Source – businesstoday.in August 31, 2017, is the last date to link your Aadhar card with permanent account number (PAN). The earlier deadline of July 31st was extended as many people expressed their inability to link the Aadhar and PAN due to difference in names. However, after the Supreme Court of India’s verdict on privacy being
Source – thewire.in Thanks to the historic judgement of a five-judge bench of the Supreme Court declaring the practice of unilateral divorce (also known as triple talaq or talaq-e-biddat) unconstitutional, it is now unequivocally established that the practice – which runs counter to the gender jurisprudence evolved by the Supreme Court, the principles of equality as ordained in the constitution, international human rights law and the Quran – is
Source – ndtv.com NEW DELHI: India’s transgender community hopes that the recent Supreme Court judgement on privacy will not just strike down a law against homosexuality, but also change mindsets on gender identities and sexual choices. Days after the court said the right to privacy was a fundamental one, community members expressed the hope it would lead to
Source – firstpost.com New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Friday sought to know whether it can hear a PIL seeking a direction to Centre for ensuring compulsory voting in polls when the issue squarely fell within the domain of the legislature. The apex court observed that it is Parliament’s job to take a policy decision, but if
Source – news18.com New Delhi: EVMs can be criticised freely. The Supreme Court on Friday stayed an order, which had prohibited criticism of EVMs.A bench led by Chief Justice of India Dipak Misra stayed operation of the gag order issued by the Uttarakhand High Court in June. The Court issued notices on an appeal filed against this
Source – timesofindia.indiatimes.com NEW DELHI: Marriage is not an exemption under the law to protect children from sexual offences even though marital rape is not recognised as a crime+ and the Indian Penal Code (IPC) protects any man having sexual intercourse with his minor wife above 15 years of age, the Supreme Court said on
Source – hindustantimes.com The Supreme Court has constituted a supervisory body comprising two of its former judges to examine whether a Special Investigation Team (SIT) was justified in closing 199 cases relating to the 1984 anti-Sikh riots. The apex court said the supervisory body, comprising its two former judges, Justice J M Panchal and Justice K
Source – ndtv.com CHENNAI : A 17 -year-old Dalit student from Tamil Nadu who asked the Supreme Court not to insist on a common entrance exam for medical colleges has committed suicide on Friday, allegedly after she did not get admission to a medical college. S Anitha, 17, the daughter of a daily wager, scored 1,176 marks
Source – financialexpress.com The Supreme Court will hear the plea against the Centre’s move to deport illegal Rohingya Muslims, who have entered India after fleeing ethnic violence in Myanmar on Monday. The matter was mentioned by Advocate Prashant Bhushan in front of a bench comprising of Chief Justice of India Dipak Misra and Justices A M Khanwilkar and
Source – newindianexpress.com NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court today refused to grant interim stay on the newly-amended Finance Act which provides that the search-cum-selection committee to select administrative members of the CAT will be headed by a nominee of the central government. A bench comprising Chief Justice Dipak Misra and justices A M Khanwilkar and D
