Arunachalam Vaidyanathan

• Supreme Court clears the way for Godhra verdict

  The Supreme Court has said that special courts set up by it can deliver its verdict in the Godhra case - 58 people were killed after a train was set on fire near Godhra railway station on February 27, 2002, triggering massive communal riots across Gujarat.The Supreme Court has also cleared the way for verdicts to be delivered in seven other cases o...

• Supreme Court to hear Ayodhya deferment plea today

  A three-judge bench of the Supreme Court, headed by the Chief Justice of India, will hear a petition and is expected to decide on Tuesday on whether verdict on the Ayodhya land dispute case should be deferred or not.  Last week, on September 23, a Supreme Court interim order had restrained the Allahabad High Court from pronouncing the verdict ...

• PM takes on Supreme Court over free grain order

  His economy of words only amplified what the Prime Minister makes of his government receiving instructions from the Supreme Court on how to tackle the rotting food grain that's become a national sore point. "The Supreme Court should not get into the realm of policy formulation," said Dr Manmohan Singh.A series of reports, most of them by NDTV, have...

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  Moily welcomes judges' decision to declare assets

  After months of debate that rocket the judiciary, there's a landmark judgement. The Supreme Court judges have decided to make their assets public.

• Will Lanka allow aid ship to unload?

  For almost two weeks a ship carrying relief supplies for displaced Lankan Tamils is waiting in the international waters off Chennai.