Over 18,000 people from different walks of life signed an online petition addressed to West Bengal Higher Education authorities seeking disciplinary action against St Xavier’s University vice-chancellor Felix Raj.
The lions from the Gir National Park in Gujarat are famous for not finding sanctuary in any other state. In 2013, the Supreme Court had ordered the shifting of some lions from Gujarat to the Kuno Wildlife Sanctuary in the neighbouring state of Madhya Pradesh.
A Supreme Court order in 2017 had directed all deemed universities to not use the word “university”. Now a government panel has said that they should be allowed to use the word “university” to avoid confusion abroad
A June 3 apex court order that all protected forest tracts and wildlife sanctuaries should have eco-sensitive zones of one kilometre from their boundaries has led to protests in Kerala. It is now thinking of bypassing the order
The Union culture ministry is looking to rationalise the prohibited and regulated zones around protected monuments by amending the Ancient Monuments and Archaeological Sites and Remains Act, 1958. The whole idea is to make them more flexible and public friendly
SA Bobde, former chief justice of India, had envisioned the employment of AI in the judiciary. He had expressed happiness at the introduction of the Supreme Court Portal for Court Efficiency Assistance (SUPACE).