The Supreme Court has issued notices to the Election Commission and the West Bengal government on a petition seeking directions to bring the state police under the deputation of the poll panel during the special intensive revision of electoral rolls. The petitioner sought that central armed forces be deployed in West Bengal, alleging that there had been several incidents of violence against booth-level officers involved in the exercise.

The bench also refused to extend the deadline for the submission of enumeration forms in Kerala. The court will decide on the extension on December 18, which is the deadline.

Besides, the court asked how persons who have applied for citizenship under the Citizenship Amendment Act can be provisionally included in the electoral roll. The petitioner had argued that the citizenship rights accrue from the date of the application. Read on.

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The Directorate General of Civil Aviation has directed IndiGo to cut its operations by 5%, or about 108 flights a day, amid widespread disruptions. The regulator asked the airline to make the cuts “especially on high-demand, high-frequency” routes and to avoid single-flight operations on any sector.

On Tuesday, the airline cancelled more than 400 flights across airports in the country.

Air travel has been severely hit since December 2, when a shortage of pilots and crew forced IndiGo to cancel and delay hundreds of flights. The disruption came amid the rollout of stricter work hour norms introduced in November. Read on.

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Opposition MPs have submitted an impeachment notice to Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla against Madras High Court Justice GR Swaminathan. They alleged that the judge’s recent orders have been “disruptive to social harmony and detrimental to integrity of the judiciary”.

The motion came against the backdrop of Swaminathan directing the authorities of the Subramaniya Swamy Temple at Thirupparankundram in Madurai to ensure that the Karthigai Deepam was lit at the deepathoon, a stone pillar, near a dargah on the top of a hill.

The judgement rejected objections by the temple authorities and the dargah management and stated that the lighting of the lamp would not infringe on the religious rights of the Muslim community. Read on.

The Karnataka High Court has stayed a government notification mandating industrial establishments to grant one day paid menstrual leave every month to all permanent and contractual employees. However, hours later, the bench agreed to hear the state government’s appeal against the interim stay on Wednesday.

Justice Jyoti M had ordered the interim stay while hearing a petition by the Bangalore Hotels Association, which argued that the state government did not have the power to issue a directive mandating menstrual leaves. Read on.

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