Though there is a general consensus among the states that the ambitious Rs 5.6 lakh crore rivers interlinking project would transform the economic face of the country unimaginably but some states through which the major rivers flow have given a “qualified” approval raising the question of federalism, the Supreme Court in its order has noted.

The Supreme Court approved “in camera” hearings in the Aarushi Talwar murder trial, now on in a Ghaziabad court, to “uphold the majesty of the law” and keep in mind the “sensitivities” of Aarushi’s pa

Though the 2G issue has become the main reason for the political confrontation between the Congress and BJP with communications minister Kapil Sibal blaming the NDA for the “faulty” first-come-first-serve policy on allocation of spectrum, the UPA government’s review petition to the apex court, ironically, is all praise for both the polices introduced by BJP ministers Pramod Mahajan and Arun Shourie respectively.

Rejecting Gujarat government’s plea for giving it some time to resolve the controversy regarding appointment of the chairman of Monitoring Authority to investigate 19 alleged “fake encounters” in the state, the Supreme Court on Friday named its former judge H.S. Bedi as the chief of the probe body.

Former communications minister A. Raja on Friday joined the government to seek a review of the Supreme Court’s verdict cancelling 122 licences for 2G spectrum allocated by him in 2008, though the reasons for seeking the review cited by him and the Centre were entirely different.

The Supreme Court on Friday came down heavily on former Mumbai Congress president Kripashankar Singh for allegedly indulging in a dubious exercise of “bench hunting” and declined immediate relief to him in the ongoing investigation in the disproportionate assets case against him.

The Supreme Court on Friday rejected the plea of city’s dentist couple Rajesh and Nupur Talwar to transfer the trial for the alleged murder of their teen age daughter Aarushi and domestic help to Patiala House Court and ruled that special CBI judge at Ghaziabad would continue to hear the case.

The UPA government, coming under attack from the Supreme Court in its two crucial verdicts in the 2G case, on Thursday filed two separate petitions for review and clarification of the same. The review petition sought a re-look into the first verdict on the issue of sanction for prosecution of former communications minister A. Raja, which was to be granted by the Prime Minister.

In a new twist to the homosexuality case, an association of the parents of LGBT people on Thursday admitted in the Supreme Court that the Delhi high court verdict on decriminalising gay sex had come only on “hypothesis” and was not based on any specific case of violation of the right to privacy of gays brought before it.

Not satisfied with ‘incomplete’ data on HIV/AIDS affected people in India, as it had no reference to homosexuals, the Supreme Court on Thursday asked the government to submit fresh details on LGBT (le