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Nepal dispatch: glaring gender pay disparities revealed in Nepali cricket

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The contracts delineate the categories (grades) for 30 male and 19 female cricketers, along with their respective salaries. However, a notable gap in salary between male and female cricketers in their categories caught the significant attention of many. 40,000 from the previous contract.

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India dispatch: Supreme Court of India starts livestream of proceedings

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Supreme Court , the court proposed a pilot project wherein a select category of cases of constitutional significance would be live streamed. To add to that, the circulation of short clips taken out of context may spur more “fake news” and propaganda on social media. In Swapnil Tripathy v.

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Canada dispatch: Supreme Court ruling on constitutionality of ‘extreme self-induced intoxication’ defence prompts confusion

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The Court provides the example of a therapeutic drug: a person who had an adverse reaction to a therapeutic substance and then injured somebody else while in a state of automatism caused by extreme intoxication would find themselves in the same category as someone who took a dangerous, illegal street drug and did the same. With section 33.1

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India dispatch: Supreme Court calls for ‘full transparency’ from Centre in Adani Group stock manipulation inquiry

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The allegations against Adani Group in the Hindenburg report are wide-ranging and can be grouped into several categories, which include the use of shell companies for stock manipulation and money laundering, dubious intra-party transactions to inflate earnings, the appointment of inexperienced auditors, and flagrant violations of listing rules.

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India dispatches: ‘Government inaction has resulted in breathless citizens gasping for air’

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It reads on the upper end of the ‘severe’ category, with extremely high PM 2.5 It is only hoped that effective dialogue between the judiciary and the government on Monday brings in a new ray of hope for the cloudy future otherwise in store for India’s capital city.

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California dispatches: after recall victory, Newsom goes ‘all out’ to right wrongs in California

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JURIST is launching a new series of dispatches from major US states written by JURIST correspondents “on the ground” in those jurisdictions. It is not entirely clear how this might impact his 2022 electoral prospects, but as I noted in previous dispatches, Newsom is already popular in the “deep blue state” of California.

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EU dispatch: after recent national elections, might the European Union move to the right?

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The third election in this category is the one in Latvia last Saturday, where the conservative party of the former pro-NATO prime minister Kari?š The post EU dispatch: after recent national elections, might the European Union move to the right? appeared first on JURIST - News. The same goes for the Social Democrats in Malta.