Activist Gautam Navlakha. File | Photo Credit: Shiv Kumar Pushpakar The Supreme Court on May 14 granted bail to activist Gautam Navlakha in the Elgar Parishad-Maoist links case. A bench of Justices M.M. Sundresh and S.V.N. Bhatti refused to extend the stay imposed by the Bombay High Court order on the bail granted to Navlakha … Read more
The National Board for Wildlife (NBWL) has given approval to construct training walls at the Pazhaverkadu estuary to stabilise the bar mouth, which often gets closed due to silting. An official, who was a part of the NBWL meeting held in New Delhi on November 17, confirmed that consent was granted for the construction of … Read more
The Kerala High Court has directed the Director General of Prisons and Correctional Services to grant 15 days leave to a life convict lodged at the Central Prison, Viyyur, to undergo fertility treatment under In Vitro Fertilisation/Intracytoplasmic Sperm Injection (IVF/ICSI) to have a child. The court passed the order on a petition filed by his … Read more
The Madras High Court on Monday granted anticipatory bail to Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) member S.G. Suryah in a case booked against him by the Cuddalore police for a report carried in the online portal The Commune, in which he was a Director, regarding the action of the Hindu Religious and Charitable Endowments Department in … Read more
The High Level Committee (HLC) that met under the chairmanship of Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Monday, has approved additional Central assistance of ₹941.04 crore to poll-bound Karnataka under the National Disaster Response Fund (NDRF) towards damages due to flood, landslips, and cloudburst during 2022. Karnataka is one of the five States to get … Read more
India is unlikely to sign a deal with richer nations this year for a just energy transition, as international funding rests on India committing to a timeline to phase out coal, an “unviable” proposition for the country, energy analysts said. The Group of Seven (G7) industrialised nations, together with Norway, Denmark and the European Union, … Read more
The Supreme Court tells the Centre not to register fresh FIRs under Section 124A; government says it is re-examining the colonial provision The Supreme Court tells the Centre not to register fresh FIRs under Section 124A; government says it is re-examining the colonial provision An interim order putting on hold the contentious sedition law and … Read more
For decades, Britain’s Conservative Party politicians decried the European Union for its supposed aversion to free markets. Now trade negotiations that will define the future relationship between the U.K. and the EU from next year have stalled, in large part because Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s government wants the freedom to ignore EU rules limiting state … Read more
Karren Madere and Andrea Knebel are both victims of the Covid-19 recession. Ms. Madere was laid off in June from her job at a travel-management company, where she negotiated hotel-room rates for corporate clients. Ms. Knebel was sent home in April from her job as a business consultant at an auto-parts factory. Ms. Madere, 61 … Read more