News Update 168 Rohingya outcasts, living in Jammu and Kashmir were on Saturday shipped off a ‘holding focus’. 8 Mar 2021 Background The Rohingyas are a Bengali-vernacular speaking Muslim minority in Myanmar. Following mistreatment in their country, a large number of them entered India unlawfully through Bangladesh and took cover in Jammu…
News Update Supreme Court Bar Association files a plea against the SOPs released by the Registry 8 Mar 2021 The Supreme Court Bar Association has filed a writ petition, seeking to quash the Standard Operating Procedure (SOPs) laid down by the Supreme Court registry for Hybrid Physical Hearing. According…
News Update Maratha Quota case: SC states, Indra Sawhney case will be reconsidered if required 8 Mar 2021 While addressing the Maratha reservation case challenging the Bombay High Court order upholding quotas for Marathas in education and employment under the Maharashtra Socially and Educationally Backward Classes Act, the…
News Update “Reported & Projected Wrongly”: Clarifies Supreme Court on its statement of “Will you Marry the Victim?” 8 Mar 20212 May 2021 The Honourable Supreme Court of India today expressed its strong disagreement at the "complete misreporting" of last week's hearing of a rape case in which it had purportedly asked a…
News Update Pakistan PM Imran Khan wins vote of confidence 6 Mar 2021 Pakistan's Prime Minister Imran Khan has won the vote of confidence with 178 votes in a 342 member lower house of Parliament even when this vote has boycotted by opposition…
News Update “Objectification of women has to stop:” Bombay High Court pulls up Telugu film producer for picking up image of Sakshi Malik without license 5 Mar 2021 The Bombay High Court reprimanded the producers of the Telugu film "V" in connection with the use of private image of model and Bollywood actor Sakshi Malik while not getting…
News Update Delhi high court sought response from the health ministry, SII, and Bharat biotech on vaccine production capacity 5 Mar 2021 The Indian Covid-19 vaccine manufacturers, the Serum Institute of India (SII) and Bharat Biotech, have been ordered by the Delhi High Court to file an affidavit stating the existing ability…
News Update Vikas kishanrao v. State of Maharashtra (W.P. Civil No. 980 of 2019) 4 Mar 2021 Section 12(2)(c) of Maharashtra zilla Parishads and Panchayat Samitis Act, 1961,states that 27% reservation is for OBCs. The court stated:As regards the State legislation providing for reservation of seats …
News Update Haryana job quota law is disaster: FICCI 4 Mar 2021 Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce & Industry (FICCI) said the Haryana government's new legislation that provides reservation in private jobs for local candidates will "spell disaster" for industrial development…
News Update S Nambirajan v. High Court of Madras (Arising out of WP No. 10581/2020 ) 2 Mar 2021 In the case of S Nambirajan v. High Court of Madras, a Suspended Labour Court judge moved the Supreme Court against disciplinary action against him by the High Court of…
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