Girl killed as human sacrifice in Karnataka

Girl killed as human sacrifice in Karnataka

They paid a 17 year old boy to kidnap a girl for human sacrifice! Police in the south Indian state of Karnataka have arrested three people in connection with the “human sacrifice” of a 10-year-old girl . Police told BBC Hindi that the child was killed on the instructions of a “sorcerer” to “cure” a […]

PIL is not a weapon: High Court

PIL is not a weapon: High Court

Public interest litigation (PIL) cannot be used as a “weapon to challenge financial or economic decisions”, the RBI has told the Delhi High Court opposing a plea against the surcharge on credit and debit card transactions. The plea has alleged that the surcharge levied by the banks and the financial institutions on credit and debit […]

Coke and Pepsi scarce in Chennai following trader ‘ban’!

Coke and Pepsi scarce in Chennai following trader ‘ban’!

Chennai: Coke and Pepsi have been thrown off the shelves in 70 percent of Tamil Nadu stores. This brew smells political, but on the face of it these shop owners are overly concerned about the health of the nation! (March 1) A call by the Traders Federation in Tamil Nadu to ban sales of Coca […]

Red-faced Tiger authority trains guns on BBC

Red-faced Tiger authority trains guns on BBC

After a BBC expose on dark doings in the forests of Kaziranga, certain government officials want to hide their embarrassment by calling for the (virtual) expulsion of  on the British Broadcasting Corporation reporter, and a bar on allowing BBC access to ‘protected forests’! It appears that there is a ‘shoot at sight’ policy that allows […]

Contest an Election from Jail, but no right to Canvass: HC

Contest an Election from Jail, but no right to Canvass: HC

New Delhi:  The right to contest an election from jail does not give anyone the right to be released for campaigning, the Delhi High Court  said ( Feb 27) while rejecting custody parole to MLA Mukhtar Ansari to canvass for himself in the UP assembly polls. “A right to contest the election cannot imply that […]

Can you advertise for organ transplant if there’s no donor?

Can you advertise for organ transplant if there’s no donor?

New Delhi: Can a person who has no family donor be allowed to advertise to get a volunteer for a kidney transplant? This is a question on which the Delhi High Court today sought the views of the government. The issue was raised by a patient who drew the attention of the court that in […]

500 arrested for demo against Namo’s unveiling of ‘illegal’ statue

500 arrested for demo against Namo’s unveiling of ‘illegal’ statue

In the brave new India that’s emerging , it seems all sorts of Godmen are above the Law! Coimbatore, Feb 24: Nearly 500 members of various outfits were arrested here today when they attempted to stage a demonstration against the unveiling of a 112-foot Adiyogi face at the Isha Yoga centre by Prime Minister Narendra […]

Prakash Jha rues Film Censors’ narrow outlook

Prakash Jha rues Film Censors’ narrow outlook

Bombay (Mumbai): Feb 24: Filmmaker Prakash Jha, whose production “Lipstick Under My Burkha” has been denied certificate by censor board, says the film industry will keep facing such troubles till the time “a set of people” have the freedom to censor the content. The film, directed by Alankrita Shrivastava, was denied certification by Central Board […]

‘Every autobiography is a preemptive strike against a future biographer’

‘Every autobiography is a preemptive strike against a future biographer’

New Delhi: Biographies are an important part of history, and those who attempt writing them have their work cut out, says historian Ramchandra Guha. Biographers should suppress their own egos in favour of the ‘ego’ of the person they are writing about. Arguing that India is an “inhospitable terrain to write biographies”, historian Ramachandra Guha […]

Govt ‘not perturbed’ over ATM dispensing fake bank notes: Minister

Govt ‘not perturbed’ over ATM dispensing fake bank notes: Minister

New Delhi: Just yesterday,  we were shocked at the news that a State Bank of India ATM machine was dispensing play notes instead of the real stuff. This is scary for ATM users all over the country. However, a minister says the government is ‘not perturbed’ over counterfeit currency being dispensed, says a PTI report on […]

Nestle lost 100 crore due to Cash Ban

Nestle lost 100 crore due to Cash Ban

New Delhi:  FMCG major Nestle says  it has taken Rs 100 crore hit on sales due to demonetisation and the sector will take another six months to overcome the impact of the government’s move to scarp old high value notes, according to a PTI report. “We took an impact in November. If you look on […]

How Ghalib influenced a Supreme Court Justice!

How Ghalib influenced a Supreme Court Justice!

New Delhi: Urdu is a beautiful language, says former CJ of India TS Thakur, and should be learned  at an early age.  Former Chief Justice of India T S Thakur once agreed to fast-track the hearing of a case, after he overheard the lawyer in question alluding to one of Ghalib’s couplets during the court […]

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