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Mamata Banerjee moves SC against EC party symbol freeze
New Delhi: Former West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee has moved the Supreme Court challenging the Election Commission’s decision to freeze the Trinamool Congress’ name and party symbol amid a dispute between…
- Opinions
Constitutional cost of disenfranchisement: Appraising SIR
In constitutional democracies, universal adult suffrage is neither a statutory concession nor an administrative privilege; it is the foundational bedrock of popular sovereignty. When electoral roll sanitisation transitions from an inclusive audit…
- Hate Crime
SC hears plea against woman’s ‘illegal’ detention, deportation
New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Thursday, September 17, issued notice to the Centre while hearing a plea filed by Sahin Akhtar, who alleged his mother was illegally deported to Bangladesh despite…
- India
CBSE opposes Class 6 exemption from three-language rule
New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Thursday, September 17, asked the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) to consider implementing its policy mandating the study of three languages, including two native Indian…
- India
Delhi SIR: SC to hear plea against electoral roll deletions
New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Thursday, September 17, agreed to hear on September 21 a plea against deletion of names from the electoral roll under the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) exercise…
- India
Plea in SC challenges MDR on UPI payments above Rs 2,000
New Delhi: A public interest litigation (PIL) matter has been filed in the Supreme Court, challenging the Centre’s decision to impose a merchant discount rate (MDR) on specified UPI person-to-merchant transactions of…
- India
Odisha rejects Dara Singh’s release plea in Staines murder case
Bhubaneswar: The Odisha government has rejected the plea of Hindutva activist Ravindra Pal alias Dara Singh for premature release from prison in the murder of Australian missionary Graham Staines and his two…
- India
CJP protest: SC refuses panel reconstitution over ‘police excesses’
New Delhi: The Supreme Court has refused to reconstitute a five-member high-powered committee set up to examine alleged police excesses against student protesters in Delhi, underlining that allegations against the panel were…
- Bollywood
Cheque-bounce case: SC gives Rajpal Yadav last chance to pay dues
New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Tuesday gave the last opportunity of two weeks to actor Rajpal Yadav to come out with a concrete proposal to pay an outstanding amount to a…
- Telangana
SC dismisses Telangana govt plea over 40-acre Secunderabad land
Hyderabad: The Supreme Court has rejected a petition filed by the Telangana government against a High Court order involving Shantha Sriram Constructions, noting that the state had not challenged the judgment within…
- Top Stories
Tarun Tejpal surrenders before court, says ‘justice will come’
Panaji: Former Tehelka editor-in-chief Tarun Tejpal surrendered before a Goa court on Monday, September 14, to serve his 10-year rigorous imprisonment sentence in a 2013 sexual assault case. On August 25, the…
- News
Noida DM moves SC against HC reprimand over student’s NSA detention
New Delhi: Gautam Buddh Nagar district magistrate Medha Roopam has moved the Supreme Court against an Allahabad High Court order directing that Rs 5 lakh be deducted from her salary for the…
- Delhi
Delhi HC to pass order on Monday on Vimal Elaichi makers’ plea
New Delhi: The Delhi High Court will pass on Monday, September 14, its order on the point of jurisdiction to entertain a plea by makers of Vimal Elaichi seeking to quash show-cause…
- India
No security yet: Nishu Azad says no action despite SC directions
Hyderabad: The 14-year-old Cockroach Janta Party (CJP) protestor whose father was assaulted during the Jantar Mantar protests by Hindutva worker Swatantra Bhardwaj has claimed that despite Supreme Court intervention, she continues to…
- Opinions
Saharanpur mosque demolition: A state siege on minority rights
On September 5, 2026, a century-old mosque situated within the District Magistrate’s Collectorate complex in Saharanpur, Uttar Pradesh, was completely razed in a pre-dawn operation commencing at approximately 5 am by local…
