-The Indian Express A bench of Justices L Nageswara Rao, Hemant Gupta and Ajay Rastogi said that to constitute an offence under the Act, the words spoken must be “in any place within public view”, and not within the four walls of a house and in the absence of any member of the public. New Delhi: Not every offending remark against a member of the Scheduled Caste or Scheduled Tribe will amount...
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Hathras rape: Is it fair to allow District Magistrate to continue in his post, asks Allahabad HC -Omar Rashid
-The Hindu Court cites pendency of the investigation in the rape and illegal cremation case in which Praveen Kumar Laxkar is in ‘the thick of things’ The Allahabad High Court has asked the Uttar Pradesh government if it was “fair and reasonable” to allow the District Magistrate (DM) of Hathras to continue in his post during the pendency of the investigation in the Hathras rape and illegal cremation case in which he...
More »Telling Numbers: Body mass index of Indian 19-year-olds among lowest in 200 countries -Anuradha Mascarenhas
-The Indian Express World Health Organization guidelines define a normal BMI range as 18.5 to 24.9, overweight as 25 or higher, and obesity as 30 or higher. India ranks third and fifth from the bottom respectively among countries where 19-year-old girls and boys have a low body mass index, according to a study in The Lancet to be published on Friday. The study provides new estimates for height and BMI trends in...
More »Punjab struggles for essentials amid suspension of goods trains -Kanchan Vasdev
-The Indian Express Thermal plants shut down, leading to power cuts, raw material supply cut off to industry, movement of food grains hit Chandigarh: SUSPENSION OF railway traffic to Punjab since September 24 amid the farmers’ agitation against the Centre’s farm laws has left the state gasping for power, fertilisers and raw material for industry and gunny bags for paddy procurement, besides bringing to a halt the movement of food grains and...
More »Do recent indicators hint at a real economic revival? -Vikas Dhoot
-The Hindu After India’s economy collapsed in the first quarter of 2020-21 following the nationwide lockdown imposed to curb the COVID-19 pandemic, some economic indicators from September and October, from power consumption to GST collections, suggest that things are improving. But is this a sustainable recovery under way, or just an expression of pent-up demand combined with India’s festive-season spending? In a conversation moderated by Vikas Dhoot, Naushad Forbes and M....
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