News Update Supreme Court Issues Notice on Plea Seeking Enumeration of OBCs in Census 2021 16 Oct 2020 A Supreme Court bench headed by CJI SA Bobde, while hearing a Public Interest Litigation seeking for inclusion of the enumeration of Other Backward Classes (OBCs) in the country in…
News Update India Has Gained A Decade Of Life Expectancy Since 1990: Lancet Study 16 Oct 2020 India has gained more than a decade of life expectancy since 1990, but there are wide inequalities between states, according to a new study which assessed more than 286 causes…
News Update Sushma Swaraj Lectures launched by the Ministry of External Affairs 16 Oct 2020 The Ministry of External Affairs launched a series of lectures in fond remembrance of former External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj. The inaugural lecture was given by Foreign Secretary Harsh Vardhan…
News Update Bombay High Court has granted anticipatory bail to the accused under Section 354 of IPC 16 Oct 2020 Justice Sarang V Kotwal while hearing an anticipatory bail application filed by one Raviraj Gupta observed that the case was solely dependent on the side of the victim and if…
News Update Pakistan Pushing as Many Terrorists, Arms Across LoC as They Can Before Winters: Army Chief Naravane 16 Oct 2020 Amid multiple attempts by the Pakistani Army to infiltrate along the Line of Control (LoC) in Jammu and Kashmir, Army Chief General Manoj Mukund Naravane on Thursday asserted that the…
News Update Use of plain English in legal dealings: Supreme Court takes up plea, issues notice 16 Oct 2020  A petition had been filed in the Supreme Court by Dr Subhash Vijayran, an advocate by profession and proponent of the use of plain language, specifically English in all legal dealings and…
News Update SC asked Republic Media Group to approach Bombay HC in TRP scam case. 15 Oct 2020 The SC on Thursday ordered the Republic Media Group to bring the TRP case of scam reported by the Mumbai Police before the Bombay High Court. The HC has worked…
News Update Supreme Court agrees to hear PIL and issues notice to regulate content on online streaming platforms 15 Oct 2020 The plea, filed by Advocates Shashank Shekhar Jha and Apurv Arhatia, seeks for directions for the "establishment of a proper board/institution/association for regulating OTT platforms such as Netflix and Amazon…
News Update Decision on TN Bill for Reservations in Medical Colleges for Govt school students should be taken at the earliest: Madras High Court 15 Oct 2020 The Madras High Court on Wednesday observed that a decision should be taken at the earliest on the Bill unanimously passed last month in the Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly for…
News Update Bollywood producers association files suit against Republic TV and Times Now 15 Oct 2020 A civil defamation suit has been filed by the Bollywood Producers association against news channels Republic TV and Times Now which also includes social media platforms Twitter, Facebook, Youtube and…