The Supreme Court has cautioned that it is unsafe to convict a person on the basis of a dying declaration alone, where suspicion is raised as regards the veracity of the deceased's statement.
The Supreme Court on Monday sought response from the Centre and the state governments on the controversial issue of appointment of tainted persons as ministers.
A bench comprising Chief Justice K G Balakrishnan and Justice R V Raveendran sought a response from the state government after the former Bollywood actress claimed that she would not get a fair trial in Bhopal.
The Supreme Court on Monday decided to hear a public interest litigation seeking exemption of the operation of the 'creamy layer' rule within the Other Backward Classes for persons engaged in hereditary occupations.
The RMM contented that a political party cannot be headed by a person who has assumed citizenship by registration.
Holding that trainees are not employees, the Supreme Court has ruled that they are not entitled to provident fund.\n\n
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During the hearing, the NGO said the beneficiaries of the rule were former chief ministers of all parties.
The bench further said that the conviction of Sidhu will not be operative till the disposal of his appeal against the high court judgment.
The Board of Control for Cricket in India, eagerly awaiting a response from the Justice Rajendra-Mal Lodha panel on the appointment of an independent auditor, may not get one by October 25 as the three-member committee is not likely to meet on Monday.
It directed the probe agency to furnish the report to it after completing the investigation.
bench headed by Chief Justice K G Balakrishnan, however, said that Bedi shall not leave her native Hoshiarpur district.
A bench comprising Chief Justices K G Balakrishnan and justices R V Raveendran and L S Panta, however, sought replies from the Delhi and UP police on the plea of the accused.
A five-judge Bench headed by Chief Justice K G Balakrishnan did not find merit in the petition filed by six such MPs seeking review of the January 10 verdict.
The court imposed restraining orders on the transfers sought asking the the holders to file their reply within two weeks.
Former captain Sardar Singh was brought back to bolster the Indian hockey team's mid-field while Birendra Lakra was included to shore up the defence line-up for the upcoming Champions Trophy, beginning on June 23 in Breda, The Netherlands.
Dulquer Salmaan plays a character from the 1930s in Ranjith's Njan, and media person John Brittas makes his big screen debut in Madhu Kaithapram's Vellivelichathil.
The Supreme Court has reserved its judgment in the Navjot Singh Sidhu case. The judgment is now expected on Friday morning.
Harish Salve, senior advocate of the Supreme Court, argued that in a particular case a Karnataka legislator who had been convicted in a rape case had been allowed to contest elections by the Karnataka high court.
Communist Party of India's Pannyan Raveendran defeated his Congress rival V S Sivakumar by a margin of over 70,000 votes.
The high court had in 2005 disqualified the legislator on a petition filed by one S S Bagali under the Representation of People's Act.
It cannot be applied to accused who are aggressors.
Board of Control for Cricket in India secretary Anurag Thakur and IPL chairman Rajeev Shukla deposed before the Supreme Court appointed Justice (Retd) RM Lodha Commission on the possible reforms that the board is expected to carry out once the second part of report is released.
The notices came after a petition challenging an amendment that a Member of Parliament or state legislature would not be disqualified from being a member even after being convicted in a criminal case.\n
The Supreme Court Monday transferred to itself all writ petitions filed in the Delhi high court by 10 members of Parliament challenging their expulsion from Parliament in the cash-for-query scam.
The Supreme Court on Monday stayed contempt proceedings against Coke and Pepsi in the Rajasthan high court for their failure to implement the court order to declare contents of their soft drinks.\n\n
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 government provides adequate cash and kind support for the poorest of the poor for survival... ...conditional cash and skilling support for the economically poor to raise their incomes to adequate levels... ...and make functional arrangements for providing unemployment allowance to the vulnerable poor during disasters like the present one.'
'If businesses are focused on de-leveraging, they can hardly be investing. This is the price extracted by investment mistakes during UPA rule, and should have been foreseen. 'But Modi-I must share the blame, for muted reform of the financial sector, partisan policy in telecom, the harm done to exports by an over-priced rupee, and so on,' says T N Ninan.
The provision neither dealt with the power of courts nor it did specifically take away the power of courts to take on record written statements filed beyond the time provided for, the court said.
'The government must provide more funds to enable the armed forces to fight and win tomorrow's wars,' states Brigadier Gurmeet Kanwal (retd).
A total of 946 medals have been announced by the Union home ministry for personnel and officers of Central Armed Police Forces and state police forces, out of which three have been decorated with the President's Police Medal for Gallantry (PPMG) while 177 have been awarded the PMG.
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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.
'All members of the then 2009 Indian Premier League (IPL) governing council are equally responsible for the mess created in the league and singling out Lalit Modi is improper'
'The Modi regime is not willing to use its huge political capital for taking any economic policy measure that it fears might undermine that political strength, says A K Bhattacharya.
Former BCCI secretary Sanjay Jagdale, current IPL Governing Council member Ajay Shirke and Prof R S Shetty, the Board's General Manager (Game Development), deposed before the Supreme Court-appointed Justice Lodha Committee.
Tata Group expects to do some tightrope walking on legal issues in the days ahead.
The SC said that it would examine the question as to whether the Kerala high court can annul the marriage of a Muslim man with a Hindu woman.
Indian men's hockey captain P R Sreejesh has been named as one of the candidates for 2016 Goalkeeper of the Year award of the FIH while Harmanpreet Singh made the grade as one of the 2016 Rising Men Star of the Year nominees. The nominees for the 2016 Hockey Stars Awards, the annual prizes recognising the best players, goalkeepers, rising stars, coaches and umpires in a given calendar year were announced during the Hockey Revolution Part 2 Conference of the International Hockey Federation (FIH) which is currently taking place in Dubai.
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