NEW DELHI: Supreme Court has entrusted the administration of an ancient and unique Shiva temple in Gokarna, in Karwar district of Karnataka, to former apex court judge B N Srikrishna and the district judge, virtually resulting in the judiciary overseeing management of the temple as opposing groups had created an impasse.The Gokarna Mahabaleshwara temple, where…
NEW DELHI: Supreme Court on Monday refused to stay Calcutta high court‘s May 22 judgment quashing inclusion of 77 communities, 75 of them Muslims, in West Bengal‘s OBC list and sought details of surveys determining their social and educational backwardness and under-representation in govt jobs requiring their inclusion in the OBC list.While agreeing to examine…
NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court on Monday directed the West Bengal government to provide comprehensive data regarding the social and economic backwardness of the 77 castes included in the Other Backward Classes (OBC) list. The Court also sought details on the inadequate representation of these castes in public sector jobs.The top court’s order came as…
NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court on Monday took suo moto cognisance of the deaths of three civil service aspirants due to flooding of a coaching centre basement in Delhi’s Old Rajinder Nagar last month. The bench, comprising Justices Surya Kant and Ujjal Bhuyan, issued notices to the Centre and Delhi government and sought responses from…
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…
PATNA: Union minister and Lok Janshakti Party (Ram Vilas) president Chirag Paswan on Sunday expressed his disagreement with the Supreme Court observation over creamy layer among Scheduled Castes (SC) and Scheduled Tribes (ST) and announced that his party would file a review petition against the ruling.Chirag, who got elected from his father late Ram Vilas…
NEW DELHI: BJP on Friday sought an unconditional apology from leader of opposition in Lok Sabha Rahul Gandhi for his statement in the House that the entire examination system of the country was a “fraud and compromised” while education minister Dharmendra Pradhan said government’s stand was vindicated as Supreme Court ruled there was no systemic…
NEW DELHI: Only government can confirm whether any information related to it is correct or not, I&B minister Ashwini Vaishnaw told Rajya Sabha Friday, responding to queries in the House on PIB’s Fact Check Unit, including one on the Supreme Court‘s stay on the Centre’s notification for setting up a fact-checking unit.“The amendment in the…
A bench led by CJI D Y Chandrachud asked petitioner-advocate Ashwini Upadhyay – ” Development of scientific temper among people cannot be done by judicial orders.” NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court on Friday criticised a serial PIL petitioner for seeking a direction to govts to take steps to eradicate superstitions, which he said claims hundreds…
The Supreme Court of India, led by CJI D Y Chandrachud, criticised a petitioner for submitting a Public Interest Litigation (PIL) to eradicate superstitions and promote scientific temper. The court emphasised that such matters fall under the domain of educational policy experts and cannot be mandated by judicial orders. The petition was subsequently withdrawn. Source…
