The Centre has recommended compulsory retirement of former Union environment secretary K C Mishra for his alleged involvement in the Taj Heritage Corridor scam.
Supreme Court has ruled that interest paid on loans for capital assets are subject to IT deductions, even if the assets were not put to use.
SC constitutes committee for streamlining students union polls
A bench headed by Justice S H Kapadia asked the company to challenge the ruling before an appropriate high court. The apex court also stayed both the AAR order and the assessment till the company moves a high court. On May 9, the AAR said that income of Foster's Australia Ltd from the transfer of its right, title and interest in trademarks and Foster's brand intellectual property is taxable in India.
A Bench headed by Justice S H Kapadia, while setting aside the high court order, directed Reliance Energy to submit its financial bid for the project within three months.
An outcome of the petitions may have wider repercussions for many political leaders including Prime Minister Manmohan Singh especially if the petitioners succeed.
The Supreme Court Tuesday directed the Centre and the state governments to make registration of marriage compulsory within three months.
Supreme Court issued notices to the Centre and some states for the enforcement of emission norms for vehicles.
A bench comprising Justice Arijit Pasayat and Justice S H Kapadia has asked the Customs Department to file an affidavit in this regard.
MCD Counsel mentioned the matter this morning before the court seeking urgent hearing of the application. The court decided to hear the same on February 12.
A yearlong extension of the night viewing of the white marble structure, housing the tombs of Mughal emperor Shah Jehan and his love Mumtaj Mahal, was to expire on November 25.
Supreme Court on Tuesday dismissed the appeal of Reliance Airport Developers challenging the government's decision to allot modernisation works of Delhi and Mumbai Airports to GMR and GVK led consortia.
The Uttar Pradesh government had also taken the stand that Agra lacks the criteria. The court wanted to know whether it was not possible to cover part of the city to declare it as a heritage city.
It gave five days to an Ahmedabad magistrate and three lawyers involved in the 'cash for arrest warrant' scam to give their replies.
An application alleges the film was shot in violation of the Wildlife Act.
The court was acting on a petition alleging mining continued in the hills despite a ban by the SC.
Under the Transplantation of Human Organs Act, the states have been authorised to accord sanction for transplantations to stop trade in human organs.
In a significant order that could affect the cable TV industry, the Supreme Court on Wednesday ruled that states were legally competent to levy entertainment tax on Multi System Operators distributing TV signals leaving out from the tax net those pro
The minister was found guilty of conspiring to give licenses for operation of sawmills in the state despite a ban imposed by it.
The court's observations came while reducing life imprisonment awarded to the appellant Dinesh Buddah for raping an eight-year-old girl by the trial court and confirmed by the high court, to ten years' Rigorous Imprisonment.
The Supreme Court Friday refused to interfere with the Bombay high court decision not to grant anticipatory bail to suspended Mumbai police officer Daya Nayak.
The Supreme Court on Friday refused to quash the criminal proceedings initiated by an employee of the Birla Group against R S Lodha and three of his associates.
The Supreme Court on Friday issued notice to Reliance Telecom on the recommendation of Environment Pollution Control Authority for imposition of a fine of Rs 1 crore (Rs 10 million) on it for laying optical fibres through Madhav National Park in Madh
The court said the permission of the Archaeological Society of India and Union Home Ministry is necessary for the event.
The Waqf Board declared Taj Mahal as its property on July 13.
However. he was permitted to be brought to Delhi in police custody to see his ailing father.
The NHRC counsel told this to a SC bench, which was hearing amicus curiae Harish Salve's plea for transfer of trials of cases to 14 serious cases of massacre outside Gujarat.
Five months after the probe into the Rs 30,000 crore stamp paper scam was handed over to the Central Bureau of Investigation, the Supreme Court on Monday asked the agency to complete the investigations in three months.
'She is not a criminal. There has to be some fairness in the prosecution of persons,' the chief justice observed.
"We totally agree with the contention of Lalu," said a Bench comprising Justice S N Variava, Justice AR Lakshmanan and Justice S H Kapadia,
The SC, acting on the belief of a woman that her husband is alive despite official records of his death in the 1971 war, has asked the Ministry of External Affairs and Border Security Force to continue the search for the soldier.
Supreme Court has objected to the law ministry's opinion not to appeal against the dismissal of income tax cases against Railway Minister Lalu Prasad and his wife Rabri Devi.
The issue started when an unsuccessful candidate approached the Central Administrative Tribunal after he was not selected in the police force.
Following allegations that the UPA government was trying to dilute the fodder scam and income tax cases against Lalu Prasad and his wife Rabri Devi, the SC sought 'every possible' detail of proceedings in these cases.
Vishakha, a student in a Sarvodaya Public School in a Uttar Pradesh village, was lured by the accused. Her body was later found in a sugarcane field.
The court said the Taj Mahal would remain open to public during moonlit nights as per schedule.
A bench comprising Justice Ruma Pal, Justice S B Sinha and Justice S H Kapadia said this during hearing of an application filed by Amicus Curiae Harish Salve seeking compensation for the Gujarat riots victims.
An NGO - Citizens for Justice and Peace - wants the cases pertaining to the massacre of 110 people in Naroda Gam and Naroda Patiya to be transferred outside the state.\n\n
The notice was issued on application alleging that the state had suppressed facts pertaining to grant of bail to the accused in various post-Godhra riot case.
The Supreme Court on Friday ended the legal challenge to the government's decision to drastically reduce the admission fee to the prestigious Indian Institutes of Management by disposing of a petition on the issue.
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