-Livemint.com Revision of drought management manual among slew of directions made by Supreme Court New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Wednesday hit the reset button on drought management, directing the government to abandon the existing system and evolve a transparent, rules-based framework. The new policy will prescribe a standard methodology and time-frame for declaring drought. The court also directed the Union government to set up a National Disaster Mitigation Fund within three...
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Laws prescribing educational qualifications for contesting elections are undemocratic -Christophe Jaffrelot
-The Indian Express In Haryana, a new law makes it mandatory for a general male candidate to pass Class X and a general woman candidate to pass Class VIII Politicians’ educational qualifications seems to be a major issue in India today. On the one hand, Arvind Kejriwal has asked for more evidence that Prime Minister Narendra Modi got his BA degree Delhi University, and on the other, documents pertaining to Union...
More »We require more than 70,000 judges to clear pending cases: CJI TS Thakur -Debabrata Mohanty
-The Indian Express Continuing to express concern over low judge-population ratio in the country, Chief Justice of India TS Thakur on Sunday said access to justice was a fundamental right and governments cannot afford to deny it to the people. Bhubaneswar: A FORTNIGHT after his impassioned appeal to Prime Minister Narendra Modi over shortage of judges, Chief Justice of India T S Thakur on Sunday said courts in the country now require...
More »These Damning Figures About The Indian Judiciary Will Make You Want To Cry Too -Betwa Sharma
-HuffingtonPost.in NEW DELHI: Over the weekend, Chief Justice of India Tirath Singh Thakur implored Prime Minister Narendra Modi to double the number of judges serving in Indian courts. Speaking at a conference of chief justices and chief ministers on Sunday, Thakur made an emotional appeal to the central government to provide some respite to the serving 21,000 judges, who are handling a preposterous number of cases, while tens of thousands of people...
More »A judgment for women’s rights -Devaki Jain
-The Hindu Economic agency is one of the most enabling elements to release women from oppression, violence and powerlessness. A Supreme Court Bench has once again proved that our judiciary can be the torchbearer of progressive attitudes towards women. In 2013, the Justice J.S. Verma Committee, while responding to the horrific December 16, 2012 gang rape in Delhi, prepared a report that drew from the observations of members of the women’s movement among...
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