The Supreme Court on Wednesday issued notice to the Union Ministry of Environment and Forest and Maharashtra government after it was told that the Sahara group's (SICCL) Versova plot is partly or wholly a Mangrove Forest Area.
The Supreme Court criticised the practice of providing freebies to the homeless, stating it contributes to worklessness. It emphasised integrating them into mainstream society to help them find work. The case concerns urban homelessness and government schemes.
The Supreme Court on Wednesday while hearing PIL seeking grant of school admissions and government benefits to Rohingya refugees, sought details regarding the proof of their residence.
The Supreme Court on Tuesday asked the Election Commission of India to file its response on the pleas seeking verification of the burnt memory and symbol loading units in EVMs in compliance of its previous judgement.
The Supreme Court has asked the Election Commission to file a response on pleas seeking verification of burnt memory and symbol loading units in EVMs, directing the poll panel to refrain from altering data during the process.
The Supreme Court has ruled that lottery distributors are not liable to pay service tax to the Centre, affirming that only state governments have the authority to impose taxes on lotteries, dismissing the Centre's appeal.
The Supreme Court was hearing a plea that sought the court to oversee the alleged incidents of mob violence and lynching that are particularly incited by Cow vigilante groups.
The Supreme Court has asked the sessions court to adjudicate Samajwadi Party leader Mohammad Abdullah Azam Khan's appeal against his conviction within six months. The court also treated him as a juvenile in the case.
Following a stay order by the Supreme Court on the death sentence of the two accused in the Mandasaur gang rape case in Madhya Pradesh, the father of the 6-year-old victim had expressed his dissent, stating that justice wasn't served on the matter and that the accused should be hanged as soo
The Supreme Court on Monday said that appeals challenging the acquittals of accused persons in the 1984 Anti-Sikh Riots cases need to be filed seriously by prosecution agencies and not just for the sake of it.
The Supreme Court on Monday, for a second time, asked the Telangana Legislative Assembly to specify a "reasonable time" for deciding the disqualification petition against Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) MLAs (Members of Legislative Assembly) who defected to the Congress (Indian National Congre
The Supreme Court on Monday asked the Centre to file its response on plea the challenging the constitutional validity of Sections 8 and 9 of the Representation of the People Act (RP Act), 1951, which govern MP/MLA's disqualification due to convictions.