NEW DELHI — The Supreme Court on Tuesday expressed shock over some trial courts not complying with its July 2022 order to be liberal and grant bail to accused in cases when custody is not needed. Asking the courts not to pass detention orders in a routine and mechanical way and thus deny liberty to […]
NEW DELHI — The Swiss firm IQAir in its ‘World Air Quality Report’ released on Tuesday ranked India the world’s eighth most polluted country in 2022, dropping from fifth place the previous year. In the list of most polluted cities in the world, out of the 50 cities, 39 are in India. Chad, Iraq, Pakistan, […]
NEW DELHI — The Department of Consumer Affairs on Monday released detailed guidelines for social media and virtual influencers as well as celebrities which are aimed at ensuring that such individuals do not mislead their audience while endorsing products or services. The guidelines titled “Endorsements Know-hows” have also been prepared to ensure that endorsements undertaken […]
NEW DELHI — Former Reserve Bank of India (RBI) Governor Raghuram Rajan on Sunday said that India is “dangerously close” to the Hindu rate of growth in view of subdued private sector investment, high interest rates and slowing global growth, PTI reported. The “Hindu rate of growth” is a term describing low Indian economic growth […]
NEW DELHI — Chief Justice of India DY Chandrachud has highlighted the problem of trolling “in an age where people are short on their patience and tolerance”. What leads to this problem is people’s unwillingness to accept opinion and perspective that are different from their own, Chief Justice Chandrachud said at an event on law […]
NEW DELHI — The Supreme Court on Thursday formed a committee headed by its retired judge A.M. Sapre to probe into the Adani-Hindenburg controversy. A bench headed by Chief Justice of India D.Y. Chandrachud and comprising Justices P.S. Narasimha and J.B. Pardiwala delivered the order on a batch of petitions filed by advocates Vishal Tiwari, […]
NEW DELHI — Petroleum and oil marketing companies raised the price of commercial liquid petroleum gas (LPG) cylinders by Rs 350.50 per unit and domestic LPG cylinders by Rs 50 per unit with immediate effect from Wednesday. Non-subsidised LPG price was hiked to Rs 1,103 per 14.2-kg cylinder – the first increase since July 2022, […]
NEW DELHI — The News Broadcasting and Digital Standards Authority (NBDSA) has asked News18 India, TimesNow and Zee News to remove from their online platforms videos of certain programmes aired by them after it found them to be in violation of the Code of Ethics and Broadcasting Standards and Specific Guidelines. In an order on […]
NEW DELHI — India imposed by far the highest number of internet shutdowns in the world in 2022, internet advocacy watchdog Access Now said on Tuesday, as the country topped the list for the fifth successive year. Out of 187 internet shutdowns globally recorded by Access Now, 84 took place in India, including 49 in […]
NEW DELHI — Delhi ministers Manish Sisodia and Satyender Jain – both in custody for alleged corruption – resigned from the Delhi cabinet on Tuesday. Chief Minister and Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) national convener Arvind Kejriwal accepted their resignations. The CBI arrested Sisodia on Sunday evening — after nine hours of interrogation – for the […]