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HC seeks Maha govt response on Swamy's PIL against Pandharpur Temples Act

The Bombay High Court on Monday sought the Maharashtra government's reply on a public interest litigation (PIL) filed by BJP leader Subramanian Swamy challenging the Pandharpur Temples Act. In the petition filed in February this year, Swamy claimed the Maharashtra government had taken over the administration of the Pandharpur town's temples in an arbitrary manner. A division bench of Chief Justice Devendra Kumar Upadhyaya and Justice Arif S Doctor on Monday directed the government to file its affidavit and posted the matter for hearing on September 13. As per the plea, the state government through the Pandharpur Temples Act, 1973, had abolished all hereditary rights and privileges of ministrants and priestly classes for the governance and administration of the temples of Lord Vitthal and Rukmini in Pandharpur in the state's Solapur district. The law enabled the state government to control its administration and management of funds, the plea said. On Monday, another person Bheemach

PIL seeking sealing of Gyanvapi premises dismissed as withdrawn by HC

The Allahabad High Court on Tuesday dismissed as withdrawn a PIL seeking a direction to the Uttar Pradesh government to seal the entire Gyanvapi premises without affecting the ASI survey order of the Varanasi court. The court dismissed the petition as withdrawn when petitioner counsel made a prayer to approach the appropriate forum as per law and file an application for the reliefs claimed in the PIL A bench comprising Chief Justice Pritinker Diwakar and Justice Ashutosh Srivastava passed the order. The PIL was filed on Wednesday last before the the court seeking directions to the state government and district administration to seal the entire Gyanvapi mosque without affecting the ASI survey. The petition was filed by Jitender Singh Visen, Rakhi Singh and others.

Delhi HC reserves order on PIL seeking ban on deities' images on walls

The Delhi High Court reserved its order in a plea against the practice of sticking gods' images and posters on walls in order to prevent public urination, spitting, and throwing garbage

Sebi receives over 30,000 whistleblower complaints: Chief vigilance officer

If we continue to misuse this policy with frivolous and mischievous complaints, then we are blunting it," she said

Delhi HC seeks RBI response on implementation of Uniform Banking Code

Court also asks Centre to file a reply in the case in six weeks; next hearing on March 20

Private channels to have 30-min slot for 'public interest' programmes

Part of new uplinking-downlinking rules prescribed by I&B ministry

SC begins live streaming of constitutional bench cases on Sept 27

Check https://webcast.gov.in/scindia/ to view the proceedings

14 of 25 HCs registered a decline in pending PILs in 2021, shows data

Overall, they cleared 83.7 per cent of instituted cases until August 2021- the highest in four years

DOLO-650 makers distributed freebies worth Rs 1,000 cr to doctors: FMRAI

The petitioner, while seeking statutory backing to the Uniform Code of Pharmaceutical Marketing Practices (UCPMP), said that corruption in pharma marketing practices is yet unregulated in India

RBI cancels Rupee Co-operative's licence; lender to cease business Sep 22

More than 99% of depositors of Pune-based lender to receive the full amount, says regulator

PIL business stealing attention from other important matters: SC

This PIL business is stealing attention from other important matters, the Supreme Court observed when a matter related to the expansion of Karwar port in Karnataka was mentioned for urgent listing

Bombay HC refuses to hear PIL seeking uniform rate of Covid-19 vaccines

Bench says Supreme Court is already hearing the matter.

Letter to BS: Spike in PILs a wake-up call for legislature, executive

While the states expect they be respected as fe­deral units, the Centre behaves as if it is a unitary government

PIL cannot be used as a weapon to challenge our decision: RBI in Delhi HC

The RBI made the submission in response to a PIL alleging that online payments platform Paytm was providing lending facilities in violation of the law regulating such activity

Policies & the public interest

The public interest calls for real reforms for equitable growth

Netizen Report: Working in the public's interest can get you arrested

Across the world, journalists, human rights activists, advocators of govt transparency are at a risk

Netizen Report: Working in the public's interest can get you arrested

Across the world, journalists, human rights activists, advocators of govt transparency are at a risk

Universal Basic Income: A disturbing admission

In its simplest form, UBI is a negative income tax

Rathin Roy: RBI as uncertain as the rest of us

The monetary policy committee of the Reserve Bank of India has left the repo rate unchanged at 6.25%

Rathin Roy: Reforming the UN development system

The increasing importance of EMEs has the potential to simultaneously bring new ideas and broader ownership to the UNDS