Special envoy visits India
Tesla CEO Elon Musk, the world’s richest man, who is locked in a court battle with Twitter over a failed bid that Twitter now intends to force through, said the social media giant had failed to disclose “risky” litigation against the Indian government.
Twenty-seven people were sentenced to life by a court in TN’s Sivaganga district on Friday for the murder of three Dalits in a clash at a temple festival at Kachanatham village on May 28, 2018.
Glitches continued to mar the Common University Entrance Test – Undergraduate (CUET-UG) for the second consecutive day on Friday with 50 centres across India affected and new centres also reporting technical glitches during the ongoing second phase of the exam which started a day earlier.
The Supreme Court on Friday said it would carry out an interpretational correction in the Medical Termination of Pregnancy (MTP) Act and the Rules thereunder to permit unmarried women to abort 20-24-week-old unwanted pregnancies without compromising on the safety regulation, reports Dhananjay Mahapatra.
A total of 130 cases of “hate news” were reported to social media platforms between the 2019 Lok Sabha election and the latest round of assembly polls in five states held earlier this year, law minister Kiren Rijiju informed Rajya Sabha on Friday.
India has strongly objected to the recent airspace violations and breach of confidence-building measures by China during a special round of military talks between the two countries, while their soldiers and heavy weapon systems continue to be ranged against each other along the frontier in east Ladakh since May 2020.