With talks between chief ministers of Tamil Nadu and Karnataka failing to break the deadlock on the Cauvery water-sharing row, the Supreme Court on Friday decided to hear both the states on Monday and asked them to place before it the undisputable documents on the issue.
"Why can't the two Chief Ministers sit together? Give it a try, it is not impossible," a bench of justices D K Jain and Madan B Lokur said.
The Election Commission has done good work in recent years but sometimes it takes decisions in over-anxiety, the Supreme Court on Friday said while referring to poll watchdog's order on cash seizure above Rs 2.5 lakh in transit ahead of Gujarat assembly elections.
The Supreme Court Monday asked Aligarh Muslim University not to implement the decision to reserve 50 per cent quota for students belonging to minority community till the pendancy of the matter.
The government has "suffocated" the institutions where argument, debate and dissent were nurtured, the letter stated.
Maharashtra Police had on August 28 raided the homes of the prominent Left-wing activists in several states and arrested at least five of them for their alleged Maoist links, sparking a chorus of outrage from human rights defenders.
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.
A bench of Justices Ashok Bhushan and K M Joseph took this decision while hearing an application filed by the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI).
The Supreme Court on Friday agreed to examine the Cauvery monitoring committee report, which decided that Tamil Nadu would get 8.85 TMC of water next fortnight from the river basin to tide over its distress situation.
Holding that agitations do not not serve any purpose, the Supreme Court said its order directing Karnataka to supply 9,000 cusecs of water to Tamil Nadu will not be an impediment in the prime minister deciding on the review petition filed before the Cauvery River Authority.
The Supreme Court on Friday agreed tohear on Monday the Karnataka's plea to stay its September 28 order to the state to release 9,000 cusecs of water to Tamil Nadu from the Cauvery river basin.
A five-judge constitution bench of the Supreme Court on Friday declined to accept any fresh material other than what has been submitted by the expert panel on the controversial Mullaperiyar Dam row between Kerala and Tamil Nadu.
The Supreme Court today pulled up the Karnataka government for failing to comply with the prime minister-headed Cauvery River Authority's (CRA) directive to release 9,000 cusecs of water to Tamil Nadu.
The Rajasthan high court on Saturday disposed of the habeas corpus petition filed by Amarchand, the husband of slain nurse Bhanwari Devi, and observed that the police need to be sensitive while dealing with such cases.
Senior Maharashtra Congress leader Kripashankar Singh on Friday invited the Supreme Court's ire for having mentioned his plea against a corruption case against him and his family members before a different bench on Friday after getting the same withdrawn from the court's mentioning list on Thursday.
In a goodwill gesture, the Karnataka government on Monday agreed before the Supreme Court to release 10,000 cusecs of water from the Cauvery river to Tamil Nadu till September 20
Taking note of pitiable condition of widows in Virandavan of Uttar Pradesh, the Supreme Court on Wednesday appointed a seven-member panel to collect data on their socio-economic conditions.
Ruby Chaudhry, the woman who stayed at the prestigious IAS training academy in Mussoorie for over six months masquerading as a probationer and accused a senior officer of taking bribe to facilitate her stay there, has been arrested and sent to jail for two weeks.
Chanakya Sethi, a student at the Osgoode Hall Law School, York University, Toronto, visited India in April this year to work with Indian Supreme Court's Justice Dalveer Bhandari. His take on the Indian judicial system.
The Supreme Court on Monday refused to entertain a petition seeking a direction to the Nanavati Commission, which is inquiring into the 2002 Gujarat riot cases, to summon Chief Minister Narendra Modi for his alleged role in the carnage. A bench comprising justices D K Jain and A K Dave allowed an NGO, Jan Sangarsh Manch, to withdraw its petition challenging a Gujarat high courts order.
The Supreme Court on Friday recalled its March 19 order seeking response of the Nanavati Commission and the Gujarat government on a plea for direction to the panel to summon Chief Minister Narendra Modi for questioning in connection with the 2002 riots.
A bench of justices D K Jain and A K Dave issued notices to the commission and the state government, asking them to file their responses within four weeks.
The Delhi high court on Thursday directed the Centre to implement the controversial conditional access system
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He said the plea of the Northeast people to not let the bill pass was not being heard by the Centre.
The Supreme Court on Monday agreed to examine if the Special Investigation Team appointed by it to inquire into the 2002 post-Godhra riot cases can share its report with the Nanavati Commission, which too is probing into the Godhra train carnage and the subsequent riots. A bench headed by Justice D K Jain said it will look into the matter, when the SIT approached it with a plea for its direction on the issue, saying the commission has issued notices to its officers.
The Delhi high court said it will take appropriate action on those organising marriages and private parties at commercial farmhouses on roads that are less than 60 feet wide.
The Chhattisgarh High Court on Thursday sought a detailed report, to be tabled within the next ten days, from the state government on the botched sterilisation surgeries in Bilaspur district, after it took suo motu cognisance of the incident, which left 11 women dead and many critical.
This was the massacre in which 15 farmers fighting against acquisition of their lands were allegedly killed by police.
The Supreme Court on Tuesday sought explanation from the Uttar Pradesh government for granting tax exemption to the company organising the India Formula 1 Grand Prix in Greater Noida.
The fever of banning meat spread on Thursday with such directives being issued in Rajasthan, Jammu and Kashmir and Ahmedabad.
It complained that such vested interests were using the print and electronic media to lure the public by carrying out publicity blitzkrieg of their claims of magical and mystical cures.
The Delhi High Court on Friday sought response from corporate lobbyist Niira Radia on an application seeking vacation of stay on the release and circulation of the book Close Encounters with Niira Radia authored by advocate R K Anand.
The court clarified that Thursday's Supreme Court order on dismantling commercial structures in residential areas would apply to banquet halls as well.
In a relief to corporate lobbyist Niira Radia, the Delhi high court on Wednesday stayed the release and circulation of a book authored by advocate R K Anand on her controversial, tapped telephonic conversation with various high profile individuals.
Petitioners have complained that the demolitions were illegal and causing huge losses.
Urging for "sanity and sensitiveness", the Supreme Court on Tuesday asked Tamil Nadu and Kerala to maintain restraint on their statements on the Mullaperiyar dam row, lamenting that they were adding fuel to the fire instead of dousing it.
The Supreme Court has strongly deplored the practice of banks and financial institutions using 'goondas' and musclemen to recover loans from alleged defaulters.
The Supreme Court on Friday dismissed a petition filed by two private schools managements challenging the ban imposed by the Delhi high court on interviews of nursery kids and their parents at the time of admissions.
The Sourav Ganguly-led BCCI has proposed six major amendments to the existing constitution which was adopted last year keeping in tune with the reforms suggested by the Justice Lodha committee.
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