Solicitor General Tushar Mehta, appearing for the Centre argued that making the July 25 verdict retrospective will have cascading effects on prices and ultimately the common man would bear the brunt, as almost all industries are dependent on minerals.
Supreme Court has dismissed a petition seeking review of its judgement rejecting plea for 100 per cent verification of Electronic Voting Machines (EVMs) votes with their Voter Verifiable Paper Audit Trail (VVPAT) slips.
Afzal Ansari was convicted by the Special Court MP/MLA of Ghazipur in a Gangster Act case and awarded four years in jail. If the Allahabad High Court upholds the lower court's decision, Ansari will lose his membership of the Parliament. He won the Ghazipur seat on a Samajwadi Party ticket i
The PTI submitted the list to the electoral watchdog a day after the ECP partially implemented the Supreme Court's verdict on reserved seats for the party, notifying 39 of the 80 returned MNAs as PTI lawmakers after an inordinate delay.
PTI has postponed its protest on Friday in Islamabad after the Islamabad High Court's (IHC) decision to reserve its verdict on PTI's petition requesting permission to hold the protest.
A two-member bench, which includes Justice Tariq Saleem Sheikh and Justice Anwar-ul-Haq Pannu, reserved the verdict on the petitions challenging Imran Khan's physical remand.
Bharatiya Janata Party leader Ravi Shankar Prasad on Wednesday slammed the Leader of Opposition and Congress leader Rahul Gandhi for calling the examination system "fraud" and asked if, after the Supreme Court verdict, the latter would apologise.
Congress leader Pawan Khera on Monday spoke about the Supreme Court's verdict on nameplates in Kanwar Yatra route and said that the verdict is unconstitutional and if one writes their name and religion on the shop, then it is anti-Dalit and anti-Muslim.
"The harmony and social unity in the country will prevail and this unnecessary controversy that was stoked for political gain will end. I would like to thank the Supreme Court that it has taken a good decision..."
On the Supreme Court's verdict on nameplates in Kanwar Yatra routes, Congress leader Salman Khurshid said on Monday that the order by the Uttar Pradesh government was "illegal and unconstitutional." The Congress leader also emphasized that such measures are not supported by the Constitution.
The Supreme Court on Monday put an interim stay on directives issued by the authorities of certain state governments that eateries along the Kanwar Yatra route should display the names of the owners outside such shops.