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Australia’s billion dollar coronavirus vaccine is SCRAPPED after trial participants returned HIV false positives

The University of Queensland had been developing the Covid vaccine in partnership with pharmaceutical company CSL and the government had ordered 51 million doses. However, it has been scrapped after…

Maharashtra cabinet has passed two bills containing death provisions

The Maharashtra cabinet on Wednesday passed two bills that contains death provisions for crimes such as rape, child abuse and acid attack. The bills named as the Special Court and…

Delhi High Court seeks stand of Centre & RBI on a PIL for regulating techfin firms like FB, Google, Amazon

Background- The petition filed by an economist, Ms.Resmi P Bhaskaran, techfin entities are technology, telecommunications or e-commerce companies which have entered the financial sector to provide financial services and need…

Madras High Court voices concern for the police force and questions the state

On 7th December 2020, the Madras High Court addressed a writ of mandamus seeking an increase in per capita income of the Police force in the state. While addressing this…

After J&K cities urgency, HC fixes Dec 11 to hear review plea:

A day after the J&K HC fixes Dec 16 to hear the UT administration petition seeking to review it's October 9 judgment scraping the Roshni Act, which seeks to cancel…

Centre’s response sought on de-facto imposition of Aarogya Setu: Bombay HC

A plea has been filed by Tanya Mahajan in the Bombay High Court challenging the mandatory imposition of the Aarogya Setu App in the Regional Passport Office, Mumbai. The petitioner…

Rape by HIV positive man not attempt to murder: Delhi HC

While upholding the conviction of an HIV positive man In a rape case, the Delhi high court has given the order to set aside conviction under an attempt to murder…

Litmus Test To Find Out Whether a Document is Bond or Not: Kerala High Court

Justice R. Narayana Pisharadi of the Kerala High Court while hearing a suit filed for the realisation of money and certain other reliefs. The claim for money was based on…

Sonia Gandhi’s life should be included in School syllabus: Congress Leader

AICC spokesperson Sravan Dasoju on the occasion of 74th birthday of Sonia Gandhi requested Telangana Chief Minister K Chandrasekhar Rao (KCR) to include her life in state school syllabus. He…

Bombay High Court : Conduct workshops on humanity for prison authorities.

A Division Bench of Justices S.S. Shinde and M.S. Karnik said, “Humanity is most important. Everything else will follow. This is high time to conduct a workshop for prison authorities.”…