Representative imahe | Photo Credit: Getty Images/istock In a significant verdict, the Supreme Court on Thursday (February 27, 2025) held that the provision of anticipatory bail is applicable to the Goods and Services Act and customs law and persons can move courts for pre-arrest bail even if an FIR is not in place. A bench … Read more
The UGC was responding to a SC order in January in a petition filed six years ago by the mothers of Rohith Vemula and Payal Tadvi, who wanted Court to act against the “rampant” caste discrimination in universities which claimed their children’s lives. File | Photo Credit: Sushil Kumar Verma The University Grants Commission (UGC) … Read more
Vehicles of security personnel stationed during a search operation after an army vehicle came under fire from suspected terrorists in a forward village near the Line of Control, in Jammu and Kashmir’s Rajouri district, on February 26, 2025. | Photo Credit: PTI Security forces on Thursday (February 27, 2025) extended the cordon and search operation … Read more
Kshitij Tyagi, Permanent Mission of India to the U.N. in Geneva, during 58th Session of United Nations Human Rights Council meeting. | Photo Credit: X/@ANI At the seventh meeting of the 58th Session of United Nations Human Rights Council, India said that Pakistan was a failed State surviving on international handouts. Kshitij Tyagi, Permanent Mission … Read more
The story so far: With the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY) looking to wrap up public consultations on the draft Rules for the Digital Personal Data Protection Act, 2023 by March 5, disability rights activists are trying to get a key provision of the Act amended or dropped, pointing out that it infantilises … Read more
Indo-Tibetan Border Police (ITBP) contingent rehearsing for the upcoming Republic Day parade. File. | Photo Credit: SHIV KUMAR PUSHPAKAR The ITBP has directed its field units not to entertain pleas of troopers seeking permission to undergo gender change procedure, citing the CAPFs medical wing’s opinion that this may have a “bad impact” on the psychology … Read more
Image for representative purpose | Photo Credit: Special Arrangement The Enforcement Directorate has conducted searches on five business and residential premises in Chandigarh and Ludhiana, in connection with a case alleging fraudulent activities perpetrated by visa consultants. The accused were involved in arranging forged documents to facilitate U.S. visas for the aspirants. The premises are … Read more
Jayant Chaudhary, Minister of State of Education. File | Photo Credit: Reuters Minister for skill development (independent charge) and Minister of State for education Jayant Chaudhay waded into the three-language formula controversy charging Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M.K. Stalin of doublespeak on the issue of languages, and wanting to turn the issues around it into … Read more
India, has traditionally been among the top troop contributing nations to UN peacekeeping. Representational file image. | Photo Credit: PTI Indian peacekeepers are present in most of our peacekeeping missions and they are serving with commitment, the Under-Secretary General for United Nations (U.N.) Peace Operations Jean Pierre Lacroix said on Wednesday (February 26, 2025) while … Read more
The ED probe is based on a First Information Report registered by the Gautam Budh Nagar police in Uttar Pradesh’s Noida. File. The Enforcement Directorate (ED) has arrested Arif Nisar, founder of Vuenow Marketing Services Limited (VMSL) group, in connection with the “cloud particles [servers]“ case, said an agency official. The agency earlier found that … Read more