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August 2019

Consumer Court Ordered Sa

Chennai: A consumer dispute forum directed the famous South Indian restaurant chain Saravana Bhavan to pay Rs. 1.10 lakh to an advocate of the Supreme Court as compensation for the supposed defect in serving food. The latest order given here by the Tamil Nadu State Consumer Disputes Reddressal Commission directed the hotel to pay Rs. one lakh as a "reward for mental anguish" endured by the plaintiff SK Saamy, in addition to Rs. 10,000 as litigation costs. In his complaint, SK Saamy prayed for a total compensation of Rs. 90 lakh "for ill-health, severe mental agony and other hardships" faced from "food poisoning" in October 2014, after he consumed food at the restaurant's Anna Salai outlet in the city.

SC to hear Ayodhya case o

On Friday, the Supreme Court decided to hear from August 6 on a daily basis the Ram Janmabhoomi-Babri Masjid conflict as three-member mediation committee was unable to get the multiple sides engaged in it to agree. A five-judge constitutional bench, comprising India's Chief Justice Ranjan Gogoi, and SA Bobde, DY Chandrachud, Ashok Bhushan, and S Abdul

Anna Canteens Shuts Down

Anna Canteens, who supplied the poor and the middle class with meals at Rs. 5, was shut down from Thursday across Andhra Pradesh. Daily wage-workers, beggars who daily thronged the canteens discovered the canteens locked. With the outsourcing agency preventing food supply following instructions from the state government, all 204 canteens were down their shutters.

S Jaishankar Meets Lanka

Minister of Foreign Affairs S Jaishankar held a series of bilateral conferences with his Vietnamese, Sri Lankan, Mongolian and Timor Leste counterparts on Friday, during which he addressed a number of important problems, including the battle against terrorism. Mr Jaishankar attends a number of meetings in the Thai capital, including the ASEAN-India Ministerial Meeting, the

Ramon Magsaysay Award for

This year's Ramon Magsaysay Award, regarded the Asian version of the Nobel Prize, was given to journalist Ravish Kumar on Friday. Kumar, 44, who is the senior executive editor of NDTV India, is one of the most important television reporters in India, said the award quote He is among five people who have been declared award winners. Kumar's "Prime Time" program "deals with ordinary people's real-life, underreported issues," he added. The four other winners of the 2019 Ramon Magsaysay Award are Ko Swe Win from Myanmar, Angkhana Neelapaijit from Thailand, Raymundo Pujante Cayabyab from Philippines and Kim Jong-Ki from South Korea.

A jail inmate in Hisar p

A convicted drug peddler was stabbed to death in Central Prison in Hisar and two other convicts were wounded when on Thursday morning about 20 prisoners, supposedly members of a rival gang, assaulted the trio. The deceased has been recognized as Ravinder Singh, 33, a Fatehabad district village resident of Sardarwala. Harjeet Singh and Tajinder

Delhi CM s office receive

The office of Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal received two e-mails from an anonymous e-mail ID that supposedly threatened to kill him. A case has been recorded by the Delhi Police and is trying to define the suspect. The emails were received on the chief minister's official email ID–first on July 25 and second on July 30 said police. Deputy police commissioner (unique cyber cell) Anyesh Roy said a complaint was obtained from the home department of the Delhi government about the threat messages. "A case was recorded under section 506 of the Indian Penal Code (punishment for criminal intimidation). Our teams try to define the suspect and nab him," said DCP Roy.

Same gender pair throw

Chennai: Two females in their early twenties alleged that on July 28 they were thrown out of a Chennai hotel because of their behavior that the hotel claimed had insulted other guests ' sensibilities.The girls involved were Rasika Gopalakrishnan and Shivangi Singh. "My friend and I decided to go on a Saturday night to a bar called The Slate Hotels. There were 4 to 5 men standing at the bar while dancing and looking at us constantly, making us very uncomfortable," Gopalakrishnan posted on Facebook. According to her, the two went into the washroom."Moments later, at our door, we hear frenzied knocks, ordering us to leave the washroom. In the washroom there were 4 male bouncers and 1 female bouncer, requesting to understand what we were doing together in the

Trump Offered help for Ka

The US would like to see enhanced ties between Pakistan and India, and that's why President Donald Trump provided his "help" to solve the Kashmir issue, said a senior official of the State Department on Thursday. "We recognize that Kashmir has been a bilateral problem, but there are possibilities as Pakistan takes measures to create trust in its own attempts to combat terrorism for its ultimate positive dialogue, and we are willing to help if the parties are requested to do so," the official said.

More Troops being sent to

Less than a week after shifting 10,000 paramilitary troops to Kashmir, as part of a huge safety drive, the center is rushing around 25,000 more paramilitary staff into the Valley. Official sources say the soldiers arrived on Thursday morning and are inducted in different areas of the state.Last week, the government had said that 100

National Medical Commissi

New Delhi:Rajya Sabha enacted the National Medical Commission Bill on Thursday to replace Indian Medical Council with a fresh body, in what the government described as one of the country's largest health education reforms.A voice vote passed the bill seeking to repeal the 1956 Indian Medical Council Act, in the midst of an AIADMK walkout.

Priyanka Refused to becom

New Delhi: At a party meeting on Thursday, Congress General Secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra rejected a proposal that she assume the top position in the party after her brother Rahul. The move by Priyanka Gandhi aims to strongly spike an concept that has been endorsed over the past few weeks by several senior Congress officials. Captain Amarinder Singh, chief minister of Punjab, and Shashi Tharoor, lawmaker from Thiruvananthapuram, supported Priyanka Gandhi for the post of president of the party.

August 2019

Consumer Court Ordered Sa

SC to hear Ayodhya case o

Anna Canteens Shuts Down

S Jaishankar Meets Lanka

Ramon Magsaysay Award for

A jail inmate in Hisar p

Delhi CM s office receive

Same gender pair throw

Trump Offered help for Ka

More Troops being sent to

National Medical Commissi

Priyanka Refused to becom

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