Up Government Moves Supreme Court

UP government moved the Supreme Court challenging the Allahabad High Court order quashing its draft notification on the urban local body elections and directing the state to hold the polls without reservation for the Other Backward Classes.

Congress leader Randeep Surjewala on Thursday moved the Supreme Court challenging the Union government's ordinances extending the tenures of Enforcement Directorate (ED) and Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) chiefs from two to up to five years.

Madras High Court posed a series of questions to Tamil Nadu government over its setting up of a committee to look into impact of NEET, asking if it had obtained permission of Supreme Court and whether the move would not violate an top court ruling.

Siddique Kappan, jailed journalist, to be shifted to AIIMS or any Delhi government hospital for treatment: Supreme Court to UP government

Only a "citizen" can move Supreme Court under Article 32 to claim fundamental rights and a state cannot invoke this provision, the Punjab government has told the Supreme Court while seeking dismissal of plea filed by Uttar Pradesh government seeking custody of gangster Mukhtar Ansari.

A decade-old legal battle between Silicon Valley giants Oracle and Google over software rights moves to the Supreme Court Wednesday, in a case with enormous implications for copyright in the digital era.

The Supreme Court today sharply rebuked the Department of Telecommunications (DoT) for demanding Rs 4 lakh crore from state-run firms and accused it of misusing an earlier judgment. "This is wholly and totally impermissible," the court said, referring to what the government's telecom department has demanded from Public Sector Units (PSUs) like Oil ...

The Yogi Adityanath government's "name and shame" campaign came to an abrupt halt today as the Allahabad High Court ordered that all posters and hoardings naming those accused of violence during protests against the controversial citizenship law be immediately removed. Citing the Right to Privacy as a fundamental human right recognised by the Unite...

All petitions related to Jammu and Kashmir, where massive security restrictions are in place since the government scrapped special status to the state under Article 370, were today put off by a day by the Supreme Court, which said they would be taken up by a Constitution bench from Tuesday.

A batch of petitions challenging the government's move to scrap special status of Jammu and Kashmir will come up for hearing in the Supreme Court today. While the National Conference and others had moved the top court, terming the government action - including bifurcation of Jammu and Kashmir as illegal and unconstitutional, the Executive Editor of...

The government today asked the Supreme Court for permission to hand over a part of the land near the disputed temple-mosque site in Ayodhya to the Ram Janmabhoomi Nyas or the trust overseeing the Ram temple plan, in a move that is big on optics ahead of the national election due by May. The petition filed yesterday mostly showcases the BJP-led gove...

The CBI's number two officer Rakesh Asthana has questioned in the Supreme Court the government's move to send him on compulsory leave along with his boss Alok Verma - the man he has accused of corruption. Mr Asthana's petition, filed just moments before the top court's hearing on CBI director Alok Verma's petition, was not taken up by the top court...

The CBI's warring top two, Alok Verma and his deputy Rakesh Asthana, were sent on leave and several officers were transferred in a stunning overnight 'coup' by the government that saw an interim chief taking charge of the country's top investigating agency at 1.45 am last night. M Nageswar Rao's first act after his late-night promotion was to sign ...

Is the central government trying to create a surveillance state? The Supreme Court asked the question today on hearing a writ by Trinamool Congress legislator Mahua Maitra against the social media hub that the centre plans to set up to monitor social media activity.

In a surprise move, BSP chief Mayawati today vacated her second government bungalow in Lucknow's upscale locality that had been her home for years.

UP government moved the Supreme Court challenging the Allahabad High Court order quashing its draft notification on the urban local body elections and directing the state to hold the polls without reservation for the Other Backward Classes.

Congress leader Randeep Surjewala on Thursday moved the Supreme Court challenging the Union government's ordinances extending the tenures of Enforcement Directorate (ED) and Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) chiefs from two to up to five years.

Madras High Court posed a series of questions to Tamil Nadu government over its setting up of a committee to look into impact of NEET, asking if it had obtained permission of Supreme Court and whether the move would not violate an top court ruling.

Siddique Kappan, jailed journalist, to be shifted to AIIMS or any Delhi government hospital for treatment: Supreme Court to UP government

Only a "citizen" can move Supreme Court under Article 32 to claim fundamental rights and a state cannot invoke this provision, the Punjab government has told the Supreme Court while seeking dismissal of plea filed by Uttar Pradesh government seeking custody of gangster Mukhtar Ansari.

A decade-old legal battle between Silicon Valley giants Oracle and Google over software rights moves to the Supreme Court Wednesday, in a case with enormous implications for copyright in the digital era.

The Supreme Court today sharply rebuked the Department of Telecommunications (DoT) for demanding Rs 4 lakh crore from state-run firms and accused it of misusing an earlier judgment. "This is wholly and totally impermissible," the court said, referring to what the government's telecom department has demanded from Public Sector Units (PSUs) like Oil ...

The Yogi Adityanath government's "name and shame" campaign came to an abrupt halt today as the Allahabad High Court ordered that all posters and hoardings naming those accused of violence during protests against the controversial citizenship law be immediately removed. Citing the Right to Privacy as a fundamental human right recognised by the Unite...

All petitions related to Jammu and Kashmir, where massive security restrictions are in place since the government scrapped special status to the state under Article 370, were today put off by a day by the Supreme Court, which said they would be taken up by a Constitution bench from Tuesday.

A batch of petitions challenging the government's move to scrap special status of Jammu and Kashmir will come up for hearing in the Supreme Court today. While the National Conference and others had moved the top court, terming the government action - including bifurcation of Jammu and Kashmir as illegal and unconstitutional, the Executive Editor of...

The government today asked the Supreme Court for permission to hand over a part of the land near the disputed temple-mosque site in Ayodhya to the Ram Janmabhoomi Nyas or the trust overseeing the Ram temple plan, in a move that is big on optics ahead of the national election due by May. The petition filed yesterday mostly showcases the BJP-led gove...

The CBI's number two officer Rakesh Asthana has questioned in the Supreme Court the government's move to send him on compulsory leave along with his boss Alok Verma - the man he has accused of corruption. Mr Asthana's petition, filed just moments before the top court's hearing on CBI director Alok Verma's petition, was not taken up by the top court...

The CBI's warring top two, Alok Verma and his deputy Rakesh Asthana, were sent on leave and several officers were transferred in a stunning overnight 'coup' by the government that saw an interim chief taking charge of the country's top investigating agency at 1.45 am last night. M Nageswar Rao's first act after his late-night promotion was to sign ...

Is the central government trying to create a surveillance state? The Supreme Court asked the question today on hearing a writ by Trinamool Congress legislator Mahua Maitra against the social media hub that the centre plans to set up to monitor social media activity.

In a surprise move, BSP chief Mayawati today vacated her second government bungalow in Lucknow's upscale locality that had been her home for years.