The International Court of Justice ruled Pakistan violated Kulbhushan Jadhav’s rights by denying him consular access or allowing him to choose his lawyer during his trial and asked Islamabad ensure “effective review and reconsideration of his conviction and sentences.”
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A local court in the Jharkhand capital, Ranchi, put an unusual condition for granting bail to a young woman who was arrested for posting an alleged hate message on Facebook. Richa Bharati, 19, on her post, had allegedly targeted the Muslim community.
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The Supreme Court issued an interim order ruling that the speaker of Karnataka assembly, KR Ramesh Kumar, will decide on the resignations of 15 rebel Congress and Janata Dal (Secular) MLAs within a time frame the speaker may consider appropriate.
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After 10 rebel MLAs personally submitted their fresh resignations to assembly speaker KR Ramesh Kumar in Bengaluru, he ruled out any immediate decision on the matter despite a Supreme Court order.
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The Supreme Court, on Thursday, directed the three-member mediation panel, which is headed by Justice FM Ibrahim Kalifulla, in the Ayodhya land dispute case to submit the status of the proceedings in the matter by July 18.
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The Central Bureau of Investigation, on Thursday, raided the house of senior lawyers Indira Jaising and her husband Anand Grover’s NGO. The agency accuses them of violating a law on foreign funding.
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In a major relief to the Karnataka government, assembly speaker KR Ramesh Kumar has asked for more time to look into the resignations submitted by the 14 MLAs. The speaker said he needs at least six days to decide on resignation as he has to make conscious decision.
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The Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Amendment Bill, introduced in the Lok Sabha by the home minister, Amit Shah, has attracted criticism from the opposition parties by calling it as a tool to violate the fundamental rights of citizens.
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In a last-ditch effort to save the crumbling government, 21 Congress ministers and nine JDS ministers resigned from the state cabinet to placate the 14 rebel MLAs who withdrew their support to the Congress-JD(S) coalition government.
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The Indian Air Force’s pet project for 56 medium transport aircraft by the Tata-Airbus consortium is in the pipeline to get started this year, TOI has reported. Another long-pending “Make in India” plane project worth ₹1.5 lakh crore that involves 114 fighter jets is awaiting the final nod.
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