The government should frame appropriate guidelines to fix standards for drinking water to rid it of pesticides and other harmful chemicals.
It laid down strict guidelines to stop commercialisation of education by the schools.
The government said the court could not have done it as it was not an issue before it.
The court said the fee structure of all private professional colleges will be monitored by a committee headed by a retired high court judge.
S Rajendra Babu, a Supreme Court judge, was on Thursday appointed the Chief Justice of India with effect from May 2.
The court directed the government to frame a scheme within two months to ensure that life saving drugs were available at reasonable prices.
The Voluntary Health Association of Punjab has alleged that AIDS patients were given no treatment at any government hospital and 'simply left to die'.
In a major step to keep the price of essential medicines under control, the Union government on Friday informed the Supreme Court that 75 new medicines have been added to the essential drugs list after reviewing the pharmaceutical policy, 2002.
The Supreme Court on Friday ended the legal challenge to the government's decision to drastically reduce the admission fee to the prestigious Indian Institutes of Management by disposing of a petition on the issue.
A magistrate allegedly issued warrants against the President of India and the Chief Justice of India in lieu of Rs 40,000.
Delhi youngster Rishabh Pant's stroked a fluent 87 and left-arm paceman Khaleel Ahmed claimed four for 41 to steer India to a comfortable 33-run win over Afghanistan in the Under-19 tri-series match, in Kolkata, on Saturday.
Imran Mohammed Salim Dawood, a resident of West Yorkshire in UK, alleges he and his relatives were cornered by a mob on February 28, a day after the train carnage incident, and four of them, including three British nationals, were killed.
A petition from an NGO sought a direction from the court to the authorities to take immediate to stop the ritual of burying children for a minute, practiced in a Tamil Nadu temple.
Earlier a bench headed by Justice Shah had said government employees had no fundamental, legal, moral or statutory right to go on strike.
The Union government has sought vacation of the SC's interim order banning all kinds of religious activities in the 67-acre acquired land around the disputed structure in Ayodhya.
A round-up of the Ranji Trophy matches played across the country on Saturday
But not to ward off death due to starvation, the state government insists.
The Supreme Court will go into the IIM fee cut issue as the government has declined to give a written undertaking not to interfere with the autonomy of the management schools.
The Union government on Friday made it clear before the Supreme Court that it is not contemplating filing objections before the European Patent Office to question grant of patent on a variety of wheat to the Monsanto.
It turn down the please from the states and Centre of financial constraints.
Devdutt Padikkal continued his terrific form ahead of the IPL with a third successive century as the defending champions stormed into the Vijay Hazare Trophy quarterfinals
The Supreme Court has ruled that the state governments had the power to impose import levy on Indian made foreign liquor imported into the state by licensee over and above the excise and countervailing duty.
A bench comprising Chief Justice V N Khare, Justice S B Sinha and Justice A R Lakshmanan directed the state government to file in a sealed cover a report detailing the status of each of these cases and the witnesses named there in by October 31.
This will go towards payment of salaries to employees of PSU and government corporations, who have not been paid for a long time.
With a breakthrough elusive, government sources said the Delhi Police has obtained vital leads.
Amid growing demands for his resignation, Kumar told the MHRD officials that efforts were being made to facilitate semester registration for 'willing' students.
The Committee of Administrators (COA) on Friday assured that all six north eastern states will be playing Ranji Trophy as individual units next season with Board of Control for Cricket in India GM (Game Development), Ratnakar Shetty, given charge of their smooth integration.
The Centre pleaded in HC that it is waiting for responses from various states over UCC.
"The policy draft has been approved. The ministry has been renamed as education ministry," a senior HRD ministry official said. The existing NEP was framed in 1986 and revised in 1992. A new education policy was part of the Bharatiya Janata Party's manifesto ahead of the 2014 general election.
The I-T Department has served notices of attachment of assets to Lalu's daughter Misa Bharti and her husband Shailesh Kumar, his wife and former Bihar Chief Minister Rabri Devi, son and Bihar Deputy Chief Minister Tejashwi Yadav and daughters Chanda and Ragini Yadav.
