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24-09-2018 The Supreme Court will pronounce its judgment tomorrow in the case relating to the validity of Aadhaar. The judgment will be pronounced by a Bench of Chief Justice of India, Dipak Misra and Justices AK Sikri, AM Khanwilkar, DY Chandrachud and Ashok Bhushan. The brainchild of the UPA government, the Aadhaar Bill was passed by the BJP government. The controversy is becoming subRead More…
24-09-2018 The Supreme Court will pronounce its verdict tomorrow on the correctness of its 2006 judgment in M Nagaraj v. Union of India which deals with reservations in promotions for SC/ST communities. The Judgement will be delivered by a Constitution Bench comprising Chief Justice of India, Dipak Misra and Justices Kurian Joseph, Rohinton Nariman, Sanjay Kishan Kaul and Indu Malhotra. IRead More…
Decorated Army officer in SC over exclusion
TIMES NEWS NETWORK New Delhi: A decorated retired army officer along with seven other residents of Assam has challenged exclusion of their names and their family members from National Register of Citizens for the state before the Supreme Court, which on Wednesday issued notice to Centre and state government. Bir Bahadur Thapa, who retired from theRead More…
Can’t sacrifice liberty at altar of conjectures: Judge in activists’ case
Will Look At Proof With Hawk’s Eye: Justice Chandrachud
Dhananjay.Mahapatra@timesgroup.com New Delhi: A three-judge Supreme Court bench on Wednesday expressed contrasting views on the sustained assertions of arrested rights activists in the “urban naxal” case that evidence against them was forged and Pune policeRead More…
On abortion plea, HC may mull ‘right of fetus’ The Bombay high court has said that it may have to consider “the right of the fetus” while examining the plea of an 18-year-old rape survivor to abort at 27 weeks of pregnancy. The MTP Act allows for termination of pregnancy up to 20 weeks. A bench of Justices Abhay Oka and Mahesh Sonak will decide on Monday the petition of the survivor, a SaRead More…
Now, time to give LGBTs marriage & parenting rights Ambika Pandit & Abhinav Garg India’s LGBT community on Thursday won its battle to decriminalise homosexuality. But the victory will gather real meaning only when they secure the right to marriage, inheritance, guardianship and adoption, say lawyers and activists.
The voices for these rights are getting louder and stronger. Mumbai-baRead More…
22nd Sept., 2018
LGBT community finally finds safe, friendly home
The living room of their one-bedroom apartment in Worli is redolent with the scent of blooming jasmines and glowy under a string of fairy lights. Jayesh, a tech consultant, pulls his knees up to his chest, plugs in his earphones, and sits on the wide window ledge gazing at sea. Next to him, Abhra, his roommate is hunched over Read More…
Keep arrested activists confined to homes, not jail, for now: SC to cops
Top Court Issues Warning Against Muzzling Dissent Dhananjay.Mahapatra@timesgroup.com New Delhi: Warning against muzzling dissent in a democracy, the Supreme Court on Wednesday ordered Maharashtra police to keep arrested human right activists and lawyers Sudha Bhardwaj, Gautam Navlakha, P Varavara Rao, Arun Ferreira and VeRead More…
एससी-एसटी को दूसरे राज्य में कोटा तभी, अगर वे जातियां वहां सूची में हों सभी राज्यों में समान रूप से आरक्षण का दावा सुप्रीम कोर्ट मेें खारिज संविधाRead More…
सुप्रीम कोर्ट की संविधान पीठ ने दिनभर सुनी दलीलें, अगली सुनवाई 29 को प्रवेश के स्तर पर आरक्षण में कोई दिक्कत नहीं: संविधान पीठ एससी-एसटी के समृद्ध लोगRead More…
Temporary provisions with respect to the State of Jammu and Kashmir.
370. (i) Notwithstanding anything in this Constitution,— (a) the provisions of article 238 shall not apply in relation to the State of Jammu and Kashmir; (6) the power of Parliament to make laws for the said State shall be limited to— (i) those matters in the Union List and the Concurrent List which, in consultation with theRead More…