Supreme Court

Identify private hospitals to treat COVID-19 patients for free or at nominal cost: SC to Centre

7:38 pm May 27, 2020

New Delhi: The Supreme Court Wednesday asked the Centre to identify private hospitals where COVID-19 infected patients could get treatment for free or at a nominal cost. A bench headed by Chief Justice S A Bobde, hearing the matter via video-conferencing, observed that there are private hospitals which have been given land either free of […]

No more demand for Shramik Special trains, says Railways

5 special trains to bring back 5,000 stranded Odias

8:11 pm May 9, 2020

Bhubaneswar: Five special trains will start journey from three states on Saturday to bring back 5,000 stranded Odia people, a day after the Supreme Court allowed the return of migrants to Odisha, officials said here. The Supreme Court on Friday stayed an interim order of the Orissa High Court which had asked the state government […]

Goswami seeks stay to probe by Mumbai police in TRP scam

Supreme Court grants 3-week protection to journalist Arnab Goswami

4:48 pm April 24, 2020

New Delhi: The Supreme Court Friday granted protection against any coercive steps for three weeks to Republic TV editor-in-chief Arnab Goswami in connection with some FIRs lodged against him in various states for alleged defamatory statements made during the news shows on recent Palghar mob-lynching of three persons including two saints in Maharashtra. A bench […]

SC rejects plea against PM CARES Fund

12:18 am April 14, 2020

New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Monday refused to entertain a plea seeking quashing of the decision to set up the PM CARES Fund, where people can donate money, to deal with the situation arising out of the COVID-19 pandemic. A bench headed by Chief Justice S A Bobde described the PIL filed by lawyer […]

SC to hear PIL against setting up of PM CARES Fund on Monday

4:57 pm April 12, 2020

New Delhi: The Supreme Court would hear a PIL seeking quashing of the Centre’s decision to set up the PM CARES Fund to deal with the situation arising out of the COVID-19 pandemic, where citizens can donate money, on Monday. On March 28, the Centre set up the Prime Minister’s Citizen Assistance and Relief in […]