After the initiation of contempt proceeding, the four accused cops indicated that they be spared punishment and rather be made to pay compensation; final verdict on October 19
The mounting death toll at the hospital is expected to rise further; this is however already the largest number of Palestinians killed in a single incident since the 1982 massacres at Sabra and Shatila in Lebanon by the Israeli army and its Phalange allies.
By a ratio of 3:2, the constitutional bench of the Supreme Court held that the state cannot be obligated to grant legal status to civil unions; unanimously declined to allow recognition to same-sex marriages
While social media, a trite singular in its projection of opinions, is awash with either the Israel-Palestine conflict with doses of pure hate and even comments on the Supreme Court ruling on same sex unions, in the east of India, Kashipur in Orissa, villager Adivasis are facing the strong arm of the state, being prevented from legitimately voicing their opposition to bauxite mining, it is being alleged
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