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NEW DELHI: Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen (MIM) head Asaduddin Owaisi on Thursday dubbed the Presidential order of 1950 limiting Scheduled Caste status to Hindus, Sikhs and Buddhists as “communal”, and sought that dalit status be opened to other religious minorities, only to see the government turn down the demand. Seizing the opportunity offered by an innocuous legislation […]

NEW DELHI: The Delhi high court on Friday quashed nursery admission guidelines of the city government with respect to general category seats and upheld the Ganguly committee recommendations on nursery admissions. The court said private unaided schools should have administrative autonomy to decide on admissions. “Administrative autonomy of private unaided schools cannot be restrained by

The Centre on Thursday submitted before the Supreme Court that Sanskrit will be the third language in classes 6 to 8 in Kendriya Vidyalayas. Appearing before the bench headed by Chief Justice H L Dattu, Attorney General Mukul Rohatgi sought its permission to file an affidavit on the controversy arising out of Centre’s decision to

The Supreme Court said that ousted BCCI chief N Srinivasan’s conflict of interest was “obvious” as he also owned a team in the IPL that he would want to win in the tournament. The court also questioned BCCI if it was willing to take actions against all the persons after the Mudgal probe panel report

NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court on Thursday observed that action should be taken on the Mudgal Committee’s probe report on the IPL spot-fixing scam and team Chennai Super Kings should be ‘terminated without further enquiry’ from the IPL tournament. “In the face of so many irregularities, isn’t it easier to disqualify? SC asked, after the

NEW DELHI: Parliament and Supreme Court buildings may be facing serious fire hazard as they have not received a fire safety certificate for the last 10 years. The issue was highlighted by the central information commission (CIC) which pulled up the Delhi Fire Service for not releasing information regarding the fire safety of the Parliament

NEW DELHI: SC has awarded death sentence to a 47-year-old man from Maharashtra after finding him guilty of raping a 4-year-old girl and then stoning her to death. The apex court said the case fell in the rarest of rare category as the child had always referred to the man from neighbourhood as an uncle

NEW DELHI: Law minister Sadananda Gowda on Tuesday blamed the present collegium system of appointment of judges for existing vacancies in the high courts. Against a sanctioned strength of 984 judges in 24 high courts (HCs), there are only 636 judges at present, with almost 348 posts or nearly 35% vacant. The Allahabad HC has

Emphasising upon a need to assure people that the State would take care of the girl child, the Supreme Court on Tuesday urged the state governments to give incentives to every family with a girl child so as to battle the menace of female foeticide and help improving the sex ratio in the country. “We

NEW DELHI: In a landmark verdict, Delhi high court on Monday directed playschools that were allotted land at concessional rates in the capital to offer 25% of their seats free of charge to children from the weaker sections. A division bench of Chief Justice G Rohini and Justice R S Endlaw said Directorate of Education