Day: July 2, 2024

Australia has more than doubled the cost of student visa fees for international students from $710 to $1,600, a move which will impact lakhs of Indians planning to study in this country. The move has triggered outrage from student representatives who say that the price hike will drive potential students to competitors, ABC News reported on Monday. From July 1, the international student visa fee has risen to $1,600 from $710. The federal government said the additional revenue will help fund initiatives in education including cuts to graduate debt, financial support for apprentices, and the ongoing implementation of its migration strategy, the report said. "International education is an incredibly important national asset and we need to ensure its integrity and quality," Minister for Educati...

A female doctor allegedly chopped off the private part of her boyfriend in Bihar's Saran district on Monday. Police have arrested the doctor under the relevant sections of attempt to murder. The man, a councillor of Ward No. 12 in Madhaura block, has been admitted to Patna Medical College and Hospital (PMCH) for treatment. The accused claimed that she had an affair with the man for the last five years but he was refusing to marry her. She somehow convinced him for a registered marriage in court. Accordingly, she reached the court for the marriage but the victim did not turn up. After this, she called the man to her house, and when he reached there, she allegedly chopped off his private part. On hearing the councillor's cry, the neighbours informed the police who found him lying on a bed in...

A female doctor allegedly chopped off the private part of her boyfriend in Bihar's Saran district on Monday. Police have arrested the doctor under the relevant sections of attempt to murder. The man, a councillor of Ward No. 12 in Madhaura block, has been admitted to Patna Medical College and Hospital (PMCH) for treatment. The accused claimed that she had an affair with the man for the last five years but he was refusing to marry her. She somehow convinced him for a registered marriage in court. Accordingly, she reached the court for the marriage but the victim did not turn up. After this, she called the man to her house, and when he reached there, she allegedly chopped off his private part. On hearing the councillor's cry, the neighbours informed the police who found him lying on a bed in...

Karnataka Congress president and Deputy Chief Minister DK Shivakumar has once again warned that if anyone crosses the line while making statements about creating more Dy CM's posts or changing the Chief Minister, the party will take action. Speaking to the media after an office bearers' meeting in Bengaluru, Mr Shivakumar said, "I don't need support from any legislator or seer. We need to build the party now. If anyone crosses the limits, the party will make its own decision." He announced that a fact-finding committee would be formed to investigate the reasons for the setback in the general election. "The Lok Sabha election result in Karnataka is not satisfactory. We expected to win more than 15 seats, but that didn't happen. The committee will find out why the party suffered a setback in...

A court here on Monday rejected an application filed by jailed Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal seeking directions to the prison authorities for granting two additional meetings with his lawyers through video conferencing. Special Judge Kaveri Baweja noted that as per the plea, Kejriwal is facing around 30 litigations across the country and on the grounds of the right to a fair trial, he requires two additional meetings with his lawyers through video conferencing (VC) to discuss the cases. "It is not in dispute that a similar application filed by the applicant (Kejriwal) seeking the same relief i.e. additional legal meetings with his lawyers was dismissed by this court vide a detailed order dated April 10, 2024," the court said. It said the present application disclosed no new or fresh reaso...

Australia has more than doubled the cost of student visa fees for international students from $710 to $1,600, a move which will impact lakhs of Indians planning to study in this country. The move has triggered outrage from student representatives who say that the price hike will drive potential students to competitors, ABC News reported on Monday. From July 1, the international student visa fee has risen to $1,600 from $710. The federal government said the additional revenue will help fund initiatives in education including cuts to graduate debt, financial support for apprentices, and the ongoing implementation of its migration strategy, the report said. "International education is an incredibly important national asset and we need to ensure its integrity and quality," Minister for Educati...

New Indian Law Rules: देश में आईपीसी (IPC) और सीआरपीसी (CRPC) की जगह अब भारतीय न्याय संहिता , भारतीय नागरिक सुरक्षा संहिता और भारतीय साक्ष्य अधिनियम लागू हो गए हैं, नए कानून के तहत पहली एफआईआर ग्वालियर में हुई जबकि देश के अलग अलग हिस्सों में भी कई केस दर्ज हुए  New Indian Law Rules: देश में आईपीसी (IPC) और सीआरपीसी (CRPC) की जगह अब भारतीय न्याय संहिता , भारतीय नागरिक सुरक्षा संहिता और भारतीय साक्ष्य अधिनियम लागू हो गए हैं, नए कानून के तहत पहली एफआईआर ग्वालियर में हुई जबकि देश के अलग अलग हिस्सों में भी कई केस दर्ज हुए    ...

In an act of defiance, the principal secretary of Environment and Forest department has questioned the formation of a fact finding committee of the Delhi government ministers over cutting of trees in Ridge area, claiming it violated rules and could lead to contempt of the Supreme Court. The committee comprising ministers Atishi, Saurabh Bharadwaj and Imran Hussain was formed as per decision taken in a meeting of the Delhi government ministers on June 29 to look into cutting of 1,100 trees in the Southern Ridge area by the DDA allegedly without required permission. The Supreme Court has asked the Delhi government why the officers of Environment and Forest department did not protect the forest when they had complete knowledge of the illegal felling of the trees in the Ridge area, a governmen...

The US Supreme Court on Monday ordered lower courts to review a pair of Republican-backed state laws that imposed restrictions on social media companies to moderate content, sidestepping a ruling on their constitutional validity. Tech industry trade groups, which welcomed the decision, had challenged the laws passed in 2021 by conservative Republican lawmakers in Florida and Texas as part of a broader pushback against perceived anti-conservative bias by major platforms such as Meta-owned Facebook and X, formerly Twitter. The companies denied that they were censoring conservative viewpoints under the guise of content moderation, as their advocates argued that the laws quashed the platforms' own First Amendment rights under the US Constitution. The Supreme Court declined to rule on whether i...

The US Supreme Court on Monday ordered lower courts to review a pair of Republican-backed state laws that imposed restrictions on social media companies to moderate content, sidestepping a ruling on their constitutional validity. Tech industry trade groups, which welcomed the decision, had challenged the laws passed in 2021 by conservative Republican lawmakers in Florida and Texas as part of a broader pushback against perceived anti-conservative bias by major platforms such as Meta-owned Facebook and X, formerly Twitter. The companies denied that they were censoring conservative viewpoints under the guise of content moderation, as their advocates argued that the laws quashed the platforms' own First Amendment rights under the US Constitution. The Supreme Court declined to rule on whether i...