Source: news18.com New Delhi: The Narendra Modi government, “at present”, has no plan in place to increase the retirement age of judges of the Supreme Court and high courts. As a debate on the issue gets revived with a proposal recently made by Chief Justice of India Ranjan Gogoi to the government, a reply received under
Source: newindianexpress.com BALANGIR: Union Petroleum and Steel Minister Dharmendra Pradhan conducted an aerial survey of flood affected areas in Kalahandi, Boudh, Subarnapur and Balangir districts on Saturday.Accompanied by BJP MPs Basant Panda and Sangeeta Singhdeo, he went round several areas in Balangir town that were submerged following a torrential downpour on Tuesday. The district received record
Source: deccanchronicle.com Chennai: The Madras high court has held that the entries made in the service register based on the documents produced by an employee at the time of the appointment and recruitment cannot be altered unless applications are filed in time together with such supporting documents before the competent authority to enable the latter to
Source: indiatvnews.com The Madhya Pradesh High Court has decided to club all the petitions challenging the Congress state government’s decision to raise the reservation for the OBCs from 14 to 27 per cent and will hear all the petitions from August 21. Pro- and anti-reservationists have been battling it out on diverse fora at a
Source: hindustantimes.com PUNE A Pune sessions court acquitted an accused charged with assaulting a head constable of Kondhwa police station in 2016. The court received the documents of the case on January 23, 2018, and the decision was taken on August 14, 2019. The accused, identified as Akram Gulab Khan (23), resident of Nawazish Park
Source: deccanchronicle.com Hyderabad: The Telangana High Court dismissed as “unreal, unreasonable and vague” the contentions of the state government that it had complied with all legal requirements to complete the pre-poll procedure for the municipal elections. The court specifically questioned the government on the matter of seeking objections while delimiting wards and rejecting them, and draft
Source: NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court has cleared the decks for the Chardham highway project, which will connect four holy places in the hills of Uttarakhand through 900-km all-weather roads, by modifying an NGT order to constitute a fresh committee to look into environmental concerns. It ordered the Ministry of Environment and Forest to form
Source: newindianexpress.com KOCHI: The Kerala High Court on Friday expressed its concern at the delay in demolishing the check dam co-owned by LDF MLA PV Anwar in the context of the devastating landslide near Nilambur, wondering ‘When will we learn?’ The check dam in Cheenkannippalli region of Kakkadampoyil hill, Nilambur, is located just 10 km away
Source: newindianexpress.com NEW DELHI: Delhi’s increasing water demands can be met only if civic bodies and public authorities implement rainwater harvesting and substitute groundwater with treated wastewater for non-potable purposes like irrigation, horticulture and sanitation, the jal board told the Delhi High Court. In an affidavit placed before a bench of Chief Justice D N
Source: hindustantimes.com The Supreme Court has allowed various works in progress under Centre’s Chardham Mahamarg Vikas Pariyojna plan for connecting four holy places — Yamunotri, Gangotri, Kedarnath and Badrinath — by an all-weather road. An apex court bench comprising Justices Rohinton Fali Nariman and Surya Kant also ordered the Ministry of Environment and Forests to
