New Delhi, April 7 (IANS) Urging the Supreme Court to reconsider the 2018 Sabarimala judgment permitting entry of women of all age groups into the temple, the Union government on Tuesday told a nine-judge Constitution Bench that notions of “patriarchy” and “gender stereotypes” are alien to Indian Appearing for the Centre, Solicitor General Tushar Mehta submitted before the Constitution Bench headed by Chief Justice of India (CJI) Surya Kant that Indian society has historically accorded w…
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New Delhi, Feb 25 (IANS) The National Council of Educational Research and Training (NCERT) has temporarily halted the distribution of its newly released Social Science textbook for Class 8 after certain inappropriate textual material and an error of judgement were found to have inadvertently appeared in Chapter 4, titled “The Role of Judiciary in our Society” (pages 125–142).The textbook, titled Exploring Society: India and Beyond, Volume II, was officially released on February 24, 2026, f…
New Delhi, Feb 13 (IANS) The Delhi High Court has flagged “serious concern” over inordinate delays in deciding bail pleas, observing that keeping such applications pending for long periods amounts to trauma for an incarcerated accused and violates fundamental rights. Granting regular bail to an accused in a 2021 murder case, a single-judge Bench of Justice Girish Kathpalia noted that the bail application had remained pending for 25 months before the trial court and continued to languish even…