Bombay (Mumbai), Feb 3: It’s really crazy the way politics bows to all these reservations. Do you know that Municipal Corporations in Maharashtra cannot have a mayor based on merit, but that the post is chosen by lottery? That’s really throwing things to chance. Surprised? Well here’s the PTI report : The 227-member Brihanmumbai Municipal […]
Many people said they were shocked over footage of a teenage victim of a hit-and-run accident pleading with unresponsive onlookers to take him to hospital. This happened in Karnataka. Local media reported people gathered around and took pictures and videos of the injured teen, but did not help him. How insensitive is that? Anwar Ali, […]
Shillong: What’s happening in Meghalaya? Another woman being harassed by a high ranking official? This time the official withheld the woman’s salary (she is a peon in a state government office) for 6 months because she refused to move in with him! The Meghalaya State Commission for Women today wrote to the state soil and […]
New Delhi: “Justice is not blind and nor do the courts wear blinkers,” Delhi High Court has said while coming down hard on a man for keeping his 94-year-old mother “out of her own home” for 16 years by engaging her in litigation over possession of the house built by her. While imposing costs of […]
LAHORE: What is this ‘honour’ that pushes a mother to commit the dastardly deed of setting fire to her 16 year old daughter? Civilized society grapples with these horrendous killings, but the beat goes on. Who will stop the rain? More death sentences? A mother who murdered her own daughter and set her alight for […]
New Delhi: You can’t sue a college for not giving you a ‘placement’. Education isn’t a commodity to be bought or sold or with ‘special offers’. Students are not consumers. A youth’s plea against an institute for allegedly not providing him with an internship or job as promised at the time of admission, has been […]
New Delhi: Muslim clerics have no authority to issue divorce certificates, a High Court in India has ruled, invalidating such decrees already issued by a top cleric in Tamil Nadu state in southern India (Jan 13). This is in line with, a 1997 Supreme Court judgment ruled that church court rulings on marriage will have […]
It’s back to the future. Long live the vinyl record. And how can the juke box not be revived? ‘Please mister Please’ sand Olivia Newton John, a few decades ago…. And someone has heard that plea! There’s just something about the warm sound of a vinyl record. For the first time in 25 years, record […]
Shillong: The long arm of the law caught up with a Meghalaya MLA, accused of statutory rape of a 14 year old under POSCO, (Jan 7). He was nabbed at one of his ‘hideouts’ in neighbouring Assam. Independent Meghalaya MLA Julius Dorphang, was wanted in connection with a trafficking for sex case involving a 14-year […]
New Delhi: Isn’t a man who has sex with his ‘under 18’ wife guilty of statutory rape? POSCO says yes, the Indian Penal Code says ‘no’. The Supreme Court asks the government to step up to the slate and make its position clear! Can sex with wife, who is above 15 and below 18 years […]
‘ Trump is the face of tyranny and facism’ says a choir member who resigned rather than sung at The US Presidential elect’s inauguration. The trump victory has stumped most of the US of America! But the organisers of the Presidential Big Day are at a loss to find performers to sing at the Inaugral! […]
Are we reading too much into the involvement of women in terrorist acts in Bangladesh? This by no means is a new spectacle. The so called weaker sex has always been a part of terror ever since the phenomenon was exploited to create psychological and physical havoc on the target, be it the state or […]
