Pushed to the wall by the Supreme Court for violating its order, Baba Ramdev and his disciple Balkrishna on Tuesday admitted to giving misleading advertisements about Patanjali products and sought to apologise to the court with folded hands.At the outset of the hearing, a bench of Justices Hima Kohli and Ahsanuddin Amanullah said it wanted…
NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court on Tuesday asked petitioners, who had moved the court to ensure action in incidents of mob lynching and cow vigilantism, not to be selective about which cases they choose to highlight before the top court.The directive came on a plea filed by the National Federation of Indian Women (NFIW), an…
NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court on Tuesday heard petitions regarding the papers slips generated through the Voter Verified Paper Audit Trail (VVPAT) system on Electronic Voting Machines (EVM) and the problems related to secret ballot voting system.“We are in our 60s. We all know what happened when there were ballot papers, you may have, but…
NEW DELHI: Yoga guru Baba Ramdev on Tuesday once again issued an apology to the Supreme Court in connection with the Patanjali misleading advertisement case, assuring the court that such incidents will not occur in the future.During the proceedings, Ramdev and Patanjali Ayurved Ltd MD Balkrishna acknowledged their guilt in violating the court order. They…
NEW DELHI: Centre Monday told Supreme Court that NGO ‘Environics Trust‘, which received 90% of its funds from foreign sources, has utilised the resources to finance agitations and protests against coal, steel, and thermal power projects to stall the pace of development in India.Opposing NGO’s appeal against a Delhi HC order rejecting its challenge to…
WAYANAD: Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Monday called the Electoral bonds the “biggest extortion scheme” of the world, adding that PM Modi is the mastermind behind it.The remarks of Rahul Gandhi came after Prime Minister Modi in an interview to ANI accused the opposition parties of “spreading lies” over the electoral bonds scheme, which has…
NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court is scheduled to hear on Monday Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal‘s plea against a high court order that has upheld his arrest in a money-laundering case stemming from the alleged excise policy scam. A bench of Justices Sanjiv Khanna and Dipankar Datta will hear the matter.According to the cause list…
First of the four, including CJI Chandrachud, who would retire this yearNEW DELHI: Justice Aniruddha Bose, often referred to by CJI DY Chandrachud as a perfect Bengali ‘bhadralok’ whose intellectual brilliance matched with his sartorial elegance off the court by dressing in crisply ironed dhoti and punjabi, retired on Wednesday after a five year tenure…
NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court on Wednesday rejected the affidavit filed by Yoga guru Baba Ramdev, despite his offering an ‘unconditional apology‘ in the connection with the Patanjali’s misleading advertisement case. The court warned both Baba Ramdev and the company’s Managing Director, Acharya Krishan, to brace themselves for potential repercussions.A bench consisting of Justices Hima…
NEW DELHI: Supreme Court on Tuesday held that non-disclosure of all assets owned by an electoral candidate would not amount to a defect and such assets should be of substantial value to attract invalidation of , while also saying that the right of voters to know has to be balanced with the right to privacy…
