New bill proposes Cabinet minister, not CJI in EC selection panel

The Centre on Thursday tabled a contentious bill in Rajya Sabha that seeks to replace the Chief Justice of India with a cabinet minister in the panel for selection of the chief election......

In late night sitting SC stays Gujarat HC order asking Teesta to surrender

InThe Supreme Court late on Saturday night protected social activist Teesta Setalvad from arrest and stayed for a week the Gujarat high court order rejecting her plea for regular bail and asking......

TN migrant crisis: SC refuses plea by jailed Youtuber against invoking NSA

In a setback to jailed Bihar Youtuber Manish Kashyap, the Supreme Court on Monday refused to entertain his plea challenging invocation of the stringent National Security Act (NSA) against him for......

Govt at advanced stage of 're-examining' sedition law: Centre to SC

The Supreme Court on Monday deferred hearing on a batch of pleas challenging the sedition law after the Centre said it is at an advanced stage of consultation on re-examining the colonial-era penal......

NREGA: Money going to wrong hands, says SC

The government's ambitious rural employment project MGNREGA has come under the scrutiny of the Supreme Court which today said money was not reaching real beneficiaries and in many cases going to......