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Electoral Bonds Data Out With Numbers, Donors Can Be Matched With Parties

March 21, 2024 admin

New Delhi: The Election Commission has released data that have numbers to match donors with political parties their contribution went to. The data was submitted to the Commission earlier today by the State Bank of India in line with the Supreme Court order. The bank had earlier given two lists to the Election Commission, which…

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Supreme Court Puts On Hold Centre’s Notification On Its Fact-Check Unit

March 21, 2024 admin

A day after the Centre notified the Fact Check Unit under the Press Information Bureau to “address the challenge of fake news”, the Supreme Court today paused the notification, setting aside the Bombay High Court’s go-ahead to the government’s move. A bench of Chief Justice of India DY Chandrachud, Justice JB Pardiwala and Justice Manoj…

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Supreme Court Refuses To Hold Poll Officers’ Appointment

March 21, 2024 admin

New Delhi: In a significant order weeks before the elections, the Supreme Court has once again refused to order a stay on the law to appoint election commissioners, stating that doing so at this stage would be “creating chaos”. While making the observations, the court also noted that there are no allegations against the newly…

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Centre Rejects Rohingya Right To Stay

March 21, 2024 admin

The Centre told the court that no community can be granted refugee status outside legislative framework New Delhi: As a developing country that is also the world’s most populated, India needs to prioritise its own citizens, the Centre has told the Supreme Court, asserting that the illegal migration of and stay and Rohingya refugees have…

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Ex Supreme Court Judge Indira Banerjee Underlines Gender Imbalance In Higher Judiciary

March 19, 2024 admin

Indira Banerjee became a judge of the top court on August 7, 2018 and retired in September 2022. New Delhi: Former Supreme Court judge Indira Banerjee on Tuesday underlined the “gender imbalance in the higher judiciary” and said her appointment to the top court in 2018 made her only the eighth woman there in 68…

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Strong Suspicion Against Accused Justifies Framing Charges: Supreme Court

March 19, 2024 admin

The court was hearing appeals filed by Puneet Sabharwal and RC Sabharwal . (Representational) New Delhi: Even a strong suspicion based on material on record raising the presumption of the role of an accused in an offence would justify the framing of charges in a criminal case, the Supreme Court held on Tuesday. Refusing to…

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Supreme Court In Pawar versus Pawar Hearing

March 19, 2024 admin

New Delhi: The current trend of defection in political parties that end up with the defecting faction being recognised as the “real” party, was slammed by the Supreme Court today, which called it a “mockery of voters”. Hearing a petition of the Sharad Pawar faction of the Nationalist Congress Party, the court made it clear…

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Yoga Guru Ramdev Summoned By Supreme Court Over Patanjali’s Misleading Ads

March 19, 2024 admin

Supreme Court has ordered personal appearance of Ramdev. (File) New Delhi: The Supreme Court today came down heavily on Patanjali Ayurved for failing to respond to a contempt notice for issuing misleading advertisements and ordered yoga guru Ramdev to appear before it. A bench of Justices Hima Kohli and Ahsanuddin Amanullah also summoned Patanjali managing…

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Supreme Court Grants Bail To UP MLA In 2019 Arms Licence Case

March 18, 2024 admin

Abbas Ansari had obtained a gun licence from Lucknow in 2012. New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Monday granted bail to Uttar Pradesh MLA Abbas Ansari in connection with an arms licence case registered at Lucknow in October 2019. A bench comprising Justices B R Gavai and Sandeep Mehta passed the order while hearing Abbas…

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Electoral Bonds Row Ahead Of Lok Sabha Elections 2024, Experts Discuss Its Impact

March 18, 2024 admin

NDTV Battleground discusses the Maharashtra dynamics of Lok Sabha election New Delhi: The issue of electoral bonds came up today during a discussion on NDTV with political analysts on the Lok Sabha elections and the political dynamics in Maharashtra. The political analysts asked whether the issue of electoral bonds would affect voters significantly. The Supreme…

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