Author: Nandini Pandya

A new U.N. report says world hunger rose in 2021, with around 2.3 billion people facing moderate or severe difficulty in obtaining enough to eat The shaft in food, energy and toxin prices sparked by the war in Ukraine is hanging to push countries around the world into shortage, bringing” global destabilization, starvation and mass migration on an unknown scale,” a topU.N. functionary advised Wednesday. David Beasley, head of theU.N. World Food Program, said its rearmost analysis shows that” a record 345 million acutely empty people are marching to the point of starvation” a 25% increase from 276 million at…

The Delhi High Court spoke on the worsening conditions of the homeless. The homeless do not live; they merely exist; the life envisaged by the constitution, unknown to them, was a statement made by the court. Homeless people don’t live but simply live and life as envisioned by Composition 21 of the Constitution is unknown to them, observed the Delhi High Court, which directed the relocation of five people who were shifted from one slum point to another at the time of the expansion of the New Delhi Railway Station. While dealing with a solicitation filed by five slum residents…

Russian President Vladimir Putin on Monday declared victory in the eastern Ukrainian region of Luhansk, one day after Ukrainian forces withdrew from their last remaining bulwark of resistance in the fiefdom. Russia’s Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu reported that Mr. Putin said in a televised meeting on Monday that Russian forces had taken control of Luhansk, which together with the neighboring Donetsk fiefdom, makes up Ukraine’s artificial heartland of Donbas. Mr. Shoigu told Mr. Putin said that ” the operation ” was completed on Sunday after Russian colors overran the megacity of Lysychansk, the last fort of Ukrainian forces in Luhansk.…

Justice Pardiwala on the backlash from social media on Nupur Sharma case.After constantly receiving backlash and comments after the passing of the judgement on Nupur Sharma case, justice J.B Padriwala replied to the trolls. Digital and social media need to be mandatorily regulated in the country to save the rule of law under the Constitution, Supreme Court Judge Justice J.B. Pardiwala said on Sunday, nominating as “dangerous” the crossing of “Lakshman rekha” on these platforms for “personalised, program-driven attacks” on the judges. The reflections by Justice Pardiwala at an event in New Delhi come amid an uproar by a section…

Sexual Assault Case in Kerala; senior politician P.C. George arrested. George has been charged under IPC Section 354 (assault or criminal force to woman with intent to outrage her modesty) and 354 (a) (sexual harassment). P C George, an elderly politician and seven-time former solon, was arrested on Saturday, allegedly on the basis of a sexual assault complaint filed by a woman who is also an indicted in the state’s 2013 solar panel scandal. Saturday’s arrest comes two months after George, 70, was held and released on bail for hate speech. It came while he was being questioned by police…

Libyan Protests stormed in and set fire to the parliament building. The protests were against deteriorating living conditions and months of political impasse. Protesters stormed Libya’s congress in the eastern megacity of Tobruk on July 1 and set the corridor ablaze, venting their wrathfulness at deteriorating living conditions and months of political impasse.The Black Bank bagged as men burned tyres and burned buses after one protester had smashed through the emulsion gate with a bulldozer and others attacked the walls with construction tools, original media reported. The structure was empty, as Friday fell on a weekend in Libya.Libya’s House of…

Russia and China comment on NATO.NATO faced reprimands from Moscow and Beijing on Thursday after it declared Russia a “direct trouble” and said China posed “serious challenges” to global stability. During a peak in Madrid, the Western military alliance described a world plunged into a dangerous phase of big- power competition and facing myriad pitfalls, from cyberattacks to climate change. NATO’S Comments NATO Secretary- General Jens Stoltenberg said as the peak wrapped up Thursday that member nations agreed on a “ abecedarian shift in our deterrence and defence ” and transferred Moscow a clear communication that the alliance had a…

Gotabaya Rajapaksa called Putin, also to visit the UAE for oil imports. The Sri Lankan president called the Russian president Vladimir Putin for oil imports amidst the Sri Lankan crisis. He is also likely to visit the UAE for the same. Sri Lanka President Gotabaya Rajapaksa has called his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin to explore options of copping to get oil imports from Moscow, as Colombo desperately looks to replenish its abating energy stocks amid an unknown profitable extremity, a Minister has said. Gotabaya will also embark on a stint in the United Arab Emirates in the near future to…

Nirav Modi pleads in UK High court towards extradition to India. Nirav Modi, who’s wanted in India on the charges of fraud and plutocrat laundering amounting to an estimated $2 billion in the Punjab National Bank( PNB) loan fiddle case. A British court on June 28 opened the durability appeal in the repatriation case of Nirav Modi, who’s wanted in India on the charges of fraud and plutocrat laundering amounting to an estimated$ 2 billion in the Punjab National Bank( PNB) loan fiddle case. The 51- time-old diamond trafficker had lodged an appeal last time against his repatriation order on…

The Bombay HC rejects Adani Ports plea against disqualification by the Jawaharlal Nehru Port Authority. A division bench of Chief Justice Dipankar Datta and Justice M.S. Karnik rejected the plea as non-meritorious and directed the companies to pay ₹ 5 lakh to JNPA. The Bombay High Court on Monday dismissed the plea by Adani ports harbours and Special Economic Zone Limited of Adani ports challenging disqualification of its shot for upgrade of the vessel terminal in Navi Mumbai by the Board of Jawaharlal Nehru Port Authority (JNPA). A division bench of Chief Justice Dipankar Datta and Justice M.S. Karnik rejected…