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Court dismisses DU teachers’ plea challenging semester system

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The Delhi High Court Thursday dismissed the petition a group of Delhi University teachers challenging the implementation of the semester system in the undergraduate courses, saying the courts were “ill-equipped” to arrive at a decision on the issue. A division bench of Acting Chief Justice B.D. Ahmed and Justice Veena Birbal sid: “We have consciously […]

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SC to examine engineering admission policy

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The Supreme Court Thursday said it would examine whether a change in the policy for admission to 30 National Institutes of Technology (NITs) violated the fundamental rights of students seeking admission. Refusing to pass any interim order seeking the quashing of the “normalisation procedure” for admission to the NITs, a bench of Justice H.L. Dattu […]

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Jet asked to compensate passengers who missed flight

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Jet Airways has been penalised for a Jaipur-Mumbai flight delay which resulted in two passengers missing its international flight to Hong Kong. The National Consumer Disputes Redressal Commission has hauled up the airline for deficiency in service. The national commission, in a recent order, said: “Staff of Jet Airline knew that passengers Vandana Jain and […]

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RTE: HC notice to DPS for not imparting quality education to poor students

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The Delhi High Court on Wednesday issued notice to the central government and chairman of Delhi Public School (DPS) Society on a plea alleging that one of its schools had deprived poor students of quality education by ignoring the right to education (RTE) law. A division bench of Acting Chief Justice B D Ahmed and […]

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Reduce retirement age of judges: says judge

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Even as a section of legal luminaries are advocating increasing the retirement age of Supreme Court judges, Justice RM Lodha on Wednesday said that the retirement age of the apex court judges should be reduced to 62 years instead of the existing 65 years.  “Every year a Supreme Court judge works, his life is reduced […]

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SC verdict to keep criminals out of power

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In a landmark judgment, the Supreme Court Wednesday declared unconstitutional the provision of the Representation of the People Act that allows elected representatives to continue as members of the elected bodies even after conviction in criminal cases. “If because of a disqualification a person cannot be chosen as a member of parliament or state legislature, […]

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HC notice to Smriti Irani on Sanjay Nirupam’s plea

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The Delhi High Court Wednesday issued notice to TV actress-turned-BJP MP Smriti Irani on a plea filed by Congress MP Sanjay Nirupam for quashing the summons issued by a trial court on a defamation suit filed against him by her. Irani had filed a complaint against Nirupam for allegedly using “indecent language” during a television […]

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Atomic energy regulator yet to file Kudankulum report in SC

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The Indian atomic energy regulator has not yet filS.P. Udayakumar,ed with the Supreme Court its report on the Kudankulam Nuclear Power Project (KNPP, an anti-KNPP activist said Wednesday. “In response to an application filed under the Right to Information (RTI) Act, the AERB (Atomic Energy Regulatory Board) in its reply dated July 1 said: ‘The […]

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Four-year DU course challenged in court

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A petition was filed in the Delhi High Court Wednesday challenging the Delhi University’s new four-year undergraduate programme. Judges B.D. Ahmed, who is also the acting chief justice, and Vibhu Bakhru posted the matter for July 17. The plea contended that there must be “uniformity in education”. The varsity is to implement a controversial four-year undergraduate programme with […]

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SC suggests Tatas to return Nano land to government

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The Supreme Court Wednesday asked Tata Motors to consider restoring the land for small car Nano factory in West Bengal back to the state government so that it could be returned to the agriculturists from whom it was acquired. The apex court bench of Justice HL Dattu and Justice Dipak Misra told Tatas that they […]

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SC frowns at failure to regulate sale of acid in market

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The Supreme Court Tuesday frowned at the central and the state governments for not doing anything to regulate the sale of acid in open market even though a number of cases involving acid attacks were taking place every day. It warned that it would impose a ban on sale of acid in the open market […]

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‘CBI can’t carry out enquiry without talking to government’

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Against the backdrop of the Supreme Court restraining the CBI from speaking to the government on its ongoing investigations into the coal scam, the law ministry feels that the probe agency can’t go about its preliminary enquiry with such communication. “It is not possible for the CBI not to talk to the government during the course of its investigation at the […]

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