It is probably for the first time many in the US and outside the country …

New York state lawmakers passed a bill on March 30 legalising recreational marijuana, with Governor Andrew Cuomo saying he would sign it into law, as per AFP.  New York will join 14 other states in USA and the District of Columbia in allowing use after the bill was backed by both state chambers. Cuomo’s Democratic Party holds strong majorities in …

A special CBI court in Ahmedabad discharged three police officers in the 2004 extrajudicial killing of Ishrat Jahan and four others stating there was “no question of any fake encounter” and there was “nothing on record to suggest that the victims were not terrorists”. The two former police officers filed discharge applications after the Gujarat government refused to grant sanction to …