Source: livemint.com NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court on Tuesday refused to direct the Central government to lift restrictions in Jammu and Kashmir and granted the Centre more time to withdraw the curbs as the situation is “very sensitive”. A bench headed by Justice Arun Mishra was hearing a petition filed by political activist Tehseen Poonawalla. The bench,
Source: newindianexpress.com NEW DELHI: On Tuesday, the fifth day of hearing in Ayodhya dispute case, Hindus submitted at the Supreme Court that a temple was destroyed and a mosque was built over it. Such an act couldn’t deprive the deity and the temple of the ownership of the place, they said. Though the Muslim parties
Source: thehindu.com Observing that parallel elections held by the two Archery Association of India (AAI) factions “were not in compliance with the directions issued by the Supreme Court,” the Delhi High Court has set aside the polls and directed the Union Sports Ministry to constitute a Transitory Committee (TC) to run the sport. In order to ensure
Source: deccanchronicle.com Chennai: The Madras high court has directed the state government to constitute within two months a Sugarcane Control Board under section 3 of the Tamil Nadu Sugarcane (Regulation of Purchase Price) Act and also frame rules, to fix the price to be payable by sugar mills for ryots for the sugarcane purchased. Justice R.Suresh
Source: dnaindia.com The Supreme Court has come to the rescue of a whistleblower lawyer who blew the lid off a racket involving law interns appearing as lawyers in Bombay’s district courts and even getting accused released on forged sureties. After one of the affected interns lodged a molestation case against the lawyer as a counter-blast,
Source: financialexpress.com The government is unlikely to put a ban on the controversial herbicide Glyphosate as there is no proven record to establish its effects on health or environment, an official source said. The demand to restrict the herbicide, largely used in tea and now HT Bt cotton, has been made by activists alleging it
Source: news18.com Hong Kong: Hong Kong carrier Cathay Pacific warned staff on Monday that they could be fired for supporting “illegal protests”, as the firm comes under pressure from Beijing over pro-democracy demonstrations. The flagship carrier’s stock plunged more than four percent in Hong Kong trade on Monday after Beijing imposed new rules banning airline staff
Source: deccanherald.com The legal trouble for 26-year-old Congress leader Hardik Patel, who has been touring the state to raise issues of government’s failure in resolving issues such as unemployment, privatisation of education and farm crisis among others, looks far from getting over. The state government wants to proceed with a criminal case against the Patidar leader
Source: deccanherald.com The Supreme Court has declined to consider a plea against the Karnataka High Court’s judgement that had quashed the Special Deputy Commissioner’s order confirming allotment of free sites to the homeless persons in Bengaluru on the basis of ‘hakku pathras’ issued in 1979. A bench of Justices A M Khanwilkar and Dinesh Maheshwari,
Source: news18.com Noida: Seven contractual staffers of the Kalindi Kunj toll plaza were arrested by the Noida Police for allegedly killing a commercial truck driver after he failed to pay Rs 14,000 demanded by them, officials said on Monday. The 30-year-old canter truck driver was on his way from Sector 59 in Noida to Ghitorni in
