Month: July 2019

Sources: thehindu.com Bench agrees to examine TN government’s plea against the stay order of the Madras High Court, and issues notice to the magazine and its editor R. Gopal seeking their response. The Supreme Court on Friday stayed further proceedings in the Madras High Court related to a plea by Tamil magazine Nakkheeran and its editor challenging

Source: deccanchronicle.com Hyderabad: The Telangana High Court issued interim stay orders directing election officers not to conduct polls in the Bhainsa municipality, Nirmal district, until the due process is followed in the division and delimitation of wards. Justice P. Naveen Rao was dealing with a petition by Mr Kapil Shinde, a resident of  Bhainsa, challenging the

Source: thehindu.com Former Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) parliamentarian Dinu Solanki and six others were on Thursday sentenced to life imprisonment in connection with the brutal killing of a Right to Information (RTI) activist Amit Jethwa in 2010. The special Central Bureau of Investigation court had held the seven accused, including Mr. Solanki, guilty in the murder case

Source: dnaindia.com The Madras High Court has ruled that candidates whose qualifications are higher than the requirement for any particular job cannot be given that job. The ruling came in a case filed by a woman who had been rejected for a job by Chennai Metro because she was overqualified. In 2013, Lakshmi Prabha had

Source: firstpost.com Prayagraj (Uttar Pradesh): The daughter of a BJP legislator from Uttar Pradesh on Thursday moved the Allahabad High Court to seek police protection, citing threat to her life from her father after marrying a man outside her caste. The matter came to light on Wednesday after Sakshi Misra (23), daughter of MLA Rajesh Misra, posted

Source: dnaindia.com The political crisis in Karnataka sparked a fresh confrontation between the Supreme Court and the Karnataka Assembly Speaker on Thursday. Upset with Speaker KR Ramesh Kumar for not meeting the 10 rebel Congress and Janata Dal (Secular) Members of Legislative Assembly (MLA) who resigned on July 6, the top court set a meeting

Source: thenewsminute.com There seems to be no end to the continuing conflict between the students and management of the SR Medical College and Research Centre located in the coastal area of Varkala in Kerala’s Thiruvananthapuram district. The college management, on Tuesday, had issued a show cause notice to six students of the 2016 batch for

Source: mid-day.com Mumbai resident who got married in Karachi, may finally be able to get his Pakistani bride home after two years. A division bench of Justice Nijamoodin Jamadar and Justice Ravindra Borde has directed the Union government to consider the application for a ‘visitor’s visa’ filed by Aamir Vadgama’s wife Rabiya Husaain. Aamir Vadgama is

Source: hindustantimes.com The Delhi High Court on Thursday sought to know from the Delhi government about the steps taken to regulate the sale and consumption of e-cigarettes in the national capital while coming down heavily on the government for their “inaction”. Terming it to be “e-burning issue”, a bench of Chief Justice DN Patel and

Source: greaterkashmir.com The High Court has directed the Jammu and Kashmir government to inform it by July 31 about the steps taken to implement the notified drug policy in the state.  A division bench of Chief Justice Gita Mittal and Justice Rashid Ali Dar sought the status report about the implementation of the policy after