Author: Parvathy Pillai

National Security Advisor in Conference – Unlike the Munich Conference, which is a widely publicized event, the conference to be held in Delhi on 24 April has been kept a secret. National Security Advisor Ajit Doval will lead discussions at India’s first meeting of intelligence agency chiefs, which will also be held in Delhi on April 24th, 2022, two days before the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) begins its annual Raisina Dialogue.  The meeting, which will be held after the annual Munich Security Conference and Singapore’s Shangri-La discussion, is scheduled to bring together leaders and deputy heads of leading intelligence…

Picture Credit: penn state The Madhya Pradesh High Court recently termed the bane of live-in-relationship as a by-product of the Constitutional guarantee as provided under Article 21 of the Constitution. The Madhya Pradesh high court has rejected the anticipatory bail of a 25-year-old man accused of raping a woman, stating that live-in relationship lead to sexual offences and promote promiscuity. The man was in a live-in relationship with the complainant, who had two forced abortions as a result of the connection. Picture credit: The seattle times The victim who was in a live-in-relationship filed an FIR against the accused-application, stating…

A policeman near a burnt vehicle after a communal clash in Himatnagar during a Ram Navami Procession. Communal clashes have been reported amid Ram Navami processions in various states across India like Gujarat, Madhya Pradesh, Jharkhand, and West Bengal. In Khambhat city of Gujarat, one individual was killed and another was injured during the rally. Police officials arrested nine people who were involved in violence and stone barraging. Superintendent of Police Ajit Rajian said, “The situation in Khambhat town is under control. We have already arrested nine suspects and started further investigation.” Himatnagar town of Sabarkantha also experienced roughness between…

Meanwhile, a written petition has been filed with the Chief Justice of India, requesting the formation of a commission chaired by a sitting judge of the Supreme Court to conduct an impartial investigation into the violence.  On April 18th,2022, a forensic team arrived at the Jahangirpuri clash site to investigate the violence that occurred in Delhi on the occasion of Hanuman Jayanti during a religious procession. As evidence for further investigation, the team took images and gathered samples. Two days after numerous people, including officers, were hurt in the Jahangirpuri clashes, the Delhi Police has been conducting drone patrols, intense…

In an effort to maintain peace in Khargone, the MP govt. set aside Rs 1 crore in relief funds for those who have been harmed by the violence.

The Incident occurred less than 24 hours after an SPDI Leader was killed in a village near Palakkad, Kerala.

On the auspicious day of Ambedkar jayanti, Orissa High Court Chief Justice, S Muralidhar, addressed a lecture organized by the Community for the Eradication of Discrimination in Education and Employment on “Appearing in Court: Challenges in Representing the Marginalized”. During his lecture, he made a strong statement that the Indian laws are shaped to discriminate against the poor and that the system works differently for both the rich and the poor. Chief Justice Muralidhar said that a marginalized individual suffers numerous obstacles in obtaining justice. Even for an educated, literate person, the laws and processes are perplexing. The laws are…

The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) Special Court in Thiruvananthapuram has identified Mohammed Ali, the second accused in the murder of engineering student Shyamal Mandal, as guilty of a misdeed that happened 17 years ago and has bestowed him with a life sentence on April 13, 2022. CBI Special Judge K. Sanil Kumar marked the verdict guilty on April 12th, 2022 under Sections 364A (kidnapping for ransom), 302 (murder), and 379 (theft) read with Section 120 (B) (criminal conspiracy) of the Indian Penal Code. Shyamal Mandal, a native of the Andaman and Nicobar Islands, was a BTech student at the…

Sikhs Attacked In New York – Two Sikh men, who went out for an early morning walk on April 12th, 2022, were assaulted and robbed in New York’s Richmond Hills area. Astonishingly, the attack happened in the same locality where an elderly member of the Sikh community, Nirmal Singh, was punched in an unprovoked assault earlier this month. The Consul General of India in New York took to Twitter to share his opinion about the incident and wrote, “The assault on two Sikh gentlemen in Richmond Hills, New York is deplorable. We have approached the local authorities and the New…

The Toronto Police Service has arrested Richard Jonathan Edwin, a 39-year-old man, for murdering a 21-year-old Indian , Kartik Vasudev, who moved to Canada in January and was pursuing Global Management at Toronto-based Seneca University. He was a first-year student and stayed in an apartment with his cousin. Soon after joining the college, he got a job for himself at a restaurant in the downtown area. Every day, he took the same route through the Sherbourne subway station to get to work. But, on April 7th, 2022, the mishap took place when he was shot at the Glen Road entrance…