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New Delhi [India], December 16 (ANI): Two weeks after the three-member Joint Inquiry Committee issued notice to Justice Yashwant Varma seeking his response to corruption charges that have triggered removal proceedings in the Parliament, the Allahabad High Court judge has moved the Supreme Court challenging the legality of the Committee by contending that the same was constituted unilaterally by the Speaker of the Lok Sabha, allegedly without consultation with the Chairman of the Rajya Sabha. Ju ...Read More >
Hyderabad, Dec 16 (SocialNews.XYZ) The merger of the surrounding 27 urban local bodies with the Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation (GHMC) will make it the biggest municipal corporation in the country both in terms of area and population. The GHMC boundaries will expand from the present 650 square kilometres to 2,050 square kilometres, while the estimated population will go up from 1.12 crore to 1.34 crore. The number of municipal wards in the new body will double to 300. GHMC Commissione ...Read More >
New Delhi, Dec 15 (PTI) The Viksit Bharat Shiksha Adhishthan Bill which seeks to set up an overarching higher education commission was introduced in Lok Sabha on Monday. Here is an explainer on the Bill: 1. What has the Bill proposed? The Bill proposes setting up an overarching higher education commission along with three councils for regulation, accreditation and ensuring academic standards for universities and higher education institutions (HEI) in India. 2. Which institutions will be covered ...Read More >
New Delhi [India], October 27 (ANI): Chief Justice of India (CJI) B.R. Gavai has recommended the name of Justice Surya Kant as his successor, marking the formal initiation of the process to appoint the next Chief Justice of India. Justice Gavai is set to demit office on November 23, 2025, upon attaining the age of 65. The Union Ministry of Law and Justice had recently written to Chief Justice Gavai, seeking his recommendation for the next CJI, in line with established procedure. The appointme ...Read More >
Assam's government is set to preserve its sacred Satra institutions with a new bill. Land rights will be granted to tea garden workers. A significant investment is approved for a new fertilizer plant, promising jobs and economic growth. The Prime Minister is expected to lay the foundation stone for the project soon. Guwahati: The Assam Cabinet meeting has approved the "The Assam Satra Preservation and Development Commission Bill, 2025" to safeguard the sacred heritage institutions, promote thei ...Read More >
New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Monday declined to stay the Waqf (Amendment) Act, 2025 in its entirety, though it put on hold some of its contentious provisions. Among those suspended are the provisions empowering District Collectors to decide whether a property claimed as Waqf actually belongs to the government, and the stipulation that only a lawful property owner who has been practising Islam for at least five years can create Waqf through a formal deed. Reading out the operative part of the ...Read More >
New Delhi, Sep 15: The Supreme Court on Monday put on hold several key provisions of the Waqf (Amendment) Act, 2025, including the clause that only those practising Islam for the last five years can dedicate a property as Waqf, but refused to stay the entire law. "We have held that presumption is always in favour of constitutionality of a statute and intervention (can be done) only in the rarest of rare cases," a bench of Chief Justice B R Gavai and Justice Augustine George Masih said in its in ...Read More >
New Delhi, Sep 15 (SocialNews.XYZ) The Supreme Court on Monday declined to order a blanket stay the operation of the Waqf (Amendment) Act, 2025, while granting limited interim relief in respect of certain contentious provisions. A Bench headed by Chief Justice of India (CJI) B.R. Gavai observed that courts must exercise restraint when asked to stay laws enacted by Parliament. "By now, it is a settled principle of law that the courts should be very slow in granting interim relief by way of stay ...Read More >
New Delhi: The Supreme Court's September 15 interim order on the Waqf (Amendment) Act, 2025, keeps the law broadly in force while pausing the most contentious innovations. The bench reiterated the strong presumption that a parliamentary statute is constitutional and declined a blanket stay, yet it suspended specific clauses that, in its view, risk arbitrary application or encroach on judicial functions. In short, most reforms continue, but key levers that would have shifted power toward the ex ...Read More >
The Supreme Court will decide Monday on pleas to stay the Waqf (Amendment) Act, 2025. Chief Justice BR Gavai and Justice AG Masih reserved the order on May 22. The Act, which amends the Waqf Act 1995, has sparked controversy over its effects on Muslim institutions. The Supreme Court is set to pronounce its decision on applications seeking a stay on the Waqf (Amendment) Act, 2025, on Monday (September 15). A bench of Chief Justice BR Gavai and Justice AG Masih had reserved the order on May 22. ...Read More >
Supreme Court NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court on Monday put on hold the provision in the Waqf Amendment Act 2025 that required a person to be a practitioner of Islam for five years to create a Waqf. The court said this provision will remain stayed until rules are framed on how to determine whether a person is a practitioner of Islam.The court said, "some sections need some protection."However, the Supreme Court refused to stay the entire Waqf (Amendment) Act 2025, noting that only some sections nee ...Read More >
New Delhi: Security was heightened outside the Supreme Court on Monday ahead of the bench led by Chief Justice B R Gavai pronouncing interim orders on pleas challenging the Waqf (Amendment) Act, 2025. Additional barricades, frisking points and access controls were in place around the court complex, with larger police deployment and restricted public entry. According to the cause list for September 15, the court will issue interim directions on three issues flagged during hearings in May, when ...Read More >
Guwahati: The Supreme Court will issue interim orders on Monday, September 15, addressing three contentious provisions of the Waqf (Amendment) Act, 2025, including the government's power to denotify properties previously recognized as waqf through court rulings, historical usage, or legal deeds. A bench headed by Chief Justice BR Gavai had earlier reserved its order on May 22 after hearing extensive arguments from both sides over three consecutive days. Ready for a challenge? Click here to tak ...Read More >
New Delhi, Sep 13 (PTI) The Supreme Court is slated to pronounce on September 15 its interim orders on three key issues, including the power to denotify properties declared as "waqf by courts, waqf-by-user or waqf by deed", which cropped up during the hearing of pleas challenging the validity of the Waqf (Amendment) Act, 2025. A bench headed by Chief Justice B R Gavai had on May 22 reserved the interim orders on these issues after hearing both sides in the waqf case. According to the cause lis ...Read More >
Bahraich (UP): A 15-year-old boy died while practising for a race at a government-aided inter college in Nanpara in Bahraich district, college officials said on Thursday. Himanshu, a class 9 student at Sa'aadat Inter College and a resident of Bhaggapurwa village, was participating in a 100-metre sprint with about a dozen classmates on Wednesday as part of preparations for Independence Day celebrations. Witnesses said he crossed the finish line in third place but collapsed unconscious moments l ...Read More >
The Yogi Adityanath government Wednesday introduced the Uttar Pradesh Shri Banke Bihariji Temple Trust Bill, 2025, for the running of the famous temple in Vrindavan, Mathura, in the Assembly. It replaces a May 26 ordinance, which has been challenged in the Supreme Court for allegedly encroaching on temple funds. Incidentally, the BJP has traditionally opposed "interference" of the government in the running of temples. Advertisement * What reasons has the Adityanath government cited for the Bi ...Read More >
New Delhi, Aug 8 (UNI) The Supreme Court today indicated that it will suspend the functioning of the statutory committee constituted under the Uttar Pradesh Shri Bankey Bihari Ji Temple Trust Ordinance, 2025, which vests the management of the historic Bankey Bihari temple in Vrindavan, Mathura, with a government-backed trust. A Bench comprising Justice Surya Kant and Justice Joymalya Bagchi said it will relegate the petitioners to the Allahabad High Court to challenge the constitutional validit ...Read More >
KOLKATA: The political slugfest following the gang-rape of a law student inside a college continued Saturday as TMC took pains to distance itself from the "misogynistic remarks" of its own netas, emphasising instead the "quick action taken against the accused". Opposition, however, questioned security for women at workplaces and educational institutes and "promised to stay on the roads"."The remarks by MP Kalyan Banerjee and MLA Madan Mitra concerning the heinous crime were made in their persona ...Read More >
New Delhi [India], June 28 (ANI): The Appointments Committee of the Cabinet has approved the re-appointment of Ravi Agrawal, as Chairman of the Central Board of Direct Taxes (CBDT) on a contract basis for one year, effective from July 1, 2025, to June 30, 2026, or until further orders, according to an official order. Last year, Agrawal, a 1988-batch IRS officer, was appointed as the new chairman of the Central Board of Direct Taxes, the administrative body for the Income Tax Department. With t ...Read More >
New Delhi [India], June 28 (ANI): The Appointments Committee of the Cabinet has approved the re-appointment of Ravi Agrawal, as Chairman of the Central Board of Direct Taxes (CBDT) on a contract basis for one year, effective from July 1, 2025, to June 30, 2026, or until further orders, according to an official order. Last year, Agrawal, a 1988-batch IRS officer, was appointed as the new chairman of the Central Board of Direct Taxes, the administrative body for the Income Tax Department. Also R ...Read More >
Bengaluru Power Cuts: Citizens of Bengaluru brace yourself for long hours of power outages from June 29 and June 30. More than 100 areas will be impacted as BESCOM undertakes its quarterly maintenance work in various of its division. Bengaluru Power Outages June 29: According to the update by BESCOM on its X handler, there will be power outages in Kittaganahalli, Palasandra, Saptagiri, Maruthinagar, Sankapur, Raghavendra Nagar, Goolarivee, Baddihalli, Kesaramadu, C.M Badawan, Kalalli and SKS v ...Read More >
New Delhi: The Centre on Tuesday urged the Supreme Court to confine the hearing on pleas challenging the validity of the Waqf (Amendment) Act for passing interim orders to three issues, including the power to de-notify properties declared as "waqf by courts, waqf-by-user or waqf by deed". The matter was taken up by a bench led by Chief Justice of India and comprising Justice Augustine George Masih. Solicitor General Tushar Mehta, appearing for the Centre, requested the bench to confine the proc ...Read More >
Chandigarh, Jan 8 (PTI) Long-jump great Anju Bobby George was on Wednesday named chairperson of the Athletics Federation of India's nine-strong athletes commission that features six women with javelin throw star Neeraj Chopra being its most prominent male member. The other women in the new panel are runner Jyotirmoyee Sikdar, discus thrower Krishna Poonia, hurdler MD Valsamma, steeplechaser Sudha Singh and runner Sunita Rani. George, a 2003 world championships bronze-winner, is also a senior vi ...Read More >
Chandigarh, Jan 8 (PTI) Long-jump great Anju Bobby George was on Wednesday named chairperson of the Athletics Federation of India's nine-strong athletes commission that features six women with javelin throw star Neeraj Chopra being its most prominent male member. The other women in the new panel are runner Jyotirmoyee Sikdar, discus thrower Krishna Poonia, hurdler MD Valsamma, steeplechaser Sudha Singh and runner Sunita Rani. George, a 2003 world championships bronze-winner, is also a senior vi ...Read More >
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