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The Delhi High Court Wednesday delivered a split verdict on the issue of criminalisation of marital rape with one of the judges favouring striking down the provision, the other holding it was not unconstitutional, PTI reported. 

The division bench granted leave to the parties to file an appeal before the Supreme Court.

While Justice Rajiv Shakdher, who headed the division bench, favoured striking down the marital rape exception, Justice C Hari Shankar said the exception under the IPC is not unconstitutional and was based on an intelligible differentia, according to PTI report. 
 

 The first and second volume of a collection of diplomatic speeches by Chinese President Xi Jinping has been published by the Central Party Literature Press.

Compiled by the Institute of Party History and Literature of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee, the book includes 136 speeches delivered at international events between March 2013 and November 2021 by Xi, also general secretary of the CPC Central Committee and chairman of the Central Military Commission.

Xi, as the chief architect of major country diplomacy with Chinese characteristics, has delivered speeches on multiple international occasions, proposing a series of new ideas, new propositions and new initiatives with distinctive Chinese features, which reflect the call of the times and lead the trend of human progress.

They are a major part of Xi Jinping Thought on Diplomacy and of Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era.

They bear significant guidance for the establishment of a new type of international relations, the building of a global community of shared future, and creating a favorable international environment for realizing the Chinese Dream of national rejuvenation. Xinhua 

Nepali Ambassador to America Shridar Khatri has met US special coordinator for Tibetan issues Uzra Zeya in Washington DC. In her tweet post, the US official said they ‘discussed the strong U.S.-Nepal partnership in advancing democracy, women’s rights, and inclusivity for all. Two sides also discussed Uzra’s Nepal visit. She is visiting Nepal on the third of this month. Along with bilateral issues, she is expected to raise the human rights issues of Tibetan refugees in Kathmandu with government officials.

A 52-year-old Indian climber died while ascending the peak of Mt Kanchenjunga in Nepal, according to the organiser of the expedition, PTI reports. 

Narayanan Iyer, a resident of Maharashtra, died on Thursday at 8,200 meters altitude of the world’s third-highest mountain peak lying at the India-Nepal border, Nivesh Karki, executive director of the Pioneer Adventure, the organizer of the expedition, told PTI. 

According to the preliminary report, the Indian climber died due to high altitude sickness, some 386 metres below the 8,586-metre high peak. The climber refused to descend when the organisers “asked him to descend when he fell sick” while scaling the mountain, which led to his death, Karki told PTI.