16:59 IST: India’s satellite gift to South Asia… 02/04/2017, 13:29

160 law students won’t be promoted

Source:- timesofindia.indiatimes.com NEW DELHI: At least 160 students of Delhi University’s Law Faculty, detained for not meeting adequate attendance, will “not be promoted to the next term”, a notice released by the faculty mentions. Dean of the faculty, Ved Kumari, said that this is due to the attendance norm set by the Bar Council of

HC rules: You’re not an advocate if working anywhere full-time (including probably at law firms on retainer loophole)

Source:- legallyindia.com A lawyer consulting full time with a public sector undertaking (PSU), who had been unsuccessfully trying to get enrolled with the Gujarat bar council (BCG) since 2012, is not allowed to do so and therefore practically not an advocate, ruled the Gujarat high court according to the Times of India. The long-running saga of

Pune BPO employee rape case: President Mukherjee rejects mercy plea of duo convicted in 2007

Source:- financialexpress.com President Pranab Mukherjee has rejected the mercy petition of Purushottam Borate and Pradeep Kokade convicted in the 2007 Jyotikumari murder and rape case. The two men are convicted of abducting, raping and murdering BPO employee Jyotikumari in Pune in 2007. As per a statement issued by the President’s Secretariat, the mercy plea was

Mathematics optional in Class X? High court weighs in

Source:- telegraphindia.com Bombay High Court today went into a thorny question that tends to divide parents, children and educationists: should mathematics be compulsory in secondary school? It asked school boards to consider making the subject optional for Class X students as a relief for those planning to later pursue the arts or vocational courses that