Spread the love       California Governor Gavin Newsom California Governor Gavin Newsom has moved to commute the death sentences of all 548 inmates on the state’s death row to life imprisonment without the possibility of parole. However, the California Supreme Court will have the final say in 382 of the cases.“I take this action because I firmly believe that state-sanctioned killing...

Spread the love       Office-bearers from 12 states skipped eventNEW DELHI: Indian Youth Congress has suspended over 300 office-bearers from the organisation for not showing up for the ‘Chalo Delhi’ rally of INDIA bloc Sunday – a significant step to drive home the message that the outfit is serious about mass mobilisation in future.IYC sources said organisational office-bearers from assembly to...

Spread the love       Representative Image (AI-generated) A proposed residential neighbourhood can face uncertainty when an industrial facility is planned nearby, particularly when future homes fall within the distance restricted by local zoning rules. A Georgia developer faced this situation after a county approved a permit for a waste processing facility near its planned 97-townhome community. Although 46 of the proposed...

Spread the love       NEW DELHI: The Election Commission has reallocated work among its deputy election commissioners (DEC) and directors-general in view of the recent appointment of DEC Prakash Rajpurohit. DG (IT) Seema Khanna, who heads the division that manages the ECINet portal and application, will now put up all files regarding the IT/ICT and grievances divisions under her charge through...

Spread the love       NEW DELHI: Centre’s move to consider a fresh review of the controversial UGC equity regulations are being seen as an olive branch to agitating upper caste groups, while giving BJP room to avoid a fresh caste controversy ahead of the assembly elections, particularly in Uttar Pradesh.The regulations, which extended specific protection against caste-based discrimination to OBCs alongside...

Spread the love       NEW DELHI: Referring to the contradictory orders given by Supreme Court in the matter of bail to the accused on the ground of delay in trial and long incarceration for UAPA offences, which have been referred to a larger bench for authoritative pronouncement, former student activists Umar Khalid and Sharjeel Imam have moved SC for bail in...

Spread the love       NEW DELHI: Supreme Court Thursday ruled that the constitutional mandate of producing an arrestee before a magistrate within 24 hours starts the moment one is detained for interrogation and not from the time when formal arrest is made by an investigating agency, since the liberty of a person is curtailed when one is detained.Noting that no artificial...

Spread the love       Representative Image (AI-generated) A divorce settlement can settle who owns an asset on paper, but what happens when a couple gets back together and later separates again? A Washington woman faced this situation after remarrying her former husband and separating again approximately eight months later. Although their first divorce settlement had awarded her half of several bank...

Spread the love       RAIPUR: Tents, music, food and cars. Then came the roosters and the bets running into lakhs. Once a Maoist-controlled stretch of forest in Bastar, the remote terrain had acquired a different notoriety – an interstate cockfight gambling carnival attracting punters from across Chhattisgarh and neighbouring Telangana and Andhra Pradesh.Police busted the den near Raiguda village under Bhadrakali...

Spread the love       Supreme Court of India ‘Speedy trial is a fundamental right, can’t tinker’NEW DELHI: The Constitution will prevail over all other laws and regulations, Supreme Court said on Thursday and made it clear that in case of any contradiction or conflict between constitutional provisions and special laws like NDPS, UAPA and PMLA, it is the former which will...