Day March 20, 2018
By Geetika Dang , Vani S. Kulkarni and Raghav Gaiha As dowry deaths are embedded in archaic community and family norms, and in a corrupt and ineffective judicial and police system, curbing of this heinous crime remains a daunting challenge. NEW… Continue Reading →
HIGHLIGHTS Scores of girl students of Farook College took out ‘watermelon march’ holding slices of watermelon in their hands and sought action against assistant professor Jouhar Munavvir T. The teacher had said that girls were not wearing their hijab properly… Continue Reading →
In today’s hearing on Aadhaar senior advocate Meenakshi Arora continued her submissions, appearing for Vickram Crishna and others. Her main contention was that one, collection, aggregation and retention of personal data on a mass scale under the Aadhaar Project… Continue Reading →
8 FIRs registered against him Police have arrested professor Atul Johri of Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) for allegations of sexual harassment levelled against him by students, according to several media reports. File image of JNU professor Atul Johri. jnu.ac.in “A… Continue Reading →
The incident took place either late on Monday night or in the early hours of Tuesday. A statue of Dravidian stalwart EV Ramasamy, popularly known as Periyar, was vandalised in Alangudi town in Tamil Nadu’s Pudukkottai district. The incident took… Continue Reading →
THANE: “No means no.” The Thane magistrate court recently said these words while convicting a 45-year-old practising lawyer and sentencing him to three years’ rigorous imprisonment for “outraging the modesty” of a colleague who repeatedly rejected his marriage proposal. Magistrate R T Ingale on Monday held advocate… Continue Reading →