Source – indiatimes.com New Delhi: The tourism ministry is not “actively” seeking bids for the Taj Mahal, India’s most famous monument, under its ‘Adopt A Heritage’ initiative, officials familiar with the matter told ET. It’s not even on the immediate adoption list, given the various issues related to the mausoleum. “So much is happening there,” said
Source – indiatimes.com Chandigarh: Even though the office of Haryana advocate general (AG) has given categorical opinion asking to withdraw the petition related to the scams exposed by Magsaysay awardee Indian Forest Service (IFS) officer Sanjiv Chaturvedi, the state government continues to rigorously pursue the case before the Punjab and Haryana high court. The petition was
Source – news18.com New Delhi: In a state of crisis for over four years, madrasas in West Bengal can finally appoint new teachers as a “stop gap arrangement”. The Supreme Court has lifted its restraint order against appointing teachers, enabling 614 government-aided madrasas in West Bengal to appoint more than 2,600 teachers after a hiatus of four
Source – thewire.in The ban on highly hazardous pesticides (HHPs) currently being discussed in India will not only protect the environment and improve the public health but will also achieve another rarely acknowledged goal – a rapid and major reduction in the number of Indians dying from suicide. The Supreme Court, which is currently deliberating on the case
Source – hindustantimes.com B.N. Srikrishna is a genial, 77-year-old former Supreme Court judge who recites Shakespeare and Sanskrit scriptures with equal facility. But he’s making the likes of Google, Amazon and Facebook more than a little nervous. Srikrishna is leading the effort to draft new data-privacy laws for India that will regulate how tech giants from
Source – freepressjournal.in Mumbai: The Bombay High Court today directed the city traffic police to submit a report on the steps it proposed to take to ease commuting woes in crowded market areas such as Crawford Market, Bhuleshwar and Zaveri Bazaar in south Mumbai. A bench of justices Naresh Patil and G S Kulkarni also suggested that
Source – indiatimes.com CHENNAI: Three months after a special court for CBI cases discharged former Union minister Dayanidhi Maran and his elder brother Kalanidhi Maran from the decade-old illegal telephone exchange case, the CBI has approached the Madras high court challenging it. Admitting the criminal revision petition, Justice G Jayachandran ordered notice to Maran brothers and seven others accused in the case returnable by June
Source – thehansindia.com By passing guidelines to the Union of India and others for proper management of religious shrines in W.P (Civil) No. 649/2018 a division bench of the Supreme Court has, indeed, done a yeoman service to the humble, submissive and innocent devotees in the country. Responding to the petition filed by Ms Mrinalini Padhi,
Source – dnaindia.com Taking serious note of alleged exploitation of devotees by ‘sevaks’ at the Puri Jagannath temple in Odisha, the Supreme Court today passed a slew of directions to prevent any such malpractices and mismanagement, just ahead of the annual Rath Yatra next month. The top court said it is of prime importance that all
Source – indianexpress.com The Bombay High Court acquitted a man who had allegedly raped his neighbour when she had left her house to attend to nature’s call in an open field. In 2014, the Sessions Court convicted the accused on circumstantial evidence, as the prosecution had failed to examine the woman. The accused was sentenced
