Supreme Court On Government Ads

Hearing the Patanjali Ayurved misleading ads case, the Supreme Court has asked the government why it omitted Rule 170 from the Drugs and Magical Remedies Act, or DMR, which prohibits advertising of medicines as products with "magical" abilities.

Patanjali Ads Case: A furious Supreme Court on Wednesday ripped into the Uttarakhand government's drug licencing authority, demanding to know why and how it failed to act against misleading ads floated by Baba Ramdev's Patanjali Ayurved.

Government "sitting with eyes closed", must take action, says Supreme Court on Patanjali "misleading and false" ads case

The Supreme Court today yet again delivered a sharp rebuke during the hearing on the air pollution in Delhi and nearby cities as it sought an action plan from the state government by tomorrow evening.

Freedom of speech on social media should not be curbed and any move to do so may invite litigation, the government's top law officer has said, adding that it is unbecoming of a "healthy democracy". The Supreme Court does initiate contempt cases but only in the rarest of rare cases, Attorney General KK Venugopal told NDTV.

Republic TV's Arnab Goswami's was granted interim bail in a 2018 abetment to suicide case by the Supreme Court on Wednesday. A two-judge bench of Justices DY Chandrachud and Indira Banerjee pulled up the Maharashtra government over the case against the TV anchor as they heard the petition through video conferencing. The hearing comes two days after...

Passengers must be paid full refund for air tickets booked during the coronavirus lockdown, the government told the Supreme Court on Saturday adding that if the airlines are unable to pay fliers will get credit shell up to March 31 next year.

Money collected under the PM CARES Fund for the coronavirus pandemic need not be transferred to the National Disaster Response Fund (NDRF), the Supreme Court said today, adding that funds collected by the PM Cares Fund are those of charitable trusts and "entirely different". The government is free to transfer money to the disaster response fund if ...

The Uttar Pradesh government has agreed before the Supreme Court to rework a committee to investigate the death of Vikas Dubey, the Uttar Pradesh gangster who was shot dead earlier this month as he tried to escape police custody following a car accident. The top court had asked the state government to consider adding a former Supreme Court judge an...

Senior BJP leader Devendra Fadnavis on Thursday wrote a letter to Maharashtra Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray, urging him to ensure that the state government's advertisements carry Prime Minister Narendra Modi's photographs in keeping with the Supreme Court orders.

The Delhi government's scheme allowing women to travel for free on the Metro network has come under heavy criticism from the Supreme Court for its potential to add to cost overruns.

The situation in Jammu and Kashmir is "very sensitive" andreasonable time should be given to government to ensure normalcy, Supreme Court said today.

The Supreme Court today rejected the government's objections to the elevation of two judges to the top court, stressing that merit should be considered above seniority. The Supreme Court collegium, or panel of five senior most judges, reiterated its April 12 decision to recommend Justices Aniruddha Bose and AS Bopanna for the top court.

The action of petitioners who wanted a review of the verdict in the Rafale case brought classified documents into public domain, the Centre told the Supreme Court today. It put national security at risk and such unauthorised photocopying of secret documents amounts to theft, the Centre said, targeting The Hindu newspaper over its investigative stor...

The Supreme Court on Friday sought response from the Information and Broadcasting Ministry and six states on a plea by an Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) lawmaker, alleging that advertisements are being issued at government expanses for political purposes to benefit the ruling party.

Hearing the Patanjali Ayurved misleading ads case, the Supreme Court has asked the government why it omitted Rule 170 from the Drugs and Magical Remedies Act, or DMR, which prohibits advertising of medicines as products with "magical" abilities.

Patanjali Ads Case: A furious Supreme Court on Wednesday ripped into the Uttarakhand government's drug licencing authority, demanding to know why and how it failed to act against misleading ads floated by Baba Ramdev's Patanjali Ayurved.

Government "sitting with eyes closed", must take action, says Supreme Court on Patanjali "misleading and false" ads case

The Supreme Court today yet again delivered a sharp rebuke during the hearing on the air pollution in Delhi and nearby cities as it sought an action plan from the state government by tomorrow evening.

Freedom of speech on social media should not be curbed and any move to do so may invite litigation, the government's top law officer has said, adding that it is unbecoming of a "healthy democracy". The Supreme Court does initiate contempt cases but only in the rarest of rare cases, Attorney General KK Venugopal told NDTV.

Republic TV's Arnab Goswami's was granted interim bail in a 2018 abetment to suicide case by the Supreme Court on Wednesday. A two-judge bench of Justices DY Chandrachud and Indira Banerjee pulled up the Maharashtra government over the case against the TV anchor as they heard the petition through video conferencing. The hearing comes two days after...

Passengers must be paid full refund for air tickets booked during the coronavirus lockdown, the government told the Supreme Court on Saturday adding that if the airlines are unable to pay fliers will get credit shell up to March 31 next year.

Money collected under the PM CARES Fund for the coronavirus pandemic need not be transferred to the National Disaster Response Fund (NDRF), the Supreme Court said today, adding that funds collected by the PM Cares Fund are those of charitable trusts and "entirely different". The government is free to transfer money to the disaster response fund if ...

The Uttar Pradesh government has agreed before the Supreme Court to rework a committee to investigate the death of Vikas Dubey, the Uttar Pradesh gangster who was shot dead earlier this month as he tried to escape police custody following a car accident. The top court had asked the state government to consider adding a former Supreme Court judge an...

Senior BJP leader Devendra Fadnavis on Thursday wrote a letter to Maharashtra Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray, urging him to ensure that the state government's advertisements carry Prime Minister Narendra Modi's photographs in keeping with the Supreme Court orders.

The Delhi government's scheme allowing women to travel for free on the Metro network has come under heavy criticism from the Supreme Court for its potential to add to cost overruns.

The situation in Jammu and Kashmir is "very sensitive" andreasonable time should be given to government to ensure normalcy, Supreme Court said today.

The Supreme Court today rejected the government's objections to the elevation of two judges to the top court, stressing that merit should be considered above seniority. The Supreme Court collegium, or panel of five senior most judges, reiterated its April 12 decision to recommend Justices Aniruddha Bose and AS Bopanna for the top court.

The action of petitioners who wanted a review of the verdict in the Rafale case brought classified documents into public domain, the Centre told the Supreme Court today. It put national security at risk and such unauthorised photocopying of secret documents amounts to theft, the Centre said, targeting The Hindu newspaper over its investigative stor...

The Supreme Court on Friday sought response from the Information and Broadcasting Ministry and six states on a plea by an Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) lawmaker, alleging that advertisements are being issued at government expanses for political purposes to benefit the ruling party.