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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

Madras HC says no to protests on Marina Beach

Source – indianexpress.com Agreeing with the Tamil Nadu government’s objection to protests on Marina Beach, the Madras High Court on Monday set aside a petition seeking permission to hold a public meeting at Chennai’s popular beach, which had witnessed a massive protest over Jallikattu in 2017. Allowing an appeal moved by the Tamil Nadu government, a

The world’s biggest democracy just decriminalised sex between gay couples

Source – qz.com The supreme court of India today (Sept. 06) scrapped section 377 ofthe Indian penal code that criminalised homosexuality. A bench consisting of chief justice Dipak Misra and justices DY Chandrachud, AM Khanwilkar, Indu Malhotra, and Rohinton Fali Nariman, in separate but concurring judgments, ruled that India’s LGBTQ community has the same sexual rights as everyone else. The supreme

Supreme Court bats for minor rape survivors

Source – thehindu.com The Supreme Court on Wednesday ordered that minor survivors of rape or sexual assault will get compensation on par with women victims. The apex court extended the National Legal Services Authority’s (NALSA) compensation scheme for women rape and sexual assault survivors to minor children. A three-judge Bench led by Justice Madan B. Lokur directed that

Supreme Court nominee evasive on scope of Trump’s presidential power

Source – reuters.com WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Brett Kavanaugh, President Donald Trump’s U.S. Supreme Court nominee, embraced judicial independence on Wednesday but sidestepped Senate Democrats’ questions on whether a president can pardon himself or fire a prosecutor investigating him. Kavanaugh faced a grueling session of more than 12 hours of questioning before a Senate panel that was

Tamil Nadu gutkha scam: CBI raids residences of Health Minister Vijayabaskar, top cop

Source – indianexpress.com The CBI on Wednesday raided 31 locations across Chennai, Mumbai and Bangalore, including the premises of Tamil Nadu Health Minister C Vijaybhaskar, Tamil Nadu DGP TK Rajendran, Tamil Nadu DG (Fire and Rescue) S George, former minister BV Ramana and several officials of the Central excise department, food safety department and health department

No reopening tax case on opinion change

Source – dnaindia.com The Income Tax Act, 1961 (‘the Act’) empowers the tax officer to re-open and re-assess a taxpayer’s case, where an order has been passed after conducting scrutiny proceedings. Technically termed as ‘reassessment’ under the Act, if the tax officer has reasons to believe that any income chargeable to tax has escaped assessment for