The Supreme Court on Wednesday came down heavily on Bihar government for not placing facts before the Patna High Court which granted bail to controversial Rashtriya Janata Dal leader Mohd Shahabuddin in a murder case.
The government is mulling moving the Supreme Court for cancellation of his bail even as opposition National Democratic Alliance on Wednesday demanded his arrest in the journalist Rajdeo Ranjan murder case.
'You can never say never in politics.' 'We may still see the return of AAP, but hopefully not of the same abusive politics again,' says Shekhar Gupta.
Bhartiya Janata Party leader and Goa Chief Minister Manohar Parrikar has hit out at both Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal as well as Samajwadi Party Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav for what he termed as their "failure to deliver."
Two persons said to be members of the United Kingdom arm of the Aam Aadmi Party are embroiled in a student visa scam in Britain uncovered by the BBC.
A bench headed by Chief Justice S A Bobde said it is true that rights guaranteed under Articles 14 and 21 of the Constitution are available to all the persons who may or may not be citizens but the right not to be deported, is "ancillary or concomitant" to the right to reside or settle in any part of India.
Aam Aadmi Party-led Delhi government is locked in a power struggle with the Centre and the Lt Governor. Kavita Chowdhury reports
Yogendra Yadav on Saturday hit out Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal for handling a 'genuine' issue in a 'very immature' manner.
The Bharatiya Janata Party on Tuesday made clear its reluctance to form government in Delhi saying it did not have the numbers and that it is ready to face elections.
Battling growing infighting, the Aam Aadmi Party on Saturday went on damage control mode by deciding to restructure it and rejected resignation of its senior leaders Yogendra Yadav and Shazia Ilmi, who had attacked Arvind Kejriwal for lack of internal democracy in the party.
Days after the Aam Aadmi Party appointed a new Lokpal panel replacing him, former Navy chief Ramdas has questioned the decision, claiming his term was to end in November 2016.
Arvind Kejriwal was on Wednesday arrested and sent to Tihar jail till May 23 by a Delhi court after he refused to furnish bail bond in a criminal defamation complaint filed against him by Bharatiya Janata Party leader Nitin Gadkari.
Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal's ailments are a "classic case" of faulty and stressful lifestyle but he has been "detoxified" to a large extent now, a senior doctor has said.
The court's direction came after Singh alleged conspiracy over filing of "frivolous anonymous complaints" against him with the revenue secretary saying these were being entertained by the ED.
The court had earlier barred publication of photos of leaders in government advertisements except those of the President, PM and the CJI.
Labour rights activist Naudeep Kaur was freed Friday by the Punjab and Haryana high court, which said slapping charges like attempt to murder on her is a 'debatable issue' to be considered at a later stage in the trial.
Without doubt, the BJP is miles ahead in marshalling digital tools for electioneering better than any other party, observes Virendra Kapoor.
In a sharp attack on the Aam Aadmi Party, senior Congress leader Salman Khurshid on Wednesday accused it of being an "anarchist out to destroy the system" and has got some of the "worst, stinking, third grade people" across the country.
In a warning to Pakistan, Army Chief Gen Bikram Singh on Monday said India would respond in equal measure if Pakistan breaks any rules as he revealed that 10 Pakistani soldiers had been killed in a recent military action.
'Work will now be basically file movements from one desk to another as both the government and the agency would not like to antagonise the court.'
He has also sought stay of the Centre's order asking him to proceed on leave and giving the interim charge of his post to Joint Director M Nageswara Rao, a 1986 batch Odisha-cadre IPS officer.
The move is likely to force the government to take a faster decision.
Former AAP leaders Yogendra Yadav and Prashant Bhushan said the Bill was completely different from the one envisaged originally.
Amidst rumblings of a crisis within AAP, a letter by its internal Lokpal has pointed to the growth of two camps within the top leadership of the party due to an "abject breakdown in communication and mutual trust" and said it needs to make efforts to address criticisms over inner-party democracy.
'India resembles not just the more turbulent bits of its own past, but other 'managed' democracies, where all institutional strength and independence have been hollowed out to serve political power,' notes Mihir S Sharma.
In their review plea, they alleged that the judgment "relied upon patently incorrect claims made by the government in an unsigned note given in a sealed cover" to the apex court.
A bench headed by Chief Justice N V Ramana ordered status quo in the present situation, and said the petition would be listed before an appropriate bench.
The top court said the judicial process will be reduced to a "charade" if the courts are burdened with such cases with extraneous reasons.
A list of watchable Hindi legal shows and films on OTT, in order of release.
The AG said the country needs the Rafale jet to defend itself 'from F-16 fighter planes that recently bombed us'.
'I have never been scared of playing the grey, and so it is exciting for me to come back to where I started.'
The Supreme Court has dismissed many petitions in the past but rarely has the country's apex court accused the petitioners of being "stool pigeons" of powerful corporate lobbies.
Gandhi was in the eye of a storm for allegedly leaking defence secrets to controversial arms dealer Abhishek Verma.
BJP and other rivals took the opportunity to slam the Congress and asked that there be no political intervention.
'Some BJP old timers have remarked that the BJP is now driven by its own high command, the way the Congress was under Mrs Gandhi, says Subir Roy.
The government is not considering closure of any airline, new DGCA chief Prashant Sukul said on Thursday while rubbishing reports that his predecessor, E K Bharat Bhushan, was removed for taking a tough stand against Kingfisher Airlines.
A five-judge constitution bench headed by Chief Justice Dipak Misra reserved its verdict on a plea seeking recognition of 'living will' made by a terminally-ill patient for passive euthanasia.
Kerala Catholic Bishop Conference president Archbishop Soosa Paikam said the verdict was "painful" and would have disastrous consequences.
'Kejriwal tries to project that his party is not Hindu virodhi.'
