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BKU leader Rakesh Tikait to address Kisan Mahapanchayat in Jaipur

Ghaziabad administration asks protesting farmers to vacate UP Gate

9:31 pm January 28, 2021

Ghaziabad : The Ghaziabad administration has given an ultimatum to agitating farmers to vacate the UP Gate protest site by Thursday midnight even as union leader Rakesh Tikait remained adamant, saying he would commit suicide but won’t end the stir. A confrontation was building up at the UP Gate in Ghazipur bordering Delhi with heavy […]

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Supreme Court ends Trump emoluments lawsuits

10:01 pm January 25, 2021

Washington: The Supreme Court on Monday brought an end to lawsuits over whether Donald Trump illegally profited off his presidency. The justices threw out Trump’s challenge to lower court rulings that had allowed lawsuits to go forward alleging that he violated the Constitution’s emoluments clause by accepting payments from foreign and domestic officials who stay […]

Israel extradites woman wanted for sex crimes to Australia

2:17 pm January 25, 2021

Jerusalem: Israeli authorities on Monday extradited a woman wanted on 74 charges of child sex abuse in Australia following a six-year legal battle that strained relations between the two governments, her attorney confirmed. Malka Leifer, a former teacher accused of sexually abusing several former students at a Jewish school in Melbourne, had been fighting extradition from Israel since 2014. Leifer maintains her innocence and the […]

Citizenship data is latest rollback of Trump census efforts

11:15 pm January 23, 2021

Washington: The US Census Bureau is suspending efforts to create neighborhood-level statistics on the citizenship of residents, using 2020 census data, in the latest rollback of Trump administration census-related initiatives that critics feared would be used to favor Republicans and whites during the drawing of state and local districts. As part of an order President Joe Biden signed Wednesday on the 2020 census, […]

Legal education in the country needs urgent reforms: Supreme Court judges

10:36 pm January 23, 2021

New Delhi: There is an urgent need for reforming legal education in the country as its quality is being affected due to the ”mushrooming” of law colleges, two Supreme Court judges said on Saturday. ”I do believe we are churning out too many lawyers without any analysis of the number of lawyers required,” Justice S K Kaul said. He […]