Dhananjay Mahapatra
Indiatimes
New Delhi, DL, India
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‘Seminal issue’: Five judge Supreme Court bench to hear same-sex marriage pleas
India News: The Supreme Court on Monday referred a bunch of pleas seeking legal recognition for same-sex marriages to a five-judge constitution bench for adjudica → Read More
Supreme Court: Why judges' views on 'media bias' are worrying
India News: In EC case, judges accepted petitioners’ arguments on media ‘bias’ without a detailed study → Read More
Supreme Court dismisses PIL for renaming historical places
India News: The Supreme Court on Monday said attempts to erase the imprints of foreign invaders on cities and towns by rechristening them with their ancient ident → Read More
SC finds working of Domestic Violence Act dismal, 4.7 lakh cases pending
India News: NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court on Friday ordered a meeting of Union secretaries of finance, home and child and women development departments with the pr. → Read More
State stand on criminals in polls, Supreme Court tells govt, Election Commission
India News: The Supreme Court on Friday asked the Union government and Election Commission to file their much awaited responses to a PIL seeking debarment of cand → Read More
Court clears tracks for Mumbai-Ahmedabad bullet train
India News: NEW DELHI: Clearing the last hurdle for the Mumbai-Ahmedabad bullet train project, the Supreme Court on Friday rejected Godrej & Boyce’s plea challeng. → Read More
‘Menstrual leave policy decision’: SC asks govt to study need & fallout
India News: Recognising the essentiality for menstrual leave for female students and employees, the Supreme Court on Friday asked the Union government to examine → Read More
Khera: Drama at Delhi airport as Cong’s Khera is deplaned, held; SC gives him bail
India News: NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court on Thursday released Congress spokesperson Pawan Khera on interim bail, hours after he was dramatically deplaned at Delhi. → Read More
Supreme Court counters Uddhav Thackeray camp, says deputy speaker to blame
India News: NEW DELHI: The Uddhav Thackeray-led Sena faction’s reiteration that the Supreme Court’s June 27, 2022 order giving more time to Eknath Shinde-led rebe. → Read More
Sena: Supreme Court refuses to stay EC order on Shiv Sena name, symbol
India News: In a blow to the Uddhav Thackeray faction, the Supreme Court on Wednesday refused to stay the Election Commission’s decision to allot the Shiv Sena pa → Read More
Thackeray: Uddhav Thackeray faction blames SC, Bhagat Singh Koshyari for MVA collapse
The Uddhav Thackeray-led Shiv Sena group on Tuesday told the Supreme Court that the MVA government would have been in office had the SC on June 27 las → Read More
Can't legislate on women's marriage age: Supreme Court
India News: A bench of Chief Justice D Y Chandrachud, and Justices P S Narasimha and J B Pardiwala, while dealing with Ashwini Upadhyay's petition which was trans → Read More
In principle, Centre supports PILs for uniform personal laws
India News: Appearing for Muslim organisations and individuals, Kapil Sibal told a bench of CJI Chandrachud and Justices P S Narasimha and J B Pardiwala he had pr → Read More
2002 Godhra train burning: Convicts cite Rajiv Gandhi assassination case, seek release
India News: A bench of Chief Justice D Y Chandrachud and Justices P S Narasimha and J B Pardiwala asked solicitor general Tushar Mehta, who appeared for the Gujar → Read More
Rebia judgment poses tough question for Supreme Court
India News: NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court on Wednesday said that it faced a Hobson's choice in deciding to either keep intact or amend/erase its 2016 Nabam Rebia j. → Read More
Let speakers deal with disqualifications first, not courts, says Supreme Court
India News: The Supreme Court on Tuesday disagreed with senior advocate Kapil Sibal's proposition that given the inherent bias of speakers towards governing parti → Read More
March of technology can't be stalled, CJs must fall in line, says CJI Chandrachud
India News: Disturbed by the decisions of some HCs to discontinue virtual mode of hearing cases that had debuted during the pandemic, CJI DY Chandrachud on Monday → Read More
Hindenburg-Adani: Centre agrees to Supreme Court-picked panel
India Business News: Confident that the Adani meltdown will have negligible impact on Indian securities markets, the Centre on Monday accepted the Supreme Court's suggesti → Read More
Supreme Court's green bench clears 1 18 projects stuck for over 5 years
India News: Having been known over 30 years for often denying clearances to development projects to protect the environment, the Supreme Court's green bench has n → Read More
Criminalising homosexuality one of many injustices: CJI Chandrachud
India News: Chief Justice of India Dhananjay Chandrachud said on Saturday that criminalisation of homosexuality, which was decriminalised after over seven decades → Read More