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SC to allow 4 weeks for objections after govt decides on GM mustard

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...

Bengaluru lake encroachment: NGT unhappy with committee report

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...

Calcutta HC tells Centre: Appoint judges or we will take “appropriate action”

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, ...

Calcutta HC directs Centre to send more CRPF troops to Darjeeling

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...

Bombay HC awards lifer compensation for 3 yrs 9 months more spent in jail

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...

SC gives Centre a week to decide on amending rules to allow postal ballots for NRIs

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...

NHRC must be endowed with more powers, says SC

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...

Srini, Shah issued notice by SC for attending BCCI SGM

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 ...

Kejriwal counsel asks for time to reply in defamation case

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 ...

SC gives govt 2 days to file reply on banning child porn on the net

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 ...

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