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junior doctors in West Bengal, who have been continuing ceasework for 20 days to protest against the alleged rape and murder of a medic, on Wednesday rejected Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee's appeal to join duty. A member of the West Bengal Junior Doctors' Forum said they would not withdraw the agitation unless their demands, such as justice for the deceased postgraduate trainee of the RG Kar hospital, were met. They also demanded the suspension of Dr Sandip Ghosh, the former principal of RG Kar Medical College and Hospital, from the health services and the same action against the Kolkata police commissioner. The doctor's forum took out a rally in Shyambazar area in the northern part of Kolkata to press their demands.

Many women in the central African nation of Chad are excluded from owning or having a say over the land they spend long hours working

A Mississippi seafood distributor and two managers have pleaded guilty to conspiring to mislabel seafood and commit wire fraud by marketing frozen imported fish as more expensive local species

A shipbuilder for the U.S. Navy has agreed to admit wrongdoing and pay $24 million to settle an accounting fraud investigation

A Vermont man who was fired from his job after he said a random drug test showed he used medical marijuana while off duty for chronic pain has lost his appeal to the Vermont Supreme Court over unemployment benefits

Supreme Court Tuesday granted bail to Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) leader K Kavitha, an accused in the alleged irregularities linked to the Delhi government's now-scrapped excise policy. «Investigation is complete and chargesheet has been filed. Custody of Kavitha is not necessary,» a division bench headed by Justice BR Gavai said. «The likelihood of trial being concluded in the near future is impossible. As said in various pronouncements of this court, undertrial custody should not turn into a punishment,» it ruled. The bench took exception to the Delhi High Court's observation that an educated, sophisticated woman is not entitled to bail under the beneficiary provision for women under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act. The high court had made the observation while turning down the bail plea of Kavitha, an ex-MP and daughter of former Telangana chief minister K Chandrashekhar Rao. The high court in July held that she was not a vulnerable person.

K Kavitha walked out of the Tihar jail on Tuesday evening after being granted bail by the Supreme Court. She was arrested by the Enforcement Directorate (ED) in an alleged money laundering case linked to the Delhi excise policy scam. «Entire country knows I was put in jail for political reasons. I have done nothing wrong,» said Kavitha upon release.

A union official said West Virginia Gov. Jim Justice’s family is millions of dollars behind on payments to employees’ health insurance fund at their financially beleaguered hotel

Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita liberates our democracy from the colonial mindset, and its basic spirit should be made as effective as possible. «Our country has changed rapidly in a decade. We have risen from the 10th position ten years ago to become the 5th largest economy in the world. Today, the dreams and aspirations of our countrymen are significant. It is important that we innovate according to the new India and modernize our systems. This 'Justice for All' is equally crucial. We are seeing how technology can play a significant role in our judicial system,» said PM Modi during the Platinum Jubilee celebrations of the Rajasthan High Court in Jodhpur. Modi said that justice is always simple and clear but sometimes the process makes it difficult and now it is our collective responsibility to make justice as simple and clear as possible.

women actors narrating their horrific sexual assault experiences in the cinema industry, the Kerala government on Sunday formed a special team to probe the atrocities faced by them. The government on Sunday formed a seven-member team after a high-level meeting of senior police officials was called by Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan. The chief minister's office said the special team will be headed by IG Sparjan Kumar and will include four senior women IPS officers of the state.

The Justice Department has filed an antitrust lawsuit against real estate software company RealPage, accusing it of an illegal scheme that allows landlords to coordinate to hike rental prices

Narendra Modi on Sunday called crimes against women 'unpardonable sins', adding that those who assist in these crimes should also be held accountable. «Today, I want to tell every political party in the country and state governments that crimes against women are an unforgivable sin. Whoever is guilty should not be spared and whoever is supporting them in any kind should also face the consequences,» Modi said while addressing a 'Lakhpati Didi Sammelan' in Jalgaon. He was referring to the recent outrage over the Kolkata doctor's rape and murder and the Badlapur school sexual assault case.

TMC and BJP on Monday engaged in a war of words after TMC MP Saket Gokhale shared an alleged video of a girl dancing in a 'protest for RG Kar'. Taking to social media platform X, Gokhale shared a video of a girl dancing in the backdrop of posters that read 'justice for our sister'. He accused the BJP of hijacking a protest for political agendas. «Sickening! This is allegedly from a “protest for RG Kar” organized by BJP in Bengal. Is THIS BJP’s idea of “respecting women”? Creepy BJP misogynists hijacked a protest for political agendas with ZERO concern for the victim or any woman,» Gokhale stated.

Kerala Governor Arif Mohammed Khan on Sunday said that he would like to trust Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan when he said that if the victims of sexual abuses in the Malayalam film industry come forward then the process of law will be set in motion. The Governor was reacting to the questions related to the Hema Committee report that revealed sexual abuses in the Malayalam film industry. The Opposition in Kerala has asked for an investigation into the revelations in the report. «I think the chief minister on record said that if they come with specific complaints, the process will be set in motion. He has already said it. I am not saying anything because I do not deal with the subject,» Khan said.

JD Vance would go to St. Gertrude to meet the friar. It was a fitting place for the millennial aspiring politician, who was drawn to the Catholic Church's ancient ways. For years he had flirted with joining the church. Now he wanted to explore the desire in earnest. St. Gertrude Church was led by the Dominican Friars from the Province of St. Joseph, part of a religious order founded in 1216. Its sanctuary smelled of incense but felt modern, its concrete walls pierced with bright stained-glass rectangles in reds and blues.

North American Punjabi Association on Sunday condemned the attack on an NRI in Amritsar by two assailants and described the incident as «deeply troubling.» Sukhchain Singh was shot at by two people in front of his family at his home in the Daburji village of Amritsar on Saturday. Singh, who recently returned from the US, was shot at in front of his wife and his two children from his first marriage. Satnam Singh Chahal, executive director of the US-based North American Punjabi Association, said, «The attack on an NRI in Punjab is deeply troubling and warrants condemnation.»

Supreme Court has agreed to look into the retrospective applicability of a provision in the Black Money (Undisclosed Foreign Income and Assets) Imposition of Tax Act, 2015, under which the revenue department can initiate criminal prosecution against businesspeople for violations that were allegedly committed much before the law came into force. A bench led by Justice Abhay S Oka, while issuing notices to various businessmen, stayed the Karnataka High Court's June judgment that held retrospective applicability of section 72 of the 2015 Act as unconstitutional. The apex court posted the matter for further hearing on September 20. On June 7, the high court had held that criminal prosecution initiated for acts done prior to the enactment of the law were not valid under Article 20 of the Constitution. The order was pronounced in the case of Dhanashree Ravindra Pandit.

Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA), a coalition of the Congress, Shiv Sena (UBT), and Nationalist Congress Party (SP), has called off its planned bandh on August 24 in Maharashtra following the Bombay High Court's intervention. The MVA initially called the bandh in response to the alleged sexual abuse of two kindergarten girls in the Badlapur district. The High Court noted that enforcing the bandh would paralyze normal life and cited its 2004 order declaring such bandhs unconstitutional. The Bombay High Court bench, composed of Chief Justice DK Upadhyaya and Justice Amit Borkar, heard two petitions challenging the band call. In its ruling, the bench said that significant losses could occur if political parties proceeded with the bandh. The court stated, «Until further orders all concerned are restrained from proceeding with the call for bandh on August 24 and also on any other further date. We are, prima facie, convinced the call given by political parties is a call to observe bandh tomorrow in the entire state of Maharashtra, which means a call for cessation of all kinds of activities which will result in the life of the state coming to a halt, that may entail heavy loss to industrial activities, business activities, economic activities and other such activities.»

Supreme Court on Friday asked the Yamuna Expressway Industrial Development Authority (YEIDA), which has challenged a debt resolution proposal for Jaiprakash Associates' Jaypee Infratech unit, to file an affidavit indicating the steps it has taken to protect the interests of homebuyers in the projects of the bankrupt developer and others. Coming down heavily on YEIDA for its stand towards homebuyers in the residential projects, the court said: «You are not concerned with the homebuyers; that's where the problem lies.» Observing that the homebuyers are the «ultimate sufferers», a bench led by Justice Sanjiv Khanna told solicitor general Tushar Mehta that «you cannot say that I'm concerned with my dues and the homebuyers, who are the real sufferers, can bear the brunt».

Supreme Court that Section 479 of the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita (BNSS), 2023, which allows courts to grant bail to first-time offenders who have undergone detention for a third of the maximum period prescribed, would apply with retrospective effect. This means the provision will apply to all undertrials in cases registered before July 1, 2024. Section 479 of the BNSS provides for the release of undertrials who have been behind bars for many years with no end in sight for trial.

separate administration or a Union Territory for tribals in Manipur, have urged the Centre to ask the judicial commission probing the ethnic violence in the state to expedite its probe. They demanded that chief minister N Biren Singh be «immediately barred» from the office so that he can't influence the «outcome» of the investigation. The MLAs, including two ministers, said: «We once again appeal to the Government of India to expedite our demand for a separate administration in the form of UT with a legislature, as that alone is the path to lasting peace in the region.» Last June, the MHA, had constituted a three-member Commission of Inquiry, headed by former chief justice Ajai Lamba, to probe ethnic violence in Manipur. The tribal legislators, seven of whom belong to the ruling BJP, in a joint statement said that the judicial commission must expedite its investigation and identify the guilty. The statement said that the state government had to issue a press release on August 7 regarding some «doctored audio clips», which claimed to be that of the CM and meant to incite communal violence and derail various peace initiatives by the state and central governments at multiple levels.