The Supreme Court on Friday upheld the re-election of Douye Diri of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) as the Governor of Bayelsa State. The court dismissed the appeal brought by the governorship candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Timipre Sylvia, and his party. In the lead judgment delivered by Garba Lawal, the court held … Read more
Groups representing minority communities are warning that a recently introduced law giving Canada’s intelligence agency and the federal government new powers to counter foreign interference is open to abuse. Bill C-70 received royal assent on June 20. The law introduces new criminal provisions against “deceptive or surreptitious acts” done “for the benefit of or in association … Read more
New Delhi, The Delhi High Court sought the National Testing Agency’s stand on Friday on a petition filed by an NEET-UG candidate raising grievance regarding a question that had two correct answers in the answer key. HC seeks NTA’s stand on plea concerning NEET answer key A vacation bench of Justice D K Sharma asked … Read more
New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Monday refused to entertain a BJP plea challenging a Calcutta High Court order restraining it from publishing any kind of derogatory advertisement against All India Trinamool Congress. The petition was dismissed as withdrawn as a bench of justices JK Maheshwari and KV Viswanathan said it was not inclined to … Read more
After getting relief till June 1, Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal has filed a petition in the Supreme Court, seeking an extension of his interim bail by 7 days. “Delhi CM Kejriwal has to undergo PET-CT scan and other tests. Kejriwal asked for 7 days to get the investigation done,” said Aam Aadmi Party. The … Read more
The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday turned away a Canadian former Guantanamo Bay detainee’s bid to vacate his convictions for the 2002 murder of an American soldier in Afghanistan and other crimes he committed at age 15 to which he later pleaded guilty. The justices declined to hear an appeal by Omar Khadr, 37, of a … Read more
The Aam Aadmi Party on Friday withdrew its plea before the Supreme Court seeking allotment of land in the national capital for construction of its offices. Senior advocate Abhishek Singhvi, appearing for AAP, submitted before a bench of Chief Justice D Y Chandrachud and Justices J B Pardiwala and Manoj Misra that a single judge … Read more
NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court on Tuesday posed some tough questions to the Enforcement Directorate (ED) during the second day of hearing Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal’s petition challenging his arrest by the central probe agency. A bench of Justices Sanjiv Khanna and Dipankar Datta questioned the probe agency over the timing of the arrest … Read more
A human rights activist in Delta State, Harrison Gwamnishu, has petitioned the Inspector General of Police (IGP), Kayode Egbetokun, accusing some police operatives in Anambra State of extorting $13,000 from a man. He said the money was meant for the man’s school fees abroad. In the petition dated 24 March and addressed to Mr Egbetokun … Read more
New Delhi: Following are the highlights of the Supreme Court judgement pronounced on Monday quashing the Gujarat government’s decision to grant remission to 11 convicts in the case of gang-rape of Bilkis Bano and murder of seven of her family members during the 2002 riots in the state, saying the orders were “stereotyped” and passed … Read more
