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The Supreme Court on Thursday, December 6, reserved its order on a plea filed by Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) Director Alok Verma and NGO Common Cause challenging the government’s decision to divest him of his charges. The Supreme Court said the essence of government action must be in the interest of the institution. Read More…
BJP’s Lok Sabha MP from Uttar Pradesh’s Baharaich, Savitribai Phule on Thursday resigned from the party accusing it of dividing the society and not doing enough on the issue of reservation. Phule, a Dalit, was elected from the Baharaich reserved seat in 2014 Lok Sabha elections on Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) ticket. Announcing Read More…
Tourists coming to visit the Statue of Unity faced a tough time as one of the two high-speed elevators stopped working. This snag has hit for the third time in four days. Queues got longer irking visitors as the other elevator was insufficient to handle the growing crowd. Local media reported that there were Read More…
The Supreme Court on Thursday refused to give an urgent hearing to a plea seeking an investigation into retired apex court judge Justice Kurian Joseph’s recent interview to a national daily. Lawyer Shashank Deo, who filed the petition, mentioned before a three-judge bench of the top court, headed by Chief Justice of India (CJI) Read More…
The LDF government in Kerala on Thursday made it clear that the prohibitory orders imposed at the Sabarimala temple cannot be withdrawn now, even as the ‘Satyagraha’ by three opposition UDF MLAs at the state Assembly against the curbs, entered its fourth day. The lawmakers V S Sivakumar (Congress), Parakkal Abdullah (Indian Union Muslim Read More…
Global carbon emissions are set to hit an all-time high of 37.1 billion tonnes of CO2 in 2018, according to researchers at the University of East Anglia (UEA) and the Global Carbon Project. India, the third-highest contributor, is projected to see emissions rise by 6.3% from 2017. The 2.7% projected global rise in Read More…
After Telangana Congress working president A. Revanth Reddy was taken into preventive custody, the Election Commission of India has transferred Vikarabad Superintendent of Police T. Annapurna from the post with immediate effect. She will be replaced by Avinash Mohanty who has been asked to take charge by 2 p.m. on Wednesday, December 5, 2018 Read More…
The splitting up of recommendations is a matter of serious concern, and the CJI has taken it up with the PM was the grapevine ever since CJI Rajan Gogoi taken over in October in media and judiciary circle but been confirmed by Justice Kurian Joseph, who retired as the third senior-most judge of the Supreme Read More…