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With 5 judge appointments, SC's strength increases to 37
The law ministry on Monday notified the appointment of five judges for Supreme Court, taking the strength of the apex court to 37, including the Chief Justice of India. The five new judges who will assume charges after taking oath on Tuesday are senior advocate Venkita Subramani Mohana, and four high court chief justices - Justice Shree Chandrashekhar of Bombay HC, Justice Sheel Nagu of Punjab & Haryana HC, Justice Sanjeev Sachdeva of Madhya Pradesh HC, and Justice Arun Palli of J&K and...
'PM Modi supervised NEET paper leak': Rahul's big charge as Centre gears up for retest
Rahul Gandhi sharply criticized Prime Minister Modi over the NEET UG paper leak, accusing him of personally supervising the exam's integrity. This follows the Centre's assurance to the Supreme Court about the upcoming re-examination. The apex court expressed concern for students, while the NTA detailed extensive security reforms and new safeguards implemented to prevent future irregularities.
Centre appoints five new Supreme Court judges, strength to rise to 37
The Supreme Court is set to get five new judges after the Central Government cleared the names recommended by the SC Collegium, taking the apex court close to its newly expanded sanctioned strength of 38. Law minister Arjun Ram Meghwal announced on X that the President has approved the appointment of four high court Chief Justices and Senior Advocate V. Mohana as judges of the Supreme Court under Article 124(2) of the Constitution. The appointees are:Justice Sheel Nagu, Chief Justice of the...
How to Save the Supreme Court From Itself
Subscribe here: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | YouTubeIn this episode of The David Frum Show, The Atlantic’s David Frum opens with his thoughts on growing extremism in the Democratic Party. Frum compares this to the paranoia and conspiratorial thinking that cost the Republican Party dearly in the 2010s and cautions the Democrats against making the same mistakes. Then David is joined by Kate Shaw, a co-host of the podcast Strict Scrutiny and a professor of law at University of Pennsylvania Carey...
Supreme Court uses its special powers to quash Pocso conviction
Two youngsters fell in love, but the Class 12 girl filed a complaint against the youth when he refused to marry her, resulting in him being sentenced to 10 years for having physical relations with a minor. The girl married another man, who left her after three days when he came to know of her past relationship. The convict, while out on bail, reconciled with her and they decided to wed. Given the peculiar facts of the case, the Supreme Court invoked its extraordinary jurisdiction under...
NEET paper leak row: SC refuses urgent hearing of plea seeking computer-based retest
The Supreme Court on Monday refused an urgent hearing on a plea seeking that the NEET UG 2026 re-examination, scheduled for June 21, be conducted in computer-based test (CBT) mode instead of the traditional pen-and-paper format. The plea was mentioned before a partial-working-day bench comprising Justices PS Narasimha and Arvind Kumar, which declined to take up the matter urgently and said it would be listed after the court vacation. Responding to the plea, Justice Narasimha said, "They...
It's Cong vs Cong over Cauvery as Mekedatu dam splits Tamil Nadu, Karnataka
NEW DELHI: 2026 has been a year of Congress' re-emergence in southern India. The party won comfortably in the Kerala assembly elections, entered the Tamil Nadu government by supporting Vijay's TVK, and also solved the three-year-long tussle over the chief ministerial post in Karnataka. But, just as it seemed that everything was going Congress's way, regional tensions appear to have taken over the party line.
‘Permanent class of excluded Indians’: Owaisi slams Centre over SIR
As the Election Commission expands its Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls across multiple states, AIMIM chief Asaduddin Owaisi has launched a fresh attack on the exercise, alleging that it could be used to create a “permanent class of excluded Indians” and disproportionately affect Muslims, women, migrants and the poor. In a post on X on Wednesday, Owaisi claimed that the Centre was using a document-based voter verification exercise as a precursor to broader mechanisms for...
Couple separated, lived 15 years apart: SC says amounts to cruelty to both
The Supreme Court has directed that a prolonged period of separation between spouses, with the absence of any genuine effort to rebuild the marriage, can amount to mental cruelty and it becomes a valid ground for divorce under the Hindu Marriage Act. The judgment came in a case where the couple, both doctors in government service had been living separately for over 15 years after a marriage that lasted barely two to three months of actual cohabitation. The Supreme Court upheld the divorce...
Casual labourers in government entitled to pension: SC
Observing that pension is not a "bounty but an enforceable constitutional right" and a hard-earned benefit amassed by an employee by virtue of long and continuous service, the Supreme Court on Monday ruled that a temporary casual labourer in a govt department would be entitled to pensionary benefits on superannuation even in the absence of regularisation of the job. It took a widow from Bihar, whose husband worked as a casual worker in a post office for three decades, to fight an 18-year...