Attorney General KK Venugopal told the Bench that the government was agreeable to revisit its 2017 proposal to take over the management control of Unitech and complete the projects so as to bring relief to around 30,000 hassled homebuyers. Accepting the government’s proposal to take over the management control of ... Read More »
The Supreme Court has said that the standard of entrance examination for premier medical college AIIMS cannot be diluted and has refused to do away with the online MBBS under-graduate entrance test for this year. Some candidates have challenged the AIIMS online entrance test for MBBS courses to be held ... Read More »
The US Supreme Court on Monday refused to step back into the years-long feud over patents between the world’s top smartphone makers, declining to hear Samsung’s appeal of a lower court ruling that reinstated a jury award of about $120 million (roughly Rs. 776 crores) in favour of Apple. The justices left in place a ... Read More »
Donald Trump’s nominee for the Supreme Court has described the president’s attacks on the judiciary as “demoralising” and “disheartening”. Neil Gorsuch’s comments were made to a Democratic senator and confirmed by his spokesman. The president called a judge who halted his controversial travel ban a “so-called judge”, and said any ... Read More »
NEW DELHI (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Women’s health activists on Friday cheered a ruling by Supreme Court ordering the government to shut down “sterilisation camps” within three years following the deaths of hundreds of largely poor rural women across the country. In a judgment on Wednesday, the Supreme Court said ... Read More »
Embattled real estate firm Unitech Ltd. was on Wednesday directed by the Supreme Court to deposit Rs. 15 crore principal amount by September-end to pay back investors who had bought flats in its Gurugram project but not got possession on time. “We feel pained,” a Bench of Justices Dipak Misra ... Read More »
Embattled real estate firm Unitech Ltd. was on Wednesday directed by the Supreme Court to deposit Rs. 15 crore principal amount by September-end to pay back investors who had bought flats in its Gurugram project but not got possession on time. “We feel pained,” a Bench of Justices Dipak Misra ... Read More »
The Supreme Court on Wednesday observed that defamation cannot be used as a political tool to silence criticism. The top court was hearing a petition challenging a non-bailable warrant issued against actor-turned-politician Vijayakanth and his wife Premalatha by a Tirupur court for allegedly libelous statements he made against Tamil Nadu ... Read More »
As he chatted with law clerks in his chambers, U.S. Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas laughed so hard he looked as though he might tumble from his chair. Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg sorted through the cabinet of lacy collars she wears over her black robe for the one she dons ... Read More »
