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

The Supreme Court on Wednesday continued with its rap of the Centre for not taking a clear position in homosexuality case and had a dig at the government to claim “neutrality” on the issue. The apex court described it as a new phenomena.

A score of petitioners challenging the Delhi high court verdict on decriminalising homosexuality in the Supreme Court on Tuesday questioned the “credentials” of NGO Naz Foundation, on whose PIL the order had came.

The Supreme Court’s intervention in the rivers inter-linking case came in the background of an interesting event after the then President A.P.J. Abdul Kalam dwelt on the benefits of the project at great length in his address to the nation on the eve of republic day in 2002.

While closing its 10-year-long monitoring of the ambitious `5 lakh crore river interlinking project conceived by Atal Behari Vajpayee’s NDA government and deemed his dream project, the Supreme Court on Monday ordered the setting up of a multi-member committee to oversee its execution, particularly for river links mentioned in several feasibility reports of the task force.

As the country marched forward with the “baggage” of the pain and suffering of hundreds of families that fell victim to the post-Godhra riots in Gujarat 10 years ago, much of the credit goes to the Su

Why yoga guru Ramdev was held “guilty” of the contributory negligence by the Supreme Court in continuing his agitation in capital’s Ramlila Maidan last year after the government had imposed prohibitor

Enforcing the jurisprudence of prompt legal remedy devised by famous British jurists John Salmond that the laws only come to the aid of “vigilant people not sleepy ones”, the Supreme Court, in an import judgment on the delayed litigation, has said it will be hard to provide relief by the courts to those who “slumber over their rights”.

The appointment of a Monitory Authority to probe all “fake encounters” in Gujarat on Friday ran into a controversy with the SC disapproving the Modi government’s notification for appointing former Bombay HC chief justice K.R. Vyas as its head without consulting the apex court.

The Union government on Thursday appeared to be speaking in different voices in the Supr-eme Court on the issue of legalising homosexuality in the wake of the Delhi high court’s 2009 verdict declaring that “consensual” gay sex was not a criminal offence under Sec. 377 of the IPC, which provides for a life-sentence for any form of “unnatural” sex.
The piquant situation arose during the ongoing hearing before a bench of Justices G.S. Singhvi and S.J.