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 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.
The father of Hadiya, who was at the centre of a conversion and marriage row, filed a Habeas Corpus petition in the Kerala High Court claiming that her daughter is missing.
In his petition, Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) chairman Imran Khan stated that ECP did not have jurisdiction to start contempt proceedings. He called the secret trial in prison a violation of Article 4 of the Constitution.
Former Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan filed a petition in the Lahore High Court (LHC) challenging the Election Commission of Pakistan's (ECP) decision to disqualify him for five years, Dawn reported.
On April 26 this year, the top court had modified its directions issued in the 2022 judgment to have mandatory eco-sensitive zones (ESZ) of a minimum of one kilometre around protected forests, national parks and wildlife sanctuaries across the country.
The petition, submitted by Raja Tahir Nawaz, a PTI member from Islamabad, alleges non-compliance with the PTI constitution during the intra-party elections.
A petition has been moved in the Delhi High Court seeking direction to the Centre and the Delhi Government to conduct a time-bound verification of medical qualifications and educational certificates of all the medical
practitioners practising across the NCT of Delhi.