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Sunday, October 26, 2025
TopicJudicial appointments

Topic: judicial appointments

SC warns govt of contempt proceedings if tribunal appointments aren’t done in a week

Bhadra Sinha -
Bench headed by CJI Ramana tells Solicitor General that govt has no respect for SC judgments, criticises enactment of Tribunals Reforms Bill, which goes against 2 earlier orders.

SC cracks whip on HC judges appointments, sets deadline for Centre to notify collegium

Bhadra Sinha -
Bench led by CJI Bobde also paved the way for appointment of retired judges as ad-hoc judges to meet the vacancy crisis in high courts.

16 names cleared by SC collegium for HC judge posts stuck with govt, 6 of them since 2019

Bhadra Sinha -
CJI-led Supreme Court bench Wednesday voiced its concern over delay on the government’s part in acting on the apex court collegium’s decisions for judicial appointments.

Collegium recommendations should not be vetoed by the govt: Justice Deepak Gupta

Bhadra Sinha -
Justice Deepak Gupta, who retired from the Supreme Court this week, says district judges need to be trained on matters like sedition and dissent.

How lockdown has hit judiciary, in numbers — April cases fall to 82k from 14 lakh avg in 2019

Maneesh Chhibber -
Courts are working at restricted capacity, and disposed of just over 35,000 cases in April, compared to an average 13.25 lakh per month in 2019

Impasse between Modi govt and SC could worsen as Justice Joseph’s name remains stuck

Apurva Vishwanath -
It’s been two weeks since SC collegium reiterated the judge’s name, but a report says govt is unlikely to clear it.

Failure on judicial reforms’ front is one of Narendra Modi’s biggest frustrations

Apurva Vishwanath -
In this tussle between the collegium and the government, the judiciary has failed to stand up and defend itself so far.

There’ll be no change in process to select CJI: P.P. Chaudhary on Justice Gogoi elevation

Apurva Vishwanath -
The Union minister of state for law denies the Modi government has been lackadaisical in appointing judges to high courts.

Now even the Supreme Court collegium is split on the elevation of Justice Joseph

Apurva Vishwanath -
‘Lack of unanimity’ is believed to have stalled decision; besides Joseph, SC collegium discussed names of judges from other high courts as well.
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Paper in MoSPI journal flags financial inclusion gap—highest among Hindus, lowest for Muslims

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Research paper, however, finds lowest indebtedness level among Muslims at 12.3% & highest among Hindus at 14.9%. Overall national financial inclusion level at 87.2%, indebtedness at 14.7%.

Defence

From battle of wits and daring air strikes to artillery fury, new details emerge of Operation Sindoor

Snehesh Alex Philip -
Fresh details of operation conducted by IAF, Army have come out in gazette notification giving citations of those who were awarded Vir Chakra for their bravery.

National Interest

Deepfake on duty: when I asked AI to read Op Sindoor citations

Shekhar Gupta -
On 21 Oct, a buzz went up that the govt had released full list of gallantry award recipients along with Op Sindoor citations. I put an AI caddy on the job. It took me into a never-ending rabbit hole.

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