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Supreme Court To Hear Challenge To Validity Of BNS & BNSS Provisions On December 18

Live Law

The Supreme Court today directed that the writ petitions challenging provisions of the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023 will now be comprehensively heard on December 18. A bench of Justices Surya Kant and Ujjal Bhuyan was hearing two writ petitions filed by the Mannargudi Bar Association and Azad Singh Kataria, a retired BSF Commandant. Whereas, in the retired BSF Commandant's …

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4 weeks, 1 day ago

Most homes lack air purifiers: Supreme Court on reopening Delhi schools

India Today

The Supreme Court on Monday asked the Commission for Air Quality Management to assess reopening physical classes in schools and colleges across Delhi-NCR. A bench led by Justices Abhay S Oka and Augustine George Masih also addressed concerns over students missing mid-day meals and their inability to fully access virtual classes due to limited resources. Following the Supreme Court's new …

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1 month ago

Beijing can’t be trusted on border dispute: Experts

Deccan Chronicle

Hyderabad: Beijing can never be trusted when it comes to the India-China border dispute as they have never produced maps stating their official position. Major General Jaishankar, a former defence attache to China, said, “Statements like no land has been given up by Prime Minister Narendra Modi are irrelevant and meaningless as there is no defined border, as such. This …

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1 month ago

‘Society has a right to safety’: SC on 3 new laws

Hindustan Times

New Delhi The Supreme Court on Friday underscored the importance of striking a balance between protecting the rights of the accused and addressing society’s demand for safety and justice, as it took up a challenge to various provisions of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, and the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita. A bench comprising justices Surya Kant and Ujjal Bhuyan emphasised the …

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1 month ago

Delhi Air Pollution | Parents Belonging To Underprivileged Sections Urge Supreme Court To Review Suspension Of Physical Classes

Live Law

The Supreme Court on Friday heard an application filed by parents of students belonging to the underprivileged communities raising concerns about the Delhi Government's order suspending physical classes for students up to Class 12 amidst the air pollution crisis.The bench of Justice AS Oka and Justice AG Masih was hearing a batch of petitions regarding the worsening air pollution. The …

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2 months ago

SC Rejects High Court's Ban on Madrasa Education, Emphasizing Its Importance in Promoting National Integration

Hindustan Times

The Supreme Court has affirmed the importance of institutions such as madrasas, vedic schools and Buddhist monasteries, stating that they should not be seen as a threat to constitutional principles. The court emphasized that it is the responsibility of the State to regulate these institutions and ensure that children receive modern education alongside religious teachings, ultimately in the national interest.

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2 months ago

SC Says Laws Regulating Minority Institutions Don't Breach Secularism, But It's a Complex Case

The Hindu

The Supreme Court has ruled that laws regulating institutions run by religious or linguistic minorities, for that very reason alone, cannot be accused of breaching secularism. The court observed that a law per se regulating an institution belonging to a particular community does not ipso facto [by the fact itself] offend the principle of secularism.

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3 months, 3 weeks ago

Cash-for-vote case: SC to appoint independent special public prosecutor

Deccan Chronicle

The court was hearing an appeal by former minister and BRS Suryapet legislator G. Jagadish Reddy seeking the transfer of the case to Bhopal as Revanth Reddy has become the Chief Minister of Telangana and police and prosecution will be in the hands of the state government. Opposing it, senior advocate Aryama Sundara, appearing for Jagadish Reddy, argued that the …

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6 months, 2 weeks ago

Mohan Guruswamy | Pyrrhic win: Will hubris make way for humility?

Deccan Chronicle

Prime Minister Narendra Modi won an electoral victory on June 4, which can at best be described as a pyrrhic victory. Similarly, Mr Modi highlighted the spruced-up and long-nosed Vande Bharat Express trains, but over 95 per cent of passengers still travel in crowded and grimy trains piled up on each other, usually without minimal facilities. But the electronic media’s …

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7 months, 3 weeks ago

Mohan Guruswamy | Maoism or Modism: The perils of personality cult

Deccan Chronicle

The outpouring of outrage over the arrest of “Urban Maoists” on patently spurious charges reminds me about what that greatdarling of the radical chic — Chairman Mao Zedong — thought of chattering guerrillas. Mao had become an emperor who could even threaten to make war on the Communist Party, as he did in 1962 when the party leadership criticised the …

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8 months ago

Mohan Guruswamy | Elections 2024: Modi up a steep & slippery slope?

Deccan Chronicle

Be it a democracy or a dictatorship, governments are almost always changed by throwing out the incumbent. In that decade India’s GDP grew from $721 billion to $2.03 trillion, or an increase of 182 per cent; while in 2024 it grew to $3.75 trillion from $2.03 trillion, or by 86.6 per cent. The ILO’s “India Employment Report 2024” paints a …

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8 months, 1 week ago

BJP May Bag Around 270 Seats: Mohan Guruswamy

Deccan Chronicle

Hyderabad: Noted economist and political analyst Mohan Guruswamy opined that the BJP has to perform well in Telangana to get to at least 260 or 270 seats in the ensuing Lok Sabha elections. “The BJP’s strength comes from the northern states where they had a 95 per cent strike rate. To compensate for even a ten per cent fall there …

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10 months ago

Netas spew film dialogues as poll campaign hots up

Deccan Chronicle

Kurchi Madathapetti Andhra Pradesh is revving up for elections, and the netalog are spewing famous dialogues to reach out to the masses. “The idea is to capture mind space,” he says, adding that while it’s doubtful how many people will remember poll promises, film references will create a buzz. ‘Mere paas behen hain’ Congress General Secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra recalled …

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1 year ago

If Judges With Constitutional Protection Do Not Exhibit Boldness, We Can't Expect Others In Administration To Do So: Justice SK Kaul

Live Law

On his last working day, Supreme Court judge Justice Sanjay Kishan Kaul stressed the need for the judges to exhibit boldness, since they have Constitutional protection. "If with the constitutional protection that we have, we are not able to exhibit this, we cannot expect other parts of the administration to do so," Justice Kaul said at the Full Court reference …

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1 year, 2 months ago

At the heart of the same-sex marriage court battle is partners’ right to protect their families

The Hindu

Five judges of the Supreme Court will at 10.30 am on Tuesday pronounce its verdict on whether India can allow same-sex marriage, and at the heart of the case is the LGBTQIA+ community’s view that wedlock is the key to social acceptance and respect. “How do I protect my family otherwise?” senior advocate Menaka Guruswamy and advocate Arundhati Katju, lawyers …

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1 year, 2 months ago

Will Constitute 7-Judge Bench Soon To Hear Money Bills Issue, Says CJI DY Chandrachud

Live Law

Today, the Chief Justice of India DY Chandrachud orally remarked that he would soon be constituting a seven-judge bench to hear the constitutional issue regarding money bills. The remark was made when Senior Advocate Menaka Guruswamy, appearing before a bench comprising CJI DY Chandrachud, Justice JB Pardiwala, and Justice Manoj Misra raised the issue and stated–"This is about the money. …

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1 year, 3 months ago

Experts call for policies to address green issues

Deccan Chronicle

Hyderabad: Environmentalist and Norwegian diplomat Erik Solheim was very hopeful that India, while on its economic transformational path, would pursue, support and protect the environment in the next ten years. Addressing a national symposium on ‘Green Manifestos: A direction for political parties in India in the context of general elections’ here on Saturday, he underlined three core areas-energy, transport and …

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1 year, 3 months ago

Mohan Guruswamy | Fighting for the soul of India, from Hyderabad

Deccan Chronicle

Once again, as it was in 1978 and 1980, the Congress’ road to regain the political crown in New Delhi seems to begin in Hyderabad. This led to the formation of the Hyderabad People’s Convention in 1937, a prelude to the establishment of the Hyderabad State Congress the following year. The Hyderabad State Congress agitation coincided with a parallel agitation …

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1 year, 3 months ago

Mohan Guruswamy | Who'll be awarded the next Nobel Prize in Economics?

Deccan Chronicle

This is a time of great excitement in the ivory towers of economics faculties in the world’s storied universities when the long list of nominations for the “Economics Nobel” is winnowed to a small number, and it is in September every year when one or a few are chosen for immortality. Raj Chetty is the William A. Ackman Professor of …

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1 year, 4 months ago

Mohan Guruswamy | Adivasis, the first Indians, cheated by Constitution?

Deccan Chronicle

Tribal people, who account for 8.6 per cent of India’s population, about 110 million people, can be broadly classified into three groupings. Late Prof. Nihar Ranjan Ray, one of our most distinguished historians, described the Central Indian Adivasis as “the original autochthonous people of India”, meaning that their presence in India pre-dated by far the Dravidians, the Aryans and whoever …

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1 year, 5 months ago

Mohan Guruswamy | The myth of Magna Carta: The struggle still goes on

Deccan Chronicle

We now take our liberties and rights for granted, and the way of life it guarantees us as inherent. The English-speaking world recently celebrated over 800 years of the Magna Carta, or Great Charter, that is synonymous with fundamental rights and rule of law that are the cornerstones of modern democracy. Much of the world believes the Magna Carta came …

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1 year, 5 months ago

Mohan Guruswamy | The Need For A Common And Secular Civil Code

Deccan Chronicle

Prime Minister Narendra Modi came to power nine years ago. But now that another Lok Sabha election soon looms, given his dismal track record of inept and corrupt governance, Mr Modi needs an incendiary issue to arouse his army of “bhakts” to have a “Hindus vs Others” issue, such as the uniform civil code. The Supreme Court in October 2015 …

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1 year, 6 months ago

Liquor into printing ink: A newspaper story

Hindustan Times

Last week, one of Bengaluru’s well-loved, much-respected and most enduring institutions, synonymous with the city itself, turned a robust 75. And like so many other well-known institutions in the city – schools, hospitals, film production houses, sports centres, and horse racing – this one too was bankrolled by a local liquor baron. In the decades that followed, Guruswamy’s business went …

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1 year, 6 months ago

Remembering G. Rajasekaran (1936-2023), physicist and a true scholar

The Hindu

Prof. Guruswamy Rajasekaran, a doyen of particle physicists of India, breathed his last on May 29, 2023. Unified theory Rajaji’s work is broadly in the area of particle and nuclear physics. With the addition of Rajaji, the Department of Theoretical Physics at Madras University, already well established, became one of the best places to do theoretical physics in India. In …

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Supreme Court To Hear Challenge To Validity Of BNS & BNSS Provisions On December 18

Most homes lack air purifiers: Supreme Court on reopening Delhi schools

Beijing can’t be trusted on border dispute: Experts

‘Society has a right to safety’: SC on 3 new laws

Delhi Air Pollution | Parents Belonging To Underprivileged Sections Urge Supreme Court To Review Suspension Of Physical Classes

SC Rejects High Court's Ban on Madrasa Education, Emphasizing Its Importance in Promoting National Integration

SC Says Laws Regulating Minority Institutions Don't Breach Secularism, But It's a Complex Case

Cash-for-vote case: SC to appoint independent special public prosecutor

Mohan Guruswamy | Pyrrhic win: Will hubris make way for humility?

Mohan Guruswamy | Maoism or Modism: The perils of personality cult

Mohan Guruswamy | Elections 2024: Modi up a steep & slippery slope?

BJP May Bag Around 270 Seats: Mohan Guruswamy

Netas spew film dialogues as poll campaign hots up

If Judges With Constitutional Protection Do Not Exhibit Boldness, We Can't Expect Others In Administration To Do So: Justice SK Kaul

At the heart of the same-sex marriage court battle is partners’ right to protect their families

Will Constitute 7-Judge Bench Soon To Hear Money Bills Issue, Says CJI DY Chandrachud

Experts call for policies to address green issues

Mohan Guruswamy | Fighting for the soul of India, from Hyderabad

Mohan Guruswamy | Who'll be awarded the next Nobel Prize in Economics?

Mohan Guruswamy | Adivasis, the first Indians, cheated by Constitution?

Mohan Guruswamy | The myth of Magna Carta: The struggle still goes on

Mohan Guruswamy | The Need For A Common And Secular Civil Code

Liquor into printing ink: A newspaper story

Remembering G. Rajasekaran (1936-2023), physicist and a true scholar