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SC judges hold proceedings from residences, Registry allows some officials to work from home SECTIONS Last Updated: Apr 13, 2021, 07:20 PM IST Share Synopsis Taking note of the emerging situation, the apex court registry, in its April 13 order, asked its officials to strictly follow all the precautions for preventing spread of COVID-19 infection like practicing social-distancing norms, undergoing thermal-screening, wearing masks and health and hygiene practices. The apex court has already suspended physical mentioning of cases for urgent hearing by advocates from Monday until further orders. Supreme Court judges held proceedings from their residences on Tuesday in view of spurt in COVID-19 cases even as the top court s Registry allowed officials to work from home if they were not required to attend office on a given day and authorised registrars to regulate attendance. The apex court judges had held court proceedings from their residences one hour late ....
The SMCR, Five Years On - Finance and Banking mondaq.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from mondaq.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
To embed, copy and paste the code into your website or blog: Five years ago, on 7 March 2016, the Senior Managers and Certification Regime (SMCR) came into force. At first it applied only to dual-regulated banks, those which are regulated both by the FCA and PRA. The regime has since been extended to dual-regulated insurers and on 9 December 2019 it started applying to most solo-regulated firms. A product of the financial crisis, the SMCR was aimed at increasing both responsibility and accountability within the professional financial services sector. To a large degree, it was intended as an enforcement tool - a mechanism through which senior individuals could be sanctioned for systemic failings and serious misconduct that occurred on their watch. ....
FOR: Academic freedom in India is not just in danger, it’s in a state of siege Supriya Chaudhuri, Professor Emerita, Jadavpur University, Kolkata Shortly before Pratap Bhanu Mehta’s widely publicised resignation from Ashoka University made academic freedom the subject of national debate, another event received less attention. This was the refusal of Errol D’Souza, director of IIM Ahmedabad, to allow the Ministry of Education (MoE) to review a PhD thesis approved by his institute. A Rajya Sabha MP had objected to the thesis’s description of the BJP. The MoE demanded a copy of the thesis last year, but D’Souza replied that a thesis passed by a duly-constituted academic board could not be judged by the ministry. The incident was flagged by the MoE to claim greater say in the governance of IIMs; the Law ministry dismissed the claim as inconsistent with the provisions of the IIM Act. ....
Supriya Chaudhuri (FOR) Shortly before Pratap Bhanu Mehta’s widely publicised resignation from Ashoka University made academic freedom the subject of national debate, another event received less attention. This was the refusal of Errol D’Souza, director of IIM Ahmedabad, to allow the Ministry of Education (MoE) to review a PhD thesis approved by his institute. A Rajya Sabha MP had objected to the thesis’s description of the BJP. The MoE demanded a copy of the thesis last year, but D’Souza replied that a thesis passed by a duly-constituted academic board could not be judged by the ministry. The incident was flagged by the MoE to claim greater say in the governance of IIMs; the Law ministry dismissed the claim as inconsistent with the provisions of the IIM Act. ....