The SC ruled that Karnataka will now have an enhanced share of 14.75 tmcft water per year while Tamil Nadu will get 404.25 tmcft, which will be 14.75 tmcft less than what was allotted by the tribunal in 2007.
The 1994 judgment envisaged status quo only on the 2.77 acres of disputed area, the Centre pleaded.
CBI had started preliminary inquiry into the deal on January 4, 2011 and nine months later on October 9 had registered the FIR.
Besides the Centre, the varsity administration had also filed a separate plea against the high court verdict on the issue.
The Haryana government has filed in the Supreme Court the Justice S N Dhingra commission's inquiry report that relates to alleged irregularities in land deals, including some linked to Congress president Sonia Gandhi's son-in-law Robert Vadra.
Criticising the high court verdict on partition of disputed land at Ayodhya and terming it 'strange', the apex court said that the partition of disputed land had "opened a litany of litigation.".
The application said that CBI had the information that Quattrocchi was held in Argentina since Febraury 8 but it maintained a discreet silence even when a matter relating to him was heard before the apex Court on February 12.
The Supreme Court on Monday sought a status report from Haryana government on the plea of Delhi government seeking resumption of water supply to the national capital.
The Supreme Court on Friday agreed to examine the plea for grant of citizenship or refugee status to thousands of displaced persons, mostly in Assam, of minority communities like Hindus, Buddhists, Sikhs and Christians due to their alleged religious persecution in Bangladesh
SC took note of Centre's statement that it was reconsidering the notification.
The committee has to consider a wide range of issues relating to the national anthem, and have extensive discussions with various ministries.
The government told the apex court that the decision whether or not to allow refugees to settle in the country was best left to the Executive.
The Supreme Court on Monday asked the government to refrain from taking any "coercive steps" against Bharti Airtel, accused of illegally providing intra-circle roaming facilities in seven circles where it did not have the licences for the 3G spectrum.
It was the relentless pursuit of justice over a decade by a group of senior citizens that resulted in the Supreme Court's order for demolition of the illegal 40-storey twin towers of a real estate group in Noida.
The Supreme Court on Tuesday sought from the Centre and the Rajasthan government their reports on latest status of probe into the alleged illegal sale of Army weapons meant for personal use by its personnel and issuance of licences for it to dubious persons.
Law Minister Ashwani Kumar's fate hung in balance as the Supreme Court takes on record on Tuesday CBI Director's affidavit and the agency's status report on the coal blocks allocation scam that was shared with the minister and senior officials of PMO and Coal ministry.
The CBI in its report had alleged that Thakur is an influential person and a mobile phone was recovered from him inside the jail where he is currently lodged under judicial custody.
The state govt said that celibate status of deity cannot be a ground for barring entry of women.
The submission was vehemently opposed by senior advocate C S Vaidyanathan, representing deity 'Ram Lalla', who said: "This is totally unwarranted".
The Supreme Court on Thursday stayed the release of three convicts in the Rajiv Gandhi assassination case by the Tamil Nadu government, saying there have been procedural lapses on the part of the state.
70-plus years after Independence, 'Hindu India, metamorphosised as 'Hindutva India', is proving the British right -- and for all the wrong reasons. Mohan Bhagwat should have answers for the why of it, says N Sathiya Moorthy.
'We must be careful because China has not given its design in Eastern Ladakh.'
The apex court imposed a fine of Rs 50,000 on the Union women and child development ministry.
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.
'Is baar vote jati par nahi, kaam par milega.'
CBI not to need prior approval to probe corrupt govt officials.
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.
A bench comprising Justices A R Dave, Kurian Joseph and Amitava Roy asked the Italian authority to give an undertaking to abide by the conditions under which Latorre was allowed to leave India.
The Centre and several state governments on Tuesday came in for sharp criticism by the Supreme Court for their failure to file status reports on the issue of missing children, with the bench saying that nobody seemed to be concerned about them. The apex court also came down heavily on the chief secretaries of Arunachal Pradesh, Gujarat and Tamil Nadu for their failure to comply with its order to be present before it on Tuesday on the issue.
SC seeks responses from Rajasthan, Haryana and Uttar Pradesh.
A bench comprising Chief Justice V N Khare, Justice S B Sinha and Justice A R Lakshmanan directed the state government to file in a sealed cover a report detailing the status of each of these cases and the witnesses named there in by October 31.
The Supreme Court on Monday ordered replacement of "old and worn out" tarpaulin sheet, ropes and other material with new ones.
The Centre on Tuesday said it has accepted the recommendations of an expert committee which has found 44 deemed universities unfit for the status but left it to the Supreme Court for appropriate course of action against them.
The National Commission for Scheduled Castes on Friday accused policemen of raping and killing the Lakhimpur teenager, even as the Uttar Pradesh government filed a status report before the Allahabad high court on the Crime Branch-Criminal Investigation Department probe into the incident. The commission, which had visited Lakhimpur Kheri recently to inquire into the death of the 14-year-old girl in Nighasan police station, spoke to the parents of the victim.
Section 375 (rape) of IPC has an exception clause which says "sexual intercourse or sexual acts by a man with his own wife, the wife not being under fifteen years of age, is not rape."
The sacked sailor had undergone the surgery in August last year at a hospital in Mumbai while on leave.
Kejriwal said Singh's "gestures" showed that he was satisfied with his view.
The SC asked if a roving inquiry could be ordered into the 'issue of consent' between two adults who married at will.
"We have to make government responsible for this," the bench said and asked, "Why can't govt machinery stop stubble burning?"
The Ministry of Law and Justice, in its affidavit, referred to constitutional principles like gender equality, secularism, international covenants, religious practices and marital law prevalent in various Islamic countries to drive home the point that the practice of triple talaq and polygamy needed to be adjudicated upon afresh by the apex court.
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