Source – indiatimes.com NEW DELHI: If you are still left with scrapped Rs 1,000 and Rs 500 notes, having failed to deposit them in banks by the December 30 deadline, you could hold on to them till July-end. The Supreme Court said on Tuesday it would decide in July whether the government should be asked

Source – hindustantimes.com Despite India’s strong message to Pakistan over the death sentence to former Indian navy officer Kulbhushan Jadhav on espionage charges, the course of action ahead for the condemned prisoner remains arduous. Jadhav has legal resources at his disposal. He can move the Supreme Court of Pakistan, appealing against the military court which

The Supreme Court today said that power distribution firms like Adani Power Ltd and Tata Power Ltd cannot charge “compensatory tariff” from consumers and set aside the appellate tribunal’s judgement in this regard. Tata Power’s wholly owned subsidiary Coastal Gujarat Power Ltd and Adani Power had originally moved the Central Electricity Regulatory Commission (CERC) seeking

Source – bgr.in Even as experts are still debating over the existence of ‘harmful radiation’ from mobile towers, a Harish Chand Tiwari has succeeded in getting the Supreme Court of India to shut down a mobile tower for causing cancer to him. Gwalior-based Harish alleged that a BSNL tower located less than 50 meters from

Source – financialexpress.com The Supreme Court has sought the response of US-based instant messaging application firm WhatsApp Inc in a matter relating to blocking of videos of sexual offences on social networking sites. The court, while making WhatsApp Inc a party in the matter, said that the petitioner might send a detailed e-mail to them

Source – ndtv.com MUMBAI:  The Bombay High Court on Wednesday ordered the Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) and other agencies to demolish or reduce the height of over 100 buildings that are in violation of norms near the city airport within two months. A division bench headed by Justice VM Kanade said violators must

Source – ndtv.com NEW DELHI:  Messaging service WhatsApp, which has been used to share videos of Indian women being raped, told the Supreme Court today that it will help to block “sexually offensive” content from being shared on social media. Executives from the instant-messaging company, which has 200 million users in India, which is based

Source – Trak.in For the first time ever, Supreme Court of India has declared that Internet access is a basic fundamental right for all Indians; and this right cannot be curtailed and blocked at any cost. This is one of those watershed moments for Internet activists in India because from now on, this verdict and

Source – indianexpress.com The Supreme Court on Thursday directed the Centre and CBSE to include Urdu as a medium of instruction in the National Eligibility-cum-Entrance Test (NEET) from the academic session 2018-19. The bench, however, accepted the submission by the authorities that it was not possible to include Urdu as a medium of instruction for

Source – thequint.com Media outlets, including The Quint, widely misinterpreted a comment by Narendra Modi during an address on Thursday. The assumption was that the Prime Minister said women can retain maiden names in passports after marriage, when that wasn’t a requirement in the first place. “From now onwards, women will not have to change