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SC grants Bengaluru blast accused interim bail to attend son’s wedding

Above: Abdul Nasser Madani Abdul Nasser Madani, the 2008 Bangalore serial blasts accused, has been granted a second interim bail, this time for 14 days (August 6 to 19), to attend his son’s weddi...

SC gets tough on unused SEZ land taken from farmers

SEZ Farmers Protection Welfare Association, an NGO, had petitioned the Supreme Court on Special Economic Zone (SEZ) land—acquired from farmers for industry by governments—lying unused. The complain...

EC files reply to SC on safety of EVMs

A petition had been filed by advocate Manohar Lal Sharma in connection with the issue of tampering of EVMs. As per the petitioner, since 1982 the EVMs were not reliable and ballot papers were hundred ...

Cattle sale will be as per new rules, SC says

With Solicitor General Ranjit Kumar on Friday (August 4) submitting before the Supreme Court bench of Chief Justice JS Khehar and DY Chandrachud that the central government had already (in May 2017) n...

SC refuses to grant interim stay on use of NOTA in Gujarat RS polls

Above: An EVM machine The Supreme Court bench of Justices Dipak Misra, Amitava Roy and AM Khanwilkar on Thursday (August 3) refused to grant interim stay on the use of the None Of The Above (NOTA)...

Modi’s letter touches special chord in Citizen Mukherjee

Above: The Prime Minister, Narendra Modi presents a memento to the then President, Pranab Mukherjee on the occasion of farewell hosted by him for the President on July 22, 2017. Photo: PIB Former P...

NGT sends notice to Uttarakhand govt on polluting ashrams

It is not just factories, tanneries and city sewage that pollute the River Ganga. According to a petition filed by the Indian Council for Enviro-Legal Action, hotels, ashrams, dharamshalas in Haridwar...

A single window for winding up of companies

The government’s role in the business atmosphere in India, for long, had been obstructionist. Things are changing. For one, there is the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code that addresses the need for a co...

Paranjoy Guha Thakurta’s rejoinder

Above: Paranjoy Guha Thakurta. Photo: Anil Shakya Paranjoy Guha Thakurta, former editor of Economic and Political Weekly, who was forced to resign from his post as editor by the Sameeksha Trust tha...

Hearings on privacy conclude, SC reserves verdict

sAs hearings on the privacy as a fundamental right case concluded in the Supreme Court on Wednesday (August 2), the nine-judge constitution bench, headed by Chief Justice JS Khehar, reserved its verdi...

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