On Tuesday, the Supreme Court adjourned the hearing in a 2009 contempt of court case against lawyer Prashant Bhushan, and reserved its verdict on the amount of sentence in the contempt case started earlier this year. The three-judge tribunal headed by Judge…
read more“The upticks that became visible in May and June after the lockdown was eased in several parts of the country, appear to have lost strength in July and August, mainly due to reimposition or stricter imposition of lockdowns, suggesting that contraction in…
read moreOn the eve of the United States’ presidential vote, an asteroid colliding with Earth could approach the planet, according to the Center for Near Object Studies at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory. While numerous social networks expressed concern at the news of the…
read moreIn a bid to boost India’s efforts to find effective drugs and vaccines against Covid-19, the government is temporarily allowing investment in such efforts to be viewed as meeting corporate social responsibility (CSR) obligations from a company business. What are the changes?…
read moreApple has started manufacturing its latest phone, the most affordable iPhone SE, in India. With this, the company now produces four iPhone models in India through its manufacturing partners Foxconn and Wistron. When did Apple start making phones in India? Apple began…
read moreBelarusian police summoned Nobel laureate Svetlana Alexievich to question her about a criminal case against a new opposition council. The council, founded by exiled opposition leader Svetlana Tikhanovskaya, was created after contested elections earlier this month. Alexievich, winner of the 2015 Nobel…
read moreA recent article in the Wall Street Journal spoke of a political problem in Facebook’s operations in India that hit the house hard. They said senior Facebook executives in India lifted the company’s checks and balances to allow posts from a far-right…
read moreThe SOFI report and lockdown anxiety have renewed attention to what is also the world’s largest food insecure population Data from the latest edition of the State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World. World (SOFI) show that India retains the…
read moreThe gap between Pakistan and Saudi Arabia over Jammu and Kashmir is in sight. A delegation led by the head of the Pakistani army, General Qamar Javed Bajwa, visited Saudi Arabia, but was refused a meeting with Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman…
read moreThe Mumbai National Company Law Court (NCLT) authorized the opening of insolvency proceedings against Anil Ambani after two companies promoted by him failed to pay the quotas of Rs 1200 million they had borrowed at the State Bank. of India (SBI). The…
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