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A Parliamentary committee has approved the Bill to enhance the pecuniary jurisdiction of Delhi’s district courts. The Delhi High Court (amendment) Bill 2014 proposes that civil suits up to Rs 2 crore will be heard by the 11 district courts instead of the Delhi High Court. Currently, all suits above Rs 20 lakh are heard […]

CHENNAI: Tamil Nadu government on Friday moved Supreme Court with a prayer to restrain Kerala government from proceeding with the construction of a dam across river Pambar at Pattissery, a tributary of river Amaravathy. In its petition, the government also sought status quo of the project and not to proceed with the execution of any

KOLKATA: The state government’s image took a beating on Friday as Calcutta high court appointed special officers to consider BJP’s application for the Amit Shah rally on Sunday. An elated BJP declared it a “historic victory” for the party, and chief minister Mamata Banerjee’s “defeat”. “Aaj court-e jitechi, kal vote-e jitbo (We won in court

The Supreme Court on Friday impelled the Centre to act urgently on “second generation reforms” and consider charging extra cess on privately-owned diesel vehicles and higher parking charges, among various other measures, to curb pollution in Delhi. The court urged the Ministry of Environment and Forest (MoEF) to also consider advancing Euro IV and implement

CHANDIGARH: The massive operation to locate and arrest controversial ‘godman’ Rampal cost the exchequer over Rs 26 crore, the Punjab and Haryana high court was on Friday told. Amidst tight security, Rampal was produced before a division bench of justices M Jeyapaul and Darshan Singh here which adjourned the case to December 23 when Rampal

NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court on Thursday turned the heat on BCCI suspended president N Srinivasan and Chennai Super Kings, the IPL franchise owned by Srinivasan’s India Cement, by saying that the team should be disqualified from IPL without any further inquiry and raising doubts about Srinivasan returning as the Board chief. It asked the

NEW DELHI: Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen (MIM) head Asaduddin Owaisi on Thursday dubbed the Presidential order of 1950 limiting Scheduled Caste status to Hindus, Sikhs and Buddhists as “communal”, and sought that dalit status be opened to other religious minorities, only to see the government turn down the demand. Seizing the opportunity offered by an innocuous legislation

NEW DELHI: The Delhi high court on Friday quashed nursery admission guidelines of the city government with respect to general category seats and upheld the Ganguly committee recommendations on nursery admissions. The court said private unaided schools should have administrative autonomy to decide on admissions. “Administrative autonomy of private unaided schools cannot be restrained by

The Centre on Thursday submitted before the Supreme Court that Sanskrit will be the third language in classes 6 to 8 in Kendriya Vidyalayas. Appearing before the bench headed by Chief Justice H L Dattu, Attorney General Mukul Rohatgi sought its permission to file an affidavit on the controversy arising out of Centre’s decision to

The Supreme Court said that ousted BCCI chief N Srinivasan’s conflict of interest was “obvious” as he also owned a team in the IPL that he would want to win in the tournament. The court also questioned BCCI if it was willing to take actions against all the persons after the Mudgal probe panel report