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CJI says petitions to criminalise marital rape to be listed in mid-October

Chief Justice of India D.Y. Chandrachud agreed to list by mid-October a series of petitions seeking the criminalisation of marital rape.

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Karnataka High Court says there’s ‘prima facie case’ for investigation against Sudhir Chaudhary

The Karnataka High Court today orally said there’s a “prima facie case” for investigation against Aaj Tak anchor Sudhir Chaudhary, Live Law reported.

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Grand Prix Badminton League put off indefinitely

GPBL 2nd season postponed indefinitely due to BAI pressure. Players, incl. Mithun Manjunath & Sai Praneeth, pulled out. BAI deemed league "unrecognised". GPBL secured legal relief from Karnataka High Court, but BAI threatened retrospective action. GPBL spent ₹8.54 crore on league.

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Top Indian shuttlers pull out of Grand Prix Badminton League

GPBL faces major blow as Indian players pull out; BAI exerts pressure. Despite legal relief from Karnataka HC, Indian players withdraw from GPBL 2nd season. BAI to take retrospective action if case decided against promoters. SC quashed HC order, sent matter back to HC for fresh hearing.

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Delimitation saga: Wards reduced to 225 ahead of BBMP polls

The Karnataka government has put out a draft of the new delimited 225 wards with their names, boundaries, and printed maps, in Bengaluru’s civic body, calling for objections from the public. Repeated demands to publish digital interactive maps of the proposed wards and to allow objections to be filed online…

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Disinterest in a tree census of Bengaluru: Deliberate and by design?

Axed, felled, and carted away for umpteen road projects, trees in their thousands have vanished from the once green face of Bengaluru city. But ask the authorities to put a precise number on the trees lost, and a deafening silence greets you. For, a tree census, mandated and reiterated by…

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The hunger to play cricket never went away: C.M. Gautam

C.M. Gautam, 37, is back to First Class cricket after 3 yrs, having been chargesheeted in connection to corruption allegations in the 2019 Karnataka Premier League. After the Karnataka High Court quashed the chargesheet, Gautam's dream of playing First Class cricket was fulfilled when he took the field for a…

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Explaining MoEFCC’s U-turn to merge autonomous bodies

The Ministry of Environment, Forests and Climate Change has walked back on a plan to merge key environmental organisations in the name of “ease of doing business”, citing technical and administrative difficulties. The plan also faced considerable opposition from the National Tiger Conservation Authority.

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Karnataka HC says it’s ‘high time’ that courts ‘bestow supervisory jurisdiction’ on media

The Karnataka High Court has suggested that it’s “high time” for the courts to “bestow its supervisory jurisdiction on the print and electronic media” on certain occasions.

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It’s high time courts are bestowed supervisory jurisdiction on media when occasion arises: Karnataka High Court

It is high time courts are required to bestow their supervisory jurisdiction on print and electronic media as well, when occasions demand, the Karnataka High Court has said. Stating that persons who handle print and electronic media are “required to show utmost restraint in using unparliamentary or defamatory words while…

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Posh villas in Rainbow Drive Layout may face demolition as HC ordered survey finds SWD encroachment

Several posh villas built in Rainbow Drive Layout (RBD), an upscale private gated community off Sarjapura road in Bengaluru east, that was flooded in 2022, may face demolition as the survey conducted by Assistant Director of Land Records (ADLR) found Storm-Water Drain (SWD) encroachment. The survey was submitted to the Karnataka…

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Special courts for POCSO cases must determine appropriate compensation for victim: HC

Observing that some of the judges of special courts set up to deal with Protection of Children from Sexual Offences Act cases are still not determining appropriate compensation payable to the child victim, the Karnataka High Court has said that the law imposes a clear obligation on special courts to…

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Thwarting Twitter: on the Karnataka High Court ruling

A definitive verdict from the Supreme Court may be needed to clarify both the rights and obligations of large media companies in relation to user-generated content

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Registrar (Administration) and Finance Officer to handle day-to-day affairs at UoM

In the wake of the Karnataka High Court staying the appointment of N.K. Lokanath as the Vice-Chancellor of University of Mysore, the Registrar (Administration) and Finance Officer have been directed to take necessary action with respect to day-to-day affairs of the university.

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A case of unchecked power to restrict online free speech

Along with the recently amended IT Rules on fact-checking, the Karnataka High Court judgment has the dangerous potential of reposing untrammelled power in the state

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HC refuses to quash chargesheet filed against former MLA M.R. Seetharam for helping a public servant to transact his ill-gotten money

The Karnataka High Court has refused to quash the chargesheet filed against M.R. Seetharam, former MLA, for allegedly helping a public servant to transact his ill-gotten money to pay the tuition fee for the postgraduate medical course of the latter’s daughter.

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Govt. keen on new Bill that may split BBMP in the three-month breather provided by HC

The three-month respite given by the Karnataka High Court to redo delimitation of wards in the city has breathed a fresh lease of life on the government’s plan to bring in governance reforms, including splitting the civic body into multiple corporations.

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