New Delhi : A day after Congress vice-president slammed the Tamil Nadu government’s decision to release all seven convicts in the Rajiv Gandhi assassination case, the Supreme Court stayed the release of the convicts on Thursday. The apex court was hearing a review petition filed swiftly by the Central government in the morning. Attorney General […]

New Delhi: Supreme Court Tuesday commuted the death sentence to the three assassins of former prime minister Rajiv Gandhi to life imprisonment, holding that the 11-year long delay in deciding their mercy petition had a dehumanising effect on them. The apex court bench headed by Chief Justice P. Sathasivam said that the delay was not […]

New Delhi: Former Punjab and Haryana Chief Justice Mukul Mudgal on Monday submitted the report on IPL spot fixing scandal, involving the BCCI chief’s son-in-law. Justice Mudgal report said that the allegations of betting and passing of information against Gurunath Meiyappan stand proved. The report further added that the allegations of fixing requires further investigation.Gurunath […]

New Delhi : In a big relief to aspiring medical students, the Supreme Court Monday paved the way for government and private medical colleges to admit students to under-graduate and post-graduate medical and dental courses for the 2013 session. The court lifted curbs on the declaration of entrance tests’ results for the courses and said: […]

New Delhi: The Supreme Court Thursday said it wanted journalists to know their limits in reporting court proceedings even as the central government favoured framing of guidelines for the media, claiming that the right to freedom of speech and expression was for the benefit of people and not the press. Chief Justice S.H. Kapadia said […]

New Delhi: The Supreme Court is likely to consider the government’s appeal for more time to present its stance in the Ram Sethu case on Tuesday. The apex court, on January 5, had directed the Centre to place before it the PM-appointed expert panel report on the feasibility of building an alternative shipping channel through […]

New Delhi  : The Karnataka government of Karnataka detected 12891 cases of illegal mining of minor and major minerals for the period June, 2006 till December, 2009, and for the year 2010-11, it has reported 6476 cases of illegal mining. This information was given by the Minister of State for Mines (Independent Charge) Dinsha Patel […]

 New Delhi: In a relief to Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi, the Supreme Court today refused to pass any order on his alleged inaction to contain the 2002 Gujarat riots after the Godhra carnage and referred the matter to the magistrate concerned in Ahmedabad for a decision. Reacting to the verdict of the apex court, […]

New Delhi: The Apex Court has issued a Suo moto cognizance enquiry (notice) to the Govt. of India, on the midnight forcible action by cane charge and teargas bullets over 10,000 sleeping protestors (men, women and children) to evict and cancel his hunger strike started one day earlier, on the Sunday morning hours at the […]

New Delhi: The Supreme Court allowed an advocate, M.L.Sharma to submit additional documents based on and referring to assets of close relatives of former CJI K.G.Balakrishnan during his office as chief justice of Supreme Court. Sharma has moved the Apex Court against these relatives’ assets in excess made when KGB was CJI, for a probe. […]