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SC query to govt on abuse at shelters

-The Telegraph New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Tuesday asked the Centre to explain what action it had taken against government-funded shelters as a social audit showed that 1,575 cases of sexual harassment of children had been reported from across the country. The social audit was conducted by the Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS). The 1,575 cases were reported during the five years till 2016. A three-judge bench of Justices Madan B....

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Rs. 5 lakh-a-day fine warning to Net firms -R Balaji

-The Telegraph New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Friday censured search engines and social networking sites as "irresponsible" for allowing content that provoked lynchings, threatening a Rs 5 lakh-a-day fine till they developed a fool-proof mechanism to weed out such material. Eventually, the bench of Justices Madan B. Lokur and U.U. Lalit granted 30 days to Yahoo, Facebook Ireland, Facebook India, Google India, Google Inc, Microsoft and WhatsApp to install such a...

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Supreme Court express concern over deaths in accidents due to potholes

-PTI The Supreme Court on Friday expressed concern over deaths in accidents caused by potholes on roads across the country and observed that the number of fatalities caused by such accidents was more than those in terror attacks. A bench of Justices Madan B. Lokur and Deepka Gupta observed that a large number of people were dying in accidents caused by potholed roads and asked the Supreme Court Committee on Road...

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Only 12 of 23 Supreme Court judges have disclosed their assets: Official website -Seema Chishti

-The Indian Express According to the website, all the judges, who have declared their assets, own some land. It shows that the top two judges don’t own a car. New Delhi: Of the 23 judges presently in the Supreme Court, from a sanctioned strength of 31, only 12 have disclosed their assets on the official website. According to the Supreme Court website, the 11 judges who are yet to disclose their assets...

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Delay in payment of MGNREGA wages not accepted: Supreme Court

-The New Indian Epxress NEW DELHI: Any delay in paying the wages under the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA) is "simply not acceptable" and red-tape cannot be "pedalled" as an excuse to deny payment to the workers, the Supreme Court said today. The court, while noting that the Centre has admitted delay in payment of wages, said the payments to the workers must be transferred to them immediately, failing...

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