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NEW DELHI: In an order that could improve Delhi’s deteriorating air quality, the Supreme Court on Monday dismissed plea challenging the National Green Tribunal’s order prohibiting diesel vehicles that are over 10 years old from plying in the national capital. “Let us assist and not discourage them (NGT),” the SC bench said while dismissing the […]

A day after the Gujarat High Court told a gangrape victim to “bravely go ahead with her pregnancy and deliver the child”, the 23-year-old Friday said she would abide by the court’s directive. But the woman, who was allegedly abducted from outside her home in July, 2014 and held in captivity for eight-nine months in

The Delhi High Court stayed Friday the order of St Stephen’s College principal Valson Thampu suspending the student editor of its banned e-magazine for “breach in college discipline”, and asked the college and Delhi University whether anyone can be suspended for “speaking to the media”. Justice Vibhu Bakhru, who issued a stay on the one-week

NEW DELHI: The Supreme court on Friday stayed proceedings against Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal in two defamation cases, one filed by BJP leader Nitin Gadkari and the other by a lawyer. A bench of Justice Dipak Misra and Justice PC Pant has also agreed to hear Kejriwal’s plea for decriminalizing defamation law. Facing repeated

NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court on Friday extended former Tamil Nadu chief minister J Jayalalithaa’s bail till the disposal of her appeal against conviction in a disproportionate assets case by the Karnataka high court. The high court judge hearing her appeal has informed the court that he would not be able to dispose of the

In the country’s first-ever case of its kind, a local court has ordered the Indian Railways to attach the Janshatabdi Express train in lieu of unpaid land compensation to two farmers who had fought a protracted legal battle for 17 long years in Himachal Pradesh. Nearly an hour before departure of the train, the two

The Supreme Court on Wednesday referred to a larger bench the question if the appeal filed by former Tamil Nadu chief minister J Jayalalithaa is to be heard afresh or the Karnataka High Court could pronounce its verdict in the plea challenging her conviction and four-year jail term in the corruption case. Justice Madan B

India Cements it had raised eyebrows. The committee also wanted to know, what steps had been taken by BCCI/IPL and the constituents to ensure that there was no conflict of interest between those who governed each of these entities and those who were involved in their professional management. “What sanctions have been laid down for

Late last year the Spanish government passed a law that set extreme fines for protesters convening outside of government buildings. In response to the controversial Citizen Safety Law, which will take effect on July 1, Spanish activists have staged the world’s first ever virtual political demonstration. After months of massive flesh-and-blood protests against the so-called

CHENNAI: In a volte-face, the Tamil Nadu government on Friday told the Madras high court that it could not perform re-postmortem on the bodies of six woodcutters, who were among 20 labourers killed by Andhra Pradesh police, without specific court orders. Following this, Justice M Sathyanarayanan asked the petitioner woman, whose husband was one among