Appearing for the CBSE, Additional Solicitor General Aishwarya Bhati said the Board was prepared to respond to the petition and assured the Court that there was “no question of making it hard for the students.”
Though West Bengal CEO Monoj Agarwal said that the name of the voters’ cleared by the tribunals will be included in the voters’ list according to SC directive but officials responsible for conducting election expressed apprehensions regarding the feasibility of the process.
The literary note set the tone for a sharp political offensive, as she accused the Centre, the BJP, and the Election Commission of India of undermining democratic processes.
The petitioner, who works in the Rajasthan Police, also sought directions from the court for horizontal reservations for transgender community (in SC, ST, and other categories) in public education and employment.
The Supreme Court on Tuesday struck down a provision of the Social Security Code, 2020 that limited maternity benefits for adoptive mothers to cases where the adopted child was below three months of age, holding the restriction to be arbitrary and violative of the right to equality under Article 14.
In an important judgment, the Supreme Court on Monday held that visually impaired candidates are eligible to participate in selection for the posts under the judicial service
The Supreme Court on Monday reserved its order on a plea of Congress Rajya Sabha member Imran Pratapgarhi seeking the quashing of an FIR registered against him by a Jamnagar (Gujarat) resident accusing him of allegedly promoting communal disharmony by posting a video clip on his social media handle X with a poem “ae khoon ke pyase baat suno...” running in the background.
The Supreme Court on Monday allowed YouTuber and Podcaster Ranveer Allahabadia to resume his podcast ‘The Ranveer Show’ maintaining the desired standards of decency and morality and emphasised the need for a mechanism to regulate vulgar content in programmes telecast on YouTube and other online social media platforms.
The Supreme Court on Friday ordered a halt to any new construction or renovation at the centuries-old religious structures inside the Mehrauli Archaeological Park in the national capital, including the 13th-century Ashiq Allah Dargah and Chillagah of Baba Farid, the revered Sufi saint.
The Supreme Court is likely to hear on Wednesday a batch of petitions challenging the validity of the Chief Election Commissioner and Other Election Commissioners (Appointment, Conditions of Service and Term of Office) Act 2023, that excludes the Chief Justice of India from a panel for the selection of the Chief Election (CEC) Commissioner and the Election Commissioners (ECs).
