The Supreme Court on Friday, July 7 heard applications for interim relief to stay notifications which make Unique Identification Number or Aadhaar, a biometrics-linked identity number for residents, m...
Above: A representational picture of a hotel in Kasauli
The National Green Tribunal (NGT) on Friday (July 7) ordered that all illegal hotels in Kasauli, in the Solan District of Himachal Pradesh, o...
The Supreme Court on Friday put a stay on counseling for admission to the various engineering colleges, including Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) and National Institute of Technology (NIT), over ...
BJP MP Subramanian Swamy has filed a petition seeking uniform and consistent policy on national security. Swamy has contented in the petition that national security should be bereft from arbitrariness...
The Supreme Court on Friday (July 7) set aside the Uttarakhand High Court judgment of March which termed the rivers Ganga and Yamuna as “living entities”, attributing them with several legal rights. I...
In a significant turnaround, the Supreme Court on July 6 observed that the Chief Justice of India should come under Right to Information Act (RTI). This is the first time that the top court has taken ...
In a significant verdict, the Supreme Court said on July 6 that people caught for using fake caste certificates to get quota facilities must be prosecuted with immediate effect and stripped of all res...
Above: Allahabad High Court
The Allahabad High Court on Thursday (July 6) appointed nine additional judges. They have all been district level Judges/officers.
The new judges appointed are: Akhil...
The Union government seems to have come out with the upper hand in its tussle with the judiciary over appointment of judges, and the embarrassment that the Justice CS Karnan case had caused to the ape...
Above: A farmer prays for rain in his parched paddy field on a hot summer noon in Ranchi, Jharkhand. Photo: UNI
On a petition filed by Citizen Resource Initiative Action about farmer suicides in G...