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Huge crowds gathered at the Tehran Airport on Wednesday, 19 October, to welcome Iranian athlete Elnaz Rekabi, who had skipped the hijab in the Asian Climbing Competitions finals held in Seoul in direct contravention of the Iranian regime's mandate.

Bar & Bench spoke to legal experts to share their preliminary views on the decision of the top court and its implications on the students.

The Karnataka hijab row case will now be heard by CJI UU Lalit as a split verdict was delivered by the Supreme Court bench in the matter today.

The high court on May 11 delivered a verdict with one of the judges favoring striking down the exception in the law that grants protection to husbands from being prosecuted for non-consensual sexual intercourse with their wives, the other refused to hold it unconstitutional

Senior Advocate and former Additional Solicitor General for India Aman Lekhi asserted that the government's stand in cases of public importance must be known.

While calling for the criminalization of marital rape, Senior Advocate Geeta Luthra addressed concerns that doing so would result in misuse.

One judge held that the marital rape exception is unconstitutional. The other maintained that marriage carried the ‘legitimate expectation of sex’.

While Justice Rajiv Shakdher held that that marital rape exception violates Articles 14, 19 and 21 of the Constitution, Justice C Hari Shankar said the challenge to the provision has no legs to stand on.

In any event, there can be no doubt that addressing infection problems in medicare and medicaid facilities is what he does. this is a mandate that goes into effect for health care workers who work at facilities that receive federal funding through medicaid and medicare, and that is why the supreme court is giving this a green light saying its different than that other mandate, saying the other mandate, osha doesnt have the broad power as an agency to put this into effect. guys, a little bit of a...

Good morning. >> good morning to you. the split verdict is a big win for the government. it means that elizabeth holmes could spend years in federal prison. at the very end of the day yesterday, the jury convicted holmes on four counts of defrauding investors. they acquitted her on four counts of deceiving patients and deadlocked on three of the counts alleging that she lied to get millions of dollars to keep her floundering blood founding company afloat. she lied to investors about work with th...