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Leading legal voices back Supreme Court action on NCERT chapter targeting
Updated : 1 week, 3 days ago IST
Leading legal luminaries have voiced strong support for the Supreme Court of India after it took suo motu cognisance of a Class 8 NCERT chapter referring to "corruption in the Indian judiciary," calling the issue serious and potentially damaging to public faith in democratic institutions.
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"Not only withdrawal, but also finding who all are responsible...": Sasmit
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Speaking to ANI, Patra called the curriculum "unwarranted and deplorable", supporting CJI Justice Surya Kant's views. He demands the withdrawal of the books and action against those responsible.
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"Supreme Court has taken this episode very seriously": BJP MP Manan Mishra
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He noted that the Solicitor General of India was personally present in court and expressed a positive stance on the issue. Mishra asserted that the Solicitor General assured the court that an inquiry would be conducted to identify those responsible. He stated that the individuals involved
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CJI Surya Kant to order deep-probe into Supreme Court registry functioning
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Chief Justice of India (CJI) Surya Kant has expressed that he will order a deep probe into the functioning of the Supreme Court registry, stating that certain officials of the registry are allegedly working as per their own whims despite fresh reforms being brought to ensure its smooth fu
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SC bans NCERT class 8 chapter on 'corruption in judiciary'; issues show ca
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A bench comprising Chief Justice of India Surya Kant, Justice Joymalya Bagchi, and Justice Vipul M. Pancholi refused to halt suo motu proceedings despite NCERT's apology over the controversial inclusion and imposed a blanket ban on the textbook section. The court warned that any attempt t
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LS Speaker Om Birla reconstitutes panel to probe grounds for removal of Ju
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Om Birla, Speaker of the Lok Sabha, has reconstituted the three-member inquiry committee tasked with examining the grounds for the removal of Justice Yashwant Varma.
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NCERT withdraws Class 8 Social Science textbook over inappropriate content
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The National Council of Educational Research and Training (NCERT) has issued an apology and withdrawn the distribution of its newly released Class 8 Social Science textbook after an inappropriate textual material and errors of judgement were found in a chapter on the judiciary.
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NCERT 'trying' to retrieve 38 sold copies of now-withdrawn Class 8 Social
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The National Council of Educational Research and Training (NCERT) is attempting to retrieve the 38 copies of the now-withdrawn Class 8 Social Science Part 2 textbook that were sold, sources in the Education Ministry told ANI on Wednesday.
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Bangladesh Editors' Council calls for withdrawal of false and harassing ca
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Bangladesh Editors' Council gave a call on Wednesday to withdraw false and harassment cases filed against journalists across the country, as per a statement on behalf of the Editors' Council, its President Nurul Kabir and General Secretary Dewan Hanif Mahmud.
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After day-long high-voltage drama, Delhi Police secures transit remand for
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After a day-long high-voltage drama involving the Delhi Police and Himachal Pradesh Police, an Additional Chief Judicial Magistrate (ACJM-II) court in Shimla granted transit remand to three accused arrested by the Delhi Police from Rohru in Shimla district, officials said early Thursday.<
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Delhi: After SC rap, NCERT halts Class 8 textbook to rewrite judiciary cha
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After the Supreme Court took strong note of references to "corruption in the judiciary" in a Class 8 Social Science textbook, the National Council of Educational Research and Training (NCERT) on Wednesday said it has put the book's distribution on "strict hold" and apologised for what it
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North East women racial abuse case: Saket court sends couple accused of ra
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The Saket court on Wednesday remanded a couple who are accused of racial abuse of three women from the North Eastern State of Arunachal Pradesh. They have been arrested by the Delhi Police in a case registered at the Malviya Nagar police station.
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