NEW DELHI: The Central government on Monday filed an affidavit in the Supreme Court defending the its 2019 law which criminalised instant triple talak.According to the affidavit, the government said that the Act helps in ensuring the larger constitutional goals of gender justice and gender equality of married Muslim women and helps their subserve their…
NEW DELHI: The Supreme court dismissed a plea against the election of Amritpal Singh, a jailed radical Sikh preacher, as an MP from Punjab’s Khadoor Sahib. The petitioner argued that Singh, who allegedly does not owe allegiance to the Constitution of India, should not qualify for membership of Parliament under Article 84 of the Constitution….
NEW DELHI: Supreme Court on Monday upheld Delhi lieutenant governor’s decision to nominate 10 ‘aldermen’ to the municipal corporation of Delhi, without consulting the state cabinet.In a setback to the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP)-led Delhi government, a bench of CJ D Y Chandrachud, and Justices P S Narasimha and J B Pardiwala ruled that the…
NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court on Friday dismissed the pleas seeking Special Investigation Team probe into the alleged instances of quid pro quo arrangements between corporates and political parties through electoral bonds donations.The PILs had demanded an SIT probe led by a retired judge into the alleged money trail and quid pro quo in award…
NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court on Thursday questioned Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal‘s aide Bibhav Kumar, who is accused of assaulting AAP MP Swati Maliwal, and expressed shock at the details of the incident recorded by the Delhi high court.“Is CM residence a private bungalow? Is this kind of ‘goon’ supposed to work in the…
NEW DELHI: NEET counselling for allocating undergraduate medical seats will be conducted in four rounds, starting August 14.As per the notification issued by the medical counselling committee constituted under health ministry, the first round of allotment of seats will be carried out between August 14 and August 31; second round from September 4 to 22;…
NEW DELHI: To identify candidates who benefited from the NEET-UG question paper leak in Bihar and determine the spread of the leakage, Supreme Court on Thursday ordered the National Testing agency (NTA) to upload on its website by Saturday noon the centre-wise results of the examination taken by more than 23 lakh students competing for…
NEW DELHI: Holding that speedy trial is a fundamental right of an accused, an SC bench of Justice J B Pardiwala and Ujjal Bhuyan has said long incarceration with the improbability of the trial being completed in the near future is a good ground to grant bail, which cannot be denied just because the charges…
NEW DELHI: Critiqued by Supreme Court on Tuesday for breaching fairness norms, Justice L Narasimha Reddy declined to continue as the one-man commission to inquire into alleged power sector irregularities caused by K Chandrashekar Rao-led BRS government. Telangana government said it will notify a new chairperson by Monday, reports .A bench of Chief Justice D…
LUCKNOW: Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav’s poll narrative of PDA (Pichhda, Dalit and Alpsankhyak) has come to reflect much more prominently with more than 86% of the party’s elected MPs in Uttar Pradesh coming from OBC, Dalit and Muslim background.SP’s 37 MPs includes 20 from OBC, eight from SC and four from the Muslim community….
