Supreme Court
- India
SC stresses balance between sustainable development & environmental protection
New Delhi: Stressing on the need for striking a proper balance between sustainable development and environmental protection, the Supreme Court on Tuesday appealed to the legislature, the executive and policy makers to…
- India
Bhopal gas tragedy: SC grills Centre over fund distribution to victims
New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Tuesday grilled the Centre on how the settlement can be reopened, when Union Carbide has already paid over $ 470 million to the Bhopal gas tragedy…
- India
SC agrees to hear plea on Joshimath sinking; denies urgent listing
New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Tuesday agreed to examine a plea on January 16, seeking its intervention to declare the crisis in Uttarakhand’s Joshimath as a national disaster. A bench headed…
- Politics
Maharashtra political crisis: SC to hear batch of pleas by Sena factions on Feb 14
New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Tuesday posted for February 14 the hearing of a batch of petitions filed by rival factions Uddhav Thackeray and Chief Minister Eknath Shinde in relation to…
- Telangana
SC notice to Centre, Telangana on Andhra’s plea on division of assets
Delhi: The Supreme Court on Monday sought a response from the Centre and Telangana government on a petition filed by the Andhra Pradesh government, seeking an equitable and expeditious division of assets…
- India
SC reserves judgment on PIL for making police, CBI, ED charge sheets public
New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Monday reserved its judgment on a plea which sought free public access to charge sheets filed by the police and investigative agencies like the Central Bureau…
- India
Places of Worship Act: SC gives further extension to Centre for its response
New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Monday further extended the time for the Central government to file its response on a batch of petitions challenging the validity of certain provisions of the…
- India
Religious conversion a serious issue, should not be given political colour: SC
Delhi: Observing that religious conversion is a serious issue which should not be given a political colour, the Supreme Court on Monday sought the assistance of Attorney General R Venkataramani on a…
- India
Joshimath subsidence: SC asks petitioner to mention on Tue for urgent listing of PIL
New Delhi: The Supreme Court has asked a petitioner, who has sought the court’s intervention to declare the crisis in Uttarakhand’s Joshimath as a national disaster, to mention his plea Tuesday for urgent…
- India
SC grants Centre time till March 15 to pay OROP arrears to armed forces pensioners
New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Monday granted time till March 15 to the Centre for payment of arrears of One Rank-One Pension (OROP) to all eligible pensioners of the armed forces. A…
- India
SC refuses to entertain plea challenging committee for UCC in Gujarat, Uttarakhand
New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Monday refused to entertain a Public Interest Litigation (PIL) challenging Gujarat and Uttarakhand’s decision to constitute committees to consider the introduction and implementation of the Uniform…
- India
Elgar Parishad-Maoist links case: Navlakha’s house arrest extended till Feb 17
Delhi: The Supreme Court on Monday extended till February 17 its interim order placing social activist Gautam Navlakha, accused of having links to Maoists and Pakistan’s spy agency ISI, under house arrest.…
- India
SC to hear pleas challenging validity of 1991 law on religious places
New Delhi: The Supreme Court is likely to hear on Monday a batch of PILs challenging the validity of certain provisions of a 1991 law which prohibit filing of a lawsuit to…
- India
‘Re-victimisation of victims’: Loopholes in compensation to sex crime victims
New Delhi: An NGO claimed that rape-related crime rate in India rose 70.7 per cent over the last two decades, as it invoked the jurisdiction of the Supreme Court, for enforcement of…
- India
Haldwani eviction case: Jamaat-e-Islami Hind welcomes SC stay order
New Delhi: The Jamaat-e-Islami Hind on Saturday welcomed the Supreme Court providing interim relief against the Uttarakhand High court’s decision to remove encroachments from 29 acres of land claimed by the railways…