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File photo: Former Tamil Nadu minister V Senthil Balaji NEW DELHI: Supreme Court on Monday refused to entertain former Tamil Nadu minister V Senthil Balaji’s plea seeking clarification that the apex court had not barred him from holding public office saying that the order was very clear and he can file application in case he…
NEW DELHI: After resisting for years the release of the answer key immediately after the preliminary examination, UPSC has given in to students’ demands and told Supreme Court it will publish a provisional answer key after the exam “to enhance transparency in its functioning”, and will entertain objections of candidates on discrepancies in the exam…
NEW DELHI: Gitanjali Angmo, wife of climate activist Sonam Wangchuk, moved the Supreme Court on Friday seeking his release.This comes two days after she reached out to President Droupadi Murmu on Wednesday to seek her intervention for the release of the climate activist, who has been lodged in Jodhpur jail in Rajasthan since being taken…
The Department of Financial Services (DFS), in collaboration with the Mediation and Conciliation Project Committee (MCPC) of the Supreme Court, has conducted a 40-hour mediation training programme for presiding officers of Debts Recovery Tribunals (DRTs) and senior executives of public sector banks.The programme, held between September 24 and 28, sought to highlight the growing importance…
NEW DELHI: Supreme Court Friday said a candidate, whose name is registered as a voter in multiple constituencies, can’t contest polls. It dismissed Uttarakhand state election commission’s appeal challenging HC’s interim order that had stayed its circular permitting such persons to take part in panchayat polls. “How can you issue a circular that is contrary…
NEW DELHI: In a decision that could have a salutary bearing on the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code (IBC), Supreme Court on Friday reversed its eyebrow-raising May 2 verdict, directing liquidation of bankrupt Bhushan Power and Steel Limited, to put back in place the National Company Law Appellate Tribunal’s Feb 2020 decision to allow Sajjan-Jindal-led JSW…
NEW DELHI: Supreme Court has said that criminal law cannot become a platform for initiation of vindictive proceedings to settle personal scores and vendettas, and derided the increasing resort to lodging of FIRs to settle civil disputes.While quashing an FIR lodged more than two decades ago for the offence of cheating in a land transaction…
NEW DELHI: After half a century and several rounds of litigation, Supreme Court approved on Wednesday an April 30, 1974, decision of the collector of Dadra and Nagar Haveli to rescind the erstwhile Portuguese govt’s grant of possession rights over land to Indians for cultivation.What rankled a bench of Justices Surya Kant, Dipankar Datta and…
NEW DELHI: Supreme Court on Wednesday ticked off the Union govt for opposing consideration of the plea of condemned prisoner Balwant Singh Rajoana, convicted of killing then Punjab CM Beant Singh in 1995, for commutation of death sentence. Rajoana has petitioned for reprieve on the ground that he has been on death row for nearly…
NEW DELHI: A Supreme Court bench of Justices Surya Kant, Ujjal Bhuyan and N K Singh allowed CBI on Tuesday to register FIRs in six instances of builder-bank nexus allegedly exploiting subvention schemes in the housing sector to harass and fleece thousands of homebuyers while denying them their flats for decades. The order came after…
