In an interesting case arising out of a dispute between Church of North India and the Union government on the control of a building belonging to the East India Company, which was instrumental in estab

Terming the Planning Commission’s yardsticks for determining poverty in the country as “impossible” for the subsistence of any person, the Supreme Court on Saturday directed the Centre to earmark 10 million tonnes of food grains exclusively for the poorest of the poor, including those living in the 150 most poor districts and accounting for the majority of the 3,000 malnutrition deaths every day.

Though it might have come a bit too late but the Supreme Court in its order on food security for poor on Saturday lavished praise on the outgoing DMK-led government in Tamil Nadu for running the best public distribution system in the country. A bench of Justices Dalveer Bhandari not only praised the Tamil Nadu government but asked the Centre to emulate the system evolved by it and make the same applicable in other states.

The Supreme Court on Wednesday rejected the CBI’s “curative” petition in the Bhopal gas tragedy case, upholding its 1996 verdict modifying the charges against Union Carbide India Ltd managing director Keshub Mahindra and other executives, but gave the agency liberty to bring fresh evidence against them before the sessions judge to slap more stringent charges under IPC provisions to seek enhanced sentences.

The Supreme Court on Monday stayed the Allahabad high court’s judgment in Ayodhya title suit case and questioned the verdict partitioning the 2.77 acres of land on which the disputed Ram Janmabhoomi-Babri Masjid structure once stood between Hindus and Muslims when none of the parties had sought division of the property.

In the backdrop of increasing financial scams in the country, the Supreme Court has in an important verdict ruled that a person cannot claim immunity from prosecution in such cases merely on returning the swindled money as the law of the land does not “exonerate” a person from criminal liability once a prima facie case is made out against him.

Continuing its tough stance against illegal mining in Karnataka the Supreme Court on Friday ordered fresh demarcation of ninety-nine mining leases and suspended the operation by one company after finding that more than 1,081 hectares of precious forests had been eaten up by them over the years.

The Supreme Court on Thursday expressed dissatisfaction over the income-tax department’s probe report on the 2G scam against some telecom companies and their heads, describing it as a “sketchy” one, a

A bench of Justices G.S. Singhvi and A.K.

The Supreme Court on Wednesday reserved its judgement in the black money case after a marathon hearing stretching several sessions during the past six months when the government came under fire on numerous occasions for the “failure” of its agencies to investigate country’s biggest unaccounted money trail allegedly involving