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New Delhi, March 8 Chief Justice of India Surya Kant emphasized the need for greater institutional reforms in the judiciary to promote greater female representation in the legal field, stating that high court collegiums should consider meritorious female lawyers for judicial appointments as a...

Chandigarh, March 7 The judiciary must continue to serve as a constitutional guardian in matters concerning the environment, and not impede legitimate development aspirations, Chief Justice of India Surya Kant said on Saturday.He made the remark while addressing the Punjab and Haryana High...

Washington, March 4: With military supremacy effectively institutionalized in Pakistan, the country’s volatile politics, fragile civilian governance, entrenched military dominance, systematic corruption, criminal networks, and widespread human rights abuses risk becoming more persistent, a...

Vijayawada, March 1 – Chief Justice of India, Surya Kant, on Sunday called on the judiciary to promote mediation, stating that it is gaining wider acceptance as an effective tool for resolving disputes.Highlighting the need to build a "mediation culture," he stated that mediation is no longer...

Tehran, March 1 – Hours after Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei was killed in a US-Israeli airstrike, Iran named Ayatollah Alireza Arafi as his interim successor on Sunday.Ayatollah Khamenei, whose death in an attack on his residence in Tehran was announced by Iran, had been the Supreme Leader since...

March 01, New Delhi – Iran's judiciary confirmed on Sunday that U.S. and Israeli strikes killed the head of the Revolutionary Guards and another senior security advisor.According to Iran's judiciary's Mizan online news portal, the commander of the Guards, General Mohammad Pakpour, and the head...

Jammu, February 28 The father of Indian Youth Congress (IYC) president Uday Bhanu Chib on Friday thanked the judiciary for granting bail to his son, saying that faith in the justice delivery system had been upheld.A Delhi court on Saturday granted bail to Chib, who was arrested in connection...

Dhaka, February 28 – With a two-thirds majority in parliament, the Tarique Rahman-led Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) government has taken office amidst high public expectations, with restoring confidence in the country’s judiciary emerging as one of its most pressing challenges.According...

Pune, February 27 Social activist Anna Hazare welcomed the release of AAP leader Arvind Kejriwal in the excise policy case on Friday, saying the court's verdict must be accepted as the judiciary is supreme.The anti-corruption crusader also advised Kejriwal to work for society and the country...

Chandigarh, February 27 – Kuldeep Dhaliwal, a legislator and spokesperson for the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) in Punjab, praised the decision of the Special Delhi Court on Friday, in which the party's national convenor, Arvind Kejriwal, and former Delhi Deputy Chief Minister, Manish Sisodia, were...

Thiruvananthapuram, February 27 Kerala Education Minister V Sivankutty on Friday welcomed the Supreme Court's intervention in the controversy over alleged remarks disrespecting the judiciary in an NCERT Class 8 textbook, and called for a comprehensive investigation into recent textbook...

New Delhi, February 27 The Congress on Friday criticized Prime Minister Narendra Modi over the NCERT controversy, saying that the Prime Minister himself guided and shaped the "Nagpur Communal Ecosystem for Rewriting of Textbooks," which is the real NCERT.The opposition party said that the next...

New Delhi, February 26 – The Supreme Court has ordered an immediate nationwide withdrawal of the Class 8 Social Science textbook published by the National Council of Educational Research and Training (NCERT), along with a complete ban on it. This decision comes after observing that the chapter...

Jamshedpur, February 26 – Union Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan expressed deep regret on Thursday over a controversial chapter in a Class 8 social science textbook published by the National Council of Educational Research and Training (NCERT), which dealt with the judiciary. He also...

New Delhi, February 26 – Senior Congress leader and Rajya Sabha member Jairam Ramesh criticised the National Council of Educational Research and Training (NCERT) on Thursday for including critical references to the judiciary in its textbooks.Reacting to the Supreme Court's observations on the...

New Delhi, February 26 The Congress said on Thursday that the Supreme Court is rightly concerned about critical references to the judiciary in NCERT textbooks, and claimed that the rewriting of such books over the past decade has been an RSS-driven exercise full of "deception and malice".The...

New Delhi, February 26 – The Supreme Court on Thursday strongly criticized the National Council of Educational Research and Training (NCERT) over references to “corruption in the judiciary” in an 8th-grade Social Science textbook, observing that the controversy appeared to be the result of a...

New Delhi, February 26 – The Supreme Court has registered a suo motu (on its own motion) case over references to "corruption within the judiciary" in a newly introduced Class 8 Social Science textbook published by the National Council of Educational Research and Training (NCERT).According to...

New Delhi, February 25 – The National Council of Educational Research and Training (NCERT) has temporarily halted the distribution of its newly released Social Science textbook for Class 8 after certain inappropriate content and an error in judgment were found to have inadvertently appeared in...

New Delhi, February 25 The Supreme Court is scheduled to hear a suo motu case on Thursday concerning "objectionable" statements about the judiciary in NCERT textbooks.A bench comprising Chief Justice Surya Kant and justices Joymalya Bagchi and Vipul M Pancholi will hear the case titled 'In Re...