Chander Vibhas, a surgeon, accused in a 2011 murder case lodged at Delhi's Hari Nagar police station and facing his trial now, threw rice on the courtroom floor during a 11 August hearing.
The decision follows a 2021 probe into WhatsApp's privacy policy, highlighting growing regulatory scrutiny on tech giants as India plans stricter digital competition laws.
The court fined the American ride-sharing app Wednesday for breaking consumer law, decieving customers with cancellation fee threats & overstating fare estimates from 2017 to 2021.
Since January 2020, Supreme Court has pulled up Centre & states in at least 40 cases for filing late pleas. Time period to file appeal in SC is 90 days, but many were filed after 400-600 days.
Prashant Bhushan defended his tweets, saying they were not intended to disrespect SC or judiciary but to express anguish at what he felt was a 'deviation from its sterling past record'.
CSE, one of India’s oldest bourses, is edging towards a voluntary exit. It could never recover from market manipulation scam that caused a payment crisis at exchange back in 2001.
Fresh details of operation conducted by IAF, Army have come out in gazette notification giving citations of those who were awarded Vir Chakra for their bravery.
Education, reservations, govt jobs are meant to bring equality and dignity. That we are a long way from that is evident in the shoe thrown at the CJI and the suicide of Haryana IPS officer. The film Homebound has a lesson too.
The framers of broad brushstrokes/sweeping generalisations, abusive stereotyping laws like the Prevention and Eradication of Human Sacrifice and other Inhuman, Evil and Aghori Practices and Black Magic Act should know – as any five-year-old, and every serious philosopher of science will no doubt tell you – that western science is NOT the only way of knowing and understanding the world.
How about we NOT criminalise things we don’t understand, and how about NOT labelling what is beyond our (western-(ised)-educated) minds as “inhuman” and “evil” ?
The framers of broad brushstrokes/sweeping generalisations, abusive stereotyping laws like the Prevention and Eradication of Human Sacrifice and other Inhuman, Evil and Aghori Practices and Black Magic Act should know – as any five-year-old, and every serious philosopher of science will no doubt tell you – that western science is NOT the only way of knowing and understanding the world.
How about we NOT criminalise things we don’t understand, and how about NOT labelling what is beyond our (western-(ised)-educated) minds as “inhuman” and “evil” ?