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In a relief to the rebel Congress-JDS MLAs, the Supreme Court said speaker should not decide on disqualification or resignation of MLAs till that date as constitutional issues needed to be addressed first. 

The Act was passed by the State Legislative Assembly on 29th November 2018 granting 16% reservation to Marathas

Senior Advocate and spokesperson of the Bharatiya Janata Party, Ashwini Upadhyay, has been waging a battle in the Courts for the implementation of a Uniform Civil Code.

The 15 rebel MLAs of the Congress-JD(S) coalition in Karnataka have been told by the Supreme Court today to meet the Assembly Speaker and submit their resignations.

The Court has also said that if the matter is not resolved by mediation then the case would be heard from July 25 onwards on a day to day basis.

On March 8, a Constitution Bench of the Supreme Court had referred the long-standing Ram Mandir-Babri Masjid dispute for mediation. The mediation panel is chaired by former Supreme Court judge Justice FMI Kalifulla, along with spiritual guru Sri Sri Ravi Shankar and senior Advocate Sriram Panchu.

Supreme Court upheld the Kerala High Court's orders questioning the locus standi of the petitioner while dismissing the petition demanding entry for women into mosques for praying

Supreme Court said that there is likelihood of Rana Ayyub's book being politically motivated

After her book was published, Ayyub had accused Tehelka of being under 'political pressure' to not publish the 'sting'

S. Nalini Sriharan is India's longest-serving woman prisoner. She was convicted in the Rajiv Gandhi assassination case.