New Delhi, May 15 (IANS) An NGO Tuesday moved the Supreme Court, seeking the quashing of the rules framed by the Allahabad High Court restricting access to information under the Right to Information Act and tagging a high fee for obtaining it.
Patna, May 11 (IANS) A Right to Information (RTI) activist was shot and seriously wounded Friday by some assailants in Bihar's Muzaffarpur district, police said.
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New Delhi, Oct 22 (IANS) Ten months after his arrest, former telecom minister A. Raja was Saturday charged for criminal breach of trust, bribery, forgery and cheating in the controversial allocation of phone spectrum,...
New Delhi, Oct 12 (IANS) The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) has registered over 10 lakh cases since its inception in 1993, an official said Wednesday....
New Delhi, Sep 6 (IANS) The Supreme Court Monday said that the Gujarat High Court is free to appoint any agency to investigate Ishrat Jahan shootout case....
New Delhi, Sep 6 (IANS) The Supreme Court Monday referred to its five-judge constitution bench a petition challenging certain provisions of the Right to Education Act....
New Delhi, Sep 6 (IANS) The Supreme Court Monday stayed the death sentence of the three men who were given death sentence for attacking Akshardham temple in Ahmedabad in 2002....
New Delhi/Lucknow, Sep 1 (IANS) The Supreme Court Wednesday cleared the decks for the Uttar Pradesh government to create a new district including Amethi parliamentary constituency represented by Congress general secretary Rahul Gandhi.
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New Delhi, Aug 27 (IANS) The Supreme Court has stayed the transfer of investigations into the Ishrat Jahan staged-shootout case from the state police to the apex court-appointed special investigation team (SIT). The Gujarat High Court had ordered the transfer....
Chennai, Aug 25 (IANS) Leader of Opposition in Tamil Nadu and AIADMK General Secretary J. Jayalalithaa said here Wednesday that the appointment of the Chief Information Commissioner (CIC) without consulting her was illegal....
New Delhi, Aug 23 (IANS) Terming bogus claims as the bane of welfare schemes, the Supreme Court has said that the government was duty-bound to take "stern action" to discourage the malpractice.
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New Delhi, Aug 20 (IANS) The central government came under fire in the Supreme Court Friday for yet another flip-flop on the status of the controversial Noida Park - a dream project of Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mayawati....
New Delhi, Aug 18 (IANS) The Supreme Court Wednesday said the recovery of mounting non-performing assets was beyond its jurisdiction and the government and the legislature should deal with it....
New Delhi, Aug 13 (IANS) In a major relief to Congress leader Sajjan Kumar, the Supreme Court Friday stayed the criminal proceedings against him in a 1984 anti-Sikh riots case.
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Gandhinagar, Aug 11 (IANS) The Gujarat High Court Wednesday set aside the termination of 12 ad-hoc fast track court judges and asked the authorities to consider their reinstatement. A plea filed by 25 other judges for reinstatement was rejected....
New Delhi, Aug 11 (IANS) The Delhi High Court Wednesday asked Delhi Chief Secretary Rakesh Mehta to convene a meeting within 15 days with all civic agencies to solve the shortage of potable water in various parts of the city....
New Delhi, Aug 11 (IANS) The Supreme Court Wednesday asked the Chhattisgarh government to respond to a plea seeking the disbanding of state-sponsored vigilante group Salwa Judum set up to counter Maoist violence. ...
New Delhi, Aug 6(IANS) The Delhi High Court Thursday held that the lower courts have no power to prosecute a person for contempt of court.
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Lucknow, Aug 4 (IANS) After winning a 32-year-long court battle following which huge properties were restored to the erstwhile royal of Mahmoodabad by the apex court in 2005, an amendment in the enemy property law - related to those who migrated to Pakistan during partition - has brought him back to square one....
New Delhi, Aug 3 (IANS) Hearing a plea seeking arrest of a politician's musclemen, the Supreme Court Tuesday said policing is not a part of its mandate and it could not help if its orders were not being executed by the law enforcing agencies.
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