Source – newindianexpress.com NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court of India has ordered a complete halt to stubble burning around Delhi, a major contributor to lethal smog that on Tuesday kept the metropolis of 20 million people choking in air rated “very poor”. The Supreme Court said the capital’s residents were “losing precious years” of their
Source – The Supreme Court of India on Monday, speaking about the air pollution levels in Delhi and NCR, criticised the authorities and said people were losing their precious lives because of it. “Can we survive in this atmosphere? This is not the way we can survive. No one is safe even inside homes; it is atrocious,” NDTV quoted Justice Arun Mishra
Source – hindustantimes.com The Supreme Court temporarily halted the cutting of trees in Mumbai’s Aarey Milk colony on Monday and asked the state government to maintain status quo in one of the city’s few green belts that has been at the centre of a controversy over alleged ecological damage to pave the way for Mumbai
Source – thehindubusinessline.com A fresh plea has been filed in the Supreme Court seeking stay on issuing of joining letters to the selected candidates of ‘tainted’ SSC combined graduate level examination (CGLE) of 2017, till the apex court appointed committee submits its report. The top court had constituted a 7-member committee to suggest measures to
Source – firstpost.com New Delhi: As the telecom sector stares at a massive payout following a Supreme Court order, the government has constituted a Committee of Secretaries to work out a financial bailout package that may include lowering of spectrum charges as well as ending the era of free mobile phone calls and dirt cheap data.
Source – indiatoday.in With 14.8 per cent of India’s population, pegged at around about 195 million people, going hungry every day, the Supreme Court has asked the central and state governments why there are no “community kitchens” or similar schemes for persons falling outside the public distribution system scheme (PDS). According to the PIL filed
Source – hindustantimes.com The five-judge Supreme Court bench hearing the Ram Janmabhoomi-Babri Masjid land title case on Wednesday set October 18 target to complete hearing in the case. “Let us make a joint effort to conclude the same by Oct 18”, Chief Justice of India Ranjan Gogoi said. Chief Justice Gogoi had yesterday asked the
Source – news18.com New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Wednesday concluded the daily hearings in the politically sensitive case of the Ram Janmbhoomi-Babri Masjid land dispute in Ayodhya and reserved its judgement. The bench heard for 40 days the arguments in the decades-old temple-mosque dispute — the second longest proceedings in its history. A five-judge Constitution bench, headed
Source: in.reuters.com SRINAGAR, India (Reuters) – One is a 19-year-old construction worker charged with aiding militants against Indian troops, the other is one of Kashmir’s most prominent lawyers, accused of being “an incorrigible secessionist”. Despite their different backgrounds, Uzair Maqbool Malik and Nazir Ahmad Ronga have something in common: they are among hundreds of people who
Source: dailypioneer.com Based on observation mentioned earlier, the Supreme Court of India refused to appreciate any judicial pronouncement of the U.S. Supreme Court relating to criminalisation of defamation and its effect on freedom of speech. The Court gave no reasoning as to why relevant U.S. Supreme Court judgements, related to the matter being adjudicated, could
