Justice K. Lakshman declines relief to engineering colleges over fee enhancement

Justice K. Lakshman declines relief to engineering colleges over fee enhancement

Justice K. Lakshman of Telangana High Court on Friday declined to permit the enhancement of annual fee for different courses by 12 engineering colleges. Disposing of interim applications in the writ petitions filed by these colleges, the judge instructed TG EAPCET-2025 Convenor to inform the students that the fee paid by them would be subject … Read more

Former diplomat declines Trinamool Congress MP’s offer to settle defamation suit in Delhi High Court

Former diplomat declines Trinamool Congress MP’s offer to settle defamation suit in Delhi High Court

File picture of Trinamool Congress MP Saket Gokhale. | Photo Credit: PTI TMC MP Saket Gokhale on Wednesday (April 16, 2025) expressed his willingness before the Delhi High Court to settle issues with former diplomat Lakshmi Murdeshwar Puri, to whom he has been asked to apologise and pay ₹50 lakh as damages in a defamation … Read more

SC declines plea by NGO on punitive demolitions

SC declines plea by NGO on punitive demolitions

A bulldozer being used to demolish alleged illegal construction belonging to Naseeb Choudhary, who is accused of knife attack on RSS members, in Jaipur, on October 20, 2024. | Photo Credit: PTI The Supreme Court has refused to entertain a plea by NGO National Federation of Indian Women alleging that retributive, communal and punitive demolitions … Read more

Rishi Sunak declines to back MP’s Down’s syndrome abortion law change

Rishi Sunak declines to back MP’s Down’s syndrome abortion law change

As the law stands in England, Wales and Scotland, doctors can authorise an abortion if “there is a substantial risk that if the child were born it would suffer from such physical or mental abnormalities as to be seriously handicapped”, meaning that if a foetus is found to have Down’s syndrome, the pregnancy can be … Read more

SC declines to intervene in Karnataka High Court’s interim stay of CBI proceedings against D.K. Shivakumar

SC declines to intervene in Karnataka High Court’s interim stay of CBI proceedings against D.K. Shivakumar

The Karnataka High Court on February 10 stayed the CBI probe against Karnataka Deputy Chief Minister D.K. Shivakumar in a corruption case. File | Photo Credit: PTI The Supreme Court on Monday declined to intervene in a Karnataka High Court’s interim stay of Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) probe against Karnataka Deputy Chief Minister D.K. … Read more

Falsely implicating tribal youth: Kerala High Court declines pre-arrest bail pleas of three forest officials

Falsely implicating tribal youth: Kerala High Court declines pre-arrest bail pleas of three forest officials

The pre-arrest bail pleas of three forest officials of the Idukki Wildlife Sanctuary, who were accused of falsely implicating a member of the tribal community in a wildlife offence, were rejected by the Kerala High Court recently. Justice V.G. Arun rejected the pleas of V. Anilkumar, Section Forest Officer; V.C. Lenin, Beat Forest Officer; and … Read more

SC declines to intervene in adv. Victoria Gowri’s appointment as Madras HC Additional Judge even as she took oath of office

SC declines to intervene in adv. Victoria Gowri’s appointment as Madras HC Additional Judge even as she took oath of office

The Supreme Court on February 7 declined to entertain petitions challenging the appointment of advocate Victoria Gowri as an Additional Judge of the Madras High Court even as the lawyer took an oath of office in a ceremony held almost simultaneously with the apex court hearing. The court hearing before a Special Bench of Justices … Read more

India’s Covid infection tally rises by 226, active caseload declines to 4,529

India’s Covid infection tally rises by 226, active caseload declines to 4,529

India logged 226 new Covid infections in a day taking the tally of cases to 4.46 crore while active caseload has declined by 68 to reach 4,529, according to the Union Health Ministry data updated on Sunday. The death toll has climbed to 5,30,6278 with one fatality being reported from Odisha, data updated at 8 … Read more

Vairamuthu declines ONV award after severe backlash

Vairamuthu declines ONV award after severe backlash

Lyricist Vairamuthu, in a new video, announced that he is declining the prestigious ONV award, which was bestowed upon him. Yesterday, ONV Award jury said that they’re re-examining the award after severe backlash. Vairamuthu declined the ONV Award after severe backlash on social media. Lyricist and poet Vairamuthu was recently conferred with the prestigious ONV … Read more