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Karnataka HC reserves verdict on private schools’ plea to draft textbooks

November 26, 2022

A 1995’s petition that contested various provisions of the Karnataka Education Act, 1983 has been reserved for judgment by the Karnataka high court. The State government's prescription of curriculum and the reserve for staff appointments in unaided schools are among the regulations being contested. Following the government's failure to oppose,...

Anand Teltumbde, accused in Bhim Koregaon case, gets bail

November 26, 2022

Scholar-activist Anand Teltumbde, an accused in the Elgar Parishad-Maoist links case, was on Saturday released from the Taloja central prison in Navi Mumbai, a day after the Supreme Court rejected the National Investigation Agency's (NIA) plea challenging the bail granted to him, an official said. Teltumbde, 73, who spent two-and-a-half years behind bars...

Amit Malviya slammed for his ‘scientific’ tweet on Rahul Gandhi’s aarti

November 26, 2022

On social media, BJP IT cell chief Amit Malviya came under fire for saying that Congressman Rahul Gandhi did aarti anti- clockwise while visiting a well-known Shiva temple in Madhya Pradesh. Gandhi was seen in a 4-second video by Malviya, who said that Gandhi would not have been "making a...

Report: Pakistan’s Prime Minister invites Turkey to join China-Pakistan Economic Corridor

November 26, 2022

While India continues to oppose the projects in Pakistan-occupied Kashmir, Pakistani Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif has extended an invitation to Turkey to join the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC). During his visit to Ankara, Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif made this suggestion at a press conference with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan....

SC order for remuneration to Imams, CIC calls it ‘violation of Constitution’

November 26, 2022

The 1993 Supreme Court order allowing remuneration to imams in mosques was in "violation of the Constitution" and besides setting a "wrong precedent", has become a point of unnecessary political slugfest and social disharmony, the Central Information Commission has said. Information Commissioner Uday Mahurkar noted that the order violated constitutional...

On Constitution day, CJI DY Chandrachud recalls Nehru’s speech ‘Tryst with Destiny’

November 26, 2022

Chief Justice of India DY Chandrachud spoke on Saturday on the occasion of Constitution Day while quoting Jawaharlal Nehru. “The past clings on to us still in some measure and we have to do much before we redeem the pledges we have so often taken,” said the Chief Justice, quoting...

Prakash Raj criticises Akshay Kumar for attacking Richa Chadha for Galwan tweet

November 26, 2022

Prakash Raj has criticised Akshay Kumar for attacking actor Richa Chadha for her tweet on the post of Indian army which was about taking back Pakistan-occupied Kashmir (PoK) from Pakistan. Chadha’s tweet was about the 2020 Galwan clash, in which several Indian army soldiers were killed. Raj wrote in the...

Delhi minister drops Delhi Court plea to stop airing videos from jail cell

November 24, 2022

Jailed Satyendar Jain, a Delhi minister, dropped his application on Thursday asking a Delhi court to issue an order prohibiting media from airing any CCTV footage of him taken from his cell at Tihar. Instead, the Delhi High Court, according to the leader of the Aam Aadmi Party. Jain's lawyer...

Experts from Delhi to conduct polygraph test of parents of infant girl in Mizoram

November 24, 2022

A senior police officer on Thursday said that in its first polygraph test in Mizoram, experts from Delhi will visit Aizwal to conduct the test on the parents of the two-year-old girl who died due to suspected sexual assault in Aizwal district on September 16. A polygraph test will be...

DCW to send notice to Jama Masjid for ‘stopping entry of women’

November 24, 2022

The head of the Delhi Commission for Women (DCW), Swati Maliwal, announced on Thursday that she would issue a notice to Jama Masjid for "stopping the entry of women" despite the mosque's management's claim that only visitors who were disrespectful of the mosque's sanctity by dressing inappropriately were being turned...

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