New Delhi: Amazon’s challenge against Future Group’s $3.4 billion deal with Reliance Industries will see a Supreme Court ruling today, concluding one of the most bitterly fought battles in the world’s only billion-plus retail market open to foreign competition. Here is your 10-point guide to this…
The Supreme Court, while hearing a clutch of petitions, including those filed by the Editors Guild of India, seeking a special probe into the Pegasus spyware scandal involving allegations that opposition leaders, journalists and others were targets of snooping, said “the allegations are serious if the media…
New Delhi: The Supreme Court will hear a petition challenging the appointment of Rakesh Asthana as the Delhi Police Commissioner. A two-member bench of Chief Justice NV Ramana and Justice Surya Kant is expected to hear this matter on Thursday. The petition has been filed by a lawyer – ML Sharma – who…
New Delhi: Chief Justice NV Ramana said today he would not hear the dispute between Andhra Pradesh and Telangana over the sharing of river Krishna waters on legal issues as he “belongs to both states” and urged the two state governments to go for mediation. The Chief Justice indicated that he could…
New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Monday issued a notice to all states and UTs on registration of cases under Section 66A of the IT Act, which was quashed by the court in 2015. A notice has also been issued to the Registrar-General of all High Courts and responses have been sought within four weeks. “The…
New Delhi: The assembly of Aam Aadmi Party-ruled Delhi has passed a resolution against the appointment of former CBI officer Rakesh Asthana as the Delhi Police Commissioner. The resolution has sought a reversal of the appointment from the Union Home Ministry, which controls the Delhi Police. Mr Asthana got the…
Dhanbad, Jharkhand: The death of a judge in Jharkhand on Wednesday in what was initially believed to be a hit-and-run has taken a chilling turn with security footage of the incident pointing at murder. As the incident was raised in the Supreme Court today, Chief Justice of India NV Ramana said he had spoken to…