Aman Wadud: Assam’s advocate fighting the National Register of Citizens (NRC)

Aman Wadud: Assam’s advocate fighting the National Register of Citizens (NRC)

Lawyer Aman Wadud wants to be the voice of his people and change the narrative. | Photo Credit: Special arrangement When the first list of the National Register of Citizens (NRC) was released in Assam in 2018, it excluded 4 million residents. They had to reapply to be included and submit their biometrics. That day, … Read more

Mahua Moitra sues BJP MP Nishikant Dubey, advocate Jai Anant Dehadrai for defamation

Mahua Moitra sues BJP MP Nishikant Dubey, advocate Jai Anant Dehadrai for defamation

Trinamool Congress (TMC) MP Mahua Moitra speaks in the Lok Sabha, in New Delhi. | Photo Credit: ANI Trinamool Congress (TMC) member Mahua Moitra moved the Delhi High Court on October 17 seeking to restrain Bharatiya Janata Party MP Nishikant Dubey, advocate Jai Anant Dehadrai, and several social media platforms and media houses from posting, … Read more

T.N. Advocate General’s former junior gets elevated as judge of Madras High Court

T.N. Advocate General’s former junior gets elevated as judge of Madras High Court

Madras High Court Chief Justice S.V. Gangapurwala administered the oath of office to Justice N. Senthilkumar on Monday, October 16, 2034 | Photo Credit: Special Arrangement Madras High Court Chief Justice S.V. Gangapurwala on Monday, administered the oath of office to Justices N. Senthilkumar and G. Arul Murugan, who were appointed as additional judges of … Read more

SP among six policemen booked on charge of torturing advocate in Punjab

SP among six policemen booked on charge of torturing advocate in Punjab

A case has been registered against six Punjab policemen, including a superintendent of police, in Muktsar district on the charges of subjecting an advocate to custodial torture, abetment of unnatural sex, wrongful confinement and causing threat to his life, police said on Tuesday. The case was registered against Muktsar SP (Investigation) Ramandeep Singh Bhullar, CIA … Read more

Only a comprehensive probe in ‘Kodi-Kathi’ case will bring facts to light, says Jagan’s advocate

Only a comprehensive probe in ‘Kodi-Kathi’ case will bring facts to light, says Jagan’s advocate

Chief Minister Y.S. Jagan Mohan Reddy. File. | Photo Credit: KVS Giri The allegation that Majji Srinivasa Rao, a YSR Congress Party leader and close relative of Education Minister Botcha Satyanarayana, was responsible for the attack on Y.S. Jagan Mohan Reddy at Visakhapatnam airport by J. Srinivasa Rao with a Kodi-Kathiwas intended to divert the … Read more

Mehrauli killing | Court gives ‘last opportunity’ to Poonawala’s advocate to respond to arguments on charges

Mehrauli killing | Court gives ‘last opportunity’ to Poonawala’s advocate to respond to arguments on charges

Aaftab Amin Poonawala, accused to have murdered his live-in partner Shraddha Walkar | File photo | Photo Credit: PTI A court here on Saturday provided the last opportunity to Aaftab Amin Poonawala’s advocate to respond to the Delhi Police’s arguments on charges against him. Mr. Poonawala is accused of strangling his live-in partner Shraddha Walkar and … Read more

Advocate L. Victoria Gowri assumes office as judge of Madras High Court 

Advocate L. Victoria Gowri assumes office as judge of Madras High Court 

In a ceremony held at the High Court premises at 10:35 a.m, the ACJ administered the oath also to advocates P.B. Balaji and K.K. Ramakrishnan and judicial officers. Madras High Court Acting Chief Justice T. Raja on Tuesday administered the oath of office to L. Victoria Gowri as an additional judge of the court even … Read more

Bengaluru advocate seeks protection following threat call

Bengaluru advocate seeks protection following threat call

A city-based advocate approached the State and the city police, and the High Court seeking necessary protection following an alleged threat call he received from a person claiming to be speaking on behalf of B.Z. Zameer Ahmed Khan, MLA. The advocate Hussain Owais S., working from a law office on Infantry Road, alleged that he … Read more

How Role in ‘The Chi’ Made Yolonda Ross a Breast Cancer Advocate

How Role in ‘The Chi’ Made Yolonda Ross a Breast Cancer Advocate

July 8, 2022 – Yolonda Ross went all-in when she learned that the single mom she plays in Showtime’s acclaimed series The Chi has breast cancer. In season four, episode seven, Ross, who plays Jada, shaved her long hair on camera, bringing to life the very real struggles her character – and actual breast cancer … Read more

Meet a Fierce Advocate for Women’s Health: Jen Gunter, MD

Meet a Fierce Advocate for Women’s Health: Jen Gunter, MD

March 25, 2022 — Jen Gunter, MD, refuses to stay silent when she sees misleading claims about women’s health products. In fact, the world’s most famous — and outspoken — OB/GYN (as described by The Guardian), is on a social media mission to speak up whenever she sees companies or governments “prey on women’s health … Read more