Lawyers Move SC And Bombay HC Against Withdrawal Of Rs. 500 and 1000 Notes [Read Petition]

A couple of developments have already taken place in the courts after Prime Minister Modi’s surprise announcement of his decision to discontinue recognition of five hundred and thousand-rupee currency notes as legal tender.A writ petition has been filed before the Supreme Court by a lawyer and in Bombay, a couple of lawyers practising in the High Court today mentioned the matter before...

SC Upholds TN Govt’s 5% Relaxation To Reserved Category TET Candidates [Read Judgment]

“By granting relaxation of 5% marks in TET for reserved categories only, the eligibility criterion is neither altered nor is any prejudice caused to the appellants,” it said.The Supreme Court on Wednesday held that the state government cannot be faulted for altering the selection criteria by relaxing marks in favour of reserved category candidates. It upheld relaxation of 5% marks to...

RBI’s FAQ On Withdrawal of Rs.500 and Rs.1000 Notes And Available Remedies

Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced that the five hundred rupee and thousand rupee currency notes presently in use will no longer be legal tender from midnight of 8th November 2016.Read Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs) by Reserve Bank Of India on Withdrawal of Legal Tender Character of the Old High Denomination Bank Notes1. Why is this scheme?The incidence of fake Indian currency notes...

Smog: SC Seeks Emergency Pollution Control Plan By Tomorrow [Read EPCA Report]

"We want to know whether you (Centre) have any disaster management plan. Do you have a policy which deals with graded responses to the situation and provides what action would be taken at which stage? What is the protocol? Now the time has come where we need to have this," SC BENCH.The Supreme Court has expressed concern over the sudden worsening of the pollution levels in Delhi and...

Rs 500 and 1000 currency Not Valid From Midnight: 22 Points You Need To Know [Read Notification]

Prime Minister Narendra Modi Today announced that the five hundred rupee and thousand rupee currency notes presently in use will no longer be legal tender from midnight tonight, that is 8th November 2016.“This means that these notes will not be acceptable for transactions from midnight onwards. The five hundred and thousand rupee notes hoarded by anti-national and anti-social elements...

A Female Child Is Entitled To Enjoy Equal Right Of A Male Child: SC Issues Directions To Curb Female Foeticide [Read Judgment]

The predicament with regard to female foeticide by misuse of modern science and technology has aggravated and enormously affected the sex ratio, said the Court.Supreme Court Today in Voluntary Health Association Vs State of Punjab, has issued additional directions to curb female foeticide by effective implementation of the ‘The Pre-conception and Pre-natal Diagnostic Techniques...

NDTV Ban: It's On Hold. Let Us Wait For Final Stand, Says SC

Let us wait for the centre’s final stand. From newspaper reports we heard it is on hold and they are reconsidering, the Supreme Court today said while adjourning the plea filed by NDTV against the one day ban of its Hindi channel for allegedly revealing “strategically-sensitive information” during the course of its coverage of the anti-terror operations at the Pathankot airbase...

BCCI Moves SC Seeking Release Of Funds

After a evening hearing BCCI allowed BCCI to disburse Rs 58.66 lakh ahead of the first Test match with England in Rajkot starting tomorrow.Setting stage for a fresh confrontation with the Lodha panel, the BCCI today knocked the doors of the Supreme Court, saying there are no funds for the India-England Test series scheduled to start on October 9 in Rajkot.The BCCI urged the SC to direct the...

BCI Writes To PM Modi, Alleging "Back Door Entry" Of Foreign Law Firms [Read Letter]

In a significant development on an issue that has been a topic of contention and much discussion amongst the legal fraternity- the entry of foreign law firms in the country, Bar Council of India Chairman Manan Kumar Mishra has written to Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Union Minister of law and Justice in India Ravi Shankar Prasad saying that some bureaucrats in the law ministry as well as...

Sabarimala: Kerala Govt Now Favours Women’s Entry To The Temple

The Supreme Court was today told by the Kerala government that it favoured the entry of women of all age groups in the historic Sabarimala temple in the state.The counsel for the state government, which had earlier supported the ban on women's entry in the temple in its additional affidavit filed in July this year, told the apex court it will now go by its original response filed in...

Judge Vacancies In AFT Will Be Filled Up : Centre To SC

The Supreme Court has been told by the Centre today that the process for filling up vacancies of judicial members in various Armed Force Tribunal is underway.The Centre was making submission to a bench headed by Chief Justice T S Thakur, which had taken suo motu cognizance of vacancies in various Armed Force Tribunal (AFT).Solicitor General Ranjit Kumar said the representation received by...

NDTV India One-Day Ban Put On Hold

The one-day ban on NDTV's Hindi channel ‘NDTV India’ on Monday was put on hold by Information and Broadcasting (I&B) Minister Venkaiah Naidu after the Supreme Court agreed to hear the TV news channel's appeal on Tuesday against the ban.Last week, NDTV India was ordered to stop broadcasting for 24 hours on Wednesday with the government accusing it of broadcasting sensitive details...