The Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology in its counter-affidavit sought direction from the Delhi High Court restraining WhatsApp from implementing its new privacy policy and terms of service dated January 4.
The Supreme Court on Friday asked the Centre to appraise the Court with its intended legislation on mediation while hearing the petition seeking directions or guidelines to provide for mandatory pre-litigation mediation across the country.
The selective way in which the government is vaccinating the population came in for stricture from the Delhi High Court which asked it to explain why it was keeping such “strict control” over the process.
The Supreme Court on Wednesday issued notice on a PIL seeking directions to the Centre to have a mechanism to track total GST paid on the OIDAR (Online Information and Database Access or Retrieval Services) services used by Non-Taxable Online Indian recipients under reverse charge basis.
The Supreme Court on Wednesday issued notice to the Central Government on a PIL pertaining to the cancellation of 3 crore ration cards and deaths by starvation as a consequence. The court observed that the absence of an Aadhaar card will not result in the cancellation of ration card.
A single-judge bench comprising of Justice Prathiba M. Singh heard a batch of connected matters relating to the allocation of funds for people suffering from rare diseases.
The plea, filed by Advocate Ashwini Kumar, is likely to come up for hearing before a division bench of the high court presided by Chief Justice D.N. Patel and Justice Jasmeet Singh on Friday.
The Delhi High Court on Wednesday told the Centre that the Judiciary is one of the three wings of Government and an important wing of the State. Solicitor General Tushar Mehta had submitted that only those who are 60-plus or with co-morbidities have been considered for the first phase of vaccination.