A bench headed by Chief Justice D Y Chandrachud is seized of various pleas on the issue. | Photo: Shutterstock 5 min read Last Updated : Oct 03 2024 | 11:30 PM IST If sexual acts by a man with his own wife is made punishable as “rape”, it may severely impact the conjugal … Read more
The media is buzzing with tales of a whopping Rs 50 crore heist from a retired IAS officer’s high residence in the tranquil hills of Uttarakhand. What’s drawing attention is not just the theft, but also the great question — how did such a hefty sum of money get there in the first place? The … Read more
Social roles evolve over the long term. Today’s “mother” need not be a female and a “father” not necessarily male. In the context of increasingly degenderized institutional roles, recent social policy reversals in Russia, China and the United States come as surprises — not least because equality is a central tenet of both socialism and … Read more
An Israeli airstrike on an apartment in the Lebanese capital has killed nine people, according to Lebanon’s health ministry. Israel has been pounding areas of the country where the Hezbollah militant group has a strong presence since late September, but has rarely struck in the heart of Beirut. There was no warning before … Read more
A big relief for spiritual leader Sadhguru, as the Supreme Court on Thursday paused a Madras High Court order that had asked Tamil Nadu police to investigate cases filed against his Isha Foundation. The high court’s probe order had come after a retired professor of Tamil Nadu Agricultural University in Coimbatore, S Kamaraj filed a … Read more
Hyderabad: Justice K. Sujana of the Telangana High Court declared that improper admission of evidence shall not in itself be a ground for a fresh trial in a criminal case dealing with section 167 of the Indian Evidence Act pointed out that the judgment however “Independently of the evidence objected to and admitted, there was … Read more
HYDERABAD: Chief Minister A. Revanth Reddy launched a scathing attack on BRS and BJP leaders for their opposition to the constitution of HYDRAA and Musi riverfront development projects. He specifically accused BRS leaders K.T. Rama Rao and T. Harish Rao of orchestrating “artificial protests” using hired supporters to hinder these projects, with the motive of … Read more
Chiranjeevi, Jr NTR, Nani and several other top Tollywood actors have taken a step to reprimand Konda Surekha, a minister in Telangana for the controversial comments which drew her back to the occurrences when Naga Chaitanya and his wife Samantha divorced a period. The controversy has resulted in anger among the faces of the industry … Read more
New Delhi: The Supreme Court, in a pathbreaking judgement on Thursday, put an end to caste-based discrimination in prisons, calling it unconstitutional, and directed the Centre to make changes in jail manuals that perpetuate such practices. The top court directed that the “caste” column and any references to caste in undertrial and/or convicts’ prisoners’ registers … Read more
Illustration: Ajay Mohanty 4 min read Last Updated : Oct 03 2024 | 6:25 PM IST The Centre’s reservation policy for Scheduled Caste, Scheduled Tribes, Other Backward Caste, and persons with disabilities will apply to the internship positions offered under the Prime Minister Internship Scheme, launched on a pilot basis on Thursday, high-level sources … Read more