Lawyer Absence Disrupts Calcutta High Court Saturday Hearings
The Calcutta High Court held a special sitting on Saturday, August 1, to make up for a holiday declared on July 6 for Syama Prasad Mookerjee’s 125th birth anniversary. The court had…
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Allahabad HC Upholds Life Sentence, Lowers Dowry Death Term
India Today reports that the Lucknow bench of the Allahabad High Court on August 8 reduced the life sentence of Sandeep Singh Hora to 10 years' rigorous imprisonment for dowry death. The…
Uttar Pradesh Plans Outsourced Cleaning for District Court Complexes
The Uttar Pradesh government is preparing a common framework to outsource regular cleaning and sanitation in district court complexes. Chief Secretary SP Goyal chaired a meeting where the proposal was discussed. The…
Late Birth Registrations Beyond Two Years Will Need Judicial Approval
The President has assented to the Registration of Births and Deaths (Amendment) Act, 2026, but it will take effect only after the Central Government notifies a date, LiveLaw reports. Under the amended…
Odisha Excise Department Arrests Mother and Son in Brown Sugar Case
The Odisha Excise Department arrested Lokanath Paikaray and Mami Paikaray, a mother and son, after a raid in Khordha district on Wednesday. Officials said they seized about 460 grams of brown sugar,…
YSRCP MP Seeks CBI Probe Into Andhra Teacher Recruitment
YSRCP MP M Gurumoorthy supported the Public Examinations (Prevention of Unfair Means) Amendment Bill, 2026, but asked the Union Government to bring State recruitment boards under its scope. He cited claims of…
Rajya Sabha Passes Bill Protecting Vande Mataram Under Law
The Rajya Sabha has passed the Prevention of Insults to National Honour (Amendment) Bill, 2026, extending statutory protection to Vande Mataram alongside Jana Gana Mana. Deliberate insults or obstruction of the national…
Ajit Doval Receives Lokmanya Tilak National Award in Pune
National Security Adviser Ajit Doval received the Lokmanya Tilak National Award 2026 in Pune. The Tilak Smarak Trust instituted the award, which Union Home Minister Amit Shah presented. Doval urged young Indians…
Jammu and Kashmir speeds up Forest Rights Act claims
Jammu and Kashmir’s Tribal Affairs department will serve as the nodal agency for implementing the Forest Rights Act, 2006, Minister Javed Ahmed Rana announced on August 1, 2026. The Forest Department has…
Kodangal Farmers Receive House Site Pattas After Industrial Land Acquisition
The Vikarabad district administration distributed house site pattas to eligible farmers from Lagacherla, Hakimpet and Polepally villages in Telangana’s Kodangal. Their lands were acquired for an industrial corridor project of the Telangana…
