The court sought a reply within two weeks on the petition filed by Tamil Nadu government.
In a relief to Mulayam Singh government in Uttar Pradesh, the Supreme Court Friday stayed an Allahabad high court order and said the breakaway BSP legislators will continue as a separate group in the Assembly.
The case was filed against Lapierre by DGP Puri.
The RIL stock has halved from an all-time high of Rs 1,626 made (intra-day) on January 15, 2008, to on Wednesday's closing figure of Rs 800.55.
Sadhvi Meenakshi Devi, who deposed before the commission on Tuesday, did not turn up.
The Supreme Court on Monday declined to stop construction work on the Sardar Sarovar project, even as the Gujarat government said the work on the dam during monsoon will not go beyond 119 metres.
Observing that the case did not fall under the category of the rarest of rare cases, the SC commuted the death sentence awarded to Mallah by the trial court to life imprisonment.
India's first Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru appeared to have reservations about the Congress support to the 'liberation struggle' against Kerala's first Communist ministry led by E M S Namboodiripad, which was dismissed in 1959 within two years of coming to power.
A Bench comprising Justice K G Balakrishnan and Justice B N Srikrishna passed the order, saying Dhariwal had cooperated with the Central Bureau of Investigation in its probe.
SC dismisses petition seeking review of Gill's conviction
The states will have to look again into the relief and rehabilitation work they carried out before raising the dam height.
A Bench comprising Justice K G Balakrishnan and Justice A R Lakshmanan partially allowed the appeal of Rahul alias Raosaheb, who has been convicted of raping and murdering a four-year-old girl in 1999.
A Bench comprising Justice K G Balakrishnan and Justice Tarun Chatterjee had earlier issued a notice to the union government on the PIL, asking the Centre to file its response to the petition within six weeks.
The Gujarat government sought a postponement urging the Commission to invite the public to file affidavits about riot incidents that occurred between April 1 and May 31, 2002 since the terms of reference had been expanded recently.
Around 350 children of a government-run Urdu primary school were hospitalised on Friday as they took ill after having mid-day meal at K G Halli.
The Commission, comprising Justice (retd) G T Nanavati and justice (retd) K G Shah, on Thursday summoned her after it heard an application filed by her advocate Atul Mistry.
There is no provision either in the Indian Penal Code or in the Code of Criminal Procedure whereby life imprisonment could be treated as 14 years or 20 years without there being a formal revision by the government, a Bench said.
The lynching was allegedly sparked by suspicions that the victims were child lifters.
Police say the phone connection of the bakery was cut and this could have been the reason why the victims couldn't inform the police on time.
Writing the judgment, Justice Srikrishna held that Section 7(4) empowered the authorities in a state to ban items under the Act for a temporary period as the provision was "transitory" in nature.
Forty residents of the Ahmedabad society, including former Congress Member of Parliament Ehsaan Jafri, were killed in the post-Godhra massacre.
Stoking a fresh controversy, Press Council of India chairperson Justice Markandey Katju on Monday alleged that the then Chief Justice of India K G Balakrishnan had pushed for the elevation of a Madras high court judge with "bad reputation" to the Supreme Court.
A case can be withdrawn only if it is likely to end in acquittal or if a withdrawal is likely to restore harmony among the aggrieved parties.
On June 4, the court had stayed the process after former Rajya Sabha member Kuldeep Nayar submitted a petition challenging recent amendments to the election procedure.
The commission will visit the Godhra railway station and inspect the S-6 coach of the Sabarmati Express during its one-day visit.
The Supreme Court on Tuesday upheld the validity of controversial government pension scheme by which a certain percentage of an employer's contribution to the provident fund is diverted for pension purposes.
Bharat Sanchar Nigam will be able to provide mobile connections to wait-listed subscribers within two months as major expansion programme is likely to be over by January 2005, according to K G Sharma, chief general manager of BSNL, Maharashtra circle
The court also adjourned hearing on a petition seeking review of its earlier order upholding transfer of Ayodhya case trial to Rae Bareilly.
The former India batsman was unbeaten on 68 as Mumbai rallied from 87 for 5 to 171 without further loss at stumps on day 2 of the Ranji Trophy match against Madhya Pradesh.
Then minister of state for home Gordhan Jhadafiya was apparently referring to deaths in police firing in Bhavnagar: six persons died of which five were Hindus and one Muslim.
Besides not preventing rioting, they also failed to lodge witness accounts of murders that had been registered.
K G Krishnamoorthy Rao, managing director and CEO, Future Generali India Insurance, answers insurance queries.
They are residents of the posh Navrangpura area, which did not witness any killing.
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