Source – Wanlura Diengdoh, the District and Sessions Judge in Shillong, has been appointed as a judge of the Meghalaya High Court. “In exercise of the powers conferred by clause (1) of Article 217 of the Constitution of India, the President is pleased to appoint Wanlura Diengdoh to be a judge of the Meghalaya High Court with
Source – firstpost.com The Supreme Court has scheduled the hearing of the case related to reservations in promotions for Scheduled Castes (SC) and Scheduled Tribes (ST) categories on 3 August, while refusing to pass an interim order against its 2006 verdict which dealt with application of the concept of ‘creamy layer’ for reservations in government job
Source – thewire.in Thanks to the historic judgement of a five-judge bench of the Supreme Court declaring the practice of unilateral divorce (also known as triple talaq or talaq-e-biddat) unconstitutional, it is now unequivocally established that the practice – which runs counter to the gender jurisprudence evolved by the Supreme Court, the principles of equality as ordained in the constitution, international human rights law and the Quran – is
