The Supreme Court on Monday declined to stop construction work on the Sardar Sarovar project, even as the Gujarat government said the work on the dam during monsoon will not go beyond 119 metres.
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.
Terming it as misconceived, the Supreme Court on Thursday dismissed a PIL seeking CBI inquiry into the circumstances in which Finance Minister P Chidambaram's wife Nalini was engaged as a counsel in tax cases involving huge revenue.
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 charge against the corporal was of a serious nature having regard to the force in which he was employed, the apex court said.
The Supreme Court on Monday sought the response of key shareholders in Dabhol Power Corporation -- subsidiaries of GE and Bechtel -- on restarting the litigation-embroiled plant
The Supreme Court on Monday admitted an appeal filed by Enron promoted Dabhol Power Corporation challenging a Bombay high court order
The bench was perturbed that the Madras high court was working with half the sanctioned strength of 49 judges, though a collegium, consisting of five senior judges of the apex court, had cleared 17 names for the posts.\n\n
The Supreme Court on Friday stayed a telecom dispute tribunal's order directing the government to give to cellular phone service providers copies of files pertaining to its decision allowing WLL operations.
Supreme Court on Tuesday refused to modify its earlier order scaling down the NRI seats in these colleges from over 100 to 30.
The SC made made the observation while dealing with an issue relating to the media's right to freedom of expression and its limits.
A Division Bench of Justice Y K Sabharwal and Justice B N Agrawal dismissed the convicts' appeals against the special TADA court's order.
The Bombay high court had sentenced the Sena chief to years' imprisonment in a contempt case.
The Supreme Court has asked the various parties in DPC to come out with the modalities about fixing interim tariff for sale of electricity by DPC to MSEB.
The power plant of DPC is likely to remain idle for some more time as the Supreme Court's initiative to restart it met a roadblock with key shareholders of DPC -- subsidiaries of GE and Bechtel -- refusing to submit to the court's jurisdiction.
It also extended its interim order staying the arrest warrants issued against the journalists.
The bench said for fixing criminal liability on a doctor or surgeon, the standard of negligence required to be proved should be so high as could be described as 'gross negligence' or 'reckless'.
The Action Plan for Control of Stray Animal Menace prepared by the Ministry of Environment and Forests says stopping monkey-feeding will help prevent the menace.
The court made it clear that 'it would not be open to the state governments or the Union territories to delay the implementation of the scheme'.
The government had cancelled allotment of over 3000 petrol pumps and LPG dealerships in the wake of a controversy over their selection.
The Supreme Court cleared a multi-crore luxury housing project being constructed by Tata Housing Development Corporation Ltd in Goa and set aside a Mumbai high court order directing demolition of the complex as it was being built in green areas.
The Supreme Court on Monday issued notices to stockbroker Ketan Parekh, Central Bureau of Investigation and the Gujarat government on a petition filed by Madhavpura Mercantile Co-operative Bank.
A controversy broke out on Sunday over Justice Sikri getting a government offer last year for a post-retirement assignment at the London-based Commonwealth Secretariat Arbitral Tribunal (CSAT), three days after his vote, as a representative of CJI Ranjan Gogoi on the panel, helped decide the removal of Verma as CBI director.
A day after informing Parliament that the Prime Minister's Office under Manmohan Singh had pushed for extension to a judge facing corruption charges, the government on Wednesday demanded that the former prime minister should make a "categorical" statement on the controversial matter.
The exchange, say sources, began mock trading from early October and around 250 Indian brokers have said they'd take membership of the international exchange.
India had been engaged in a contentious battle with the US over the issue, especially in the pharmaceutical sector.
'N Ram and I met on the lawns of Mani Shankar Aiyar's bungalow.' 'I pulled out a rolled printout from my jacket and handed it to him.' 'In the cut-throat world of journalism, this was like high treason.' 'But letting a story be killed because you can't publish it is a bigger crime than passing it to the competition,' recalls Shekhar Gupta.
Former Supreme Court judge Markandey Katju, currently chairman of Press Council of India, on Monday stirred a controversy by alleging that three ex-Chief Justices of India had compromised in giving extension to an additional judge of Madras high court at the instance of the United Progressive Alliance government in the wake of pressure from one of its allies, apparently Dravida Munnetra Kazahagham.
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