The government on Monday told the Supreme Court that a high-level committee in its report has suggested that alternative alignment other than mythological Ram Sethu for Sethusamudram project was not economically and ecologically feasible.
The Supreme Court on Wednesday agreed to examine a plea for quashing of certain provisions of the Representation of Peoples Act, which provided scope for persons with criminal antecedents to contest elections despite their convictions.
The Air India board gave a formal approval to the proposal on Thursday.
Upset since appointment of Rohinton Nariman as the solicitor general of India last July from outside the hierarchy, Additional Solicitor General Mohan Parasaran has turned down the government's offer to renew his contract.
The carrier has debt of Rs 43,000 crore.
Balasaheb Thackeray would have been so happy if Kasab was hanged during his lifetime, 26/11 survivor and Shiv Sainik Vijay Surve tells Vaihayasi Pande Daniel.
The NRC is being prepared to identify illegal migrants in Assam.
Senior advocate Aishwarya Bhati, appearing for Uttar Pradesh, told the bench that they have complied with the top court's direction and extended the tenure of the special judge till he delivers the judgment in the Ayodhya demolition case.
The Congress admitted that the Section 66A of cyber law was poorly drafted
Without issuing notice to the Centre, a bench of justices R M Lodha and A R Dave asked the petitioner to serve the copy of the petition to Attorney General G E Vahanvati or Solicitor General Rohinton Nariman saying it needs some necessary clarification on the issue.
The Mantralaya inferno and how it played out, from inside the building, on the street, and in the blame game afterwards, elaborates Sanjay Jog.
Out of 23 floors, Air India occupies six and three of these have been leased out. The rest are largely unused.
Currently, 60 per cent of the vehicular traffic is taken care by the Western Express highway
A model was found murdered in her ground floor apartment in Andheri West in Mumbai late on Monday. Bidushi Dash Barde, 23, a former beauty queen from Chennai, was alone at home throughout the day and did not answer any of his calls, claimed her husband Kedar Barde.
A special bench comprising Chief Justice Ranjan Gogoi and justices S A Bobde and R F Nariman on Friday ordered the inter-cadre transfer of Hajela on deputation.
While there is likely no bar on Jayalalithaa meeting with Chief Minister O Panneerselvam and his cabinet colleagues, she may not see senior government officials or see official files.
The apex court said banning entry of women to Kerala's Sabrimala temple is gender discrimination and the practice violates rights of Hindu women.
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Moshe, 11, was two-year-old when his parents were killed in the Mumbai attacks at Nariman House (also known as Chabad House) by Pakistan-based LeT terrorists.
Office space on mill land in central Mumbai expected to reach 16 mn sq ft by 2021.
What was the need to fictionalise a series on real events that were far more horrific because they were real? asks Vaihayasi Pande Daniel.
Prasanna D Zore reports on the backroom drama accompanying the efforts to cobble together the next government in Maharashtra. 'While the Congress is insisting upon equal power sharing structure among all the three parties, the NCP is of the opinion that ministries should be distributed based on the number of MLAs belonging to each of the three parties.' Prasanna D Zore reports on the backroom room accompanying the efforts to cobble together the next government in Maharashtra.
The confession of Lashkar-e-Tayiba operative Abu Jundal is expected to open up a can of worms regarding the Indian link to the 26/11 attacks. A source said that he has told the Delhi police that he was indeed in that dreaded control room which guided the attack.
Kapoor, 62, and the Wadhawans were arrested by the agency in this case early this year and they are in judicial custody at present.
The state govt said that celibate status of deity cannot be a ground for barring entry of women.
The court will consider issues related to entry of Muslim women into mosques, female genital mutilation in the Dawoodi Bohra Muslim community and barring of Parsi women, married to non-Parsi men, from the holy fire place at Agiary.
'It is a very vital issue and we cannot keep it pending. We intend to pass an order as to who will hear the matter.'
The petition was filed by expelled AIADMK MP Sasikala Pushpa.
The Supreme Court on Tuesday ruled out making "wholesale changes" in the collegium system of appointment of judges for higher judciary.
Air India's debt burden is estimated to be more than Rs 50,000 crore, besides huge accumulated losses.
Siddaramaiah added that all efforts would be made to provide drinking water to Bengaluru and other places as also for crops.
Here is the chronology of Supreme Court hearings in the right to privacy case.
Relations with the government, the bank's majority owner, are a tricky issue for all SBI chiefs, and, like all his predecessors, Khara will be closely watched for his equations with the finance ministry representative on the SBI board.
Earlier, its attempts to monetise properties, including the 22-storeyed Air India building in Nariman Point, saw lukewarm response.
All set to celebrate its victory, the scene at Bharatiya Janata Party office in Mumbai was of joy. Senior leaders of the BJP came out in full support and celebrated their victory. They were already flashing the victory sign.
The apex court has been holding hearings through video conferencing since March 25 due to the COVID-19-induced nationwide lockdown and even after the restrictions were relaxed; it has decided to continue with the practice.
Karnataka, West Bengal, Punjab and Puducherry took a stand opposite to the Central government which had said that Right to Privacy is a common law right and not a Fundamental Right.
Industrialist Anil Ambani met Maharashtra Chief Minister Prithviraj Chavan in the backdrop of reports that the Maharashtra State Road Development Corporation (MSRDC) was mulling a coastal road from Worli to Haji Ali and from Haji Ali to Nariman Point.
