Source – thequint.com Commencing a historic hearing on a batch of six petitions and a suo moto PIL challenging the constitutional validity of triple talaq and nikah halala among Muslims, the Supreme Court said it would first determine whether the practice is fundamental to Islam. Supreme Court: There are two-three things on our minds and the first

Source – firstpost.com Kolkata: In a bid to reduce the number of pending cases, the Calcutta High Court will hold special sittings during the summer vacation to hear cases that were instituted prior to 2000. The move has, however, been opposed by the Bar Association which has passed a resolution against it on the grounds that of

Source – indiatimes.com NEW DELHI: The national capital can turn into a desert if the green cover and forest land fall prey to illegal construction and encroachment, the Delhi High Court has observed. It said this environmental issue was a matter of concern and needed to be addressed on a war footing in view of the adverse

Source – intoday.in The All India Muslim Personal Law Board (AIMPLB) today submitted an affidavit on triple talaq in Supreme Court in which it called the oral instant talaq an “undesirable” practice according to the Shariat (Islamic law) and said it will advise those performing Islamic marriages to include it in the ‘nikahnama’ (marriage contract). In

Source – ndtv.com NEW DELHI:  The aggression shown in the Swachh Bharat Abhiyan campaign by the Centre would have yielded better results if it was also shown in spreading awareness about dengue and chikungunya, the Delhi High Court said today.A bench of Acting Chief Justice Gita Mittal and Justice Pratibha M Singh pulled up the central government,

Source – india.com New Delhi: The Supreme Court has agreed to examine a plea of the income tax department whether the North Okhla Industrial Development Authority (NOIDA) is a corporation established by the Uttar Pradesh government under the state industrial development law or not. A bench of Justices R K Aggarwal and A M Sapre has

Source – indiatimes.com AHMEDABAD: The recent Supreme Court judgment — banning the sale of liquorwithin 500 metres of highways — has caused major revenue losses for leading hotels on the SG Highway which had permit liquor shops. Hoteliers, in fact, had to make alternate arrangements to serve international delegates who have arrived for the African Development

Source – firstpost.com Human rights are a matter of both democracy and hypocrisy, certainly in India. Two recent examples, India’s flat-out fight for one of its own and its flat-out denial of human rights violations aimed at entire communities, highlight it as nothing else. There is little ground for dispute that a country must stand

Source – indiatimes.com NEW DELHI: Telecom major Vodafone India today claimed in the Delhi High Court that the two new tariff plans offered by Reliance Jio (RJIO) since last month were in violation of the TRAI‘s guidelines.RJIO’s two new tariff plans were the ‘Summer Surprise’ offer, which gave three month additional complimentary service on a minimum monthly recharge of Rs 402 and

Source – indiatimes.com NEW DELHI: The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has refused to make public the list of loan defaulters with public sector banks despite an order of the Supreme Court in 2015 to make this information public. The case relates to an RTI application filed by activist Subhash Agrawal who had sought to know the