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| The Supreme Court has stopped deportation of Rohingya Muslims until case hearing on November 21. The apex court said the human rights of Rohingya refugees cannot be ignored and the govt can’t be blind to plight of women and children. A balance is needed between humanitarian consideration and national interest, the bench finally said. It, however, allowed petitioners to approach it in case of contingency. Read |
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| Congress president Sonia Gandhi confirmed that Rahul Gandhi would soon take over as party president. Rahul Gandhi’s elevation as the Congress president has been expected for a while now. Rahul is currently the vice-president of the Congress and does not face a challenge from anyone for the party top post. State units of the Congress party have already begun passing resolutions supporting Rahul Gandhi’s elevation to the president’s post. |
| India is in advanced talks with Sri Lanka to operate an airport near Chinese Belt and Road outpost. Sri Lanka had been looking for alternative investors in the Hambantota area, where China has built a seaport and is in discussions to build an investment zone and a refinery. The town of Hambantota sits near one of the world’s busiest shipping lanes and is an important part of OBOR. China said it was not aware that Sri Lanka was considering allowing India to manage the airport. |
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| The Supreme Court has decided that abuse of Section 498A should not amount to curtailing the ambit of the law. In the July 27 judgment, the SC had cited data of misuse of Section 498A by women to get husbands and their relatives arrested and harassed for years. A three-judge Supreme Court bench headed by Chief Justice Dipak Misra however disagreed with the court’s July 27 judgment which diluted the rigour of Section 498A of IPC which warrants immediate arrest of a husband and his relatives in a dowry-linked complaint of cruelty. |
| Kerala high court ruled that students can be expelled for indulging in politics on campus. The court observed that political activities like Dharna, hunger strikes and other practices like Sathyagrah have no place in a constitutional democracy, much less in academic institutions. Anyone indulging in the said activities in an educational institution would make himself liable to be expelled and/or rusticated. Educational institutions are meant for imparting education and not politics. |
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