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SC to take up Tej Bahadur’s plea challenging PM Modi’s election from Varanasi

   20 May 2020 at 09:24

WHAT WAS THE CASE ABOUT? Ex- BSF Jawan Tej Bahadur filed an appeal before the Supreme Court in February, 2020 who challenged Prime Minster Narendra Modi’s election from Varanasi contested in the year 2019.Tej Bahadur’s nomination as an in ..

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French legislators pass new law with an aim to curb online hate speech

   19 May 2020 at 09:53

On the 14th May, the French National Assembly passed a law that elaborates on the national position towards hate speech, which is, intolerance. The French legislators have made it plenty clear that they won’t be empathetic towards online hate s ..

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People with mental illness can’t be discriminated in matters of employment: Delhi HC

   13 May 2020 at 12:27

WHAT IS THE CASE ABOUT? On Friday, the Delhi HC gave an important judgement regarding selection of judges under the Persons with Disability (PwD) category. In Bhavya Nain v. High Court of Delhi, the petitioner, Bhavya Nain, was a candidate with Bipol ..

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COVID-19: Signing Legal Documents through Video Witnessing

   13 May 2020 at 12:10

Introduction The Electronic Transactions Amendment (COVID-19 Witnessing of Documents) Regulation 2020 was published on 22nd April 2020. NSW is the first state of Australia to introduce witnessing of legal documents via “audiovisual link”. ..

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NHRC takes suo moto cognizance of Aurangabad rail incident

   11 May 2020 at 09:57

The National Human Rights Commission has taken suo moto cognizance of the recent train accident tragedy. On the early morning of 7th May, a train ran over 16 migrant workers who had fallen asleep on the track while they were walking back to their hom ..

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SC to into the issue of termination/salary cuts of techies during lockdown

   11 May 2020 at 09:56

The Apex Court has agreed to examine the issue relating to mass termination and withholding and deduction of salaries of IT/ITES/BPO/KPO employers due to the lockdown, caused due to ever growing Cvodi-19 cases.The petition was filed by Rajesh Inamdar ..

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The "Bois Locker Room" Chat Group

   08 May 2020 at 13:58

What has happened?In the late evening hours of Saturday, purported screenshots of chats between boys and girls in a group called the “Bois Locker Room” started making rounds on social media. By early morning of Sunday, the screenshots had ..

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Madras HC quashes defamation case against Sandhya Ravishankar

   07 May 2020 at 13:49

In 2015, journalist Sandhya Ravishankar had written articles for the Economic Times on illegal beach sand mining in Tamil Nadu. A case of criminal defamation was filed against the journalist which was quashed by the Madras HC on Wednesday. The HC mad ..

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Delhi HC declines to grant interim injunction on airing Netflix series "Hasmukh"

   07 May 2020 at 13:49

The Delhi Court on Tuesday declined to grant interim stay on the new Netflix series “Hasmukh” which stars Vir Das. The plea, moved by Advocate Ashutosh Dubey, claimed that the fictional series maligned the reputation of advocates, especia ..

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Visakhapatnam Gas Leak

   07 May 2020 at 13:47

WHAT HAS HAPPENED?While India was already dealing with the increasing number of Covid-19 case and a terrorist attack in Hardwar which martyred 6 military personnel, the nation today woke up to the terrible news of styrene gas leak in the outskirts of ..

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