Supreme Court

UK prime minister Boris Johnson mulls early election over Brexit impasse

Top UK court: Johnson’s suspension of Parliament was illegal

9:16 pm September 24, 2019

LONDON: In a major blow to Prime Minister Boris Johnson, Britain’s highest court ruled Tuesday that his decision to suspend Parliament for five weeks in the crucial countdown to the country’s Brexit deadline was illegal. The unanimous, strongly worded Supreme Court judgment declared Johnson’s order to suspend Parliament “void and of no effect.” The court found that […]

UK Supreme Court to rule on Johnson’s shutdown of Parliament

2:46 pm September 24, 2019

London: Britain’s Supreme Court plans to give its verdict Tuesday on the legality of Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s five-week suspension of Parliament. The case marks a historic confrontation between the prime minister, the courts, and Parliament over their rights and responsibilities. Johnson has refused to say whether he will resign if he is found to […]

Woman arrested for trying to sell newborn in Delhi

Man booked for celebrating girl child’s birth by bursting firecrackers in Chanakyapuri

11:45 pm September 23, 2019

New Delhi: A man celebrating the birth of a girl child in the family by bursting crackers after 10 in the night in Lutyens Zone has been booked for violating a Supreme Court order given last year, police said on Monday. The man identified as Vivek Kumar Gupta, was booked under section 188 of the […]

Acting chief justices appointed to four high courts

6:49 pm September 21, 2019

New Delhi: Following the elevation of chief justices of four high courts as judges of the Supreme Court, acting chief justices have been appointed there, the Law Ministry has said. Separate notifications issued on Friday said justices Rajeev Sharma, Mohammad Rafiq, C V K Abdul Rehim and Dharam Chand Chaudhary have been appointed as acting […]

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UK claims ‘momentum’ in Brexit talks

8:28 pm September 20, 2019

Brussels: Brexit talks are progressing with “momentum”, the British minister in charge of the divorce said Friday after meeting his EU counterpart, despite warnings that a deal was still some way off. After talks in Brussels with EU chief negotiator Michel Barnier, Brexit Minister Stephen Barclay said there was a “shared sense of purpose” to […]