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TopicSupreme Court

Topic: Supreme Court

POCSO vs teen romance: As SC reviews age of consent, NCRB data shows 9 out of 10 youth get acquitted

Experts suggest that rather than a blanket law, courts should be empowered to deal with age of consent on a case-to-case basis.

SC quashes govt waiver exempting schools, colleges, hostels from prior environmental clearance

New Delhi: The Supreme Court Tuesday quashed a government notification partially to set aside the exemption given to industrial sheds and educational institutions from...

Supreme Court empowers pollution control boards to levy preventive damages for environmental harm

SC reaffirms 'polluter pays' principle while hearing plea against Delhi HC order which said pollution boards lack power to levy penalties or damages for environmental damages.

SC in rare move orders Allahabad HC to bar judge from hearing criminal cases till end of tenure

New Delhi: In a rare act of judicial censure, the Supreme Court on Monday ordered the Allahabad High Court not to allocate criminal work...

An SC verdict shielded Shibu Soren in ‘JMM bribery case’ of 1990s, but his own family undid the ruling

The genesis of this case lies in a no-confidence motion moved against the PV Narasimha Rao government in July 1993.

Supreme Court slams UP govt for ‘clandestine manner’ of diverting Banke Bihari Temple’s funds

New Delhi: The Yogi Adityanath-led Uttar Pradesh Government Monday came under criticism for “the clandestine manner” in which it secured permission from the Supreme...

‘True Indian wouldn’t say this’: SC raps Rahul Gandhi over China claim, stays defamation case

New Delhi: How do you know China occupied 2,000 square kilometres of Indian territory? If you were a true Indian, you would not say...

Over 90 laws still discriminate against people with leprosy, SC calls for ending ‘embarrassing’ legacy

The court directed all states & UTs to urgently identify & repeal outdated & discriminatory provisions. It has granted them two weeks to make effective changes.

SC stays Bombay HC’s verdict that declared Mumbai’s Kanjurmarg land ‘protected forest’

Bombay HC restored the status of 120 hectares of land in Kanjurmarg as a 'protected forest', allowing the land to be used as a garbage landfill.

On Camera

Postcards from Hyderabad—stories Europeans told about the city

For all their colonial underpinnings, postcards from Hyderabad also inadvertently preserve a trace of local memory: a glimpse of a street, a face, a forgotten name.

Navigating Trump’s tariffs is no child’s play. Indian toymakers are losing out on orders, enquiries

Indian toymakers are now exploring new markets, but they want govt to negotiate a trade deal with US soon, introduce incentives and subsidies to make the industry more competitive.

What is Project Sudarshan Chakra, announced by Modi from ramparts of Red Fort

The project is meant to be a ‘protective shield that will keep expanding’, the PM said. It is on the lines of the ‘Golden Dome’ announced by Trump, it is learnt.

War of IAF, PAF doctrines: As Pakistan obsesses over numbers, India embraces risk, wins

Now that both IAF and PAF have made formal claims of having shot down the other’s aircraft in the 87-hour war in May, we can ask a larger question: do such numbers really matter?