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Baba Ramdev and Acharya Balkrishna were physically present before the Supreme Court on Tuesday. “If this is indefensible, then your apology will not work. This is a gross violation of the undertaking given to the top court.

Two managers of a Saudi oil exploration company were going on trial Monday in Switzerland for alleged fraud and money laundering over a scandal years ago linked to a Malaysian sovereign wealth fund that the U.S. Justice Department once described as the...

Voter Verified Paper Audit Trail (VVPAT) paper slips in elections. In the existing practice, only five randomly selected EVMs in each assembly segment of a Lok Sabha seat are verified through counting of Voter Verified Paper Audit Trail (VVPAT) paper slips. The Congress party hailed the notice as an “important first step" and said the matter should be decided before the Lok Sabha elections 2024 begin.

Delhi liquor policy case. A bench of Justices Sanjiv Khanna, Dipankar Datta and P B Varale ordered the release of Sanjay Singh, who has been in jail for six months. The Enforcement Directorate said it has no objection if the AAP leader Sanjay Singh is given bail in the case.

PTI has reported. She alleged that four individuals, including two former students, had harassed her sexually on the evening of March 31 on campus. On her complain, an investigation into the incident has been mandated by the university administration.

ALSO READ: Supreme Court slams DMK's Udhayanidhi Stalin over remarks on 'Sanatana Dharma': You abuse your rights… According to PTI, he sought relief from the Supreme Court to club all the FIRs, saying FIRs are registered in Uttar Pradesh, Karnataka, Bihar, Jammu and Kashmir and Maharashtra. In 2023, Stalin had stirred controversy by saying, "Just like dengue, mosquitoes, malaria, or coronavirus need to be eradicated, we have to eradicate Sanatana." During the hearing, Stalin relied on judgements rendered by the Supreme Court in cases involving journalists such as Republic TV anchor Arnab Goswami, Mohammed Zubair, Amish Devgan and Nupur Sharma.

₹ 500 and ₹ 1,000 banknotes. ALSO READ: Justice Nagarathna questions demonetisation's impact on black money eradication: '98% currency came back' In a post on X (formerly known as Twitter), Kharge noted three ways in which the PM Modi-led government is allegedly using the banking sector to loot people of the country. "Modi saheb, banks play a major role in the country's economy, and you have used banks to destroy the unorganized sector and MSMEs...the public's hard-earned money has been looted through banks," he said.

₹3,500 crore until July due to the upcoming Lok Sabha polls. Representing the Union government and the IT department, Solicitor General of India Tushar Mehta made this undertaking before a bench comprising Justice B.V. Nagarathna and Justice Augustine George Masih.

suit against the Centre under Article 131 of the Constitution, contesting the Union's norms on borrowing limits and highlighting the unique financial landscape of the state. The bench, comprising justices Surya Kant and K.V. Viswanathan, today said the Centre had already agreed to provide around ₹13,000 crore to the state government for financial assistance.

Gyanvapi mosque management committee's plea against an Allahabad High Court decision upholding a lower court's order allowing Hindu prayers in the southern cellar of the mosque today, April 1. A bench of Chief Justice DY Chandrachud along and Justices JB Pardiwala and Manoj Misra will hear the petition filed by Anjuman Intezamia Masajid Committee, challenging the HC's February 26 decision. The committee manages the affairs of the Gyanvapi mosque in Varanasi.

Bombay High Court (HC) has refused to grant urgent relief to Wadia Group, which sought to restrain Bank of Baroda from invoking a corporate guarantee of ₹500 crore given by one of its group companies at the instance of Go First Airlines. Nowrosjee Wadia & Sons Ltd (NWS) had approached the court to «temporarily injunct and restrain» Bank of Baroda from making the demand. Wadia Group has also sought an injunction against the lender from proceeding in accordance with law pursuant to such invocation, mainly on the grounds that the corporate guarantee had lapsed as the condition of tie-up of ₹2,835 crore was attained by the borrower in January 2020.

PDM Nyay Morcha, calling it a front to bring justice to Pichda (backwards), Dalits and Muslims. This is similar to PDA -- an acronym for Pichda, Dalit and Alpasankhyak (minorities) -- coined by the former Apna Dal (K) ally Samajwadi Party.

Supreme Court is scheduled to hear on April 1 a Gyanvapi mosque management committee's plea against an Allahabad High Court decision upholding a lower court's order allowing Hindu prayers in the southern cellar of the mosque. A bench of Chief Justice D Y Chandrachud and Justices J B Pardiwala and Manoj Misra will hear the plea of Anjuman Intezamia Masajid Committee, which manages the affairs of the Gyanvapi mosque in Varanasi, challenging the HC's February 26 decision. The high court had dismissed the committee's plea in which it had challenged the district court's January 31 order allowing Hindus to offer prayers in the cellar. While dismissing the plea of the mosque committee on February 26, the high court had observed that the Uttar Pradesh government's 1993 decision of stopping worship rituals inside the "Vyas Tehkhana" — located at the southern cellar of the Gyanvapi — was «illegal».

Supreme Court Judge BV Nagarathna has cautioned against instances of governors sitting indefinitely on bills passed by elected legislatures, referring to the case involving the Punjab Governor. In her keynote address at the inaugural session of the fifth edition of Courts and the Constitution Conference, held at the NALSAR University of Law here on Saturday, Justice Nagarathna spoke about the Maharashtra Legislative Assembly case as another instance of gubernatorial overreach, where the governor lacked sufficient material to declare the floor test. «This is not a healthy trend under the Constitution to bring the actions or omissions of the Governor of a state for consideration before constitutional courts,» she said. «I think I must appeal that the office of a governor, though it is called a gubernatorial post, the governor's post is a serious constitutional post, the governors must discharge their duties under the constitution in accordance with the Constitution so that this kind of litigation before the law courts is reduced,» Justice Nagarathna added.

Patna High Court in a case. Also Read: Attention all cosmic fans! Don't miss these 4 must-sees celestials in April, other than solar eclipse A single-judge bench of Justice Bibek Chaudhuri observed that the use of filthy language doesn't amount to ‘cruelty’ under Section 498A (cruelty towards wife by husband or his relatives) of the Indian Penal Code (IPC). The bench was hearing a petition filed by Shahdeo Gupta and his son Naresh Kumar Gupta, residents of Jharkhand's Bokaro.

Ballia (UP), The widow of a police constable who was shot dead by gangsters in 2005 expressed satisfaction on Saturday that Mukhtari Ansari, the man responsible for his husband's killing, was dead. On November 29, 2005, supporters of Bharatiya Janata Party leader Krishnanand Rai were attacked in Basniya Chatti in Mohammadabad area of Ghazipur. Seven people, including Rai, were killed in the attack. One of the other victims was Nirbhay Upadhyay, a police constable from Nirupur village of Haldi Police Station area of Ballia.

Tokyo Vice season 2, anticipation mounts for the finale's release. Penned by Tony-winning playwright and showrunner J.T. Rogers, the final episode promises to deliver riveting twists and turns, propelling the series to new heights of suspense and intrigue. Following the tumultuous events of previous episodes, viewers brace themselves for the climactic showdown between protagonist Jake and the formidable antagonist Tozawa, whose ambitions threaten to plunge Japan into chaos.

2023 verdict in the demonetisation case when she had dissented to oppose the Centre's demonetisation move. The Supreme Court had then upheld the Centre's 2016 decision on demonetisation by a 4:1 majority verdict. Justice Nagarathna was in the minority.

Priyanka Gandhi Vadra on Saturday accused the Centre of «pressuring» the judiciary after the Supreme Court struck down the electoral bonds scheme and wondered whether the Narendra Modi government does not approve of an independent and strong judiciary. The Congress general secretary's remarks come two days after Prime Minister Modi criticised the grand old party in reaction to more than 600 lawyers writing to the Chief Justice of India, alleging that a «vested interest group» is trying to put pressure on the judiciary and defame courts. Modi on Thursday said it was a «vintage Congress culture» to browbeat and bully others. In a post in Hindi on X, Priyanka Gandhi said, «The manner in which the judicial system is being pressured by getting letters written after seeing the layers of scams being exposed by a decision of the Supreme Court on electoral bonds (which the public is calling 'extortion racket'), and then the prime minister himself entering the arena and making negative comments on the judiciary, shows that there is something fishy.»

Patna High Court has observed that the use of "filthy language" by an estranged couple, who call each other names like "bhoot" (ghost) and "pishach" (vampire), does not tantamount to "cruelty". The remarks came from a single-judge bench of Justice Bibek Chaudhuri, who was hearing a petition filed by Sahdeo Gupta and his son Naresh Kumar Gupta, both residents of Bokaro in adjoining Jharkhand. The father-son duo had challenged an order passed by courts in Bihar's Nalanda district, on a complaint filed by Naresh Gupta's divorced wife in Nawada, her native place. The complainant had filed a case against her husband and father-in-law, way back in 1994, accusing them of physical and material torture to press for the demand for a car in dowry.

Japan's demand for foreign labor has increased due to factors such as its declining birthrate and shortages in transportation and logistics industries. These shortages are expected to worsen with the implementation of new regulations limiting overtime hours for drivers starting in April, referred to as the «2024 problem.» The government aims to admit up to 820,000 foreigners under the skilled worker visa program over the next five fiscal years, beginning in April. This number is more than double the previous estimate for the five years leading up to fiscal 2023, which ended in March.