Nambi Narayanan, the former top ISRO scientist, who fought a legal battle for 24 years, to restore his reputation after he was falsely accused of spying, has finally received the compensation awarded by the Supreme Court. Kerala chief minister, Pinarayi Vijayan, presented a cheque of Rs 50 lakh to the former head of ISRO’s cryogenic …
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Public Interest Litigation (PIL)s can often be misused and often become a pain for courts to deal with them. Rajendra Diwan was one such “public-spirited” litigant who went to court to control ‘harms’ caused by mobile phone usage. BCCL Diwan filed a PIL in the Madhya Pradesh High Court to highlight the potential ‘hazards’ of mobile phone usage, and to …
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The canines will finally have a park of their own. Yes, India’s first dog park is set to be inaugurated in Hyderabad this week. Located at Gachibowli, at a place which was originally a garbage dumping ground, the facility which is spread over 1.3 acres have all the latest for your dogs. BCCL The park has been equipped with dog training …
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Emirates, the national carrier of the United Arab Emirates (UAE), has said that it will fly over a dozen cargo flights to Kerala to deliver relief materials to the flood-hit state. According to a statement by the airline, Emirates SkyCargo will carry some 175 tonne of flood relief material to the state capital Thiruvananthapuram. Emirates The goods, including life saving …
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The heavy rains which have been battering Kerala is showing no signs of slowing down, but has actually intensified in the past 24 hours, inundating more parts of the state. Torrential rainfalls have also been reported from southern Kerala in since Tuesday. The Periyar River, which has been overflowing for weeks due to the heavy rains and the opening of …
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Live streaming suicides have happened in the past and it has been noticed that there is no mechanism to stop them. In yet another case that happened in Gurugram, a man live-streamed his suicide, which was watched by as many as 2300 people, but none of them alerted the police in a bid to stop the deceased from ending his …
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In what could come as welcome relief to thousands of home buyers across the country, who have been cheated by real estate developers, the Lok Sabha has passed the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code (Second Amendment) Bill, 2018. The bill aims to replace an ordinance which was introduced in June for the same purpose. BCCL Interim Finance Minister, Piyush Goyal, said …
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India’s Telecommunication watchdog, Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI)’s Chairman RS Sharma’s over enthusiasm to prove the credibility of Aadhaar data safety has opened up a pandora’s box which he would not have imagined when he made that tweet posting his UID number and asking people to show concrete example where you can do any harm to him. Ever since …
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A Special CBI Court in Kerala has sentenced two police constables to death and three others to three years each in jail for a custodial death case dating back to 2005. The two police constables, K Jithakumar and S V Sreekumar have also been fined Rs 2 lakhs each. They were found guilty in the death of Udayakumar, a 26-year-old …
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Kerala has been ranked the best governed Indian state in the Public Affairs Index (PAI) 2018 released by the think tank Public Affairs Centre (PAC). Kerala which scored 0.526 in the index was closely followed by two other southern states, Tamil Nadu and Telangana,with scores of 0.517 and 0.514 respectively. Himachal Pradesh and Karnataka also made it to the top …
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