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Tuesday, November 4, 2025
TopicSupreme Court of India

Topic: Supreme Court of India

Karnataka judge’s remarks have riled legal community & HC live proceedings now come with disclaimer

The judge's rebuke of a female advocate & comments calling an area in Bangalore 'Pakistan' have gone viral on social media. The Supreme Court has taken suo motu cognisance of the matter.

‘Issue of liberty’: SC grants bail to Kejriwal in liquor policy case, deems CBI custody ‘unjustified’

Kejriwal is set to walk out of jail as he had been granted interim bail in July in the money laundering case by ED. SC says CBI cannot continue detention citing ‘evasive replies’.

Delhi excise policy case: Supreme Court to deliver verdict on Arvind Kejriwal’s bail plea

The apex court had reserved the verdict on 5 September. The Delhi HC had upheld the Delhi CM's arrest by the CBI on 5 August.

Why Chhattisgarh govt now supports ED’s plea for re-trial in PDS scam case, 2 yrs after opposing it

In an affidavit filed before Supreme Court, the months-old state BJP govt has affirmed ED’s charges against 2 senior civil servants who served in erstwhile Bhupesh Baghel regime.

Kolkata rape-murder: SC directs CBI to file fresh status report by 17 Sept

In the Monday hearing, SG Tushar Mehta shared a report in a sealed cover & informed the 3-judge bench that forensic samples had been sent to AIIMS for further investigation.

How Supreme Court’s process of designating senior advocates changed in last 7 yrs & what it is now

Last week, the apex court designated 39 lawyers as senior advocates, setting off rumblings in Bar over those excluded. Court has given coveted tag to a hundred lawyers this year alone.

Centre defends law criminalising Triple Talaq, says ‘practice fatal for institution of marriage’

Responding to a petition in SC seeking to declare the 2019 law unconstitutional, Centre said that it serves 'larger constitutional goals of gender justice and gender equality'.

‘Students must have freedom of choice’ — SC stays Mumbai college ban on ‘hijab, burqa, cap, naqab’

Issuing notice to Chembur Trombay Education Society, which runs N G Acharya and D K Marathe College, bench asked why it didn't ban ’tilak, bindi’ if matter was about religious markers.

‘Should give way to deserving & needy’ — SC asks for ‘creamy layer’ to be excluded from SC/ST reservation

Court has affirmed jurisdiction of states to sub-classify SCs/STs to grant them separate quota within reserved category, says ultimate aim is to realise real equality in the country.

SC upholds states’ rights to levy royalty on minerals extracted from their lands, in 8:1 verdict

CJI Chandrachud, reading out verdict for himself & 7 judges, held Parliament does not have power to tax mineral rights under Constitution. Justice B V Nagarathna gave dissenting views.

On Camera

Pakistan can’t bomb or bargain its way out of the TTP-TLP mess

Among the many problems Pakistan is currently dealing with, the TLP and TTP offer two varying dimensions of the same one.

Kerala’s silent startup surge—work near home, smooth roads, fast internet & diaspora engagement

Once seen as a fading presence on India’s investment & startup picture, the state is slowly moving up the ladder, with policy reforms & infrastructure building.

India & Israel ink agreement to share, co-develop & co-produce advanced defence tech

Agreement signed during 17th Joint Working Group (JWG) on defence cooperation. Defence Secretary Rajesh Kumar Singh met Director General in Israeli Ministry of Defence Amir Baram Tuesday. 

Trump’s trade wars have rewritten powerplay, but India didn’t get the memo

This world is being restructured and redrawn by one man, and what’s his power? It’s not his formidable military. It’s trade. With China, it turned on him.