Author: Ritika Singh

Social Media: Wife and Husband Move the Gujarat HC To Quash FIR Under Marital Dispute Angled As ‘Anti-Love Jihad’ Law  Consensual conversion in Interfaith marriages to be protected by the law; communities need to see inter-faith marriages as a reason for uniting communities rather than a cause for fabricated insecurities, Gujarat High Court.   Justice Ilesh J Vora on Wednesday passed the order in a petition that stated due to the intervention of “religio-political” groups, a petty matrimonial matter, made communal, to bring the “love jihad” angle.  The Gujarat High Court has now questioned the State for its opposition in the…

Six minor girls were paraded naked with heavy wooden shafts on their shoulders tied with frogs to please rain god; locals believe this will bring ample rainfall in drought-hit paddy fields. At least six minor girls aged around five in a Madhya Pradesh village were stripped and were made to do ritual begging by locals, door-to-door naked to appease the rain god as part of local practice and prevailing superstitions. The village of Baniya is in Damoh district, where the paddy crops had been dying. The ritual of stripping young girls and parading them with frogs tied on heavy wooden…

Apple Inc mandates a 30 per cent in-app fee for the distribution of digital content with other restrictions that hurts software developers limiting them to use Apple’s App Store payment system.  The tech giant Apple Inc is facing an antitrust lawsuit in India for allegedly abusing its dominant position over the app market. The allegations came a day after Japan made Apple land on a settlement which will let publishers of “reader apps” (i.e. apps used for consuming media in the forms of books, music or files in the cloud) redirect users via external sites to choose alternatives to Apple’s…

The second consecutive month, when GST collections remain above Rs 1 lakh crore after a dip in the second wave of Covid-19 in April-May. August 2021 Goods and Service Tax collection came in at Rs 1.12 lakh crore going down from Rs 1.16 lakh crore in July, as the data released by the Finance Ministry showed on September 1. “Revenues crossed Rs 1 lakh crore, which shows the economy is recovering at a fast pace,” said the Finance Ministry, indicating that the economic recovery after the second wave of the Covid-19 is well underway. In June, the GST revenues slipped…

Ida slammed the coastline of Southern Louisiana with wind speeds of 150 mph (240 kph) on Sunday as a Category 4 Hurricane after weakening into a Category 3 storm with sustained winds of 115 mph (193 kph) moving west of the city while threatening to unleash widespread flooding and mudslides in New Orleans.  Entergy utility of the city suffered “catastrophic transmission damage” Cleco officials reported recovery of power grid ‘will be a marathon’. As Ida barreled through the city on Sunday evening, leaving 814,000 customers were left without power. About 176,000 people reported power outages in the dark and dreadful…

Crowds of Afghans attacked as Islamic State gunmen and two suicide bombers charged the refugees flocking to Kabul’s airport on Thursday. The blast came just a few hours after the Western officials warned and urged people to evacuate from the prospected carnage at the Kabul airport.  The death toll crosses 100 with 72 Afghan civilians and 13 US troops, while the Taliban claimed another of its 28 fighters dead in the carnage. An Afghan official also reported 140 Afghans were wounded while the US officials counted 11 Marines and one Navy paramedic among those who died in the attack. The…

Doctors are baffled by over 200 people who have reported the symptoms of a syndrome that is likely caused by ‘directed, radiofrequency pulse energies.’ US Vice-Prez Kamala Harris’ trip from Singapore to Vietnam got delayed by about three hours than scheduled after the State Department reported her office about an “anomalous health incident” or the so-called ‘Havana Syndrome’ in Hanoi. The flight got delayed after suspected cases of the health incident popped out of nowhere in Hanoi, Vietnam’s capital spooking the US government. The Havana Syndrome is back in the news, with the US expressing deep concerns over the illness…

Charlie Watts, the heartbeat of Rolling Stones, passed away peacefully at a hospital in London surrounded by his loved ones on Tuesday. Charles Robert Watts, the Rolling Stones irreplaceable drummer has died at the age of 80, confirmed Watts’ publicist Bernard Doherty. Bernard Doherty said, “Charlie was a cherished husband, father and grandfather and also as a member of The Rolling Stones one of the greatest drummers of his generation,” There has been no cause of death given; he went through an emergency medical procedure earlier this month, which became why he was not listed for the Rolling Stones’ ‘No…

Pro-Hamas activists launched Arson balloons into Israel, causing multiple fires to pressure Israel to ease the blockade and resume Qatari aid to Gaza; renewed border violence. The Israeli military struck two targets reported as Hamas military compound and their rocket launching site in the Gaza Strip late Monday night due to the incendiary balloons launched from the Palestinian enclave. The Arson filled balloons spawned bush fires in Southern Israel, so said the Israeli military. While these were the first strikes under the coalition government headed by the new Israeli prime minister, Naftali Bennett, who ousted the former prime minister Benjamin…

The revised guidelines will come into effect from January 1, 2022 . On Wednesday, the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has directed revised guidelines for services like deposit lockers, article facilities, and safe custody. These guidelines will be relevant for both new and existing deposit lockers. RBI has asked banks to maintain a mandatory branch-wise list of vacant lockers and a wait-list for allotting the safe deposit lockers. The central bank took this step after considering the various departments in banking and technology, the nature of consumer grievances and principal feedback from multiple banks and the Indian Banks’ Association (IBA).…