The mortal remains of 29 people who died till Thursday were handed over to their relatives and the bodies were either buried or cremated, Kallakurichi District Collector Prasanth M S said.
The notices were issues on a PIL seeking an independent probe into allegations of corruption in the Golden Quadrilateral Project by Satyendra Dubey.
The Delhi High Court dismissed the petition as neither the petitioner nor his counsel appeared for hearing on Friday.
To try and get each state government to act would take forever, what is needed is a law, which makes it mandatory for the establishment and maintenance of such burial grounds across the country.
Maharashtra government on Monday submitted to the Bombay high court a list of 1,493 people who died in the recent deluge
India may have 500 million smart card users in the next four years if government came out with the notification on smart cards standardisation technology soon.
The Delhi high court took the decision because Sachin Tendulkar is yet to be filed notice in the case.
oved the Supreme Court against a high court decision dismissing its PIL against Union Law Minister Kiren Rijiju and Vice President Jagdeep Dhankhar for their remarks on judiciary and the collegium system for appointment of judges.
'People who speak English fear taking on powerful people. We don't have fears because I don't have much to lose,' says Vishwanath Chaturvedi.
A public interest litigation seeking cancellation of the license of the Star group owned FM radio channel Radio City has been filed in the Lucknow bench of the Allahabad high court.
The notices were issued on a public interest litigation filed by a non-governmental organization, Common Cause, which sought the right that bordered on euthunasia.
The Bombay high court on Thursday asked the state government to file its reply in connection with a petition demanding a ban on social networking site, Orkut, for hosting an anti-Shivaji Web community.
The Mumbai high court has issued show-cause notices to Maharashtra chief secretary and finance secretary for flouting the 'purchase ceiling' in buying 43 new Skoda cars for the state's council of ministers.
Do you get unwanted phone calls from business ventures wanting to sell credit cards, insurance policies, travel packages, or any such services or goods? Do you feel such calls should be banned?
Former BCCI president N K P Salve and five former cricketers, including Kapil Dev, have challenged the contracts on the ground that they impose unreasonable conditions on Indian players.
The petition challenges then president K R Narayanan's invitation to Sonia Gandhi to form the government.
An anti-India community has been created on Orkut, which is owned by Google.
In a move that may cause concern to the multi-crore soft drink industry, the Supreme Court on Monday issued notice to the Centre on a petition seeking a thorough examination of the contents of soft drinks
The governor's move comes following Chief Minister Eknath Shinde's letter to the governor seeking the withdrawal of MLCs.
A PIL has alleged that the law has been "misused" by them to delay and frustrate the trials against them.
The plea came up for hearing before a bench of Justices SK Kaul and A Amanullah.
The petitioner raised the issue of the death of a patient in the All India Institute of Medical Sciences in New Delhi during the recent anti-quota stir.
Allah is a synonym of 'God' and hence, taking oath in the name of Allah is constitutional.
Advocate Sridhar Bagari sought an interim order restraining the state from carrying out the death penalty against anybody, including Dhananjoy Chatterjee, till his petition was disposed off.
The Supreme Court declined to fix a date for hearing a PIL challenging the removal of four governors by the United Progressive Alliance government but said it will examine the petition when it comes up for hearing
The court directed the government to frame a scheme within two months to ensure that life saving drugs were available at reasonable prices.
The court questioned the 'authenticity of the document' attached with the PIL and the manner in which the papers were procured.
But not to ward off death due to starvation, the state government insists.
A signboard outside his house reads: 'I am not taking any new court matters but welcome for anything else.' Jethmalani is probably planning his retirement from active legal practice.
ASI officials were involved in corrupt practices in the name of conservation of monuments and were violating various laws, the petitioner's counsel said.
The court also ordered notices to be served to Union Carbide of the US and Eveready India Limited. The two firms have to file replies on March 17, the court said.
Denouncing the attempt to link the word 'Sindh' in the anthem to the province in Pakistan, SCI said in its application before the court that, 'in Pakistan Sindhi language is not an official language'.
The SC has issued notices to the Centre, the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India and cellular cos on a PIL seeking enactment of a law to stop number of unsolicited calls made by business ventures to cellphone users.
