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Maharashtra’s plea is not maintainable: Karnataka CM Bommai on border row
Bengaluru: Karnataka Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai on Thursday said that the petition of neighbouring state Maharashtra on the border dispute was not maintainable. Answering a question at the Supreme Court’s hearing the…
- India
People’s health affected by hospitals, medical stores run by fake pharmacists: SC
New Delhi: The Supreme Court has said that running hospitals, dispensaries and medical stores in the absence of any registered pharmacist or by fake unregistered chemists will ultimately affect the health of…
- India
Excluding Tamil refugees from CAA’s purview is discriminatory, DMK tells SC
Chennai: The ruling Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK) has submitted before the Supreme Court that it is discriminatory to exclude Tamil refugees from the purview of the Citizenship (Amendment) Act, 2019 and prayed…
- India
Border dispute: Security tightened at Karnataka-Maharashtra border
Belagavi: Security arrangements at the border areas of Belagavi district have been tightened ahead of the Supreme Court taking up the petition regarding border dispute with Maharashtra on Wednesday. Tight vigil is…
- India
Bilkis Bano challenges release of 11 convicts in Supreme Court
New Delhi: Bilkis Bano on Wednesday approached the Supreme Court challenging the premature release of 11 men convicted of gangraping her in the 2002 Gujarat riots. Bilkis Bano filed a review plea…
- India
Supreme Court seeks report from jails across country
New Delhi: Days after the emotional speech of President Droupadi Murmu flagging the plight of poor tribals languishing in jails in petty offences despite bail, the Supreme Court Tuesday directed prison authorities…
- India
SC refuses to entertain PIL on doubling judges posts in district courts, HCs
New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Tuesday refused to entertain a PIL that sought a direction to the Centre and all states to double the number of judges in subordinate judiciary and…
- India
SC permits Mumbai Metro to pursue its plea for felling 84 trees at Aarey Colony
New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Monday permitted Mumbai Metro Rail Corporation Ltd to raise with the relevant authority its plea for felling 84 trees at Mumbai’s Aarey Colony for constructing train ramps…
- Andhra Pradesh
Jagan has no right to continue in power any longer: Bonda Uma
Amaravathi: Andhra Pradesh (AP) Chief Minister Jagan Mohan Reddy’s futile efforts were exposed with the recent order of the Supreme Court in the murder of his paternal uncle YS Vivekananda Reddy, said…
- India
Govt returns 20 files to SC Collegium of appointment of HC judges
New Delhi: The government has asked the Supreme Court Collegium to reconsider 20 files related to the appointment of high court judges, including that of advocate Saurabh Kirpal who has candidly spoken…
- Kashmir
SC seeks SG’s assistance on PIL over non-functional statutory panels in J&K
New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Monday sought assistance of the solicitor general on a PIL which alleged statutory panels including the Jammu and Kashmir Human Rights Commission are not functional in…
- India
‘It’s a menace’: Centre to SC on forced religious conversion
New Delhi: The Centre on Monday told the Supreme Court that the issue of forced religious conversion “is a menace”, and it is cognizant of the gravity and the seriousness of the…
- India
SC seeks replies of Centre, states on free sanitary pads for girls in govt schools
New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Monday sought responses from the Centre, states and Union territories (UTs) on a PIL seeking issuance of directions for providing free sanitary pads to girls studying in…
- Andhra Pradesh
AP HC cannot be ‘town planner’: SC on order for building state capital in 6 months
New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Monday sought responses from farmers and their associations, and the Centre to a plea by the Andhra Pradesh government challenging the high court decision which said the…
- India
Right to freedom of religion doesn’t include a fundamental right to convert: Centre to SC
New Delhi: The Centre told the Supreme Court that the right to freedom of religion does not include a fundamental right to convert people to a particular religion. The Centre’s response came…