The Uttar Pradesh government had also taken the stand that Agra lacks the criteria. The court wanted to know whether it was not possible to cover part of the city to declare it as a heritage city.
Officials said the notice was issued by the taxman in January this year after the special audit of AVL's income for the Assessment Year 2012-13.
The Supreme Court on Monday granted interim bail for 3 weeks to senior journalist Tarun Tejpal, who is in jail for over 5 months for allegedly raping his colleague, to enable him to attend the cremation of his mother and subsequent rituals.
He claimed the people of Delhi were facing "injustice and humiliation" since independence because the government elected by them lacked power to work for them.
Holger Erik Misch, a resident of Berlin, had on November 3 entered into an altercation with railway employee Aman Kumar and had also allegedly attacked two policemen with a stick.
Nearly 150 senior management staff will be asked to leave.
District authorities in Agra have cancelled the permission granted to the Bharatiya Janata Party for holding a farmers' rally led by party leaders L K Advani and Varun Gandhi in Akola village on Sunday on the grounds that it could disturb the law and order situation there.
It is the end of the road for diesel taxis including those run by aggregators like Ola and Uber in Delhi and National Capital Region.
Ahead of a rally where he will share the dais with Samajwadi Party supremo Mulayam Singh Yadav, Rajya Sabha member of Parliament Amar Singh on Tuesday said it would be "extremely wrong" to add "political connotation" to his attending the programme.
The court also told the attorney general that the new CBI director who would be appointed must "trace the movements of files" during the period when former CBI chief Alok Kumar Verma was reinstated to the post for two days.
The government is looking for a speedy roll out of Wi-Fi services at select public places in top 25 cities with population of over 10 lakh by June 2015.
There is no word on extending the February 6, 2018 deadline for linking mobile SIM cards with Aadhaar.
'Why do we feel our parents are not human? That our mother is not a woman?'
The court said the PIL filed by Kapil Dev, Madan Lal and N K P Salve has become infructuous as the players were allowed to participate in the World Cup.
The matter is already fixed for hearing on September 23.
The Congress, in its application termed the governor's action as a "brazen unconstitutional" act to appoint "a junior MLA as the pro tem speaker.
The Gandhis and senior Congress leader Oscar Fernandes have challenged the Delhi high court's September 10 verdict by which their plea against the re-opening of their tax assessments for 2011-12 was dismissed.
The Delhi high court on Wednesday directed the Centre to explain the reasons behind deferring the implementation of conditional access system in the capital
The Delhi high court on Wednesday sought reply from the government on an allegation by Zee-promoted Siti Cable Network that it deferred indefinitely the implementation of the CAS in the capital for extraneous and impermissible reasons.
The Delhi high court took the decision because Sachin Tendulkar is yet to be filed notice in the case.
The apex court had also asked Sahara Group to provide it within two weeks the list of "unencumbered properties" which can be put for public auction to realise the remaining over Rs 14,000 crore
Uttar Pradesh minister Gayatri Prajapati, who is evading arrest, on Monday failed to get relief from the Supreme Court which expressed unhappiness that its order on lodging of FIR against the SP leader was being given "political colour".
The Delhi high court on Friday gave liberty to the consumer bodies, which have challenged the introduction of CAS, to file fresh petition before a vacation bench as their public interest litigation was not heard due to paucity of time.
With the elevation of these four new judges, the strength has risen from 24 to 28.
The Supreme Court on Thursday refused to hear N Srinivasan's plea for modification of its earlier orders to enable him to function as Board of Control for Cricket India's president for non-IPL cricketing activities.
The Supreme Court on Friday stayed the trial court hearing by three weeks in alleged sexual assault case involving Tehelka founder editor Tarun Tejpal as accused and asked the prosecution to provide documents to him.
A bench of Justices A K Sikri and D Y Chandrachud issued notice to the state on the plea filed by the Akhil Bharat Krishi Goseva Sangh.
Political reactions poured in shortly after the Supreme Court declared the Centre's flagship Aadhaar scheme constitutionally valid.
None of the four judges -- Justices J Chelameswar, Ranjan Gogoi, M B Lokur and Kurian Joseph -- feature in the list of members of the 5-judge constitution bench.
Tiwari had filed the PIL seeking stay on the proceedings for recovery of loans given by Indian Renewable Energy Development Agency Limited to Sheetal Fuel Pvt Ltd and B S Fuel Pvt Ltd.
'...and still managed to grab the attention of audiences.' 'Your work speaks more than your body.'
Senior advocate Uday U Lalit has been recommended by the Supreme Court collegium to be a judge on its bench.
Rediff labs analyses the number of visitors to centrally protected monuments in India and how much the revenue it generates for the government through the tickets to see these monuments.
Earlier, the top court said it had been "taken for a ride" by the Sahara group by its past conduct and asked it to submit a roadmap for paying the balance amount
A bench, headed by Chief Justice T S Thakur, said it was not for the apex court to pass a direction to Parliament to introduce a bill in this regard.
IPS officer R S Bhagora, currently serving in Gujarat, has been convicted along with four other policemen by the Bombay high court recently after the trial court had acquitted them.
The Centre has decided to put Justice Joseph's name in serial number 3 in the notification.
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