Revamp district courts, directs SC
Separate washrooms for transgenders, ‘court managers’ with an MBA degree, Braille and colour-coded signage, crowd management arrangements, crèche facility and even a front desk for litigants to find their way are some of the slew of improvements the Supreme Court wants district courts across the country to have.
Kerala firm on lifting temple ban
The Kerala government reaffirmed in the Supreme Court its complete support for lifting the prohibition on women of a certain age group from entering the famous Sabarimala temple in Kerala.
LS passes commercial courts Bill
The Lok Sabha passed the Commercial Courts, Commercial Division and Commercial Appellate Division of High Courts (Amendment) Bill, 2018.
Supreme Court begins hearing on adultery law
Referring to how the offence of adultery in the Indian Penal Code treats a woman as a “chattel” or property of her husband the Supreme Court questioned whether adultery should be viewed as a crime at all if it amounts to violation of the right of equality of a woman.
Cabinet clears Bill to restore the provisions of SC/ST Act
The Centre has decided to introduce a Bill to restore the original provisions of the Scheduled Castes and the Scheduled Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Act, 1989 which the Supreme Court had struck down in a March ruling.
Court asks authorities not to act against 40 lakh people left out of draft
The Supreme Court directed authorities to not initiate any ‘action’ against 40 lakh persons left out of the draft Assam National Register of Citizens (NRC) published on July 30.
States told to count Rohingya
The Union Home Ministry has sent an advisory to State governments to enumerate, observe and collect biometric data of Rohingya migrants living in India and told the Lok Sabha that the government had received reports of their involvement in illegal activities.
52 Bangladeshis sent back from Assam
The much-awaited complete draft of the updated National Register of Citizens (NRC), expected to take Assam a step closer to segregating genuine citizens from illegal migrants, will be published at 10 a.m. on 30 July 2018.
Set deadline to fill CIC, SICs posts
The Supreme Court put the government in the dock over long-pending vacancies in the Central Information Commission and the State Information Commissions, adjudicatory bodies under the Right to Information Act.
Electoral roll revision of Brus only after their return: EC
The Election Commission of India has accepted the suggestion of the Mizoram government that electoral roll revision for Bru community, lodged in the six relief camps in Tripura, would be conducted only after they return to Mizoram