The Supreme Court has refused to re-examine its verdict which declared reservation for Maratha community in Maharashtra as illegal and unconstitutional and also held that only the Centre has power to declare a community as socially and educationally backward to get quota benefits.
Switzerland, Iceland and seven EU countries have approved Covishield, the AstraZeneca vaccine manufactured by Serum Institute of India, a day after India threatened to put European visitors under mandatory quarantine.
The Indore bench of the Madhya Pradesh high court has observed that the present law dealing with children aged below 16 in heinous-crime cases as juvenile offenders is "totally inadequate and ill equipped". The court also made scathing observations about the legislature, saying no lessons had been learned from the Nirbhaya case.
Homegrown healthcare and pharmaceutical major Zydus Cadila has applied for emergency use authorisation (EUA) to the office of the Drug Controller General of India for ZyCoV-D, its plasmid DNA vaccine against Covid-19.
The Supreme Court on Thursday sought responses from the Centre, the West Bengal government and the Election Commission on a PIL which sought protection of Hindus, their property and identity in the wake of alleged post-poll violence in the state and claimed that absence of urgent measures could lead to exodus of Hindus as seen in Kashmir in the 1990s.
Watch: Crocodile takes a walk on streets of Karnataka village
In a landmark verdict, the Nagpur bench of the Bombay high court has ruled that adoption can’t be restricted to orphaned, abandoned and surrendered children, those in conflict with law or ones in need of care and protection.
