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Blame it on Omicron: Kerala lawyer gets HC nod for ‘virtual wedding’ with UK-based fiancé

Kerala HC Wednesday allowed couple to solemnise marriage virtually under Special Marriage Act. Bride's in India, groom is in UK & couldn't travel for 23 Dec wedding owing to Omicron restrictions.

Allahabad HC urges Centre to stop rallies in election-bound states amid Omicron concern

Appreciating PM Modi for Covid vaccination campaign, the court requested him to consider stopping rallies, and postponing upcoming state elections in view of the situation of the pandemic.

Lawyer got ‘erotic’ in Madras HC virtual hearing. But it isn’t 1st online boo-boo in Covid era

With embarrassments piling up since hearings went virtual, Madras HC decided it couldn’t turn a blind eye when a lawyer was caught making out with a woman and the video went viral.

Why Madras HC ruled ‘fundamental duty to laugh, right to be funny’ deserve to be in Constitution

Court dismissed case against CPI(ML) office-bearer over ‘funny’ Facebook caption, said provisions that penalise preparation to commit a crime must meet higher threshold.

3 yrs, 17 hearings, but no SC decision on reinstating MP woman ex-judge who was ‘harassed’

The woman judge from MP had moved SC seeking her reinstatement after a parliamentary panel said her transfer was ‘punitive’. Her next date of hearing is on January 12. 

Citizens’ duty to respect PM: HC junks ‘frivolous’ plea against Modi photo on vaccine certificate

Petitioner says being ‘forced’ to see PM’s photo on certificate ‘infringement’ of his rights. Kerala HC says petition ‘frivolous’, filed with ‘ulterior motives’, fines him Rs 1 lakh.

Delhi court discharges former BJP MLA Kuldeep Senger in Unnao rape survivor’s accident case

Senger was discharged due to lack of evidence, however, the court ordered framing of charges against four other accused as there was prima facie sufficient evidence against them.

UP govt in ‘wilful disobedience’, farmers can’t wait years for sugarcane dues: Allahabad HC

The Allahabad High Court has said the UP government has defied its 2017 order to fix interest for mills to pay farmers for late payment of dues.

Justice Nanavati, former SC judge who probed 1984 & Godhra riots, passes away at 86

Justices Nanavati & Akshay Mehta had in 2014 submitted their final report on 2002, giving a clean chit to the Narendra Modi government that was in office at the time of the riots.

Wrong to generalise that human rights violated in North East due to AFSPA: NHRC chairperson

Speaking on police encounters that have taken place in Assam since May this year, NHRC chief Justice Arun Mishra said there is no place for 'fake encounters' in civilised society.

On Camera

Worker exploitation powers the firework industry in Tamil Nadu’s Sivakasi

For an industry globally classified as hazardous, protections such as health insurance and a provident fund for workers are necessities. In Sivakasi, they remain elusive.

172 countries & counting, India looks to hit new record in rice exports. But there’s a flip side

The industry forecasts exports are set to grow 16% in 2025-26, boosted by surplus domestic production and a drive to push into 26 underserved global markets with strong potential.

India and France to jointly manufacture HAMMER air-to-surface missile

Indigenisation level will progressively increase up to 60 percent with key sub-assemblies, electronics and mechanical parts being manufactured locally.

A tribute to Tejas. India’s delay culture is the real enemy in the skies

It is a brilliant, reasonably priced, and mostly homemade aircraft with a stellar safety record; only two crashes in 24 years since its first flight. But its crash is a moment of introspection.