Source: dnaindia.com The Gujarat High Court on Wednesday has decided not to take a call for the time being on the plea filed by Congress leader Ashwin Rathod seeking the court’s direction to authorities to produce certain EVMs and all postal ballots of the controversial Dholka assembly election. Rathod has challenged the assembly poll victory
Source: economictimes.indiatimes.com HYDERABAD: The Andhra Pradesh High Court ordered the state power transmission firm to refrain from arbitrarily reducing the power it evacuates from renewable projects, giving a breather to developers who have set up more than 7,500 MW of solar and wind energy capacity. Several wind and solar power developers early last week moved
Source: telegraphindia.com The Union home ministry has asked central law enforcement agencies to monitor social media platforms and identify those spreading rumours or hateful content online in the aftermath of the government’s decision to scrap Jammu and Kashmir’s special status. Sources said the ministry was also keeping an eye on social media content critical of
Source: telegraphindia.com Tree planting along the Harmu river will now be done with the advice of experts from Birsa Agriculture University (BAU), urban development secretary Ajoy Kumar Singh said on Tuesday. Singh on Tuesday inspected rejuvenation and tree planting work for nearly an hour along the 10.5km stretch of the river, a tributary of the
Source: theguardian.com The high court has unanimously upheld a decision to sack a public servant, Michaela Banerji, for anonymous social media posts that criticised the government’s immigration policy. The court delivered its judgment in the landmark freedom of speech test case on Wednesday, upholding an appeal from the workers’ compensation agency Comcare which argued it
Source: financialexpress.com Businessman Ratul Puri, nephew of Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Kamal Nath, on Tuesday withdrew his petition from the Delhi High Court seeking direction to a trial court not to pronounce order on his anticipatory bail plea without hearing his other pending applications. He is an accused in a money laundering case related to the VVIP
Source: hindustantimes.com The Allahabad high court, in an order over a petition filed by several farmers from Ghaziabad affected by the Hi-Tech city township near NH-9, has directed the Ghaziabad development authority (GDA) to consider their plea and decide within three months. The farmers had moved court in a bid to get the layout maps
Source: indiatoday.in The Supreme Court is set to commence day-to-day hearing from Tuesday in the politically sensitive case of Ram Janmabhoomi-Babri Masjid land dispute in Ayodhya after the efforts to arrive at an amicable settlement through mediation have failed. A five-judge Constitution bench headed by Chief Justice Ranjan Gogoi will conduct the hearing. The bench,
Source: barandbench.com The Lok Sabha today passed the Supreme Court (Number of Judges) Amendment Bill, 2019 to increase the strength of the Supreme Court to thirty-three (33), excluding the Chief Justice of India. As per the Statement of Objects and Reasons of the Bill, the amendment to the Supreme Court (Number of Judges) Act, 1956 was being sought to
Source: outlookindia.com Kolkata, Aug 5 Retired Justice Chittatosh Mookerjee, nephew of Bharatiya Jana Sangh founder Syama Pprasad Mookerjee, on Monday expressed happiness at the Centre repealing the Constitution”s Article 370, saying the objective for which his uncle fought and died have now been accomplished. “I am happy that the causes, for which my uncle Syama
