Source – indiatoday.intoday.in The Supreme Court on Friday accepted former Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) president Anurag Thakur’s fresh unconditional apology for filing a false affidavit in connection with a contempt case against him. The apex court has will now conduct hearing in the matter on September 5. On Thursday, Thakur had
Source – newindianexpress.com NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court today refused to “nullify” the National Eligibility-cum-Entrance Test (NEET) 2017 exam, saying it would affect over six lakh candidates who have passed the test to join medical and dental courses. A three-judge bench headed by Justice Dipak Misra said it would be “very difficult” to disturb the results
Source – indiatoday.intoday.in In a big leap towards permitting a 25 million-strong NRI population to vote in Indian elections from abroad, the Supreme Court on Friday said it had to be done at any cost, and asked the Modi government to decide within one week how it plans to go about it. A bench of
Source – financialexpress.com Malayalam actor Dileep, arrested for allegedly plotting the abduction and assault of a popular South Indian actress will move the Kerala High Court tomorrow for bail, said his counsel today. The actor decided to seek bail from the high court a day after an Angamaly magisterial court refused to grant bail to him
Source – timesofindia.indiatimes.com MUMBAI: Seven months after a Mumbai-based financial consultant was booked on rape charges, the victim girl appeared before the Bombay high court to give her consent to quashing the criminal proceedings saying she now realised they could not get married since both of them belonged to different religions. A division bench of
Source – hindustantimes.com The stage is set to elect the country’s 14th President. A total of 4,896 lawmakers will vote on Monday to elect the successor of Pranab Mukherjee, who demits office on July 25. Given the BJP-led NDA’s strength, its candidate Ram Nath Kovind appears to have the advantage against his opponent, Meira Kumar, a
Source – ndtv.com NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court has said it will examine whether an IIT can withhold the results of a final-year student, who was terminated after being held guilty in a sexual harassment case.A bench of justices S A Bobde and L Nageswara Rao issued notice to the Centre and IIT-Kanpur on the plea of
Source – livemint.com Ahmedbad: The Gujarat high court on Monday cleared the way for the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) to press ahead with the bad-loan resolution process, dismissing Essar Steel Ltd’s petition challenging the initiation of bankruptcy proceedings against the company. The ruling throws judicial weight behind RBI’s 13 June directive asking lenders to initiate action
Source – dailyo.in As many as 696 days after the Supreme Court had asked for the Aadhaar matter to be heard in front of a Constitution Bench, on July 18-19, the case is finally being presented in front of a five-member bench to decide all issues pertaining to Aadhaar, which include mandatory unique identification for
Source – ndtv.com New Delhi – One last opportunity to deposit the 500- and 1,000-rupee notes that were banned in November will defeat the whole point of demonetisation as well as the battle against black money, the government told the Supreme Court today.Earlier this month, the top court had asked the centre to consider a final
