The case against genetically-modified (GM) mustard seeds came up for hearing on Monday (July 17) before the Supreme Court bench of Chief Justice JS Khehar and Justice DY Chandrachud.
The court is d...
Above: Lake encroachment is rampant in Bengaluru. Photo: www.Indiawaterportal.org
The National Green Tribunal’s (NGT) principal bench, headed by Justice Swatanter Kumar, had, in its last hearing, c...
In an almost unprecedented act, Calcutta High Court judges have come out against what they say was “stepmotherly treatment” of the court by the Centre.
And there was good reason for this outburst, ...
The Calcutta High Court, in its assessment on Friday (July 14), found good reason to direct the Centre to deploy four more companies of CRPF in the violence-hit areas of the Darjeeling hills within 48...
The fact that even a life-term prisoner has rights in a democracy was amply demonstrated by the Bombay High Court on Friday (July 15) when it granted a compensation of Rs 2 lakh for the detention of a...
Above: Voters standing in a queue to cast their votes, at a polling booth, during the fifth phase of West Bengal Assembly Election (file picture). Photo: PIB
Despite the Representation of the Peopl...
The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) had complained to the Supreme Court that its “communications and guidelines (for protection and enforcement of human rights) have remained only on paper and...
Above: (L-R) Ramachandra Guha, N Srinivasan and Niranjan Shah
Guha, Limaye relieved from CoA; contempt proceedings against Thakur dropped
The Supreme Court-appointed Committee of Administrators ...
During the hearing of Union Finance Minister Arun Jaitley’s Rs 10 crore criminal defamation suit against Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal and some others in the Aam Aadmi Party at the Delhi High Court in the ...
The Supreme Court bench of Justices Dipak Misra, AM Khanwilkar and Mohan M Shantanagoudar is hearing a PIL by Kamlesh Vaswani, seeking for a ban on pornography and especially child pornography on the ...