Hundreds of faculty at the Harvard University have signed a petition backing the school's president following backlash over her appearance at a congressional hearing on rising anti-Semitism in the US, Al Jazeera reported.
The high court is hearing a petition moved by the mother of Nimisha Priya Tomy Thomas who has been sentenced to death in Yemen. Her mother wanted to go to Yemen to negotiate the blood money (diyah) to escape the death sentence.
The Pakistan People's Party (PPP) has approached the Supreme Court (SC) requesting a live telecast of the hearing on a presidential reference challenging the death sentence of former Prime Minister Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto, according to ARY News.
The Varanasi district court on Monday granted one more week to the Archaeological Survey of India (ASI) to submit a scientific survey report of the Gyanvapi mosque complex.
The Supreme Court on Monday adjourned the hearing on Aam Aadmi Party leader Sanjay Singh's plea against the Delhi High Court order rejecting his petition challenging his remand and arrest in the alleged liquor irregularities case.
The Constitution Bench was hearing a batch of petitions challenging the abrogation of Article 370 of the Constitution and bifurcating the state into two Union Territories.
Harvard University President Claudine Gay apologized for her response during a congressional hearing where she failed to 'explicitly condemn' calls for genocide against the Jewish people, CNN reported.
During the hearing, the Court observed that the accused Rahul Chamola against whom NBWs were issued on the last date by the court could not be executed as the accused had changed his address without informing the court.
The Supreme Court on Friday deferred till January 19 next year, the hearing of a plea filed by Andhra Pradesh government challenging a High Court order granting regular bail to former Chief Minister and TDP chief N Chandrababu Naidu in the Skill Development Corporation Scam case.
The Islamabad High Court (IHC) will be hearing Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) supremo Nawaz Sharif's appeal against his conviction in the Al-Azizia reference on merit, ARY News reported.