A Supreme Court bench headed by Justice Aftab Alam on Tuesday directed the Centre to completely phase out the Haj travel subsidy, saying it was against the tenets of Islam.

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A Supreme Court bench headed by Justice Aftab Alam on Tuesday directed the Centre to completely phase out the Haj travel subsidy, saying it was against the tenets of Islam.

After the Supreme Court had refused to extend the deadline for vacating cancelled 122 licences for 2G spectrum by 400 days as demanded by the Centre, the government on Tuesday offered to withdraw its

The Supreme Court’s verdict pronounced in February last laying down guidelines to implementation of the riverlinking project and ordering the Centre to set up a 10-member committee for this purpose has been sought to be reconsidered in a review petition by a group of citizens and environmentalists.

While asking some searching questions to the counsel of former Karnataka chief minister B.S. Yeddyurappa why the CBI investigation should not be ordered against him in three mining related alleged irr

Rejecting two petitions for a judicial inquiry or a SIT probe into the Maoist leader Cherukuri Rajkumar, alias Azad’s, “encounter”, the Supreme Court on Thursday directed the CBI to place before the c

Rejecting two petitions for judicial inquiry or SIT investigation into the Maoist leader Cherukuri Rajkumar, alias Azad’s, “encounter”, the Supreme Court on Thursday directed the CBI to place before the chief judicial magistrate at Adilabad in Andhra Pradesh its investigation report, declaring the encounter as “genuine”.

The Supreme Court on Wednesday refused to stay the Election Commission’s proceedings on a plea for quashing of the election of former Maharasthra chief minister Ashok Shakarrao Chavan for allegedly not submitting the statement of Assembly poll expenses, a mandatory condition under the Representation of People Act.

The Supreme Court on Wednesday finally ordered the release of Italian cargo vessel MT Enrica Lexie, seized by the Kerala police two and a half months ago after its two marine guards shot dead two fishermen off the Indian coast.

The Supreme Court on Wednesday ordered the release of Italian cargo vessel MT Enrica Lexie. Although, the commitment given by the Italian government was “conditional” with senior counsel Harish Salve, appearing for it, submitting that the four marines will have the right to challenge any summon and notice issued by the court or the police respectively in the higher courts.