A Vaidyanathan With Afp Inputs

• Lawyer challenges Food Security Ordinance in Supreme Court

  A lawyer has challenged the contentious Food Security Ordinance in the Supreme Court, terming it as "illegal". The Centre's ambitious welfare programme is now a law after receiving President Pranab Mukherjee's assent on Friday.

• Govt in trouble in Supreme Court for differing stands on gay sex

  The government was pulled up in the Supreme Court today for the many different stands it has taken in court on whether gay sex is unconstitutional.