What is the urgency now, the bench said while refusing to accord urgent hearing on Patel's plea.
The top court had on May 1 reserved the judgment on the Centre's review plea while observing that laws in the country should be caste neutral and uniform.
The verdict had led to massive outcry and violent protests by different SC/ST organisations across the country in which several people had died and many injured.
The Centre has recommended compulsory retirement of former Union environment secretary K C Mishra for his alleged involvement in the Taj Heritage Corridor scam.
The Supreme Court on Tuesday granted 10-year time to telecom firms like Vodafone Idea, Bharti Airtel and Tata Teleservices for paying the Adjusted Gross Revenue (AGR)-related dues to the department of telecommunications with certain conditions.
These actors stole thunder from the lead stars!
Promoter of the Ansal Group, Sushil Ansal on Thursday apologised in the Supreme Court to the families of the victims of Uphaar tragedy in which 59 cinema-goers were killed in a blaze in 1997.
In further embarrassment for Chief Minister Mayawati, Uttar Pradesh Lokayukta has now recommended removal of a junior minister, the fifth member of her ministry to be indicted by the anti-corruption ombudsman.
'We cannot override the CJI's order... This is nonsense'
Rajya Sabha Chairman Venkaiah Naidu had on April 23 rejected the impeachment notice against the CJI given by seven opposition parties led by the Congress on five grounds of "misbehaviour".
In a surprise move, a complainant who had challenged Karnataka high court's move to quash the FIR against former Chief Minister B S Yeddyurappa in the alleged illegal mining case, Monday withdrew his appeal in the Supreme Court.
The court said it was conscious of the fact that framing of the scheme and its implementation were in the government's domain who are the best experts in such matters.
A bench of justices G S Sistani and G P Mittal also asked Kumar to appear before the Registrar General of the high court to furnish bail bonds on September 2 in the case.
The petitioners said they are 'greatly disturbed by the incidents of unruly and disruptive mobs' pelting stones at soldiers and Army convoys in Jammu and Kashmir.
Nidhi Munim's latest resortwear collection had something for everyone in it.
The appointment of new expenditure secretary comes a month-and-a-half ahead of the Budget for 2020-21 to be presented on February 1.
Professor Avkash Jadhav, head of the history department at St Xavier's College and trustee of the city-based KAASH Foundation, said a Special Investigation Team should be set up to inspect the site where trees were cut and ascertain the actual damage done.
Bollywood actor Salman Khan on Tuesday moved the Rajasthan high Court to seek permission to call five prosecution witnesses for re-examination in the black bucks poaching case but the single bench refused to hear his petition, according to his counsel.
The Supreme Court on Monday will take up the final report on the Indian Premier League (IPL) spot-fixing scam submitted by a committee headed by Justice (Retired) Mukul Mudgal on November 3.
The Bar alleged there had been misrepresentation of facts by the media and there has been a motive behind it.
Sara Abdullah Pilot had on Monday approached the top court challenging her brother's detention under the Public Safety Act, saying the detention order was "manifestly illegal" and there was no question of him being a "threat to the maintenance of public order".
Justice Misra was part of the three-judge Supreme Court bench, which had dismissed the mercy plea and delivered the final order on 1993 Mumbai blasts convict Yakub Memon.
The top court said that every month on 3-4 Saturdays, the advocates are on strike on one pretext or the other and had the lawyers worked on those days, it would have achieved the ultimate goal of speedy justice, which is now a fundamental right.
The apex court had earlier refused to stay the Centre's decision to grant 10 per cent quota in jobs and admissions to poor candidates in the general category.
Rajesh and Nupur Talwar were sentenced to life after a court in Uttar Pradesh convicted them for the gruesome killings of Aarushi Talwar and their domestic help Hemraj in 2013.
He further contended that in his bail application, Prajapati stated that he had no criminal case pending against him but six cases were pending against him.
Karnataka Government on Friday told the Supreme Court that People's Democratic Party leader Abdul Nasser Madani, a key accused in the Bangalore bomb blast case, could pose a major threat to national security if released on bail.
A spectacular Taapsee Pannu brings out the shift of a happy homemaker to a heartbroken woman most strikingly in her deeply affecting performance, applauds Sukanya Verma.
Terming 'khap' panchayat as illegal and honour killing as "barbaric and shameful", the Supreme Court on Tuesday said these should be stamped out "ruthlessly" and asked states to suspend district magistrates and SPs concerned if they failed to act against the offenders.
The Supreme Court on Friday upheld its controversial remarks that something was "rotten" in the Allahabad high court where the "uncle judges syndrome" was rampant and needed cleansing.
The change in eligibility criteria to participate in tenders for providing ground handling services in various regional airports was on Thursday criticised by the Delhi high court which said the central government was being "hypocritical" with regard to promoting local entrepreneurs.
The bench, also comprising Justices Kurian Joseph and Adarsh Kumar Goel, did not allow the plea and asked the probe agency to file a review petition with all the points which have been left out.
The Supreme Court has ruled lawyers or their associations cannot refuse to appear for accused whether they are terrorist, rapists, murderers or any others as such refusal would be a violation of the Constitution, Bar Council norms and tenets of the Bhagavad Gita.
"There can be a situation where a person has lost his/her money for no fault," SC said.
The Supreme Court on Monday rejected the petition seeking euthanasia for Aruna Shanbaug who has been lying in a vegetative state for over three-and-a-half decades at the KEM hospital in Mumbai.
BCCI on Wednesday turned down the plea of suspended IPL Commissioner Lalit Modi in the Supreme Court that the Board should reconstitute the disciplinary committee for probing charges of financial irregularities against him.
Faced with the vexed question of permitting euthanasia or mercy killing of a rape victim virtually brain dead for the past 36 years, the Supreme Court on Monday sought the Attorney General's response on the tricky issue as it is not legalised in the country.
