Saharanpur, April 3 (IANS) Congress MP Imran Masood, responding to Union Minister Kiren Rijiju’s remarks on the Women’s Reservation Bill, said on Friday that a special Parliament session has been convened for April 16, during which the legislation will be taken up for discussion.Speaking to IANS, Masood underlined that the groundwork for women’s reservation was laid during Sonia Gandhi’s leadership and asserted that the Bill had already been passed earlier.”It is not that the Bill was never clea…
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Mumbai, Feb 27 (IANS) Shiv Sena Uddhav Balasaheb Thackeray (UBT) has responded to the Supreme Court’s recent observations on mandatory voting by questioning the very foundation of India’s current electoral system. It acknowledged the court’s intent to strengthen democracy and argued that such measures are futile as long as the system remains “trapped in the jaws of a dictatorial and corrupt” regime. An editorial in the party’s mouthpiece, ‘Saamana’, on Friday follows comments from Chief Ju…
Jamshedpur, Feb 26 (IANS) Union Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan on Thursday expressed deep regret over a controversial chapter relating to the judiciary in a Class 8 social science textbook published by the National Council of Educational Research and Training (NCERT), and announced the immediate withdrawal of all printed copies.Speaking to the media during his visit to Jamshedpur, the Minister said the government had taken the matter very seriously. “We have decided to recall all copies…
New Delhi, Feb 26 (IANS) The Supreme Court is scheduled to hear on Thursday a suo motu case concerning what it described as “objectionable” references to the judiciary in a Class 8 social science textbook published by NCERT.A bench comprising Chief Justice Surya Kant and Justices Joymalya Bagchi and Vipul M Pancholi will take up the matter titled ‘In Re: Social Science Textbook For Grade-8 (part-2) Published by NCERT and Ancillary Issues’.The development assumes significance as the Chief…
New Delhi, Feb 16 (IANS) The Supreme Court on Monday declined to entertain petitions seeking action against Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma over his alleged remarks targeting Muslims and a now-deleted controversial video purportedly showing him targeting members of a particular community. Asking the petitioners to approach the Gauhati High Court, a Bench headed by Chief Justice of India (CJI) Surya Kant observed that the issues raised could be “effectively adjudicated” by the jurisd…
New Delhi, Feb 9 (IANS) The Supreme Court is scheduled to hear on Monday the plea filed by West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee challenging the ongoing Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls in the poll-bound state scheduled to be held this year.As per the cause list published on the website of the apex court, a Bench led by the Chief Justice of India (CJI) Surya Kant and comprising Justices Joymalya Bagchi and N.V. Anjaria will take up Banerjee’s petition along with similar p…
Dhar, Jan 23 (IANS) The historic Bhojshala complex in Madhya Pradesh’s Dhar district came alive with devotion on Basant Panchami on Friday, as Hindu devotees offered prayers and worship to Goddess Saraswati (Vagdevi) from sunrise, following an interim order by the Supreme Court issued a day earlier.The disputed 11th-century site — revered by Hindus as a temple dedicated to Goddess Saraswati and by Muslims as the Kamal Maula Mosque — saw elaborate decorations, including saffron flags adorning t…
New Delhi, Jan 22 (IANS) In a significant order passed on Thursday, the Supreme Court directed that both Basant Panchami worship and Friday namaz be permitted at the disputed Bhojshala Temple-Kamal Maula Mosque complex in Dhar district of western Madhya Pradesh.A Bench headed by Chief Justice of India (CJI) Surya Kant was hearing an urgent plea filed by the Hindu Front for Justice (HFJ), which sought exclusive rights for Hindus to perform Saraswati Puja throughout the day on Basant Panchami, fal…
New Delhi, Dec 29 (IANS) In an open letter posted on social media platform X, Dr Ishita Sengar, daughter of former BJP MLA Kuldeep Singh Sengar — convicted in the 2017 Unnao rape case — expressed deep anguish, fear, and waning faith in the justice system. The letter, addressed to the “Hon’ble Authorities of the Republic of India,” comes hours after the Supreme Court stayed a Delhi High Court order that had suspended her father’s life sentence and granted him conditional bail.Sengar, expell…