In a significant statement, Chief Minister Omar Abdullah on Thursday said his government was functioning independently and dismissed reports of being under pressure from the Centre, Raj Bhawan, or any political leaders, including those from the BJP.
The Supreme Court on Wednesday granted the Punjab government time until January 2, 2025, to comply with its December 20 order to provide medical aid and shift farmers' leader Jagjit Singh Dallewal, who has been on a ‘fast-unto-death’ since November 26, to a hospital.
The Supreme Court on Tuesday deferred till January 2 the hearing on a contempt plea seeking action against the Chief Secretary of Punjab for not complying with its earlier orders, where the Punjab government was directed to hospitalise farmer leader Jagjit Singh Dallewal.
Chief Minister Sukhwinder Singh Sukhu has said that he will meet the Union Ministers to release the aid to Himachal under the Post Disaster Need Assessment (PDNA).
The Supreme Court on Thursday directed the states falling in the National Capital Region to constitute teams of officials from police and revenue departments to ensure strict enforcing of the measures under Stage 4 of the Graded Response Action Plan (GRAP) to combat and curb air-pollution in the national capital.
This Sunday will see another spontaneous protest on streets of Kolkata, suburbs and across the country, a call to ‘reclaim the night’.
It is disconcerting that the Election Commission of India (ECI), the mainstay of free and fair elections, is suffering from a credibility crisis. On the one hand, the public trust in the ECI is dipping.
Dismissing the PIL by advocate B L Jain, a bench of Chief Justice D Y Chandrachud, Justice J B Pardiwala, and Justice Manoj Misra said that the PIL was clearly a case of political interest litigation.
The Supreme Court on Friday flagged the delay in processing remission pleas of convicts lodged in prisons in the national capital when Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal himself is in jail in the excise policy scam and cannot sign official files from Tihar Jail.
The Supreme Court on Friday refused to entertain a plea filed by Sandip Ghosh, the former principal of Kolkata's R.G. Kar Medical College and Hospital where a woman doctor was found raped and murdered last month
