Supreme Court

Plea in HC to direct CBSE affiliated schools to publish docs on criteria to calculate class 10 marks

Prisoners do not have voting rights: EC tells Delhi HC

7:40 pm August 5, 2019

New Delhi: The Delhi High Court was informed on Monday by the Election Commission of India (ECI) that prisoners do not have voting rights under the Representation of People Act and it has been upheld by the Supreme Court. The poll panel said the right to vote is a statutory right created under Section 62 […]

SC directs Unnao rape survivor to be airlifted to Delhi

2:59 pm August 5, 2019

New Delhi: The Supreme Court directed on Monday that the Unnao rape survivor, who suffered critical injuries when her car was hit by a truck last week, be airlifted from Lucknow and brought to New Delhi for better treatment at the AIIMS. Minutes before the direction, the apex court had deferred the hearing on transfer […]

Record number of 35 candidates in fray for Sri Lanka Presidential elections

Even Trump re-imposing capital punishment: Sirisena on his death penalty order

8:59 pm August 3, 2019

Colombo: Sri Lankan President Maithripala Sirisena has highlighted the importance of imposing capital punishment to prevent crime, saying that even US President Donald Trump has reintroduced the death penalty to execute those convicted of rape and child abuse, according to a media report. Sirisena in June signed the death warrants to hang four drug convicts, […]

TMC govt playing with emotions of Hindus: Adityanath

Knew mediation effort will fail: Adityanath

8:10 pm August 3, 2019

Ayodhya: Visiting here a day after the Supreme Court noted that a mediation panel had not come up with a solution to the Ram Janmabhoomi-Babri Masjid dispute, Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath said he knew that the effort would fail. We knew all along that nothing is going to come out of mediation, he […]

New law on triple talaq challenged in SC

9:55 pm August 2, 2019

New Delhi: The newly enacted law which makes the practice of instant divorce through ‘triple talaq’ among Muslims a punishable offence was challenged in the Supreme Court on Friday. A day after President Ram Nath Kovind gave assent to The Muslim Women (Protection of Rights on Marriage) Act, 2019, ‘Samastha Kerala Jamiathul Ulema’, a religious […]