-The Hindu From the outside, it is just one of those private schools tucked away in an obscure corner that holds out the promise of convent-education, but once you are inside the poorly-lit building -- known as House No.16 -- in South-West Delhi's Bijwasan, you are confronted by the presence of countless buzzing flies and a pervading nauseating stench. This school with cramped classrooms and no students is home to grown...
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NGO demands ban on Ek Thi Daayan
-PTI Jamshedpur: Free Legal Aid Committee (FLAC), an NGO engaged in spreading awareness against superstition of daayan (witch), demanded a ban on Emraan Hashmi's Film Ek Thi Daayan. Kannan Iyer's Ek Thi Daayan, a supernatural Film, features Emraan Hashmir, Huma Qureshi, Konkona Sen Sharma and Kalki Koechlin. Prem Chand alias Premji of FLAC, said he had recently written a letter to President Pranab Mukherjee demanding immediate ban on the Film as...
More »On eve of release, Punjab bans Sadda Haq, Film on militancy -Navjeevan Gopal
-The Indian Express Amritsar: Hours before it was due to open in theatres Friday, the Punjab government banned a controversial Punjabi Film, Sadda Haq, which focuses on the era of militancy in the state, and attributed the decision to the need to maintain communal harmony. But the move has stoked a fresh controversy with the Shiromani Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee, which is controlled by the ruling Shiromani Akali Dal and had helped the...
More »Artful claims can’t decide patent law: court-J Venkatesan
-The Hindu The law of patent in India could not be developed on the artful drafting of claims by companies rather than on the intrinsic worth of invention, the Supreme Court has ruled, rejecting Novartis' claim for patent for its cancer drug. A Bench of Justices Aftab Alam and Ranjana Desai said, "We certainly do not wish the law of patent... to develop on the lines where there may be a vast...
More »Money-laundering by big banks, alleges Cobrapost; banks deny charges -Prasad Sanyal
-NDTV Cobrapost, an online magazine, claims to have caught on camera what is describes as a massive expose, which allegedly proves that some of the largest private sector banks in the country help in money-laundering. The banks involved have denied the accusations. NDTV cannot verify the authenticity of the video footage, Filmed largely on hidden camera, and shared by Cobrapost executives at a press conference in Delhi. A press release by ...
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