New Delhi: Supreme Court On Friday, questions were raised as to why children from economically and educationally advanced families of backward classes should be allowed to avail the benefits of reservation under the OBC category.“If both the parents are IAS officers, why should they get reservation? Along with education and economic empowerment, there is also social mobility. So demanding reservation for children, we will never be able to get out of it. This is a matter we have to be concerned about. Besides, then what is the point? You are giving reservation. The parents have studied, they are in good jobs, they are getting good income, and the children again want reservation. The Supreme Court said, look, they should come out of the reservation. Petition in SC: Citing no quota certificate creamy layer A bench of Justices BV Nagarathna and Ujjal Bhuyan indicated that children from affluent families should be kept out of the ambit of the OBC quota. It was hearing the plea of ​​a person who was selected for appointment as Assistant Engineer (Electrical) in the Karnataka Power Transmission Corporation in the reserved category. The District Caste and Income Verification Committee refused to grant him a caste validity certificate after concluding that he fell in the creamy layer.

New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Friday agreed to hear a PIL challenging the legality of parents and teachers in NCR and Chennai CBSEThe recent policy of MHA has made three languages ​​mandatory for Class 9, two of which should be Indian and said that this will lead to chaos and confusion.Seeking urgent hearing on the PIL, senior advocate Mukul Rohatgi told a bench of Chief Justice Surya Kant, Justice Joymalya Bagchi and Justice Vipul M Pancholi that suddenly, Class 9 students are being made to study two more languages ​​compulsorily. “How will students deal with this and appear for the language test? This will create chaos and confusion among students and teachers,” Rohatgi said.The CJI-led bench assured that it will hear the petition next week. The plea, jointly filed by 17 parents and two teachers of children studying in Delhi, Noida, Gurgaon and Chennai through advocate Shraddha Deshmukh, said the new policy is contrary to the CBSE’s April 9 notification which had clearly assured that the third language “will not be implemented at the Class 9 level till the academic session 2029-30”.However, on May 15, after the academic session for 2026-27 begins and the language allocation is made and the timetable is finalised, the switch to three languages, two of which should be Indian, will cause irreparable harm to thousands of Class 9 students and take away the livelihood of many teachers skilled in teaching foreign languages ​​as they will have to make way for teachers who can teach regional languages, the plea said. It said the problems faced by students and teachers have increased due to unavailability of textbooks and teaching material and CBSE is making ad-hoc arrangements by asking students to learn the basics of another Indian language from Class 6 textbooks. “Making a compulsory subject mandatory without textbooks, trained teachers or an evaluation framework does not amount to quality education; it is a constitutional violation,” the petitioners pleaded. scheduled caste To stop CBSE from compromising on quality education.

New Delhi: The government has taken steps to clear the backlog of containers at Jawaharlal Nehru Port Authority (JNPA) (Mumbai), India’s busiest container port, and constituted a panel of top officials to clear the bottlenecks at all 12 major ports. It will meet every week or fortnight to address concerns faced by businesses. The issue of around 35,000-40,000 inbound containers piled up at JNPA was raised in a review meeting chaired by Commerce Minister Piyush Goyal and Shipping Minister Sarbananda Sonowal. Representatives of All India Liquid Bulk Importers and Exporters Association participated in the meeting.TOI has learned that the pile-up was due to insufficient number of lorry drivers available to hand over this cargo. In an official statement, the shipping ministry said containers bound for West Asia have been turned back at JNPA, putting additional pressure on the port and logistics infrastructure.

New Delhi: Noting that a person is legally entitled to dispose of his property as per his wish, the Supreme Court has ruled that a will cannot be invalidated merely on the ground that a share has been refused to be given to the legal heirs, reports Amit Anand Chaudhary.A bench of Justices Ujjal Bhuyan and Vijay Bishnoi said exclusion of natural heirs from a property cannot in itself be considered a suspicious circumstance and dismissed a plea by a chartered accountant’s wife and children challenging the validity of his will.The Supreme Court held that unless the exclusion of legal heirs is accompanied by doubtful circumstances affecting the genuineness or execution of the will, the mere exclusion does not invalidate the will. It said that the will in question clearly specified that the testator had not done any injustice to his wife, children or other relatives and that he had given them a lot.In the will made in 1983, CA bequeathed all the scheduled properties in favor of his only sister. He died just six months later and then a legal battle started between the family members which lasted for 43 years and was finally decided by the apex court.“The contention of the Appellants (wife, children) is that they, being the natural heirs of the testator, have been completely excluded without any reason and such exclusion creates a suspicious circumstance surrounding the execution of the Will, which is legally untenable. It is well settled that mere disenfranchisement of natural heirs, in itself, cannot be a suspicious circumstance as the whole idea behind the execution of the Will is to interfere with the normal line of succession.”CA’s will, the bench said, “was voluntarily executed by the testator of his own free will in a healthy state of mind and this has been proved through the testimony of one of the witnesses examined by the trial court. This witness clearly stated that the testator executed the will in his presence, and both he and the testator signed the will in the presence of each other.”

A government investigation found 30 doctors guilty of accepting luxury trips to Paris and Monaco worth more than Rs 1.9 crore from AbbVie Pharma.However, according to the National Medical Commission, when the department sent the list – nine months after its top committee ordered it to do so in December 2024 – it contained only 27 names.The department did not respond to TOI’s queries on how and why the names of the three doctors went missing.When TOI asked NMC chairman Dr Abhijat Sheth what action had been taken against the 30 doctors, he said the commission had received 27 names in September 2025. These were forwarded to the nine state medical councils where the doctors were registered “for investigation and appropriate action”.He said that under the NMC Act, the concerned State Medical Council has the jurisdiction to investigate complaints related to ethical or professional misconduct against doctors. However, he did not specify which nine states.The Pharmaceuticals Department and NMC have also refused to reveal the names of the doctors involved.Through an RTI to the PMO, it was revealed that the list was sent to the Kerala State Medical Council, which clarified that only one doctor in the list, which it received on December 16, 2025, was from the state. The KSMC registrar said clarification has been sought from the doctor five months after receiving the name and the matter is under process.As per the NMC Act, if a complaint is not decided by the State Medical Council within six months, the Commission has the option to refer it to its Ethics Committee. Asked whether the NMC would take over the matter if the state councils did not act, Sheth said it would “take firm action… as appropriate”.

Srinagar: The BJP on Friday launched a poster campaign targeting Omar Abdullah while he was reportedly on a private visit to London, describing the Jammu and Kashmir chief minister as “missing” and seeking “information about his whereabouts”.The posters were shared on the official social media handles of Jammu and Kashmir BJP and circulated on WhatsApp. The posters said that “the missing person holds the post of CM” and has not been seen for 10 days. Omar’s National Conference (NC) rejected the campaign as not worthy of a reaction.The posters claimed that Omar was last seen on May 11 while laying the foundation stone for the renovation of the Mughal-era Malshahi Mosque in Ganderbal near Srinagar.BJP state spokesperson Sajid Yusuf Shah said that NC has not issued any statement on the CM. Pointing to Omar’s regular participation in the marathon over the years, Shah said, “There are reports that he is in London. The Chief Minister has every right to travel wherever he wants, but the people of Jammu and Kashmir have not elected him for the things and activities he is engaged in. He is a frontrunner in the marathon. Just like that, he is running away from his responsibilities.”Altaf Thakur, another BJP spokesperson, warned that the poster campaign would not be limited to social media and would be taken to the streets. Thakur said, “The Chief Minister is answerable to the people of Jammu and Kashmir. It is surprising that there is no report about him for 10 days.”Omar’s father and NC president Farooq Abdullah mocked the posters, saying the BJP had nothing better to do than launch such campaigns in Jammu and Kashmir. “We are not here to answer them,” the former CM said.

New Delhi: A major power supply disruption occurred in Gurugram on Thursday after a fire broke out in the main transformer of a 220 KVA power station in Sector-72, disrupting power supply in many parts of the city. “There was a power failure in Gurugram after a fire broke out in the main transformer of the 220 KVA power station in Sector-72, leading to power disruption in many areas of the city,” said Sandeep Chugh, PRO, South Haryana Electricity Distribution Corporation (DHBVN), Gurugram. According to officials, seven power substations were affected, causing power failure in Sectors 15, 38, 44, 46, 52, 56 and Maruti 66 KVA power house. Areas from Sector 38 to 57 including Sector 15 Part-1, Part-2 and Sector 18 remained without electricity. The disruption also affected Rapid Metro services, which remained suspended for more than an hour. Thousands of passengers use the metro network every day.More details are awaited.

New Delhi: India on Friday successfully test-fired short-range ballistic missile ‘Agni-1’ from the Integrated Test Range in Chandipur, Odisha, the Defense Ministry said.It said the launch validated all operational and technical parameters.“The test was conducted under the auspices of the Strategic Forces Command,” the ministry said.Agni 1 to 4 missiles have a range of 700 km to 3,500 km and have already been deployed.