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- 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…
- Bangalore
Border row: Ahead of SC hearing, Bommai to visit Delhi on Nov 29
Bengaluru: Karnataka Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai on Sunday said he would go to Delhi on November 29 to hold a meeting with senior advocate Mukul Rohatgi over the border row between Karnataka…
- India
Activist Anand Teltumbde walks out of Taloja prison in Navi Mumbai
Scholar-activist Anand Teltumbde walked out of Taloja prison on Saturday in Navi Mumbai, officials said speaking to PTI. This happened after the Supreme Court rejected the National Investigation Agency’s (NIA) plea challenging…
- India
SC directs Rs 5 lakh each be paid to 9 fishermen in Italian marines case
New Delhi: The Supreme Court modified its June 15, 2021 order on Friday and directed that a compensation of Rs 5 lakh each be paid to seven fishermen and the legal heirs…
