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Indian-origin Raj Shah to fill in for White House Press Secretary

The highest ranking Indian-American in the White House Press Room, Raj Shah was once a bitter critic of US President Donald Trump White House Deputy Press Secretary Raj Shah will fill in for Press Se...

Amid #MeToo outrage UN’s Commission on the Status of Women to meet in March

~By Rangita de Silva de Alwis As the 62nd Session of the Commission on the Status of Women (CSW) at the United Nations in New York draws near, women from every corner of the world will convene to d...

Filling up police vacancies: WB roadmap is till 2021

The West Bengal police on May 2 submitted to the Supreme Court its roadmap for filling up vacant posts. Following the roadmap, the state will be able to fill up vacancies not before 2021. The bench...

SC sends PIL on right to reject ventilator to ministry

Person, while in good health, should be able to decide whether he/she wants a ventilator when sick The Supreme Court on May 1 took up a sensitive issue of personal preference of a person who could...

Soumya murder case, accused will not hang

Soumya murder case, accused will not hang Govindachami alias Govindaswamy, the main accused in the infamous Soumya rape and murder case, will not go to the gallows. On April 28, the Supreme Court ...

NGT thrashes clueless official in Kasauli case

When the National Green Tribunal warned on April 26 of a non-bailable warrant against the chairman of the Himachal Pradesh Pollution Control Board, he hurriedly presented himself before the bench on A...

Make a law to control funds to NGOs, says SC

Make a law to control funds to NGOs, says SC Hearing advocate Manohar Lal Sharma’s PIL that funds allocated to various NGOs, including Shri Kishan Baburao (Anna Hazare) organisation, from the Counc...

Chhota Rajan gets 7 years for passport forgery

Chhota Rajan gets 7 years for passport forgery Chhota Rajan, the mafia don captured by Indian police, was produced before Judge Virender Kumar Goyal at the CBI court at Patiala House, New Delhi on ...

English too complicated; judgement set aside by SC

Several judgements are set aside by the Supreme Court for varied reasons. Rarely, if ever, has any been set aside because the English used in the judgement was too complex. On Thursday (April 20), ...

INTERNATIONAL BRIEFS

 Brazil lifts WhatsApp  suspension A Brazilian judge ordered the lifting of a 48-hour suspension of the services of Facebook Inc's WhatsApp phone-messaging application, overturning an order fro...

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