Monday 28 November 2016

HC asks Maharashtra when it will appoint Advocate General

MUMBAI: With the post of Maharashtra advocate general(AG) lying vacant for over eight months, the Bombay high courton Monday asked the state when it will make an appointment to the constitutional post. A division bench, headed by Justice Abhay Oka, asked the state government to file its affidavit before the next date of hearing on December 14, 2016 mentioning the outer limit by when it will appoint the AG.

The court is hearing a petition filed by Congress MLC Sanjay Dutt, seeking directions to the state to appoint a new advocate general. The petition claimed that the post of acting advocate general was "unconstitutional". Rohit Deo had been appointed the acting advocate general after the former advocate general S H Aney resigned in March 2016. The HC had at an earlier hearing remarked that in another matter, the state had said that it would appoint an advocate genera shortly.


Source:-timesofindia

Wednesday 23 November 2016

Indian railways ask again for safety funds after crash kills 150

The track where an Indian prepare wrecked on Sunday, killing 150 individuals, was assessed only two days before and observed to be in great condition, bringing up more issues about the wellbeing of a system looking for $17 billion in subsidizing to avoid more crashes.

The crash, among India's most noticeably bad prepare tragedies, was a stark indication of the incapacitated state of the tremendous state-run railroads and of the test Prime Minister Narendra Modi confronts in satisfying his guarantee to modernize them.

Authorities trust a rail break may have sent 14 carriages folding into each different as the majority of the 1,700-odd travelers on board dozed. Be that as it may, they can't make sure until every area of harmed track is investigated.

"This was a mischance where the greater part of the rails were removed and broken. It's extremely confused," Mohammad Jamshed, a senior railroads service official, told Reuters.

Worked under British lead, the world's fourth biggest rail organize ships 23 million individuals crosswise over India consistently.

With individuals consistently sticking unstably to the outside of carriages or packed on the rooftop, it is moaning under developing interest and many years of underinvestment.

Source:- reuters

Monday 21 November 2016

Pope Francis Grants All Priests The Ability To Forgive Abortions

Pope Francis has pronounced that premature birth, which remains a "grave sin" according to the Catholic Church, can be pardoned by standard ministers for years to come — as opposed to requiring the intercession of a religious administrator.

The change was actualized on a brief premise, for one year just, as a component of the Catholic Church's "Year of Mercy," which started keep going December and finished on Sunday.

In a letter discharged on Monday, the pope declared that the change was being broadened inconclusively.

"I wish to restate as solidly as I can that premature birth is a grave sin, since it puts a conclusion to a honest life," the pope wrote in the letter. "Similarly, be that as it may, I can and should express that there is no transgression that God's benevolence can't reach and wipe away when it observes an apologetic heart trying to be accommodated with the Father. May each minister, in this way, be a guide, support and solace to penitents on this adventure of exceptional compromise."

Source:- npr.org