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Marriages can't be broken by husbands alone- HC on triple-talaq

The Allahabad HC has ruled that Muslim marriages are contracts, and therefore can't be broken by husbands alone.

09 May 2017

Global Warming

IIT-B professor awarded prestigious INSA Young Scientist medal

Vikram Vishal, assistant professor in the Earth Sciences department at IIT-B, has won the coveted Indian National Science Academy (INSA) medal for Young Scientist, 2017.

SC seeks Centre's response on banning female genital mutilation

The Supreme Court has sought a response from the Centre and four states (Maharashtra, Delhi, Gujarat and Rajasthan) on the validity of Female Genital Mutilation (FGM), commonly practiced in India's Dawoodi Bohra community.

09 May 2017

Gujarat

Gujarat Dy CM's 'heavily drunk' son barred from boarding flight

According to Ahmedabad airport officials, the son of Gujarat Deputy Chief Minister Nitin Patel was barred from boarding a flight to Greece as he was highly inebriated.

09 May 2017

India

SC sentences Justice Karnan to 6 months in prison

Taking suo moto cognizance of several letters written by Justice Karnan against judges in the Madras HC and the SC, the SC held him guilty of contempt of court.

09 May 2017

Uttar Pradesh

UP petrol pump scam- Supplier of cheat-chips arrested

The UP Special Task Force has arrested Ajay Chaurasia, believed to be the man who supplied petrol pumps in the state with cheat-chips leading to the petrol pump scam.

09 May 2017

Yogi Adityanath

Unfit UP govt officers over 50 to be retired: Yogi

UP CM Yogi Adityanath has directed that all government employees aged over 50 should be screened, and "those found incompetent and not fit need to be retired compulsorily".

09 May 2017

Delhi

Woman who blackmailed parliamentarians sent to judicial custody

A woman who has allegedly honey-trapped and blackmailed at least three parliamentarians was sent to four-day judicial custody. Her latest target was K.C. Patel, a BJP MP from Gujarat, who she allegedly drugged, then shot obscene videos and blackmailed him.

Have faith in the judiciary, will keep fighting: Bilkis Bano

Fourteen years after her horrifying ordeal, as Bombay HC upheld life imprisonment of her 11 rapists, Bilkis Bano stresses, "I want justice, not revenge."

09 May 2017

Gorakhpur

Cried because of support and not the MLA- Charu Nigam

Responding to the crying event, Charu Nigam the female IPS officer, in a Facebook post explained that she had not cried because of MLA Agarwal.

09 May 2017

EPFO

How to submit your EPF claim online?

Employees Provident Fund Organization (EPFO) has recently launched an initiative that will allow citizens to submit their claims online.

09 May 2017

India

Karnan's revenge- 8 SC Judges slapped with rigorous imprisonment, fine

Alleging caste discrimination, controversial Calcutta High Court judge Justice C S Karnan, on Monday ordered a punishment of 5 years of rigorous imprisonment and a fine worth Rs. 1 lakh each on 8 Supreme Court judges including the Chief Justice of India Jagdish Khehar.

09 May 2017

India

National survey on drug abuse in India after 15 years

The social justice and empowerment ministry has constituted a committee to undertake a survey on the use and abuse of drugs in the country; the last survey (2001) is over 15 years old.

09 May 2017

India

Demonetization - Cash making a comeback

Data from the Reserve Bank of India have indicated that cash withdrawal levels for March 2017 were 0.6% higher than that of last year, suggesting that cash withdrawal levels from ATMs have normalized.

08 May 2017

Shashi Tharoor

Sunanda's murder tapes- Arnab alleges Tharoor's involvement in Sunanda's murder

In yet another expose, Republic has broadcasted tapes which present evidence in Sunanda Pushkar's death and Shashi Tharoor's alleged involvement in the case.

08 May 2017

Prakash Javadekar

HRD Ministry asks IITs to develop revenue model

The Union Human Resource Development Ministry has asked the Indian Institutes of Technology to develop revenue models for their operations.

08 May 2017

Maharashtra

Bombay HC orders forensic examination of EVM

The Bombay High Court has ordered the forensic examination of an electronic voter machine that was used in 2014 Maharashtra assembly elections.

08 May 2017

Delhi

Delhi- Mother holds girl captive in stinking house for months

Residents of Ganesh Nagar (East Delhi) are still shocked by Saturday's incidents: a local girl they hadn't seen for two years was found captive in a seemingly empty house in the area.

08 May 2017

Akshay Kumar

BharatKeVeer- Akshay Kumar's portal for martyrs' families raises Rs. 2.10cr

Donation amounting to Rs. 2.10cr has been collected within a month through the BharatKeVeer portal, which was launched by the home ministry based on Akshay Kumar's idea.

Black money crackdown - CBI investigation uncovers shell company network

The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI), in its ongoing three-year long investigation into black money, uncovered evidence of a clandestine web of 339 shell companies used to channel funds up to Rs. 290 crore.

08 May 2017

Bihar

Minor girl from Bihar stabbed to death for resisting rape

A minor girl from Bihar was stabbed to death as she resisted being raped at Charpokhari block in Bhojpur district, 80kms south-west of Patna.

08 May 2017

WhatsApp

Aadhaar leaks are troubling, but what about the daily trickle?

While the response to the introduction of Aadhaar has been majorly positive, in the recent light of leaks, it has ushered in intense skepticism against it.

08 May 2017

Jharkhand

After UP, Haryana, BJP-ruled MP to shut illegal slaughterhouses

Chief Minister of Madhya Pradesh, Shivraj Singh Chouhan on Sunday announced that the state's illegal slaughterhouses would all be shut down.

08 May 2017

Delhi Police

Delhi Police yet to fix liability in gas leak incident

The Delhi Police are yet to figure out accountability for the chemical leakage in Tughlaqabad, which caused over 450 people to be hospitalized.

08 May 2017

Yogi Adityanath

Yogi flags off 27 new A/C buses in UP

UP Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath flagged off 27 new A/C buses to ply between Gorakhpur-Delhi (via Kanpur), Gorakhpur-Lucknow-Agra (via Kanpur) and Lucknow-Delhi (via Kanpur) for cheap, comfortable travel in the state.

08 May 2017

India

Benami properties to be turned into offices, residences

The government has stated that soon, benami properties in the country may be converted in to office spaces or residences. It is said to be a part of PM Modi's crackdown on corruption and black-money.

08 May 2017

India

The reality of juvenile crimes in India

The number of juvenile delinquents has risen by leaps and bounds in the last few years. According to the National Crime Records Bureau, 23,25,575 cases were registered against juveniles under IPC crimes in 2011.

08 May 2017

Madhya Pradesh

Gujarat- Probe ordered into custodial death of cow-slaughter accused

A probe has been ordered into the custodial death of a tribal man in Gujarat who was arrested for alleged cow-slaughter.

08 May 2017

India

500 trained stone-pelters to fight alongside Army in Kashmir

A saint in Kanpur said he has trained 500 stone-pelters to fight alongside the army in Kashmir. He said he has already trained 2,000 followers at Siddhnath Ghat in Kanpur recently and is sending the first batch to Kashmir.

07 May 2017

India

Public Health v/s Animal Rights: India's stray dog dilemma

Reports in recent times have focused on the stray-dog menace in Indian cities.

07 May 2017

Andhra Pradesh

Has Aadhaar linkage improved mid-day meals?

The government is set to assess the efficacy of linking Aadhaar to the mid-day meal scheme. If found effective it will continue as is, but if there is space for improvement the government will introduce changes.

07 May 2017

India

SC: Every child must have welfare benefits

The Supreme Court broadened the ambit of the Juvenile Justice Act stating that every child in need must get welfare benefits.

07 May 2017

Chhattisgarh

19 Maoists, including 9 from Sukma attack arrested

19 Maoists, including 9 who were involved in the Sukma attack, were arrested in a joint operation between the CRPF, CoBRA commandos and local police in Chhattisgarh.

07 May 2017

Punjab

Punjab roads repaired to welcome just the CM?

Residents in Vein Poin in Tarn Taran stated that the roads in their village had been repaired solely because Punjab chief minister Capt Amarinder Singh was coming to visit the kin of martyr Naib Subedar Paramjit Singh.

07 May 2017

Pakistan News

Is the Hurriyat linked to the ISI?

A report in Times Now has furnished "evidence" of Pakistan's ISI funding the Hurriyat in Pakistan.

07 May 2017

Delhi Police

Tughlaqabad: Over 487 students, teachers in Delhi hospitalized after gas-leak

487 people, including school students, teachers and residents of Tughlaqabad were hospitalized after a container of 2-Chloro-5-chloromethylpyridine leaked from a nearby depot. NDRF authorities managed to contain the leak.

07 May 2017

Jammu And Kashmir

4 killed as terror makes comeback in Kashmir

Four people including 2 civilians were killed when terrorists attacked a police party on the Srinagar-Jammu national highway.

07 May 2017

India

Justice Leila Seth: Glimpses through a legal luminary's life

Leila Seth, eminent jurist, India's first female Chief Justice of a High Court and mother of famous author Vikram Seth died from a cardiac arrest on Saturday night.

07 May 2017

India

As security becomes pricier, flights get costlier

Looking at the increasing security threats, the Centre has decided to requisite the services of Central Industrial Security Force (CISF) to guard India's 98 airports. This will mean that flyers will have to pay more as airfares will increase with an imminent hike in passenger security fee (PSF).

07 May 2017

India

No compensation for rape accused wrongly jailed for 7 years

Bombay HC has refused a plea by rape accused Gopal Shetye, who was jailed in 2009 and acquitted 7 years later. He had sought Rs. 200cr as compensation.