Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) has directed the States and UTs to implement section 479 of the BNSS, this section enables the Court to release under trial prisoners who have undergone detention for one-half of the maximum period of imprisonment but not include under trials held for offences in which the punishment has been specified of death or life imprisonment
CJP's persistent battle against hate speech: serial offender Kajal Hindustani booked by the Thane police for delivering anti-Muslim hate speech at an event in Thane, event organiser also named in FIR u/s 299, 302, and 353 of BNS, 2023 – a strong response against hate speech during MCC Period!
Disturbing trends in disbursal of agri-credit and priority sector lending reveal that Mumbai (with only 2 districts),hogs the credit with banks distributing Rs. 252179 crore out of total of Maharashtra of Rs. 549397 crore, forming 46% of the total in 2022- 23, the highest percentage among all the regions of the state
Why does rural India need NABARD now more than ever? Teesta Setalvad and Rana Mitra explore the issues affecting our farmers.Watch this critical discussion...
CPI-M, Rajya Sabha, Dr V Sivadasan from Kerala has been denied political clearance to attend the Parliamentary Forum against Fascism scheduled to take place in Venezuela from November 4-6, 2024.
Four decades of apathy and empathy have marked the failure of the Indian State and Judiciary to provide substantive justice to the Sikh victims of 1984
India’s anti colonial struggle was accompanied by various diverse social phenomena. One integral part was ‘Hindu-Muslim’ Unity, and the emergence of the overall identity...
Sessions court grants interim protection from arrest to nine students booked over Professor GN Saibaba’s death anniversary event, but issues sharp oral remarks on future employment
In a controversial decision by the now ‘four engine sarkar’, prime port trust land at Elephant Estate has been reportedly been sanctioned for the ‘Bihar Bhavan’ in Maharashtra’s capital of Mumbai; this decision has drawn huge flak from Marathi speakers and protests are likely to follow; to be built at the cost of Bihar’s tax payers, this is also part of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS)-Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)’s plant of a proto fascist, “Hind-Hindi-Hindustan.” One language, One Faith, One Nation
Alleging gross violations on BMC poll day, including already opened ballot boxes and broken seals on EVM machines and an absence of vote tally, the SS (UBT) candidate Roshani Gaikwad, has moved the Bombay HC
Intemperate and insensitive remarks by Congress MLA Phool Singh Baraiya on women, rape and women from Dalit and Adivasi communities have left the Congress shame-faced on the eve of LoP Rahul Gandhi’s visit to the state