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Over 3,000 Syrians fled to Italy in 40 days: UN

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Around 3,300 Syrians have fled to Italy by boat in he past 40 days to escape the intensifying conflitct in their homeland, a UN spokesperson said. “The UN Refugee Agency is seeing a sharp increase in Syrians arriving by boat in southern Italy. Over the past 40 days, 3,300 Syrians, of whom more than 230 […]

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Death for all four in Dec 16 gang rape

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Four convicts in the December 16 gangrape-cum-murder case were on Friday awarded death penalty by a Delhi court which said the gravity of the offence cannot be tolerated. “Death to all,” Additional Sessions Judge Yogesh Khanna said while delivering the verdict in the case that had evoked nationwide outrage and led the government to bring […]

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CBSE ropes in charity to train differently abled students

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The Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) has empanelled a charitable society, Manovikas, to provide skills of different kinds to students who are differently abled, an official statement said Friday. Students with special needs in classes IX, X, XI and XII studying in schools affiliated to the CBSE can join Manovikas’s skill knowledge programme to […]

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Boycott Commonwealth summit, Human Rights Watch says

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The heads of Commonwealth governments should boycott the Commonwealth summit in Sri Lanka in November due to its unwillingness to address human rights concerns, Human Rights Watch said Friday. Those governments deciding to attend should send a low-level delegation as a public message of dissatisfaction, it said in a letter to the 54 heads of […]

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Reject papers if assets, criminal past not disclosed: SC

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The Supreme Court on Friday said that the nomination papers of a candidate would stand rejected if he does not disclose the details of his assets or his criminal antecedents in his nomination papers. The Supreme Court bench headed by Chief Justice P. Sathasivam said that the returning officer had the power to reject the […]

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Court tells Delhi cops to check rapes

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The Delhi High Court on Thursday told the police that there is a need to improve its “working mechanism” to curb heinous crimes like gang rapes. A division bench chief justice NV Ramana said justice Pradeep Nandrajog said that despite their earlier direction to police to ensure safety of women, rapes were being committed. The court, on […]

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Indian techie gets nine months jail for groping woman

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An Indian techie has been sentenced to nine months in federal prison for sexually groping a Chicago area woman during a flight and faces deportation to India after serving his time. It was the third time Srinivasa S. Erramilli, 46, had been convicted of touching women during flights, according to the US Attorney’s office. Erramilli, […]

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Appointment of 4 Andhra information commissioners set aside

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The Andhra Pradesh High Court Thursday set aside appointment of four information commissioners and directed the state government to appoint new commissioners within six months. A division bench headed by Chief Justice Kalyan Jyothi Sengupta passed the orders on a petition, which challenged the appointments on the ground that all the four are active in […]

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NGO asks SC to cancel all coal block allocations

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The Supreme Court should cancel all the coal blocks allocated to private and public sector companies in a non-transparent and unfair manner and in violation of rules, a petitioner said Thursday. Petitioner NGO Common Cause has sought the cancellation of coal blocks allocated to state-owned companies which had in turn entered into joint venture agreements with the […]

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‘Judge appointment panel conforms to constitution’s basic structure’

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Seeking to allay apprehensions that the proposed Judges Appointment Commission was contrary to the basic structure of the constitution, the law ministry maintained that it would restore the consultative process that was given a goodbye under the collegium system of appointment. “How is the JAC mechanism for appointment contrary to the basic structure of the […]

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Free human rights activist, Dhaka told

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Bangladeshi authorities should release a human rights activist detained in connection with his work, a coalition of human rights groups said Thursday. Adilur Rahman Khan, one of Bangladesh’s most prominent rights defenders and secretary of Odhikar group, was arrested Aug 10. The public appeal was made in an open letter to Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina. […]

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Muzaffarnagar riots: SC issues notice to centre, UP

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The Supreme Court Thursday issued notice to the centre and the Uttar Pradesh government on two petitions seeking a CBI probe into the communal flare-up in Muzaffarnagar that has claimed 38 lives and also for providing immediate relief to the victims and other people stranded in the town. An apex court bench headed by Chief […]

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