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Hijab ban: SC refuses to list for urgent hearing PIL seeking common dress code
New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Thursday refused to accord urgent hearing to a PIL which seeks a direction to the Centre and states to implement a common dress code for staffers…
- India
SC to hear pleas challenging Agnipath scheme on Friday
New Delhi: The Supreme Court will hear on Friday a group of petitions, challenging the newly-launched Agnipath recruitment scheme for defence forces. The batch of pleas will be heard by a bench…
- India
‘Will go to the root’: SC asks conman Chandrashekhar to name the jail staff he bribed
New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Wednesday said it will “go to the root of the matter” and asked conman Sukesh Chandrashekhar to bring on record the names of all those, including…
- India
SC refuses to pass interim order staying demolitions across states
New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Wednesday refused to pass an interim direction staying demolitions across states, and said it cannot pass an omnibus order preventing authorities from taking action. A bench…
- India
Cannot order DNA testing of child in rape case just at the drop of hat: SC
New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Tuesday refused to order DNA testing of a child born to a minor after she was allegedly raped, saying the identity of the child’s father is…
- World
Sri Lanka: SC petition seeks travel restrictions on Rajapaksa brothers, others
Colombo: A petition has been filed in Sri Lanka’s Supreme Court seeking an interim order restraining former prime minister Mahinda Rajapaksa and other influential officials of the Rajapaksa regime from fleeing the…
- India
Bhima Koregaon case: SC extends interim protection for Varavara Rao
New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Tuesday extended the interim protection from surrender to activist P. Varavara Rao in the Bhima Koregaon case till July 19. Solicitor General Tushar Mehta requested an…
- India
SC asks Centre to bring separate law on bail
New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Monday said criminal courts are guardian angels of liberty and a conscious failure by them would constitute an affront to liberty, as it asked the Centre…
- India
SC agrees to examine HC judge transfer threat matter on Tuesday
New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Monday agreed to examine a matter where a Karnataka High Court judge had claimed receiving a transfer threat in connection with his comments against the functioning…
- India
Bhima Koregaon case: SC to hear Varavara Rao’s plea for permanent medical bail on Tuesday
New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Monday said it would hear on Tuesday a plea filed by Telugu poet and an accused in the Bhima Koregaon-Elgar Parishad case, P Varavara Rao, challenging…
- India
Sena Conundrum: Don’t proceed yet, says SC to Maha Assembly Speaker
New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Monday asked the newly-elected Maharashtra Assembly speaker not to proceed with the plea seeking disqualification of MLAs of Shiv Sena faction led by former chief minister…
- India
1993 blasts: Centre bound to release Salem on completion of sentence, says SC
New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Monday said the Centre is bound to honour its commitment given to Portugal and release gangster Abu Salem on completion of his 25-year sentence in the…
- India
Bhima Koregaon case: SC to hear Varavara Rao’s permanent medical bail plea on Monday
New Delhi: The Supreme Court is scheduled to hear on Monday a plea filed by Telugu poet and an accused in the Bhima Koregaon-Elgar Parishad case, P Varavara Rao, challenging a Bombay…
- India
Vijay Mallya contempt case: SC to pronounce order on July 11
New Delhi: In a contempt case against fugitive businessman Vijay Mallya who was found guilty of contempt of court in 2017 for withholding information from the court, the Supreme Court will pronounce…
- India
SC to deliver verdict on July 11 on Abu Salem’s plea on non-extension of 25-year jail term
New Delhi: The Supreme Court will deliver its order on July 11 regarding extradited gangster Abu Salem’s plea raising the issue that as per the extradition treaty between India and Portugal, his…