On Friday, Delhi high court sentences expelled BJP MLA Kuldeep Singh to life imprisonment for raping a minor girl in Uttar Pradesh’s Unnao in 2107. The court has also announced a compensation of Rs 25 lakhs to be given to the victim’s family as compensation.
I am a citizen of India and I have the right to speak against what I feel is wrong. There are thousands of students, men, women and senior citizens who have decided to take a stand against the CAB and NRC. Just because the celebrities are influential people and have a face value, doesn’t mean that they have no emotions. They are equally part of the constitution just like you and me. They have the rights just like we have and no one is an exception.
The amended CAA has been a heating topic in the country . Several Bollywood celebrities have been expressing their concerns over the same.
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Anand Mahindra (64), executive chairman of Mahindra & Mahindra, will be the non-executive chairman from April 1, 2020. This means that instead of functioning in the board, he will be in the role of guide. The change was approved by the Board of Directors on the recommendations of the company's Governance, Nomination and Remuneration Committee (GNRC) on Friday. The board has also made other changes.
The special court on Friday sentenced the four terrorists to death in connection with the serial bomb blasts on May 13, 2008 in Parkota area. Earlier on Thursday, his sentence was debated. The public prosecutor considered it the rarest of the matter and demanded the execution of Mohammed Saif, Sarwar Azmi, Saifur Rahman and Mohammad Salman. 71 people died in these blasts which occurred eleven and a half years ago, while 185 were injured.
There were fierce protests in Delhi and Uttar Pradesh on Friday against the Citizenship Amendment Act. Violence erupted during demonstrations in 20 districts of Uttar Pradesh. During the firing in Firozabad and Meerut, 2 people died due to firing. 8 people were injured in Kanpur and 4 in Bijnor. The day-long protest in the Jama Masjid area of ​​Delhi was peaceful. But, in the evening, the protesters threw stones at the police and opened fire.
In Australia, conditions have worsened this summer. Over the past two months, reservoirs have been on the verge of drying up in most areas of Western Australia due to forest fires and lack of rain. Meanwhile, the thieves stole 3 lakh liters of water from a drought-prone area in New South Wales. The police have started searching for the thieves. The thieves are reported to have stolen two tanks worth of water from a private property in Evans Plain, three hours from Sydney.
The Delhi High Court on Thursday dismissed the petition of Pawan Gupta, one of the four convicts of Nirbhaya gang rape and murder. The convict sentenced to death in the case had filed a petition on Wednesday, in which he had declared himself a minor at the time of the incident. Pawan's lawyer AP Singh sought time from the court to hand over the new documents during the hearing, to which Nirbhaya's parents objected.
Left parties and Muslim organizations called a nationwide shutdown in protest against the citizenship law on Thursday. Demonstrations and incidents of violence occurred in 12 states. In 6 of the states where protests took place, BJP is in power. In Sambhal in Uttar Pradesh, protesters set the bus on fire. In Lucknow, the mob opened fire on the police. Crew members got stuck due to a jam on the Delhi-Gurgaon Expressway, forcing IndiGo to cancel 19 flights from Delhi. 16 flights were delayed.
The National Company Law Appellate Tribunal has decided to re-appoint Cyrus Mistry as chairman of Tata Sons. The tribunal said in its decision on Wednesday - it was illegal to remove Mistry from the post of chairman of Tata Sons. Tata Sons has the option to appeal against it. Even before this legal battle, there were issues about which there were differences between Mistry and Ratan Tata.
