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New Delhi: Former President Ram Nath Kovind on Thursday cautioned that rapid technological and environmental changes are creating new human rights challenges, particularly for workers in the informal sector and those facing climate-induced displacement. "Economic progress must always walk hand in hand with human dignity," he said, adding, "Climate change is no longer only an environmental concern and it is becoming a human rights imperative." Speaking at the 32nd Foundation Day of the National ...Read More >
New Delhi, Oct 16 (PTI) Former President Ram Nath Kovind on Thursday cautioned that rapid technological and environmental changes are creating new human rights challenges, particularly for workers in the informal sector and those facing climate-induced displacement. "Economic progress must always walk hand in hand with human dignity," he said, adding, "Climate change is no longer only an environmental concern and it is becoming a human rights imperative." Speaking at the 32nd Foundation Day of ...Read More >
A bench of Justices Surya Kant and Joymalya Bagchi interpreted the apex court's 2016 verdict in Kedar Nath Yadav's case that quashed the land acquisition proceedings for establishing the manufacturing plant of Tata Motors. The bench said the 2016 judgement was anchored on the premise that the acquisition disproportionately affected vulnerable communities lacking financial resources and institutional access to challenge governmental action. The bench noted that this court had directed restorati ...Read More >
Amid growing demand for stricter compliance with safety and quality control norms for medical products, the Centre is framing a law to strengthen the legal framework for drug quality testing and market surveillance, along with regulation of medical devices and cosmetics. One of the major reasons behind the drafting of the law is the repeated complaints and concerns flagged by health regulators across the globe, including the WHO, over serious quality lapses by Indian drug manufacturers. The dr ...Read More >
New Delhi, Oct 15 (SocialNews.XYZ) The Supreme Court on Wednesday agreed to examine a public interest litigation (PIL) seeking to enforce and expand the constitutional right of individuals to access legal counsel during all stages of an enquiry or investigation. Issuing notice, a Bench of Chief Justice of India (CJI) BR Gavai and K Vinod Chandran sought responses of the Centre and all states and union territories in the matter. The plea challenges the current practice of discretionary and parti ...Read More >
New Delhi: The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) has taken suo motu cognisance of a media report that eight patients died and three others were critically injured in a fire at the trauma centre ICU of the government-run Sawai Man Singh (SMS) Hospital in Rajasthan's Jaipur. According to the press report, carried on October 6, 18 patients were admitted to the ICU and semi-ICU wards of the hospital when the fire broke out. The blaze and toxic smoke reportedly hampered rescue operations. The ...Read More >
A bench of Chief Justice Devendra Kumar Upadhyaya and Justice Tushar Rao Gedela was informed that the post of National Commission for Minorities chairperson has been vacant since April 22, when the last officer demitted office. The counsel representing the Centre urged the court to grant time to get instructions from the authorities. To this, the bench said, "Please make sure things start moving. Don't wait for the next date. This is very very important." The court was hearing a public interes ...Read More >
New Delhi, Oct 14 (PTI) Justice (retd) Nageswara Rao has left it to the Supreme Court to take "a suitable view" on the two contentious articles of the draft constitution of the All India Football Federation (AIFF) in his report submitted to the apex court. On October 9, the AIFF had approached the SC, seeking a clarification on the two articles -- Article 23.3, and Article 25.3 (b) and (c) -- in view of the objections raised by world football governing body FIFA. The next day, an SC bench aske ...Read More >
New Delhi, Oct 9 (PTI) The Supreme Court on Thursday said age restrictions under the 2021 surrogacy law will not apply to intending couples who commenced the procedure, like freezing of embryos, before the Act came into force on January 25, 2022. The apex court said that age restriction won't apply if the intending couple was at the stage of creation of embryos and freezing after extraction of gametes and on the threshold of transfer of embryos to the uterus of the surrogate mother prior to the ...Read More >
Itanagar, Oct 6: Union Minister for Coal and Mines G Kishan Reddy, along with Chief Minister Pema Khandu, performed bhoomi pujan and inaugurated the Namchik-Namphuk Coal Mine on Monday at Longtom under Kharsang sub-division in Changlang district. This is Arunachal Pradesh's first ever commercial coal mining operation. The project will share 65.50% of revenue with the Government of Arunachal Pradesh. Chief Minister Pema Khandu, in his address, hailed the occasion as a historic day for Arunachal ...Read More >
Singapore: Singer-musician Zubeen Garg died due to drowning while swimming off a Singapore island and not while scuba diving as reported earlier, media reports said Thursday. Assam-based Garg, who was in Singapore for the 60th year of India Singapore Diplomatic Relations and to celebrate India ASEAN Year of Tourism, North East India Festival, died on September 19. The Singapore Police Force (SPF) said they have extended a copy of the autopsy report, along with its preliminary findings on Garg' ...Read More >
TCS layoffs: India's largest IT firm, Tata Consultancy Services, is accused of forcing around 2,500 employees in Pune to resign, PTI reported, citing a letter from the IT employees' body NITES to the Maharashtra Chief Minister on Wednesday. However, the IT giant has denied these claims, stating that the recent move to "realign skills in our organisation" has impacted only a limited number of employees. It further said, "Those who have been affected have been provided due care and severance, as ...Read More >
Chandigarh, Oct 1 (PTI) A delegation of the Punjab Congress on Wednesday met Governor Gulab Chand Kataria here and urged him to withhold assent to the Punjab Town Improvement (Amendment) Bill, 2025, claiming that it "undermines the very spirit of the Improvement Trusts and raises serious constitutional concerns". The Punjab Assembly on September 29 had passed the Punjab Town Improvement (Amendment) Bill, 2025. At that time, Local Government Minister Dr Ravjot Singh said the motive of this Bill ...Read More >
New Delhi, Oct 1 (SocialNews.XYZ) Since the Election Commission of India (ECI) rolled out the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls in Bihar, there has been an uproar, with the matter reaching the Supreme Court for arbitration. The poll body continued to conduct the process as laid out in the rule books, facing all aspersions, and on Tuesday, September 30, made public copies of the Bihar electoral roll. Throughout the process, it kept updating the progress on its website. Even now ...Read More >
SINGAPORE - Indian musician Zubeen Garg died on Sept 19 after swimming in waters off St John's Island, and not while scuba diving as was initially reported by Indian media. In response to queries by The Straits Times on Oct 1, a spokesman for the Singapore Police Force (SPF) said it has extended a copy of the autopsy report, along with its preliminary findings on Zubeen's death to the High Commission of India upon their request. SPF had earlier ruled out foul play. The 52-year-old was with mo ...Read More >
A bench of Justice Sachin Datta passed the order while hearing a plea by the Panchsheel Resident Welfare Association, which had sought immediate and effective steps by the Delhi Police in the form of a policy to curb traffic menace and deploy traffic policemen at key stretches such as Josip Broz Tito Marg, Siri Fort Road and Arun Jaitley Park. In the plea, the RWA contended that despite repeatedly flagging traffic violations and instances of wrong-side driving at the intersection to the deputy ...Read More >
Bengaluru, Sep 30 (PTI) The Karnataka High Court on Tuesday refused to interfere with a single-judge order that had stayed the operation of the Karnataka Cinemas (Regulation) (Amendment) Rules, 2025 that sought to cap cinema ticket prices at Rs 200. On September 23, a single judge had granted an interim stay on the rules following a plea by the Multiplex Association of India and others. Hearing an appeal filed by the Karnataka State Film Chamber of Commerce, a vacation bench comprising Justice ...Read More >
Jaipur: A five-year-old child allegedly died in Sikar, while a few got ill after consuming a cough syrup supplied under the free medicines scheme of the Rajasthan government. The state government has stopped the supply of the concerned batch of the syrup. The case of a child's death has been reported in Sikar, while two children fell ill in Bharatpur, and a two-year-old girl had to be admitted to the ICU of a private hospital in Jaipur after allegedly consuming the syrup. As per reports, the c ...Read More >
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Hyderabad: A case registered against a Punjagutta spa was struck down by the Telangana High Court after it found that the police Sub-Inspector who conducted raids on the premises had no powers under the Immoral Traffic (Prevention) Act (PITA). The officer had raided Bluebells Spa based on allegations of running a brothel and exploiting women for commercial sex, seizing mobile phones and other items. Justice Jukanti Anil Kumar, who heard the petition filed by the woman working as a manager at t ...Read More >
BENGALURU: Karnataka State Commission for Backward Classes chairman Madhusudan R Naik on Monday took a dig at people's representatives who had reportedly stated that they would not participate in the Socio-Educational Survey 2025 being conducted by the Commission, and also giving a call to the public to follow them. "The commission started the survey of families and people of the state on September 22, 2025. On September 28, the media reported that some people's representatives, citing the cour ...Read More >
New Delhi: Social media platform X will appeal against Karnataka High Court's verdict dismissing its petition challenging the authority of government officials to issue content takedown orders under the Information Technology Act. Elon Musk-owned X through its official handle said orders issued by police officers to arbitrarily take down content from its platform through a "secretive online portal called the Sahyog" is a violation of Indian citizens' constitutional rights to freedom of speech a ...Read More >
Addressing the inaugural session of the two-day National Mediation Conference in Bhubaneswar on Saturday, he said the practice of mediation continued in different societies for ages and it got the recognition through the framing of The Mediation Act, 2023. Chief Justice of India B R Gavai said mediation and open communication offer a path to transform discord into dialogue, turning tension into collaboration and restoring harmony between parties. Addressing the inaugural session of the two-day ...Read More >
Hyderabad, Sep 28 (UNI) Telangana Chief Minister A Revanth Reddy today highlighted the importance of the revival of Musi river which has turned into a dump yard due to neglect of the previous governments. The CM said "Our government is moving forward to protect water bodies and revive the abandoned lakes and ponds under the Musi project." Speaking after the inauguration of the revived Batukamma Kunta Lake at Amberpet in the city, Revanth Reddy appealed to the people to extend all support to th ...Read More >
NEW DELHI: The Centre has entrusted the National Council of Educational Research and Training (NCERT) with the responsibility of granting certificates equivalent to that of the Secondary (Class 10) and Senior Secondary (Class 12 certificates awarded by various School Education Boards in India, officials said on Friday. This is aimed at facilitating smooth inter school education board migrations, they added. An official release from the Education Ministry said, "This responsibility will be exer ...Read More >
The Delhi High Court, while granting bail to a 24-year-old man accused of marrying an alleged minor, raised the need for a Uniform Civil Code to resolve conflicts between personal laws and national legislation. Justice Arun Monga noted Muslim law permits marriages after puberty, but Indian criminal law deems them offences, urging legislative clarity for legal certainty and social harmony. Is it not the time to move towards a Uniform Civil Code (UCC), ensuring a single framework where personal o ...Read More >
Wipro founder chairman Azim Premji has declined Chief Minister Siddaramaiah's request to allow limited vehicular movement through the company's campus in Bengaluru, saying that it is an exclusive private property owned by a listed company, not meant for public thoroughfare. He also said that allowing public vehicular movement through Wipro's Sarjapur campus will cause "significant legal, governance, and statutory challenges". Chief Minister Siddaramaiah had on September 19 written to Premji to ...Read More >
This audio is auto-generated. Please let us know if you have feedback. President Donald Trump possesses both statutory and constitutional authority under a 1977 emergency powers act to impose sweeping tariffs on U.S. trading partners to address the nation's trade deficit and curb drug trafficking from Canada, China and Mexico, according to the government's opening brief filed with the Supreme Court on Sept. 19. The submission marked the first step in a legal battle before the high court, pitti ...Read More >
The Telangana government and Larsen and Toubro group have reached an in-principle agreement for the state to acquire L&T's stake in the Hyderabad Metro Rail project. The development, which follows a long-standing deadlock over expansion plans, aims to clear the way for the long-awaited Phase 2 of the Metro network. The agreement was reached on Thursday during a high-level meeting convened by Chief Minister Revanth Reddy with L&T Group Chairman and Managing Director SN Subrahmanyan. The discuss ...Read More >
New Delhi: After more than 70 years of independence, the Supreme Court of India brought closure to a Portuguese-era land dispute in Dadra and Nagar Haveli. The court upheld an April 30, 1974, order by the Collector of Dadra and Nagar Haveli, which rescinded possession rights over land granted to Indians by the former Portuguese government for cultivation. A bench comprising Justices Surya Kant, Dipankar Datta and N K Singh highlighted the striking reality that even after 78 years, courts are st ...Read More >
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