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Committee of Administrators (CoA) appointed by the Supreme Court of India filed a contempt petition on Wednesday in the apex court against former Indian football chief and NCP leader Praful Patel. The petition accused Patel of “impliedly” admitting to having “arranged” a letter from world football governing body FIFA and Asian Football Confederation (AFC) threatening a ban on India. In the petition, the CoA has also named seven other Indian football administrators along with Patel for allegedly interfering in the “administration of justice, and the willful and flagrant disobedience” of Supreme Court orders. ALSO READ | FIFA Suspends Indian Football Federation Over Third-party Influences The CoA has requested the court to bar Patel from “holding any football related posts forthwith, including and not limited to positions in FIFA and AFC”, where he is a member of the Executive Council and a Vice-President, respectively. Cause of Contempt Petition The CoA said in its … [Read more...] about Praful Patel ‘Arranged’ a Letter From FIFA Threatening a Ban on India, Accuses Supreme Court Mandated Panel

Tamil Nadu Governor R.N. Ravi hosted the annual Independence Day reception at Raj Bhavan on Monday. Chief Minister M.K. Stalin, Speaker of Legislative Assembly M. Appavu, Chief Justice of Madras High Court Munishwar Nath Bhandari, Chief Secretary V. Irai Anbu, Ministers, MLAs, senior officials and dignitaries from various walks of life attended the reception. It may be recalled that Mr. Stalin and other Cabinet Ministers boycotted the last ‘At Home’ reception hosted by the Governor in Raj Bhavan on April 14, 2022, owing to the controversy surrounding the inordinate delay by the Governor in deciding on the Bill to exempt NEET. The reception, which ought to have happened on Republic Day, was postponed to April because of the third wave of COVID-19. Leaders from a few political parties, including the deposed AIADMK leader O. Panneerselvam and his supporters attended the Independence Day reception on Monday. However, prominent leaders from the AIADMK, including former Chief Minister … [Read more...] about Stalin attends Independence Day reception at Raj Bhavan

Good quality education should reach all sections of the society to make the country an advanced nation, said Justice Doraiswamy Raju, former Judge of the Supreme Court, on Monday. According to a press release, speaking at the 75 years of Independence celebrations on the VIT campus in Vellore, Justice Raju said good quality education should be provided to all eligible youngsters in the country. Students should work hard to take the country to the next level and make India an advanced nation. They should also work hard to fulfil the dreams of freedom fighters, who took part in our country’s struggle for freedom. “Educational institutions should play a significant role in taking education to all sections of the society,” he said. After hoisting the national flag, G. Viswanathan, chancellor, VIT, said India has been one of the fastest growing economies in the world. “We have to increase productivity in all sectors so that India can compete with developed nations in the world. India has a … [Read more...] about VIT celebrates 75 years of Independence

Virtual court proceedings could be a permanent feature of judiciary functioning in the days to come, hoped Chief Justice of Telangana High Court Ujjal Bhuyan on Monday. Addressing the gathering after hoisting the national flag on the High Court premises on the banks of Musi river here, the CJ said the courts rose to the occasion during the pandemic by functioning online. With this, virtual courts became a reality and in the future, could become permanent part of the judiciary, he said. The COVID-19 pandemic adversely affected the functioning of judiciary for the past two years. Junior lawyers, among other sections, were seriously affected due to disruption of court work during the pandemic. The CJ said Advocate General B.S. Prasad had informed him that the corpus fund for advocates created by the State government was ready. Soon, the disbursal of financial assistance could begin, he said. Recalling different works accomplished by the HC in the past one year, the CJ said the … [Read more...] about CJ hopes virtual courts become permanent feature

Former Malaysian prime minister Najib Razak appealed to the nation’s supreme court to overturn the 12-year prison sentence imposed on him for misappropriating over $9.4 million in the 1MDB Scam. Razak allegedly misappropriated funds from the SRC International which was a subsidiary of the 1Malaysia Development Berhad (1MDB) – the nation’s sovereign wealth fund. What is the 1MDB Scam? The 1MDB Scam is related to the 1MDB which was once a Malaysian state fund set up in 2009 to fund infrastructure projects across Malaysia. Najib Razak was the chairman when the sovereign wealth fund was founded. The scam is considered to be one of the largest corruption scandals where the US justice department says funds worth more than $4.5 billion were embezzled. The funds initially meant for funding projects across the country were used to fund the lifestyle of Malaysian prime minister’s wife Rosmah’s lavish shopping habits, pay off politicians ahead of polls and even for the filming of the … [Read more...] about 1MDB: Malaysia Ex-PM, Involved in One of the World’s Biggest Scams, Moves Court to Drop Sentence

Days before the 75th anniversary of Pakistan’s and India’s Independence Day, Ganpat Singh received a call he has long been waiting for, that granted him freedom to see his family in India after six long and tragic years — the Indian High Commission in Islamabad said his visa to India was approved on Saturday. Mr. Ganpat Singh is a Pakistani citizen born in the Hindu Rajput Sodha community, based in the Umarkot (earlier Amarkot) principality of the Sindh Province. Traditionally, the Sodhas don’t intermarry within their own clan, and have always intermarried with other Rajput clans in India, with a special visa mandate to travel back and forth agreed to for them some decades ago. Mr. Ganpat Singh’s father was from Pakistan, his mother belongs to India, and his brother and sister, born in Pakistan, now live in Jodhpur and Jaisalmer. Mr. Ganpat Singh married his wife Magan in Jodhpur in 1996 and she moved to Pakistan, but died of hepatitis in 2012, leaving three children — son Chander … [Read more...] about India at 75 | This cross-border family gets ‘visa freedom’ on Independence Day

Depicting India's popular recreational sport, kite-flying, in a multi-hued artwork with an embedded metaphor, technology giant Google marked the 75th anniversary of the country's independence on Monday with a vibrant doodle. The delectable doodle with elements of the tricolour in the kites shown follows the recent launch of the "India ki Udaan" project executed by Google Arts and Culture that celebrates the country's achievements and is "themed on the unwavering and undying spirit of India over these past 75 years". The illustration by Kerala-based artist Neethi depicts a woman making kites and youngsters engaged in playing the traditional sport in a colourful setting, with the sun and high-rise buildings shown in the backdrop. Google has added GIF animation to it, infusing a layer of dynamism and thus, bringing the doodle alive, as the tricolour-themed kites can be seen moving in the air. Also, in the artwork, a young girl holds a kite with a heart sign on it, while a man … [Read more...] about India at 75 | Google marks 75th anniversary of ‘Azadi’ with animated doodle inspired by kite-flying

A day before his government’s Cabinet expansion , Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar, while delivering Independence Day speech on Monday, announced that his government aimed to create 20 lakh jobs — within and outside the government — in the State. “We’re now together and our concept is that we should at least make it [jobs] to 10 lakh but we’ll arrange jobs and employment on such a scale within the government and outside it that it is to take up to 20 lakh”, announced Mr. Kumar, while looking up at his Deputy in the Cabinet, Tejashwi Yadav, who too was sitting during the flag hoisting ceremony at Patna’s historic Gandhi Maidan. Mr. Kumar said he (Mr. Yadav) was expected to take Bihar to a new path of development and progress. India at 75 | Looking back, looking ahead... During the Assembly election campaign in 2020, Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) leader Mr. Yadav had promised 10 lakh jobs. When the Mahagathbandhan government was recently formed in the State after Mr. Kumar … [Read more...] about India at 75 | Our aim is to create 20 lakh jobs, says Nitish Kumar

A Colorado law that prohibits the release of all information in child abuse and neglect cases violates the U.S. Constitution, the 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled last week. The law violates the First Amendment because it is too broad when it prohibits the release of any information contained in reports or records in child abuse and neglect cases in the state’s child welfare system, including information that does not identify the involved child, the Denver-based federal appeals court found. The ruling comes out of a years-long dispute between Denver family law attorney Jessica Peck and the Colorado Department of Human Services. In a 2019 Westword article , Peck accused Denver Human Services of wrongly seeking to take a 3-year-old girl from her mother. After she spoke publicly about the case — without identifying the girl — a judge warned her not to continue sharing information with the media. Under current law, anyone who violates confidentiality in a child welfare … [Read more...] about Colorado child abuse confidentiality law violates First Amendment, federal appeals court finds

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Dane County health officials didn't violate free speech protections when they cited a Middleton cafe for advertising itself as a “mask-free zone” during the early months of the COVID-19 pandemic. Helbachs Cafe posted a sign in July 2020 saying the shop was a “mask-free zone” in defiance of a county mask mandate. The county cited the cafe three times for failing to comply with the mandate and the shop eventually lost its lease. Helbachs responded with a lawsuit alleging the county retaliated against the cafe for exercising free speech rights. A three-judge panel from the 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled Monday that to prove the county retaliated over the sign the cafe had to show a pattern of such retaliation against other businesses. The cafe failed to produce any evidence suggesting that, the judges found. The cafe's attorney, listed in online court records as Brent Eisberner, didn't immediately respond to an email seeking comment. … [Read more...] about Court: Mask order didn’t violate shop’s free speech rights