The ban on loudspeakers between 2200 hrs to 0600 hrs stays.
The Election Commission usually comes out with the press release announcing the poll schedule within 2-3 days.
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 petition was filed after the CBI did not challenge a HC ruling.
A PIL has sought a CBI probe into the presence of nearly two crore illegal Bangladeshi migrants in India and striking their names off the electoral rolls.
Saying that the consumer has the right to know what he consumes, the Supreme Court on Monday dismissed two petitions filed by soft drink giants, Pepsi and Coca-Cola.
The Supreme Court on Friday stayed a Bombay High Court order restraining Air India from taking more than 12 cabin crew per jumbo jet in an international flight. \n
The court said that the national anthem was an immortal classic not subject to change.
The case, pending before Principal Sessions Judge, Chengalpet, was transferred to Principal Sessions Judge, Pondicherry.
The court also reiterated its earlier directive putting a ban on bursting of crackers late at night during Diwali and other festivals.
This move is significant as the Centre is proposing to drop the two-child norm from its action plan for controlling population.
Several petitions have been filed seeking clarifications pertaining to the fixing of management quota in private unaided professional colleges, vis-à-vis the quota for meritorious students.
However, the Supreme Court said that the power to relax the ban could not be delegated by the state governments to other authorities.
Sankararaman's widow has opposed the petition seeking transfer of the case outside Tamil Nadu.
The advocate said he was compelled to file the petition against the high court judgment as the CBI failed to approach the apex court with a special leave petition within the 90-day deadline for filing an appeal.
The Supreme Court on Tuesday dismissed a petition filed by Sanjeev Bhatnagar seeking a review of the apex court order rejecting his plea for deletion of the word "Sindh" from the national anthem.
The Supreme Court on Monday said work on the multicrore Bangalore-Mysore express corridor project would continue but no land earmarked for the project could be alienated.
Noted lawyer Ram Jethmalani on Wednesday made an impassioned plea before the Supreme Court against deleting 'Sindh' from the national anthem.
A bench comprising Chief Justice R C Lahoti and Justice G P Mathur issued the notice after briefly hearing counsel Prashant Bhushan, who appeared for petitioner Centre for Public Interest Litigation.
A BJP MLA said the provision of the Bihar Legislature Member Salary Act, 1960, which barred the disbursement of salaries and allowances to the MLas till they took oath, was unconstitutional.
Shankaracharya's counsel Fali S Nariman pointed out 'contradictions' in the evidence cited against the seer by the Tamil Nadu police.
The Act was passed by Parliament and given assent to by the President in 1995.
The apex court also reiterated its earlier ban on bursting of crackers between 2200 hours and 0600 hours at night.\n
"The CJI complained of stinking towels and unkept toiletries at the Residency Kothi on Thursday," Indore District Collector Vivek Agarwal said.
The Jammu and Kashmir National Panthers Party has filed a petition in the SC seeking a restrain on the state government from acceding to the request from PoK residents to restore to them the property they had left behind.
The court issued notices to the Gujarat CM and the VHP chief on a petition alleging that the Mumbai police did not accept a complaint against them.
In a move that may cause concern to the multi-crore soft drink industry, the Supreme Court on Monday issued notice to the Centre on a petition seeking a thorough examination of the contents of soft drinks
The cricketer's former management firm has appealed against him forging a tie-up with tennis player Mahesh Bhupathi's firm.
The SC issued the notice on a petition challenging the constitutional validity of Section 23 of the Hindu Succession Act, 1956, which deprives a woman of the right to seek partition of her ancestral property if the owner dies without making a will.
The Supreme Court has issued notices to the Centre and the J&K government on an application disclosing this.
Noting the benefits of Double Taxation Avoidance Convention between India and Mauritius, the SC recently said the recommendations of JPC for incorporating built-in safeguards in the treaty to check tax evasion was for the Parliament to take note of.
The Supreme Court on Thursday directed postponement of the second round of counselling for the 15 per cent All India Medical Quota Scheme seats in all states.
The EC has supported a petition before the Supreme Court seeking a right for people to cast 'negative votes' so as to enable them to say that none of the candidates in the fray were worth their vote.
The court also appointed senior advocate Rakesh Dwiwedi as Amicus Curiae to assist it when the case comes up for hearing after three weeks.
The merger of Indian subsidiaries of Parke Davis and Pfizer, following global amalgamation of the two pharma giants, is delayed with the Supreme Court refusing to entertain a petition challenging a Bombay high court order staying the merger process.
The Board of Control for Cricket in India on Wednesday indicated it will appeal against former Chief Justice of India R C Lahoti's report that went in favour of Kochi Tuskers, the erstwhile Indian Premier League franchise whose contract was terminated by the Board in 2011 because of an alleged breach of contract.
