New Delhi, May 20 (IANS) The Supreme Court on Wednesday issued notice to the Centre, states, and Union Territories (UTs) on a public interest litigation (PIL) seeking directions to ensure a minimum 30 per cent reservation for women advocates in government legal panels and law officer appointments across the country.A bench of Chief Justice of India (CJI) Surya Kant and Justices Joymalya Bagchi and Vipul M. Pancholi passed the order after briefly hearing the matter. In a brief hearing, senior adv…
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New Delhi, May 18 (IANS) Union Jal Shakti Minister C.R. Patil on Monday said the Centre has signed a memorandum of understanding with the Andaman and Nicobar Islands administration under ‘Jal Jeevan Mission 2.0’ to strengthen drinking water services in remote and island regions.In a post on social media platform X, Paatil said: “The agreement was signed between the Department of Drinking Water and Sanitation under the Ministry of Jal Shakti and the Andaman and Nicobar administration under the in…
New Delhi, May 11 (IANS) The Central government on Monday notified the Viksit Bharat – Guarantee for Rozgar and Ajeevika Mission (Gramin) Act, 2025, to be rolled out nationwide from July 1, 2026, guaranteeing 125 days of wage employment to rural households.Under the new framework, every rural household whose adult members volunteer to undertake unskilled manual work shall be entitled to a statutory guarantee of 125 days of wage employment in every financial year, the statement from the Ministr…
New Delhi, May 10 (IANS) The Supreme Court has sought compliance reports from several states and Union Territories (UTs) over the implementation of Section 12(1)(c) of the Right of Children to Free and Compulsory Education Act, 2009, warning that failure to file affidavits may compel the top court to summon the Principal Secretaries of their Education Departments. A bench of Justices Vikram Nath, Sandeep Mehta and Vijay Bishnoi was hearing a writ petition filed by Md Imran Ahmad concerning the i…
New Delhi, May 7 (IANS) The Registrar General and Census Commissioner of India (RG & CCI) on Thursday flagged off six awareness vans as part of the Census 2027 public outreach campaign in Delhi for the ongoing first phase of Houselisting and Housing Census (HLO), an official said. The Census awareness vans, flagged off from Janganana Bhawan in Delhi, will travel across Delhi NCT carrying messages on Census participation, Self-Enumeration (SE) facility, key features of Census 2027 and the imp…
Srinagar, April 26 (IANS) Minister of Youth Affairs and Sports, Dr. Mansukh Mandaviya, along with State Sports Ministers and leading sporting stalwarts, released the Srinagar Khel Sankalp document on the final day of the three-day Chintan Shivir in Srinagar, on Sunday.The document outlines a collective national vision to strengthen the sports culture through cooperative federalism, with a focus on athlete-centric development, expansion of sports infrastructure, talent identification, development…
New Delhi, April 16 (IANS) Union Parliamentary Affairs Minister Kiren Rijiju on Thursday appealed to the Opposition not to spread rumours regarding the delimitation bill, stating that a wrong message is being spread and urged them not to do that. This comes as a special session of Parliament has been convened to discuss amendments related to the Nari Shakti Vandan Adhiniyam. A three-day special sitting of the extended Budget Session is set to begin later in the day, with discussions centred on p…
Namakkal, April 16 (IANS) Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M.K. Stalin on Thursday intensified his opposition to the Centre’s proposed delimitation exercise by symbolically burning a copy of the delimitation bill and raising a black flag. Leading from the front, Stalin burned the proposed delimitation bill in Namakkal, where he also hoisted a black flag as part of the statewide protest he had called for.The Chief Minister had earlier urged people across Tamil Nadu to raise black flags atop their home…
New Delhi, April 16 (IANS) A three-day special sitting of the extended Budget session of Parliament is set to begin on Thursday, with discussions centred on proposed Constitutional amendments linked to the implementation of the Nari Shakti Vandan Adhiniyam. The government is expected to introduce three amendment Bills aimed at operationalising the legislation, which was passed in 2023 to provide 33 per cent reservation for women in the Lok Sabha and State Assemblies.Earlier this week, the Centra…
Chennai, April 15 (IANS) Tamil Nadu is set to witness widespread protests on Thursday after Chief Minister M. K. Stalin called for a statewide black flag demonstration against the Centre’s proposed delimitation exercise and constitutional amendments.Urging people to express their dissent, Stalin appealed to citizens across the state to hoist black flags in their homes and public spaces. “Let black flags rise! Tamil Nadu will fight, and Tamil Nadu will win,” he declared in a strongly worded soc…