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Cal HC rejects plea against censors’ nod to ‘Bengal Files’ | India News

KOLKATA: Calcutta high court set aside on Monday a suit challenging the Central Board of Film Certification‘s green light to director Vivek Agnihotri‘s controversial ‘The Bengal Files’, saying the petitioner’s contention about the film tarnishing his family’s image wasn’t maintainable.Lawyer Santanu Mukherjee, grandson of freedom fighter Gopal Mukherjee, moved HC on Sept 4, alleging the…

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Concept of ‘brain-dead’ unscientific, says petitioner: SC struggles to understand medical jargon, adjourns hearing | India News

NEW DELHI: Attuned to understand the legal jargons, a two-judge bench of the Supreme Court on Monday found it difficult to digest the medical terminology saturated arguments of a doctor who challenged the validity of the definition of brain-dead in the Transplantation of Organs and Tissues Act (THOTA), 1994.Appealing against a Kerala HC judgment, Dr…

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Brics must help member states reduce trade deficits: Jaishankar | India News

NEW DELHI: Seeking protection for an international trading system that is fair, just and non-discriminatory, external affairs minister S Jaishankar said the world requires constructive and cooperative approaches to promote trade that is sustainable. Neither increasing barriers and complicating transactions, nor linking of trade measures to non-trade matters would be helpful, he said addressing Brics…

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‘They all hate each other’: Trump’s aide Navarro’s latest attack on India, China; ‘vampire’ dig at Brics | India News

US President Donald Trump‘s senior trade adviser Peter Navarro on Monday continued his rant and this time trained his guns at the member countries of Brics, calling them “vampires”.Navarro claimed the member countries of Brics cannot survive without trading with the United States.“They’ve long hated each other—and none survive without selling to the United State.”…

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