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SC lifts ban on 90 Karnataka mines, cancels 49 leases

Thursday 18 April '13

Almost two years after its ban, SC allowed resumption of mining activities in Bellary, Tumkur and Chitradurga.

Supreme Court tells Vedanta to get gram sabha nod for Niyamgiri mining

Thursday 18 April '13

India has been limiting leases, mainly because of protests over land acquisition.

Supreme Court gives Dutt four more weeks to surrender

Thursday 18 April '13

The court made it clear that Dutt would get no more extensions

Sanjay Dutt gets relief, Supreme Court gives four weeks to surrender

Wednesday 17 April '13

Sanjay Dutt had actually sought six months of time to undergo three-and-a-half-year jail.

SC stays own order on who must head information commissions

Wednesday 17 April '13

The interim order followed an application by Shailesh Gandhi and activist Aruna Roy

No assurance against death penalty to marines: Govt in SC

Wednesday 17 April '13

Centre refuses to assure Italy marines will not be charged under a law that entails death penalty.

SC rejects pleas of 3 convicts for more time to surrender

Wednesday 17 April '13

Sanjay Dutt plea seeking six months more to surrender to be heard today

Supreme Court stays own order on info commissioners

Tuesday 16 April '13

The only time the court can direct is when an Act is silent, the Centre said.

Supreme Court gives Madhya Pradesh lions' share from Gujarat's Gir

Tuesday 16 April '13

According to a 2010 census, Gir has a total of 411 lions

Sanjay Dutt seeks six more months to surrender

Tuesday 16 April '13

Mumbai Blasts: Files plea in SC, says Rs 278 cr invested in his ongoing film projects

Apex court to hear pleas of Mittal, Ruia on April 18

Tuesday 16 April '13

* CBI says contentions should be heard by bench monitoring 2G probe

Sanjay Dutt seeks six more months to surrender

Monday 15 April '13

Mumbai blasts: Files plea in SC, says Rs 278 cr invested in his ongoing film projects

Post-Bhullar, convicts need to relook SC pleas

Monday 15 April '13

There are 16 other convicts on the death row after denial of clemency by the President.

Death penalty is justified in cases of brutal murder: SC

Saturday 13 April '13

Explaning reasons and instances where capital punishment could find their justification, the Supreme Court on Friday asserted that it was a change in the crime situation across the globe that quelled ...

Plea junked, Bhullar to hang

Saturday 13 April '13

Delay can't be reason to commute: SC; decision may affect 16 others

Death sentence is justified in cases of brutal, dastardly murder, says SC

Saturday 13 April '13

In recent years the crime scenario has changed all over the world.

Airtel can't add 3G customers in 7 circles, says SC

Friday 12 April '13

Airtel, Vodafone and Idea won 3G airwaves in 13, nine and 11 circles, respectively, in 2010

SC stays 2G court summons to Ravi Ruia

Thursday 11 April '13

The bench said it will hear Ruia''s petition along with Mittal''s plea on April 15.

SC won''t order twins'' separation as parents say no

Thursday 11 April '13

The Supreme Court has refrained from passing an order on the medical examination and surgery of conjoined twins from Bihar as their parents are against it.