Month: January 2018

Source – dnaindia.com MUMBAI, May 18 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Banning Muslim men in India from saying “I divorce you” three times to leave their wives won’t protect women from destitution and women need education about economic rights, a leading women’s rights lawyer said on Thursday as a landmark case ended. India’s top court has spent

Source – economictimes.indiatimes.com SRINAGAR: The goods and services tax (GST), which is set to be rolled out on July 1, is likely to have a benign effect on household budgets with finance minister Arun Jaitley declaring that its impact “will not be inflationary” and in some instances, prices are even likely to drop. A host of

Source – ndtv.com NEW DELHI:  The Supreme Court today directed the Gujarat government to give 50 per cent reservation to the in-service candidates for admission to post-graduate medical diploma courses as per the regulations of the Medical Council of India. The apex court directed the state government to grant the reservation to these candidates in the second

Source – firstpost.com New Delhi: The Supreme Court has agreed to examine a plea of the income tax department whether the Noida is a corporation established by the Uttar Pradesh government under the state industrial development law or not. A bench of Justices RK Aggarwal and AM Sapre has said it will look into the appeal

Source – thequint.com Commencing a historic hearing on a batch of six petitions and a suo moto PIL challenging the constitutional validity of triple talaq and nikah halala among Muslims, the Supreme Court said it would first determine whether the practice is fundamental to Islam. Supreme Court: There are two-three things on our minds and the first

Source – firstpost.com Kolkata: In a bid to reduce the number of pending cases, the Calcutta High Court will hold special sittings during the summer vacation to hear cases that were instituted prior to 2000. The move has, however, been opposed by the Bar Association which has passed a resolution against it on the grounds that of

Source – indiatimes.com NEW DELHI: The national capital can turn into a desert if the green cover and forest land fall prey to illegal construction and encroachment, the Delhi High Court has observed. It said this environmental issue was a matter of concern and needed to be addressed on a war footing in view of the adverse

Source – intoday.in The All India Muslim Personal Law Board (AIMPLB) today submitted an affidavit on triple talaq in Supreme Court in which it called the oral instant talaq an “undesirable” practice according to the Shariat (Islamic law) and said it will advise those performing Islamic marriages to include it in the ‘nikahnama’ (marriage contract). In

Source – ndtv.com NEW DELHI:  The aggression shown in the Swachh Bharat Abhiyan campaign by the Centre would have yielded better results if it was also shown in spreading awareness about dengue and chikungunya, the Delhi High Court said today.A bench of Acting Chief Justice Gita Mittal and Justice Pratibha M Singh pulled up the central government,

Source – india.com New Delhi: The Supreme Court has agreed to examine a plea of the income tax department whether the North Okhla Industrial Development Authority (NOIDA) is a corporation established by the Uttar Pradesh government under the state industrial development law or not. A bench of Justices R K Aggarwal and A M Sapre has