-The Pioneer New Delhi/ Lucknow: The Supreme Court on Friday directed the Uttar Pradesh Government to refund the fine and restore the attached properties of the alleged anti-CAA protesters for causing damage to public and private assets in December 2019. Terming it as a case of “unjust enrichment”, the court said the State can recover the damages under the new law, once it is established before the claims tribunal that public and...
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Apex court ticks off Yogi Adityanath govt over CAA damage notices -R Balaji
-The Telegraph Justice D.Y. Chandrachud and Justice Kant gave additional advocate-general Garima Prashad time till next Friday to come out with government’s position on the matter New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Friday warned the Uttar Pradesh government with “consequences” if it failed to withdraw 236 notices issued in 2019 to alleged anti-Citizenship Act protesters for the recovery of compensation over damage to public properties. The apex court said the notices had violated...
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-The Hindu Apart from PPE kits, RT-PCR tests, masks and gloves, Empowered Group later managed supply of medical oxygen The Central Information Commission (CIC) has slammed the Centre’s blanket denial of information related to a committee overseeing medical oxygen supplies during the pandemic, saying its rationale was “far fetched” and “unjustified”. In its order on Saturday, Information Commissioner Vanaja Sarna directed the Centre to respond to the Right to Information (RTI) request...
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Media reports indicate that at the start of the southwest monsoon season, lightning strikes caused the death of over 70 people in the states of Rajasthan, Uttar Pradesh and Madhya Pradesh on a single day i.e. 11th July, 2021. Prior to those separate events related to human casualty caused by thunderbolts, eighteen elephants were found dead on a hilltop at Kandali Proposed Reserve Forest situated in Assam's Nagaon district on...
More »Spending on R&D will determine India’s future progress, key message of the latest UNESCO Science Report
Scientific knowledge has immensely helped in combating the dreadful coronavirus and its spread. Within a record short period of time, scientists (including virologists, epidemiologists, biostatisticians, etc.) and their research outputs helped the commoners to learn more about the SARS-CoV-2 and how it spreads from one individual to the next one. Common people have now come to know how simple techniques and behavioural change like the wearing of N95 masks, maintaining...
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