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Judges Can't Run Government, Ask For Miracles, Centre To Top Court

-NDTV A bench, headed by Justice M B Lokur, directed the Centre to set up state food commissions, as mandated under the National Food Security Act (NFSA), 2013, even in the states not hit by drought. New Delhi: Judges cannot run a government and ask it to do "miracles", Attorney General K K Venugopal today told the Supreme Court while opposing fresh pleas being made by NGO 'Swaraj Abhiyan' in a...

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Cloak on defaulters

-The Telegraph New Delhi: The Reserve Bank of India today told the Supreme Court that it was not in favour of publishing the list of loan defaulters who owed public sector banks Rs 500 crore or more because such disclosure might involve the statutory, contractual and fiduciary rights of the defaulters. Senior advocate Jaideep Gupta, appearing for the Reserve Bank, argued that the grant of loans was covered by various statutes, including...

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Govt stays firm, refuses to reopen note swap window -Dhananjay Mahapatra

-The Times of India NEW DELHI: Ignoring the Supreme Court's prod to provide a fresh window to those who could not exchange scrapped Rs 500 and Rs 1,000 notes by last December 30 because of genuine difficulty, the Centre on Monday firmly said that no new opportunity would be given for the exchange of the outlawed currency as it could be misused.Centre on Monday firmly said that no new opportunity would...

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33% of MPs, MLAs who will vote for India's next president have criminal cases against them: Survey

-Scroll.in The study conducted by the Association for Democratic Reforms found that only 9% of the electoral college is represented by women. Around 33% of the electoral college that will vote in the July 17 presidential polls, 33% have declared criminal cases against themselves. These were declared in Affidavits filed with the Election Commission of India before their most recent elections, according to a survey released by the Association for Democratic...

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Prevent farmers' suicides rather than give compensation, SC tells TN -Krishnadas Rajagopal

-The Hindu "Your job is to take steps to prevent farmers’ suicides and not go around distributing compensation after the suicides", the Supreme Court told the Tamil Nadu government on Friday. The court said the “actual job” of the government is to “directly address the ground reality of farmers suicides”. “Your approach has to be preventive and not compensatory,” a Bench of Justices Dipak Misra and A.M. Khanwilkar told Additional Solicitor General P....

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