This observation came from a bench headed by N Santosh Hegde, which was hearing a petition filed by the Board of Control for cricket in India (BCCI) challenging a Madras High Court order restraining the newly elected Board from functioning.
The Supreme Court on Tuesday issued notice to the market regulator Securities and Exchange Board of India on the issue of settlement reached between Vijay Mallya's UB Group and Chhabria Group
The Andhra Pradesh government had subdivided the reservation for Scheduled Castes into four categories.
A bench comprising Justice N Santosh Hegde and Justice P P Naolekar issued notices to the state government and Chief Minister Captain Amarinder Singh.
A bench issued the notice while hearing a review petition filed by one Manoj Narula seeking reconsideration of the court's earlier order dismissing his PIL on the issue.
The petitioner is seeking formulation of a comprehensive national flag code for stopping the use and abuse of the tricolour for personal and political gains.
It asked, 'What is the mortal hurry in the hearing of the application seeking withdrawal of the case? What is the mortal urgency to withdraw the case?'
The Supreme Court on Wednesday reserved its judgement on petitions filed by Star, Sony and ESPN, which hold rights for content broadcast of major satellite channels.
With the hotting up of the telecom and broadcasting sector due to entry of more and more players, legal disputes in the field are bound to increase, Justice Santosh Hegde, who took over as chairperson of TDSAT, said on Monday.
The state government on Friday informed the SC that it has not received any applications from people in PoK claiming ancestral property in J&K.
The team -- appointed by the Supreme Court to examine the health of the senior leader -- added that the leader is undergoing proper treatment at the residence of BSP chief Mayawati.
The court directed that the medical report be made available to it within 10 days.
The notices were issued on a petition filed by Pal's wife Pooja Pal seeking a probe into the case by an independent agency.
The Supreme Court has asked the CBI where to shift the RJD MP, in prison in connection with a murder case, to stop his activities.
The court asked the Haryana police to give adequate protection to the lovers, who had married against the wishes of their village panchayat.
The apex court said the charge of culpable homicide should not be added at present in the trial proceedings.
The court has criticised the Centre and the Delhi government for "playing vote bank politics" on shifting Idgah abattoir to Ghazipur in Uttar Pradesh.
R S Sharma had been arrested for his alleged involvement in the fake stamp paper scam.
Meanwhile, the interim orders, including the stay on the appointment of Jagmohan Dalmiya as patron-in-chief will continue.
It stayed a Patna high court order granting him bail in the Ajit Sarkar murder case.
The Board contended that it neither receives a financial grant nor recognition from the government and that it is a private, autonomous body.
The BCCI told the SC that Zee TV's writ petition challenging cancellation of the tender process for award of cricket telecast rights was not maintainable.
BCCI said the High Court litigation would have taken a long time and therefore in the interest of the game it decided to cancel the contract awarded to Zee.
If there was anything called an anomaly in the pension structure, it was for those who get elevated to the Supreme Court from the Bar and Justice Hegde is a prime example of the victims of that system.
A bench comprising Justice N Santosh Hegde, Justice S B Sinha and Justice A K Mathur, while dismissing the PIL filed by one Manoj Narula, said, "No violation of any statute is pointed out by the petitioner.
Karnataka BJP too said such a proposal is "neither the wish nor the will" of the party.
The Supreme Court has stayed telecast of the soap opera till it decides on the plagiarism case filed by author Barbara Taylor Bradford.
A vacation bench of the Supreme Court also allowed all the three brothers to go at the same time as against the condition that one of the brothers has to remain in India at all points of time that was stipulated in their bail.
The SC has issued notices to the Centre, the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India and cellular cos on a PIL seeking enactment of a law to stop number of unsolicited calls made by business ventures to cellphone users.
Dalmiya's counsel Sidharth Shanker Ray stressed on the "Midas touch" of the former ICC president, asserting that whatever he touched generated huge amounts of money.
In an order, which may affect the computer industry adversely, the Supreme Court on Friday held that software could be classified as goods for the purpose of levy of sales tax on it.
Former state environment secretary V K Gupta is charged with wrongdoing in the Rs 175 crore scam.
The chief secretaries of Andhra Pradesh, Haryana and Tamil Nadu for failing to file their responses to a petition alleging noncompliance of an SC order.
The Supreme Court observed that the manner in which the BCCI seeks permissions from the Centre, its team appears to be 'Team India' and not 'Team BCCI'.
A Bench comprising Justice N Santosh Hegde and Justice S B Sinha issued notices to a sessions judge in Madhepura for issuing a production warrant against Yadav when it was not required.
The 1994 judgment envisaged status quo only on the 2.77 acres of disputed area, the Centre pleaded.
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