Delimitation in Andhra, Telangana: Supreme Court dismisses plea; exercise to take place only after 2026 | India News – Times of India

Delimitation in Andhra, Telangana: Supreme Court dismisses plea; exercise to take place only after 2026 | India News – Times of India

NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court has rejected a petition seeking delimitation for Andhra Pradesh and Telangana, citing Constitutional stipulations that require such exercises to be based on census data collected after 2026.Justices Surya Kant and Joymalya Bagchi, whilst reviewing the petition by Purushottam Reddy, ruled against claims that conducting delimitation in Jammu and Kashmir whilst…

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Bihar SIR: Nepalese, Bangladeshis found in voter list; names to be excluded from final list | India News – Times of India

Bihar SIR: Nepalese, Bangladeshis found in voter list; names to be excluded from final list | India News – Times of India

NEW DELHI: Field-level officials of the Election Commission (EC) have identified “a large number” of individuals from Nepal, Bangladesh, and Myanmar during ongoing house-to-house verification for the revision of the voters’ list in Bihar, news agency PTI quoted EC officials as saying on Sunday.The EC has made it clear that names of illegal migrants will…

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‘Crossing all limits’: Supreme Court raps ED over Tasmac raids, issues notice | India News – Times of India

‘Crossing all limits’: Supreme Court raps ED over Tasmac raids, issues notice | India News – Times of India

NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court on Thursday slammed the Enforcement Directorate over Tamil Nadu State Marketing Corporation (Tasmac) raids in connection with financial irregularities and said that the ED is crossing all limits.A bench comprising Chief Justice of India B R Gavai and Justice A G Masih, expressed strong concerns about ED’s actions, repeating thrice…

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SC gives Iskcon-Bengaluru control over temple in city, junks HC order favouring Iskcon-Mumbai – The Times of India

SC gives Iskcon-Bengaluru control over temple in city, junks HC order favouring Iskcon-Mumbai – The Times of India

NEW DELHI: Pulling the curtain down on a 25-year-old legal battle between the two factions of Iskcon over control of Hare Krishna temple and other assets in Bengaluru, Supreme Court on Friday ruled that Iskcon Bangalore will have control over it and quashed the Karnataka high court order in favour of Iskcon Mumbai.Noting that Iskcon…

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West Bengal school staff ousted by court verdict seek state intervention through protest – The Times of India

West Bengal school staff ousted by court verdict seek state intervention through protest – The Times of India

KOLKATA: Around 200 non-teaching employees of state schools, demanding reinstatement of their jobs, demonstrated outside West Bengal Education Minister Bratya Basu’s residence here for a brief period on Saturday. They are among the people who lost their jobs following the Supreme Court order on April 3. The apex court upheld an earlier verdict of the…

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‘Parliament is supreme’: VP Dhankhar renews attack on judiciary over powers | India News – The Times of India

‘Parliament is supreme’: VP Dhankhar renews attack on judiciary over powers | India News – The Times of India

NEW DELHI: Vice President Jagdeep Dhankhar on Tuesday reiterated that “Parliament is supreme” and elected legislators are the “ultimate masters.”While addressing students in University of Delhi, the Vice President said that every word spoken by a constitutional functionary is guided by supreme national interest.Read also: Dhankhar slams SC timeline for decision on bills“Let me tell…

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Presidents, governors don’t have unbridled powers: SC – The Times of India

Presidents, governors don’t have unbridled powers: SC – The Times of India

NEW DELHI: Observing that bills if kept pending after their passage by state legislature militate against the very sustenance of a representative democracy based on direct elections, Supreme Court has ruled that neither the President nor governors have “unbridled powers” and neither of them has the power to exercise ‘absolute veto’ on any bill passed…

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