NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court on Thursday stayed the National Green Tribunal‘s (NGT) directive that limited the number of participants in ‘dhol-tasha’ groups to 30 during the Ganesh Chaturthi festival.“Let them do ‘dhol-tasha’, it is the heart of Pune,” the bench led by Chief Justice DY Chandrachud remarked while passing the interim order.The bench, which…
NEW DELHI: Questioning the kind of education imparted in madrassas and also the way of their functioning, including permitting corporal punishment for children, National Commission for Protection of Child Rights (NCPCR) has told Supreme Court that comprehensive education is not provided there and it is against the provisions of Right to Education (RTE) Act.Responding to…
KOLKATA: Junior doctors protesting the RG Kar hospital rape-murder rejected on Tuesday the Bengal govt’s invitation to discuss their grievances with a designated team at the state secretariat and decided to continue their strike in defiance of the 5pm deadline Supreme Court had set for them to return to work.The Mamata Banerjee govt’s message to…
NEW DELHI: In a setback to Trinamool Congress MP Abhishek Banerjee and his wife Rujira, Supreme Court dismissed their pleas to quash ED summonses in a case of alleged illegal mining in Eastern Coalfields Ltd and held that an accused cannot claim protection under Article 20(3) of the Constitution at the stage of summoning by…
NEW DELHI: Settling a vexed issue that evoked different rulings from HCs, the Supreme Court on Monday adjudged that a person, already arrested and in custody in connection with an offence, is entitled to seek anticipatory bail if he feared that the police may arrest him in another offence.A bench of Chief Justice D Y…
NEW DELHI: Soon after Supreme Court directed the protesting junior doctors to resume work or face action, the Bengal IMA unit said it was “disheartened” by the the proceedings of the court and the CBI. In a statement, the medical body conveyed that the protests “won’t die down” and promised to leave no stone unturned…
NEW DELHI: Soon after Supreme Court directed the protesting junior doctors to resume work or face action, the Bengal IMA unit said it was “disheartened” by the the proceedings of the court and the CBI. In a statement, the medical body conveyed that the protests “won’t die down” and promised to leave no stone unturned…
NEW DELHI: During the hearing of the suo motu case related to the rape and murder of a trainee doctor in Kolkata’s RG Kar Medical College and Hospital, the Supreme Court on Monday directed the Central Bureau of Investigation to file a fresh status report on the probe by by September 17. The apex court…
KOLKATA: Thousands flooded the streets as Kolkata saw a surge in citizen protests Sunday night, praying that next day’s sun would bring with it the much-awaited verdict when the Supreme Court hears the RG Kar Medical College rape-murder case.The “Reclaim the Night” movement, marking a month since a 31-year-old postgraduate resident doctor was found raped…
NEW DELHI: In a first-of-its-kind order relating to the three-decade-old judges-selecting-judges mechanism, Supreme Court Friday ruled that high court collegiums collectively decide on recommending names for appointment as HC judges and said a HC chief justice individually can’t take a call in this regard.A bench of Justices Hrishikesh Roy and Prashant K Mishra gave this…
