Month: January 2018

Source – ndtv.com NEW DELHI:  The Supreme Court of India will hear a petition tomorrow praying to postpone the date of National Eligibility Cum Entrance Test (NEET) 2017 exam which is scheduled to be conducted on May 7. The plea filed by Sankalp Charitable Trust, asked for the extension keeping in view of various reasons

Source – hindustantimes.com The Supreme Court collegium has recommended 51 names for appointment as judges in 10 high courts in the country. The collegium headed by Chief Justice of India (CJI) J S Khehar cleared the names after finalising the memorandum of procedure (MoP) for the appointment of judges, official sources said. The 51 names

Source – intoday.in Thane, Apr 19 (PTI) A local court has sentenced a 24-year-old man to 15 years rigorous imprisonment for raping a minor girl and awarded ten years jail term to his mother for abetting the crime. District judge Mridula V K Bhatia convicted Sushant Dubey, owner of a driving school here, and his mother

Source – hindustantimes.com The Supreme Court pulled up the defence ministry and Manipur government for their alleged inaction in a case involving a 15-year-old girl, who committed suicide after allegedly being raped by army personnel in October 2003. A bench headed by justice MB Lokur was hearing the petition related to extra-judicial killings in Manipur. Incidents

Source – indiatoday While a debate on triple talaq is on, one more case of divorce through Whatsapp has come in to light in Hyderabad. Badar Ibraheem, an MBA graduate was divorced by her husband through Whatsapp. Ibraheem was married to Mudassir Ahmed Khan, a resident of Tolichowki in 2016. Khan works in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

Source – thehindu.com In a relief to the National Public School (NPS) chain of institutions, the High Court of Karnataka has quashed the Central Board of Secondary Education’s (CBSE) order of disaffiliating National Public Schools in Bengaluru and Mysuru, and also the criminal cases registered against chairman K.P. Gopalakrishna for allegedly “forging” certificates of minority status.

Source – firstpost.com What percentage of a man’s salary should go as alimony to one’s estranged wife? The Supreme Court has set this figure at 25 percent, calling it a “just and fair” amount. “Twenty-five percent of the husband’s net salary would be just and proper to be awarded as maintenance to the (former) wife. The amount

Source – dnaindia.com Just a couple of days before the Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) polls, the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) suffered a blow as the Delhi High Court on Friday rejected their plea for the use of the Electronic Voting Machines with Voter-Verified Paper Audit Trail (VVPAT ) for the upcoming civic polls. Justice

Source – thehindu.com An advocate on Friday allegedly attacked a police constable who was on duty in the Madras High Court campus. Immediately after the incident, a video footage went viral through mobile messenger networks. Police said J. Kandavel, a constable attached to Law and Order police in High Court Police Station, was on duty

Source – indiatimes.com NEW DELHI: A voter may be “swayed” by the level of education of a candidate and prefer to cast his vote in favour of someone with a higher qualification, Delhi high court said.The observation by the court came in its order dismissing a plea by former BJP MLA Karan Singh Tanwar seeking setting