A PIL has sought a CBI probe into the presence of nearly two crore illegal Bangladeshi migrants in India and striking their names off the electoral rolls.
Sister-in-law of Bollywood superstar Amitabh Bachchan has won the award for her work in charity.
Saying that the consumer has the right to know what he consumes, the Supreme Court on Monday dismissed two petitions filed by soft drink giants, Pepsi and Coca-Cola.
The Supreme Court has issued notices to the Centre and the J&K government on an application disclosing this.
The court said that the national anthem was an immortal classic not subject to change.
The Supreme Court on Friday stayed a Bombay High Court order restraining Air India from taking more than 12 cabin crew per jumbo jet in an international flight. \n
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.
The Supreme Court on Friday reserved its order on petitions challenging the Union government's decision to privatise oil sector PSUs Hindustan Petroleum Corporation Ltd and Bharat Petroleum Corporation Ltd.
It overruled the Maharashtra government's stand that it had the authority to regulate admissions to colleges run by Pune-based Bharati Vidyapeeth, which was granted deemed university status in April 1996.
The EC has supported a petition before the Supreme Court seeking a right for people to cast 'negative votes' so as to enable them to say that none of the candidates in the fray were worth their vote.
The Tamil Nadu government in its petition claimed the Tamil National Movement leader's release on bail would result in tampering of evidence.
Justices S Rajendra Babu and G P Mathur heard the petition, filed by senior advocate Indira Jaising, asking the Supreme Court Registrar General to make the report public, as there was national concern for judicial accountability.
Shameet Mukherjee has already been granted interim bail on medical grounds after his police custody ends on May 7.
After hiring about 500 people in the first six months of 2004, Intel's India development centre is planning to design complete chipsets for the company's $200 million digital home initiative.\n\n\n\n
The Supreme Court on Monday posted the interim application of COAI for final hearing in the first week of December, but refused to order status quo on service-specific licensing regime as sought by the cellular operators.
The Supreme Court on Friday issued notices to Union finance and divestment ministries on a petition challenging the privatisation process initiated by the Centre for Hindustan Copper Ltd.
The court ruled that if a government decided to make the state language a compulsory subject in the school syllabi, it cannot be said to be violative of the fundamental right of the minority community to establish and administer schools.
The conduct of senior IAS officer D K Rao, who allegedly harboured Sushil Sharma after the former Youth Congress leader killed his wife and attempted to burn the body in a tandoor, has attracted the ire of the sessions court.
This was revealed in the preliminary report of a statutory inquiry.
The Supreme Court on Tuesday restrained the government from going ahead with the divestment of Hindustan Petroleum Corporation Ltd and Bharat Petroleum Corporation Ltd without Parliament approval.
The government had appealed the grant of bail by high court to four accused in the Godhra carnage.
The Gujarat Government has challenged a high court order granting bail to certain accused persons in the Godhra train burning incident.
Multinational soft drinks manufactureer Coca-Cola on Wednesday withdrew its petition from the Supreme Court after the latter refused to interfere in the resolution of the controversy pertaining to alleged pesticide content in its products.
The court upheld the prohibitory orders passed against it by the Calcutta police commissioner in 1987.
Kanwal Chaudhry was forced to approach the courts after police refused to act on her complaints.
R R Gopal contended that former Karnataka DGP Dinakar has made defamatory allegations against him in the book on Rajkumars abuction lowering his reputation.
A Delhi court said Special Public Prosecutor A P Ahluwalia was acting as if in link with the accused Sushil Sharma, who allegedly murdered his wife Naina Sahni.
The CBI had appealed against quashing of a charge sheet against three Hinduja brothers.
The court also appointed senior advocate Rakesh Dwiwedi as Amicus Curiae to assist it when the case comes up for hearing after three weeks.
Solicitor General Kirit Raval argued the judgment in the Vineet Narain case entrusting superintendence of CBI functioning to the CVC should not be equated that of the CBI seeking prior approval of the CVC before filing any charge sheet.
The Supreme Court on Wednesday adjourned the hearing on wireless in local loop matter to January 13, 2004, giving time to the cellular operators to reply to basic operators' response.
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