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Source – bloombergquint.com The Delhi High Court has asked Air India to replace the chairperson of its panel looking into the sexual harassment allegations by an air hostess against one of the carrier’s senior officials, following which the national carrier agreed to bring in a new person. The complainant had claimed that the panel chairperson was

Source – moneycontrol.com The Supreme Court yesterday said that compensation amount of Rs 25,000 which is paid to a victim of hit-and-run accident in case of death is “low” and a bill that proposes to raise this to Rs two lakh is “pending” before the Parliament. The Motor Vehicles (Amendment) Bill, 2016, was passed by the

Source – indianexpress.com The Supreme Court on Friday directed the Centre to apprise it as to whether petrol and diesel can have an equal pricing for four wheelers and private cars after the Environment Pollution Control Authority (EPCA) said pollution from diesel vehicles was a cause of concern. A bench of justices Madan B Lokur and

Source – newindianexpress.com NEW DELHI: The Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) is contemplating to move the Supreme Court against an order by the Madras High Court granting grace marks to those who wrote this year’s NEET exam in Tamil, sources in the HRD Ministry said today. The Madurai bench of the Madras High Court had

Source – dnaindia.com The Bombay High Court on Thursday rejected the appeal filed by former Navy officer Manish Thakhur and confirmed the life imprisonment imposed on him for murdering his girlfriend, Koushambi Layek, in an Andheri hotel room in 2007. A division bench of Justices BR Gavai and Sarang Kotwal dismissed the appeal challenging the conviction

Source – indianexpress.com SLAMMING THE Centre, the UP government and other authorities for the “apathy” and “lethargy” in their efforts to preserve and restore the Taj Mahal, the Supreme Court Wednesday gave vent to its anger and frustration: “You can shut down the Taj. You can demolish it if you like, and you can also do

Source – firstpost.com The Supreme Court has scheduled the hearing of the case related to reservations in promotions for Scheduled Castes (SC) and Scheduled Tribes (ST) categories on 3 August, while refusing to pass an interim order against its 2006 verdict which dealt with application of the concept of  ‘creamy layer’ for reservations in government job

Source – newindianexpress.com NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court today came down heavily on the Centre, the Delhi government and their civic bodies for not taking any step to tackle the “serious problem” of groundwater depletion in the national capital. The apex court perused the NITI Aayog’s report which said that various authorities were passing the buck

Source – newindianexpress.com NEW DELHI: Troubles seems to be aggravating for Superstar Rajinikanth’s wife Latha Rajinikanth as the Supreme Court on Tuesday said that she will have to face a trial for not complying with an undertaking to pay Rs 6.2 crore that she owed to a movie distribution company for the post-production work of Tamil

Source – moneycontrol.com The plea to quash the infamous Section 377 of the Indian Penal Code has risen from the grave and made its way back to the Supreme Court yet again after ruthlessly being thrown out in 2013. What needs to be seen is whether the apex court will scrap the section or condone it