Supreme Court bench said reservation for the blind in parliament is not a fundamental right guaranteed by the Constitution.
Retired civil servant and social activist Arun Bhatia has filed the PIL.
"Whatever is available in the US cannot be made available in India also."
The PIL was filed by National Council for Civil Liberties, which accused NBA of indulging in several illegal activities.
The Aluva magistrate court in Kerala has directed the police to conduct a detailed investigation on the role played by the wife of the PDP leader Abdul Nasser Madani in in the Kalamassery bus burning incident a couple of years ago.
The court said no changes can be made in the books in the current academic session.
The government has four weeks to reply.
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The court also directed that action should be taken up against those who dump garbage and construction debris.
The drama over the third-generation, or 3G, telecom services policy took a new twist today with a Delhi High Court Bench headed by the Chief Justice A P Shah directing the Department of Telecommunications to file an affidavit explaining why it cannot auction all the available blocks of spectrum in the upcoming auction of 3G spectrum.
The apex Court took suo motu cognisance of newspaper reports in 1994 regarding pollution of the Yamuna and since then it has been monitoring the progress of cleaning up the river by the State authorities.
The Supreme Court on Thursday refused to entertain for a third time a petition challenging the CBFC certification granted to controversial movie The Kerala Story, saying courts must be very careful while staying exhibition of films.
The US corporation organised this dance on January 30 this year at a function to roll out the retail version of Windows Vista, its new computer operating system.
A division bench comprising Chief Justice A P Shah and Justice P Jyothimani vacated the interim stay granted on Monday after recording an undertaking given by Advocate General R Vidudhalai.
The judges posted the petition for further hearing on December 2.
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.
Khan, alleged to be a JeM militant who had gone to Pakistan for training, was killed in a police encounter in 2002. Human rights activists have alleged he was killed in a false encounter and not while fleeing from the police.
The guys who took on the BCCI are now taking on the Capital's administration for a good cause.
A division bench posted the hearing on the two PILs for October 24.
The matter is already fixed for hearing on September 23.
The petition had challenged UP Governor Shastri's decision to invite Mulayam Singh Yadav to form government without considering Mayawati's recommendation for dissolution of the assembly.
Bombay high court asked the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation on Wednesday to submit within three days, a list of people who died in the recent deluge in the metropolis.
Patna HC issued a notice to Railways on Tuesday on a petition challenging appointment\nof former RJD minister and accused in multi-crore bitumen scam Illiyas Hussain as chairman of Passenger Amenities Committee of the Indian Railways.
TV, Bollywood personalities filed a PIL in Bombay HC seeking a direction to the centre and the Maharashtra government to list steps taken to provide relief to victims of the recent deluge in the state.
Besides issuing a notice to its own administrative wing, the high court also sent a notice of motion in this regard to the State of Punjab and Chief Electoral Officer, Punjab, under whose supervision the recent assembly elections were held.
The controversy over the Conditional Access System aggravated further with a forum representing 50 leading consumer groups having a face-off with cable operators.
The PIL has charged the state government of turning a blind eye to the rampant corruption at various levels in the administration.
A Pune resident has filed a public interest litigation (PIL) alleging that the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) lost Rs 65,065 crore (Rs 650.65 billion) in 2006-07 due to fall in its valuation of investments in foreign exchange.
According to state government own affidavit submitted to the court, 143 children and 581 women were missing across the state. There is no information about their whereabouts.
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 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.
Advocate R Rajamani's PIL sought a stay on the Tamil Nadu Prohibition of Forcible Conversion of Religion Act 2002, as it was 'unjust and unconstitutional'.
The Aurangabad bench of the Bombay High Court has directed the Maharashtra government to issue notice to Google for alleged spread of hatred about India by its social network service 'Orkut'.
The Centre, in its informal response to a PIL seeking deletion of the word Sindh from the national anthem, stated that the word represented the culture and not the province.
SC issues notices to the Centre, Bihar, Uttar Pradesh and Rajasthan on a PIL accusing them of taking no action against trucks that resort to overloading.
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