The drive is being undertaken by the India Regeneration Initiative.
The High Court had held that the government order imposed unreasonable restrictions on the Fundamental Rights of some petitioners who were involved in the trade.
The case, pending before Principal Sessions Judge, Chengalpet, was transferred to Principal Sessions Judge, Pondicherry.
It declared as null and void over 100 varsities established under this act.
Expecting mothers walked on the ramp and celebrated the beautiful phase of motherhood!
Centre has told the Supreme Court that it will soon make public Bihar governor Buta's reports which led to the dissolution of the assembly in the state.
The court also reiterated its earlier directive putting a ban on bursting of crackers late at night during Diwali and other festivals.
Seven months after it challenged the bail granted to Kanchi Sankaracharya Jayendra Saraswathi in the Radhakrishnan assault case, the Tamil Nadu government on Monday withdrew its appeal in the Supreme Court.
Justice Y K Sabharwal sworn in as Chief Justice of India
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.
This move is significant as the Centre is proposing to drop the two-child norm from its action plan for controlling population.
The petition contends that certain provisions of the RPA will prevent prohibition of crime-tainted people from becoming MPs and MLAs.
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.
'The judiciary cannot trespass on the powers of Parliament and Parliament in turn cannot trespass on the territory of the judiciary,' says former Chief Justice of India V N Khare.
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.
Supreme Court on Tuesday took offence to the Centre's calling the Court's verdict as confrontational.
The Supreme Court has said that the practice of listing religious groups as 'minority communities' should be discouraged and the list be gradually be done away with as it promotes divisive tendencies to weaken the nation.
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.
Posting the matter for hearing on August 1, a bench headed by Chief Justice R C Lahoti also appointed senior advocate Rakesh Dwivedi as amicus curiae in the matter.
If the governments accept the proposal of the apex court, then a candidate aspiring to become a government employee and all government servants would have to provide information about the dowry.
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.
The Supreme Court directed the chief secretaries of the states and the Union government to file their written submissions within six weeks.
The Supreme Court on Wednesday issued notice to the Centre on a petition challenging the legality of the power purchase agreement between Maharashtra State Electricity Board and the Enron-promoted Dabhol Power Corporation.
The bench said this while reviving the petition in which the petitioners had objected to the use of the national anthem in the movie Kabhi Khushi Kabhie Gham.
Senior advocate Mukul Rohatgi, appearing for the Gujarat government sought the relaxation for two hours from 10:00 pm till midnight during the Navratras on the use of laudspeaker for the garba dance, for which the state is famous.
The movie was scheduled to be screened in theatres across India on Friday.
The Supreme Court has ruled that state governments have no legislative competence to impose luxury tax on goods, including cigarettes and gutkas.
The ban on loudspeakers between 2200 hrs to 0600 hrs stays.
The SC on Thursday issued notices to the Bihar government, the Election Commission and the Bihar State Electricity Board on a PIL challenging BSEB's decision to waive surcharge on delayed payment of electricity bills by MLAs and ministers.
The Election Commission usually comes out with the press release announcing the poll schedule within 2-3 days.
Shankaracharya's counsel Fali S Nariman pointed out 'contradictions' in the evidence cited against the seer by the Tamil Nadu police.
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