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An administrator of a WhatsApp group can't be held criminally responsible for an objectionable post by another member of the group, the Nagpur bench of the Bombay supreme court has held and quashed a case of harassment lodged against a 33-year-old man. The order was passed last month and a replica of it had been made available on April 22. A division bench headed by Justice Z A Haq and A B Borkar noted that an administrator of a WhatsApp group has only limited powers of adding or deleting members to the group and doesn't have the facility to manage or censor the content posted within the group. The court passed its order on an application filed by Kishor Tarone (33), the administrator of a WhatsApp group. He was seeking to quash the case registered against him in Gondia district in 2016 under Sections 354-A(1)(iv) (making sexually coloured remarks), 509 (insulting the modesty of a woman) and 107 (abetment) of the IPC and Section 67 (publishing or transmitting obscene material i

In an effort to ramp up India's immunization campaign, more than 20 states, so far, have announced that they will provide free   Covid-19 vaccines   to their people. While some have made the coronavirus vaccine free for all, others have said that it will be free for people between the age of 18 to 45 only. Many states, including Delhi, Maharashtra, Karnataka, Haryana, Odisha, Jharkhand and West Bengal and others, have decided to provide free vaccines to the people in their respective states. Till now, more than 14.19 crore Covid-19 vaccine doses have been administered in the country to people above the age of 45, and health care and frontline workers, as part of the world's largest vaccination drive, which completed 100 days on 25 April. Let's take a look at the states providing free Covid vaccines: Delhi  - The Delhi government will provide free COVID-19 vaccines to all those above 18 years of age in the city for which purchase of 1.34 crore doses has been approved, Chief

Nationalistic pride may swell chests, but to fill lungs you would like air. Someone should tell that to the Indian government. The country that boasted of being the world's pharmacy in March discovers a month later that not only are "Made in India" vaccines briefly supply, but also that it did not have enough oxygen in hospitals to affect a deadly second wave of the Covid-19 pandemic that has made it the second-worst hit country, after the U.S. New Delhi floated a young last October, eight months into the pandemic, to line up oxygen plants in district hospitals. But an investigation by the web site Scroll.in showed that in some instances the seller that won the contracts never showed up to fulfil them. In other cases, hospitals didn't provide the needed land, or state administrations didn't come up with the copper wiring and electricity connections. Sheer apathy railroaded a 2 billion rupee ($27 million) project. Not an honest search for a rustic that desires to s

ImageCredit: NBC News Septuagenarian Youn Yuh-jung, South Korea's first Oscar-winning actress, has spent decades portraying nonconformist characters, from a vicious heiress to an ageing prostitute, challenging social norms in both career and life. Her best supporting actress turn in   Minari , a family drama about Korean immigrants in the US, is relatively more conventional: she portrays a playful grandmother to a mischievous young boy trying to adapt to life in rural Arkansas. The film, written and directed by Korean-American Lee Issac Chung, earned six nominations overall including for best picture, best actor and a nod for Chung. Youn's win is the second Oscars success for a Korean-language film in as many years, after  Parasite  became the first non-English language best picture winner in 2020. Youn, whose two grown sons are Asian-Americans, had played down excitement over her chance to make history, telling reporters last month: "This is not a playoff game of actors,

The Election Commission is singularly responsible for the second wave of Covid and should probably be booked for murder, the Madras High Court observed today in the sharpest criticism yet of crowded campaigns for the five state polls that continued in the middle of raging virus cases. The court has threatened to stop the counting of votes on Sunday if a "blueprint" is not in place. The Election Commission will react after it sees the order, sources say. "Your institution is singularly responsible for the second wave of COVID-19. Your officers should be booked on murder charges probably," the Madras High Court told the Election Commission. The election body had failed to enforce Covid safety rules like masks, sanitisers and distancing during campaigning despite court orders, said the High Court. "Were you on another planet when the election rallies were held," Chief Justice Sanjib Banerjee questioned. The High Court also asked for a plan to enforce Covid ru

Karnataka has announced a two-week lockdown from tomorrow, a day after reporting the biggest rise of over 34,000 new cases in 24 hours. "COVID curfew will be implemented in the state from tomorrow 9 pm for the next 14 days," Karnataka Chief Minister BS Yediyurappa said, using the phrase "close down". Essential services will be allowed between 6 am and 10 am and shops will close after that. There will be no public transport during the curfew, the Chief Minister said. Only construction, manufacturing and agriculture sectors are allowed to work. Travel within the state and to other states will also not be allowed, except for emergencies. "People will have to cooperate. If they do, we can achieve our target," Mr Yediyurappa said. The Chief Minister said government hospitals would provide free vaccinations for those between 18 and 44 years; the Centre has announced that those over 45 will be given shots free of cost. The state yesterday reported 34,804 new COVI

Diana Ankudinova (born May 31, 2003) is a Russian singer. Much of her initial fame resulted from her winning two consecutive seasons of You Are Super, a talent competition show for children on the Russian NTV network. Diana Ankudinova's performances were posted on the NTV web site and the NTV YouTube channel, where they soon gained hundreds of millions of views around the world. Diana Ankudinova sings mostly in Russian, English and French. She has also sung in Spanish, Japanese, German and Arabic. Diana Ankudinova was born to Olga Ankudinova on May 31, 2003 in the far eastern  Primorsky Territory  of Russia. Diana's biological mother had several pregnancies, but all of her other pregnancies were terminated before Diana was born. [2] Early Life: At the age of 3, according to Diana, her biological mother Olga left her at a bus stop in the winter with a broken collarbone. [2]  Olga's sister, Svetlana, rescued Diana from the street, but was unable to care for the child. Svetlan