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Yogi’s bulldozers deliver crushing blow to organised crime in UP’s badlands
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Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath’s much-publicised bulldozers -- known as ‘Baba’s bulldozers’ in local parlance -- have emerged as a symbol of State...
Homemakers need to be ‘remunerated’ for the domestic work they do: Calcutta HC
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Homemakers should never be treated as “unemployed” as they too have every right to be remunerated for the domestic work they do round the...
Casting off colonial era baggage, India’s criminal justice system ushers in a new era
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"Casting off colonial era baggage, India's criminal justice system ushers in a new era", First Post, December 26, 2023:
"Ex-Congress stalwart and Constituent Assembly member...
Centre issues advisory to social media intermediaries with focus on curbing deepfakes
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The government on Tuesday issued an advisory to all social media intermediaries, to ensure compliance with the existing IT rules and specifically target the...
No offence under SC/ST Act if abuse is not in public: Allahabad HC
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The Lucknow bench of the Allahabad High Court has set aside the criminal proceedings against the owner of a school under the SC/ST (Prevention...
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"BJP’s legal goodies before 2024: Cure for netas’ ‘chest pain’ to deshdroh, love jihad to mob lynching", First Post, December 21, 2023:
"Laws can be...
‘Bengal now needs CBI police stations’: Calcutta HC judge slams Mamata regime and police
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Justice Abhijit Gangopadhyay of the Calcutta High Court, while hearing a case of cooperative society forgery which is being probed by the Central Bureau...
Parliament passes Telecom Bill, paving way for Musk’s Starlink & others
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The Rajya Sabha on Thursday passed the Telecommunications Bill 2023 through a voice vote, just a day after it was passed in the Lok...
Due to action against Child marriage, teenage pregnancies have come down in Assam: CM Sarma
On Tuesday, Assam CM Himanta Biswa Sarma claimed that the cases of teenage pregnancies have come down in the state. The change happened because...
Kashmiri Pandit organisation demands end to ‘transient benefits’ granted to community
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An organisation of Kashmiri Pandits known as the JK Peace Forum said on Wednesday that since ‘harmony and peace has been restored in J&K’,...