New Delhi [India], Feb 5 (ANI): President Ram Nath Kovind on Wednesday rejected the mercy petition of Akshay Thakur, one of the four convicts in the 2012 Nirbhaya gang-rape and murder case, official sources said.
New Delhi [India], Feb 5 (ANI): The Central government and Delhi (through LG) on Wednesday filed a special leave petition (SPL) against the Delhi High Court order in connection with the stay on the execution of convicts in the Nirbhaya gangrape and murder case.
Jodhpur (Rajasthan) [India], Feb 5 (ANI): Rajasthan High Court on Wednesday deferred the hearing in a petition pertaining to the Jodhpur Sky Light Hospitality case, in which businessman Robert Vadra and his mother Maureen Vadra are accused.
New Delhi [India], Feb 5 (ANI): The Supreme Court will on Friday hear the petitions seeking direction to the Central government for laying down comprehensive guidelines relating to restrictions for holding protests causing obstruction of public places.
New Delhi [India], Feb 5 (ANI): The Supreme Court on Wednesday said that it will start from March 17 the final hearing on the petitions challenging the constitutional validity of a Maharashtra law, which grants reservation to the Maratha community in education and jobs.
New Delhi [India], Feb 5 (ANI): A nine-judge Constitution bench of the Supreme Court will hear on February 6 argument on the issue whether the court can refer questions of law to a larger bench on a review petition.
Washington D.C. [USA], Feb 4 (ANI): A fossil of a leafy branch discovered from the early Eocene in Patagonia in 1941 is still considered to be the oldest bamboo of the world.
New Delhi [India], Feb 4 (ANI): Delhi High Court on Tuesday granted more time to the Central government, Delhi Police and others to file their response on a batch of petitions relating to the violence at Jamia Millia Islamia University on December 15.
New Delhi [India], Feb 4 (ANI): The Supreme Court on Tuesday asked the lawyer of the petitioner, who filed a public interest litigation (PIL) seeking direction to the Centre for laying down comprehensive guidelines related protest leading to obstruction of public place, to approach its regis
New Delhi [India], Feb 3 (ANI): The Delhi High Court on Monday agreed to hear a minor's plea seeking permission to terminate her 24 weeks old pregnancy.
New Delhi [India], Feb 3 (ANI): A petition was filed before the Supreme Court on Monday seeking its direction to the Centre for laying down comprehensive guidelines relating to total restriction on holding protests in a public place where it may lead to obstruction of the public movement.
New Delhi [India], Feb 3 (ANI): The Delhi High Court on Monday reserved order on a plea seeking direction to stop the entry of lawmakers from the erstwhile state of Jammu and Kashmir in the Parliament, contending that they lost their locus standi as MPs after the bifurcation of the state