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Supreme Court To Hear West Bengal Govt's Plea Against Cancellations Of OBC Classifications On January 28 & 29

Live Law

In August last year, a bench led by former Chief Justice of India DY Chandrachud, while issuing notice on the State's appeal, had asked it to file an affidavit explaining the process followed for the classification of 77 communities as OBCs : the nature of the survey; whether there was a lack of consultation with the backward classes commission in …

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How to tax popcorn? GST council’s formula sparks outrage

The Hindu

The GST Council’s move to tax popcorn differently based on its sugar or spice content has drawn criticism from the opposition and sparked social media outrage, with two former government economic advisers questioning the tax system introduced in 2017. The Goods and Services Tax Council, chaired by the Finance Minister and including State representatives, announced on Saturday that non-branded popcorn …

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How to tax popcorn? India’s formula sparks outrage against GST system

Live Mint

By Nikunj Ohri NEW DELHI -India's move to tax popcorn differently based on its sugar or spice content has drawn criticism from the opposition and sparked social media outrage, with two former government economic advisers questioning the tax system introduced in 2017. Explaining the rationale behind the decision to tax caramel popcorn at 18%, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman said that …

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1 month ago

'Reservation Can't Be On Basis Of Religion', Says Supreme Court While Hearing West Bengal's Plea Against HC Quashing OBC Classifications

Live Law

Reservation can't be given on the basis of religion, orally remarked the Supreme Court on Monday while hearing the petition filed by the State of West Bengal challenging the decision of the Calcutta High Court to quash the Other Backward Class classification of 77 communities, mostly belonging to Muslim religion.Responding to the Court's observation, Senior Advocate. Reservation can't be given …

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55 years ago

The Hidden Danger of the Supreme Court’s New Trans Rights Case

Slate

The Supreme Court hears arguments on Wednesday in Skrmetti v. U.S., a case of such immense importance to constitutional equality and with such devastating potential consequences that it’s hard to even describe. It is also, fundamentally, a case about gender equality, and whether constitutional limitations on sex discrimination can survive the Supreme Court’s conservative supermajority. The statute itself declares that …

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1 month, 1 week ago

Tradwives vs. corporate baddies: What two online performances of womanhood have in common.

Slate

“I would love to be a stay-at-home mom. It’s also a conservative point of view that likely helped President-elect Donald Trump’s campaign: 89 percent of Trump voters believe that “cherished traditions are under threat,” according to a University of Cambridge poll. Take FKA Twigs’ recent music video for “Eusexua,” in which the artist and a bunch of corporate baddies are …

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1 month, 2 weeks ago

When gruesome businesses attract sky-high valuations, watch out

Live Mint

Different investors have different ways of classifying businesses. According to Buffett, businesses are mostly of three types – great businesses, good businesses and gruesome businesses. The great View Full Image Source: Equitymaster.com In the table above are three that qualify as great businesses – Page Industries, PI Industries, and Pidilite Ltd. View Full Image Source: Equitymaster.com As you can see, …

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1 month, 3 weeks ago

This South East L.A. rock camp celebrates 10 years of amplifying the punk spirit of girls, trans, and gender-fluid youth

LA Times

At the end of her first summer camp, 11-year-old Naíma Arteaga was nervous about the final group activity she was required to do: sing in a rock band and perform onstage in front of a large audience. The task sounds ludicrous, but Arteaga wasn’t at any ordinary camp — she was at Chicxs Rockerxs South East Los Angeles, where girls, …

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2 months, 4 weeks ago

What happens when humans confront a form of nature with no rational order?

LA Times

Detail of Hieronymus Bosch’s “The Garden of Earthly Delights.” The world in Jeff Vandermeer’s novel “Absolution” reminded the reviewer of the chaos found in Bosch’s painting. In the disparate fields of biology and literature, intellectuals reached back to Latin to fashion new words such as “genus” and “genre.” In “Absolution,” Jeff VanderMeer has written a book that defies stultified notions …

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3 months ago

Hurricane Milton intensifies 'explosively' as it nears Florida

NPR

Hurricane Milton intensifies 'explosively' as it nears Florida toggle caption Elizabeth Ruiz/AFP/Getty Images Less than two weeks after Hurricane Helene slammed into Florida's Gulf Coast and wreaked a path of destruction across the southeastern U.S., the state is bracing for another — and likely even more powerful — major hurricane to come ashore. Hurricane Milton reached Category 5 — the …

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4 months ago

How to Buy an Electric Bike

Wired

Love them or hate them, electric bikes are here to stay. Some electric bike customers haven’t been on two wheels since they rode a Schwinn Stingray with a banana seat; others are lifelong cyclists who want a little extra oomph to flatten the hills. We tapped two experts: Cory Oseland, manager at The Ski Hut, a premier Midwest bike and …

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4 months ago

Canadian para surfer Victoria Feige fights to get her sport included in 2028 Los Angeles Paralympics

Associated Press

Surfing is California’s official state sport and Canadian para surfer Victoria Feige wants Los Angeles to prove it in 2028. LA’s organizing committee has said it would not propose para surfing as a new sport for the event because of “cost and complexity.” That dumbfounded Feige. She’s planning a California outdoor wave pool event following November’s world championship “as a …

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4 months, 1 week ago

Dutchwoman Caroline Groot wins first gold medal of Paris 2024 Paralympics in para track cycling

The Hindu

Track cyclist Caroline Groot of the Netherlands won the first gold medal of the Paralympic Games on Thursday. Afghan taekwondo Paralympian Zakia Khudadadi won the refugee team ’s first ever medal at a Paralympics when her opponent, Naoual Laarif of Morocco, withdrew ahead of their bronze contest. Ugo Didier delighted local fans by upsetting the race favorites to win the …

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4 months, 1 week ago

U.S. Paralympic swimmer responds to ‘toxic behavior’ after her silver-medal finish

LA Times

U.S. swimmer Christie Raleigh-Crossley won silver in a women’s 50-meter freestyle at the Paris Paralympic Games on Thursday. Raleigh Crossley described what she called “ongoing harassment that I’ve been enduring for the past two years, since I entered para swimming.” Olympics For visually impaired parathletes, sound and touch guide their passions Visually impaired parathletes share how they rely on sound …

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4 months, 1 week ago

Paris Paralympics 2024, Know your sport: Judo, Rowing and Cycling

The Hindu

Para Judo Para Judo events will be held from September 5 to 7 at the Champ de Mars Arena. Category Two disability categories are represented in para judo, where only the visually impaired are allowed to compete: J1: complete blindness J2: visually impaired The judokas are divided into weight classes: -48 kg, -57 kg, -70 kg, +70 kg for women …

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4 months, 2 weeks ago

Seeking Stay Of HC Judgment Scrapping OBC Classifications, West Bengal Govt Tells Supreme Court

Live Law

The West Bengal Government on Tuesday told the Supreme Court that it was seeking stay of the Calcutta High Court's judgment which quashed the classification of seventy seven communities as Other Backward Classes.Senior Advocate Kapil Sibal, representing the State, mentioned the matter before Chief Justice of India DY Chandrachud today at 2 PM when the Court assembled after. The West …

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5 months ago

Mayawati disagrees with Supreme Court's ‘subcategories’ verdict: ‘Centre didn’t oppose it'

Hindustan Times

Bahujan Samaj Party chief and former Uttar Pradesh chief minister, Mayawati, on Sunday said that her party does not agree with the Supreme Court's verdict allowing sub-classification within the Scheduled Castes. "The sub-classification of people within Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes has been permitted, our party doesn't agree with it at all," Mayawati said while addressing a press conference in …

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5 months ago

Letters to The Editor — August 3, 2024

The Hindu

After the top court’s verdict, it will be a case of sub-classifications and more quotas. Our political leaders could also begin to manipulate quotas to suit their political needs. Sankara Rao, Vizianagaram, Andhra Pradesh Rail coaches The Railway Minister appears to be content with the ratio of 2:1 between non-air-conditoned and air-conditioned coaches on trains. This has resulted in a …

5 months, 1 week ago

Parties term Supreme Court verdict on allowing states to sub-classify SCs as 'historic'

Hindustan Times

New Delhi, Political parties on Thursday welcomed the Supreme Court verdict allowing the states to make sub-classifications within the Scheduled Castes for granting quota to uplift socially and economically more backward castes inside the group, and termed it "historic". Parties term Supreme Court verdict on allowing states to sub-classify SCs as 'historic' A seven-judge Constitution bench headed by Chief Justice …

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5 months, 3 weeks ago

How this hurricane season compares to others, in charts

CNN

CNN — Forecasters predicted an abnormally active Atlantic hurricane season in 2024, estimating as many as 24 named storms forming from June through November. This map displays data collected by satellites that shows how much different those temperatures are from normal, with darker shades representing either warmer or cooler surface temperature differences, according to NOAA’s Coral Reef Watch program. As …

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6 months, 2 weeks ago

Sky's the limit in UAV autonomous push

China Daily

Online services platform Meituan's unmanned aerial vehicle delivers food orders in Shenzhen, Guangdong province, in May. PHOTO/CHINA DAILY In late May, an unmanned aerial vehicle belonging to online services platform Meituan soared through the air, navigating its way to a designated drop-off point in Shenzhen Talent Park, Guangdong province, which sits in close proximity to the headquarters of such tech …

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6 months, 2 weeks ago

Sky's the limit in UAV autonomous push

China Daily

Online services platform Meituan's unmanned aerial vehicle delivers food orders in Shenzhen, Guangdong province, in May. PHOTO/CHINA DAILY In late May, an unmanned aerial vehicle belonging to online services platform Meituan soared through the air, navigating its way to a designated drop-off point in Shenzhen Talent Park, Guangdong province, which sits in close proximity to the headquarters of such tech …

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6 months, 2 weeks ago

Lattes round-the-clock at Seven Seeds Cafe in Delhi

The Hindu

The story goes that the Sufi saint, Baba Budan while returning from Yemen after a pilgrimage, brought seven beans of coffee and planted them in the Chikmagaluru hills of Karnataka, thus introducing the magic of coffee to India, says Gaurav Dawar. That, he explains is the inspiration for the name of his newly opened cafe Seven Seeds, at Green Park, …

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7 months, 4 weeks ago

Industrial output slows to 4.9% in March

The Hindu

India’s industrial output growth slowed to 4.9% in March from 5.6% in February, as per the National Statistical Office, with base effects from last March when output had tanked 1.9%, boosting the uptick. Manufacturing, which constitutes 77.6% of the Index of Industrial Production, grew at a five-month high pace of 5.2% in March, relative to a mild 1.5% uptick in …

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Supreme Court To Hear West Bengal Govt's Plea Against Cancellations Of OBC Classifications On January 28 & 29

How to tax popcorn? GST council’s formula sparks outrage

How to tax popcorn? India’s formula sparks outrage against GST system

'Reservation Can't Be On Basis Of Religion', Says Supreme Court While Hearing West Bengal's Plea Against HC Quashing OBC Classifications

The Hidden Danger of the Supreme Court’s New Trans Rights Case

Tradwives vs. corporate baddies: What two online performances of womanhood have in common.

When gruesome businesses attract sky-high valuations, watch out

This South East L.A. rock camp celebrates 10 years of amplifying the punk spirit of girls, trans, and gender-fluid youth

What happens when humans confront a form of nature with no rational order?

Hurricane Milton intensifies 'explosively' as it nears Florida

How to Buy an Electric Bike

Canadian para surfer Victoria Feige fights to get her sport included in 2028 Los Angeles Paralympics

Dutchwoman Caroline Groot wins first gold medal of Paris 2024 Paralympics in para track cycling

U.S. Paralympic swimmer responds to ‘toxic behavior’ after her silver-medal finish

Paris Paralympics 2024, Know your sport: Judo, Rowing and Cycling

Seeking Stay Of HC Judgment Scrapping OBC Classifications, West Bengal Govt Tells Supreme Court

Mayawati disagrees with Supreme Court's ‘subcategories’ verdict: ‘Centre didn’t oppose it'

Letters to The Editor — August 3, 2024

Parties term Supreme Court verdict on allowing states to sub-classify SCs as 'historic'

How this hurricane season compares to others, in charts

Sky's the limit in UAV autonomous push

Sky's the limit in UAV autonomous push

Lattes round-the-clock at Seven Seeds Cafe in Delhi

Industrial output slows to 4.9% in March