Mizoram remained cut off by road from the rest of the country on Wednesday with the Opposition, the Mizo National Front, staging a 12-hour blockade to protest against bad condition of the NH-54, the police said. Source : https://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-national/mizoram-remains-cut-off-due-to-highway-blockade/article25053297.ece
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Is it brakes on account opening?
It is the only digitally-available document for opening accounts online The Supreme Court ruling on Wednesday that Aadhaar is not mandatory for opening bank accounts could affect online opening of accounts. The State Bank of India, Axis Bank and Kotak Mahindra Bank are among the banks that allow opening of …
Read More »Aadhaar gets thumbs up from Supreme Court
It said it was not trivialising the problem of exclusion faced by the elderly, the very young, the disabled and several others during the authentication process. Authentication was found to be only having a .232% failure, Justice Sikri pointed out. It was accurate 99.76% times, Justice Sikri said. He reasoned …
Read More »VVPAT supply for 2019 LS polls on track: EC
The Election Commission on Wednesday said the supply of VVPATs for use in the Lok Sabha polls in 2019 was on track and that it was committed to 100% deployment of machines at all polling stations in the future. The Commission has placed an order of 17.45 lakh VVPATs to …
Read More »Over 650 rescued from snow-hit region of Himachal Pradesh
As many as 672 people were rescued from Himachal Pradesh’s Lahaul and Spiti district after the recent snowfall and rain closed off most roads in the region, officials said on Wednesday. The operations via road were taken up by the Border Roads Organisation (BRO) and 641 stranded people were reported …
Read More »A balance of privacy and dignity
The Supreme Court held that whenever there is tension between two rights — privacy of a few and dignity of a majority — the court should intervene to balance it. Justice A.K. Sikri, writing for the majority on the Constitution Bench, “whenever such tension arises, the task of balancing is …
Read More »Police forces in 6 UTs merged
The Ministry of Home Affairs on Wednesday notified new rules amalgamating police forces in six Union Territories. The rules effectively mean that officers who are not direct IPS recruits could be posted in any of the six UTs and will be at the disposal of the Ministry. The National Capital …
Read More »Validation of UID principles: Nilekani
Infosys chairman Nandan Nilekani, who was the first Chairman of the Unique Identification Authority of India, has said that the landmark judgment was in favour of the unique identification programme. “More than just opining on the constitutionality of the Act, the Supreme Court has unequivocally validated the founding principles for …
Read More »It’s Money Bill, says majority opinion
The majority opinion on the Constitution Bench that the Aadhaar Act was a Money Bill prevailed on Wednesday, but the dissenting judgment by Justice D.Y. Chandrachud questioned how a statute about an identity proof, Aadhaar, can be possibly passed as a Money Bill. Justice A.K. Sikri, who wrote the majority …
Read More »Is mosque essential part of Islam?
The Supreme Court is scheduled to pronounce a judgment on Thursday on whether to refer the question if a “mosque as a place of prayer is an essential part of Islam” in the Ramjanmabhoomi-Babri Masjid appeals to a Constitution Bench. A three-judge Bench of Chief Justice of India Dipak Misra …
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