Days after the Citizenship Amendment Act was implemented in India. Petitions flooded the Supreme Court seeking to withdraw the act. The Supreme Court heard over 200 petitions challenging the CAA on March 19.

CAA implemented: SC denies stay on CAA implementation, seeks Centre's response

The Supreme Court in India will next week hear the plea seeking direction for Jammu and Kashmir governor N N Vohra to take over the administration of the country&#39;s northern most state in the interest of security, safety and fundamental rights of the Indian citizens residing in the Valley. 
 
The Jammu and Kashmir National Panthers Party, a local political party, had filed the petition in the apex court seeking direction for the governor to intervene under section 92 of the constitution of the state and take over the administration. 
 
The petition also says that the state governor may also be directed to dissolve the assembly of the state, which has failed to discharge its duties and functions which is evident from the present situation. Meanwhile, the state government may be directed to lift ban on the movement of the pilgrims to the holy shrine of Shri Amarnath cave in the valley. 
 
The top court directed the state and central government to ensure safety and security of all citizens of India residing in Jammu and Kashmir at all costs. 
 
Yesterday, in the wake of the prevailing situation in violence-hit Kashmir, General Secretary of Bharatiya Janta Party (BJP), the politcial party ruling at the centre, Ram Madhav called on Vohra and discussed recent developments in the Valley, a day after he met Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti. 
 
The Valley has erupted into violent protests after the killing of Hizbul Mujahideen commander Burhan Wani on July 8.&nbsp; 
 
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The petition filed by a local political party accuses state government of failing to discharge its duties in violence-hit Kashmir

The Supreme Court in India will next week hear the plea seeking direction for Jammu and Kashmir governor N N Vohra to take over the administration of the country's northern most state in the interest of security, safety and fundamental rights of the Indian citizens residing in the Valley. The Jammu and Kashmir National Panthers Party, a local political party, had filed the petition in the apex court seeking direction for the governor to intervene under section 92 of the constitution of the state and take over the administration. The petition also says that the state governor may also be directed to dissolve the assembly of the state, which has failed to discharge its duties and functions which is evident from the present situation. Meanwhile, the state government may be directed to lift ban on the movement of the pilgrims to the holy shrine of Shri Amarnath cave in the valley. The top court directed the state and central government to ensure safety and security of all citizens of India residing in Jammu and Kashmir at all costs. Yesterday, in the wake of the prevailing situation in violence-hit Kashmir, General Secretary of Bharatiya Janta Party (BJP), the politcial party ruling at the centre, Ram Madhav called on Vohra and discussed recent developments in the Valley, a day after he met Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti. The Valley has erupted into violent protests after the killing of Hizbul Mujahideen commander Burhan Wani on July 8. (ANI)

In wake of Kashmir unrest, top court in India to hear plea for governor's rule next week

The Supreme Court in India has barred ministers and bureaucrats from holding posts in the country&#39;s cricket board (BCCI) as part of administrative reforms in the world&#39;s richest national cricket body. 
 
The apex court today accepted most of the recommendations of the Lodha Committee, a three-member panel it had appointed to look into the functioning of the BCCI, Board of Control for Cricket in India, which is perceived as a cash-rich but opaque body run by politicians and businessmen. 
 
In their report, submitted in January, former Chief Justice of India RM Lodha and two of his colleagues recommended age and tenure restrictions for top officials and cooling off period between successive terms for top officials among others. 
 
&quot;We allow most of the recommendations of the Justice Lodha panel on administrative changes in the BCCI,&quot; a two-judge division bench of the apex court, headed by Chief Justice of India Tirath Singh Thakur and Justice F.M.I. Kalifulla, said in their order. 
 
&quot;Nobody above the age of 70 will be office bearer of the BCCI. A person cannot be simultaneously an office-bearer in the state cricket association as well as in the BCCI,&quot; the panel noted.&nbsp; 
 
In other recommendations, all of which would have to implemented within six months by the BCCI, the panel wanted the board to be brought under the Right to Information Act which would allow citizens to access information held by the board.&nbsp; 
 
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World's richest national cricket body, BCCI, is perceived as a cash-rich but opaque body run by politicians and businessmen?

The Supreme Court in India has barred ministers and bureaucrats from holding posts in the country's cricket board (BCCI) as part of administrative reforms in the world's richest national cricket body. The apex court today accepted most of the recommendations of the Lodha Committee, a three-member panel it had appointed to look into the functioning of the BCCI, Board of Control for Cricket in India, which is perceived as a cash-rich but opaque body run by politicians and businessmen. In their report, submitted in January, former Chief Justice of India RM Lodha and two of his colleagues recommended age and tenure restrictions for top officials and cooling off period between successive terms for top officials among others. "We allow most of the recommendations of the Justice Lodha panel on administrative changes in the BCCI," a two-judge division bench of the apex court, headed by Chief Justice of India Tirath Singh Thakur and Justice F.M.I. Kalifulla, said in their order. "Nobody above the age of 70 will be office bearer of the BCCI. A person cannot be simultaneously an office-bearer in the state cricket association as well as in the BCCI," the panel noted. In other recommendations, all of which would have to implemented within six months by the BCCI, the panel wanted the board to be brought under the Right to Information Act which would allow citizens to access information held by the board. (Reuters)

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CAA implemented: SC denies stay on CAA implementation, seeks Centre's response

In wake of Kashmir unrest, top court in India to hear plea for governor's rule next week

No more bureaucrats, ministers in national cricket board: India's top court