Sunil Prabhu

The Supreme Court on Monday demanded an "immediate" response from the Delhi government and police to the ban - which seems to exist on paper only - against firecrackers during Diwali, a ban that is announced, and ignored, every year.

The Allahabad High Court had declared the 2004 Uttar Pradesh madrassa law as "unconstitutional" and violative of secularism. Thousands of madrassa students across Uttar Pradesh may get to know today which way their education will go as the Supreme Court decides if the madrassa law, scrapped by the Allahabad High Court, should stay or not.

Justice Nagarathna made this remark as the Supreme Court ruled that all privately owned property does not qualify as community resources that the State can take over for the common good.

Chief Justice DY Chandrachud said the demolition was carried out without any notice. "It is clear (that) demolition was high-handed and without the authority of law."

Sources said the dissolving of the state unit is part of a planned revamp.

"Left with no choice": Supreme Court orders liquidation of grounded air carrier Jet Airways' assets This is a breaking news story.

Chief Justice of India DY Chandrachud, known to pull up lawyers for breaking court decorum, had an Artificial Intelligence (AI) lawyer to deal with today. The interaction took place at the inauguration ceremony of National Judicial Museum and Archive

The Supreme Court reviewed the CBI's status report in the RG Kar case and asked them to submit a fresh report after four weeks

The Supreme Court today refused to transfer the RG Kar rape-murder case trial outside West Bengal and rebuked a lawyer who claimed that the people of the state were losing faith in the police and the judiciary

"Citizens' voices cannot be throttled by a threat of destroying their properties and homesteads," the Supreme Court said