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Pegasus snooping row: Senior journalists N Ram, Sashi Kumar move SC seekin
Updated : 4 years, 10 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], July 27 (ANI): Senior journalists N Ram and Sashi Kumar approached the Supreme Court on Tuesday seeking an inquiry headed by a sitting or retired judge of the top court to investigate the reports of the government using Israeli software Pegasus to spy on politicians, activ
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EU top court allows employers to ban headscarfs, religious symbols at work
Updated : 4 years, 10 months ago IST
Brussels [Belgium], July 15 (ANI): European employers can ban people from wearing any visible sign of their political, philosophical or religious beliefs, including headscarves in order to present a neutral image and to prevent social conflicts, the European Union's top court ruled on Thursd
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Govt should give due regard to the SC observation on Sedition law: Former
Updated : 4 years, 10 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], July 15 (ANI): Former Union Law Minister and Senior Congress leader Dr Ashwani Kumar welcomed the Supreme Court observation on the Sedition law on Thursday that it is a colonial law which was used by the British to suppress freedom. "It was used against Mahatma Gandhi a
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SC recognised privileges, power of Delhi Assembly's Committee: Raghav Chad
Updated : 4 years, 10 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], July 8 (ANI): Raghav Chadha, the Chairman of the Peace and Harmony Committee of Delhi Assembly welcomed the judgment passed by the Supreme Court in "Ajit Mohan vs Legislative Assembly, NCT of Delhi", stating that the top court recognised that the privileges and power of
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Centre moves SC for transfer of cases challenging IT Rules 2021 from vario
Updated : 4 years, 10 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], July 6 (ANI): The Central government has approached the Supreme Court seeking transfer of all petitions challenging the constitutionality of the Information Technology (IT) Rules, 2021 from various High Courts to the top court.
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SC says registration of FIR under Section 66A of IT Act, terrible and shoc
Updated : 4 years, 10 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], July 5 (ANI): The Supreme Court on Monday expressed shock at the practice of police registering FIRs under Section 66A of the Information Technology Act, which was struck down by the top court in the 2015 judgment in the Shreya Singhal case.
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South Africa's ex-president Jacob Zuma sentenced to 15 months imprisonment
Updated : 4 years, 10 months ago IST
Cape Town [South Africa], June 30 (ANI): South Africa's top court on Tuesday ruled that former President Jacob Zuma was in contempt of court and handed him a sentence of 15 months imprisonment for defying court orders to appear before a corruption investigation spanning nine years of his ter
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CJI extends condolence to family members of SC lawyers who died of COVID-1
Updated : 4 years, 11 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], June 28 (ANI): Chief Justice of India NV Ramana extended condolences to the family members of 77 lawyers of the top court who lost their lives to COVID-19 and observed a two-minute silence before starting court on Monday.
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Production capacity of COVID-19 vaccines being ramped-up: Centre to SC
Updated : 4 years, 11 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], June 26 (ANI): The Central government has filed an affidavit in the Supreme Court on the suo motu case registered by the top court to check on pan-India issues over the pandemic during the second wave, and said that production capacity of the COVID vaccines is being ramped
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SC refuses to stay Delhi HC order granting bail to Pinjra Tod activists
Updated : 4 years, 11 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], June 18 (ANI): The Supreme Court on Friday refused to stay the Delhi High Court's order to grant bail to Pinjra Tod activists Devangana Kalita, Natasha Narwal and Jamia student Asif Iqbal Tanha and said that the judgment of the Delhi High Court will not be treated as a pre
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SC refuses to stay order on demolition of illegally constructed houses in
Updated : 4 years, 11 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], June 17 (ANI): The Supreme Court on Thursday refused to put a stay on its earlier order directing the Haryana government and authorities to demolish around 10,000 residential houses constructed illegally at Khori village in Haryana's Faridabad, Aravali forest area.
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Centre deposits Rs 10 crore received by Italy as compensation in fishermen
Updated : 4 years, 11 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], June 11 (ANI): The Central government on Friday told the Supreme Court that it has deposited Rs 10 crore with the top court paid by the Republic of Italy as compensation to the families of the two Kerala fishermen who were shot dead in 2012 by two Italian Marines aboard th
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