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Criminal cases: SC directs states to frame media briefing policies

New Delhi, Jan. 22 -- The Supreme Court has directed states to frame and notify comprehensive media briefing policies for criminal cases within three months in a move aimed at preventing media trials,... Read More


SC restrains Punjab govt from taking action affecting Punjab Kesari printing

New Delhi, Jan. 21 -- The Supreme Court on Tuesday restrained the Punjab government from taking any coercive action that could disrupt the publication of the Punjab Kesari newspaper after the media gr... Read More


Tiger Global's $1.6 billion Flipkart exit taxable in India: Supreme Court

New Delhi, Jan. 16 -- The Supreme Court on Thursday ruled that capital gains arising from American investment firm Tiger Global's $1.6-billion stake sale in Flipkart to Walmart in 2018 are taxable in ... Read More


RWA can't intervene in developer insolvency cases: Supreme Court

New Delhi, Jan. 16 -- A society or resident welfare association (RWA) has no legal right to intervene at the stage where a financial creditor seeks to trigger insolvency proceedings against a real est... Read More


True equality at the workplace only when disability rights are core part of CSR: Supreme Court

New Delhi, Jan. 15 -- True equality at the workplace can be achieved only when disability rights are treated as a core part of corporate social responsibility (CSR), the Supreme Court has held, orderi... Read More


No proof of cash found in house, justice Varma tells Lok Sabha committee

New Delhi, Jan. 15 -- Allahabad high court judge justice Yashwant Varma, who is facing impeachment proceedings following reports of unaccounted cash found at his official residence in Delhi last year,... Read More


Committee on digital arrests looks at fixing liability for citizens' losses

New Delhi, Jan. 14 -- The Centre has constituted a high-level Inter-Departmental Committee to tackle digital arrest scams, with the panel deciding in its first meeting that victims should not bear los... Read More


Temples of justice cannot become fertile ground for corruption: SC

New Delhi, Jan. 14 -- The Supreme Court on Tuesday strongly condemned the "perversity" arising from a purported complicity between a judicial officer and a court employee that led to the eviction of a... Read More


SC warns states of 'heavy compensation' for every stray dog bite, death

New Delhi, Jan. 14 -- The Supreme Court on Tuesday observed that it may impose "heavy compensation" on states for every dog bite and every death caused by stray dogs, while also holding dog feeders ac... Read More


Corruption is a moral cancer: Justice Nagarathna

New Delhi, Jan. 13 -- Justice BV Nagarathna struck down Section 17A of the Prevention of Corruption Act, 1988, describing corruption as a "cancerous growth" corroding moral standards and governmental ... Read More