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Building demolished for enroaching government land while survey maps showed the property had all approvals; High court orders reconstruction, Rs 10 lakh compensationCalcutta High Court found that authorities went beyond the government plots marked for encroachment removal and demolished a two-storey com...17 Sep, 2026, 11.23 AM IST- FM Sitharaman pushes RBI to sharpen digital rupee as tokenisation takes offFinance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman urged the Reserve Bank of India to advance digital rupee pilots. She highlighted tokenisation's role in...11 Sep, 2026, 10.21 PM IST
- Sitharaman calls AI a ‘double-edged sword’, urges soft-touch regulation and faster digital rupee pushFinance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman highlighted artificial intelligence as a double-edged sword for financial systems. She advocated for a ...11 Sep, 2026, 10.08 PM IST
- 'Talaq-E-Hassan' valid form of divorce, to be registered under new Act: Gauhati HCThe Gauhati High Court affirmed Talaq-E-Hassan as a valid divorce method in India. A petitioner was directed to register his divorce under ...11 Sep, 2026, 12.46 PM IST
- HC strikes down retrospective tax law amendment; over 2 lakh taxpayers get relief, all eyes on Supreme CourtThe high court's recent ruling has dealt a significant blow to a controversial retrospective tax law, impacting around two lakh taxpayers. ...11 Sep, 2026, 01.14 AM IST
- SC Judge writes to CJI, seeks transfer of Rajasthan High Court acting Chief JusticeJustice Mehta made the request in three letters on August 2, August 10 and August 17, copies of which were sent to members of the SC Colleg...27 Aug, 2026, 12.40 AM IST
- Headscarf not an essential part of Islam: Allahabad HC rejects student’s plea to wear hijab with school uniformAllahabad High Court has dismissed a minor student’s plea seeking permission to wear a hijab with her school uniform, saying she failed to ...25 Aug, 2026, 04.09 PM IST
- Parents win back their flat gifted to son as tribunal finds son failed to take care of parents; Bombay HC orders son to vacate the propertySon promised to care for elderly parents after receiving their Mumbai flat as gift; however, he failed to do so; Bombay High Court cancels ...17 Aug, 2026, 04.52 PM IST
- Employee lost job over pending criminal case; SC awards Rs 5 lakh compensation for wrongful terminationEmployee to get Rs 5 lakh compensation after proving employer terminated him due to pendency of criminal cases; SC order explained. Know ho...15 Aug, 2026, 09.26 AM IST
- Can housing society clamp your wrongly parked car with a wheel jammer? Maharashtra court says yes but with this conditionMan purchased flat from PNB in auction but got only 1 parking spot for his 6 vehicles; housing society used wheel jammer to clamp wrongly p...11 Aug, 2026, 12.04 PM IST
- Wife seeks to stop Husband’s pension over unpaid maintenance; Madras High Court rejects plea for this reasonDespite court order husband did not pay maintenance to wife; she files case to stop his pension on this ground but loses case in Madras HC ...17 Jul, 2026, 11.15 AM IST
- Pleas seek ownership rights of Bhojshala, not maintainable under writ jurisdiction: Intervenor to HCA Muslim intervenor told the Madhya Pradesh High Court that Hindu parties' petitions for the Bhojshala monument are not maintainable. The a...28 Apr, 2026, 09.15 AM IST
- Delhi HC dismisses PIL seeking ban on Bangladesh from international cricketA Division Bench comprising Chief Justice Devendra Kumar Upadhyaya and Justice Tejas Karia expressed strong reservations about the maintain...21 Jan, 2026, 02.12 PM IST
- SC asks Udhayanidhi Stalin how can he approach it under writ jurisdiction for clubbing FIRsJustice Datta referred to the cases Udhayanidhi Stalin has cited, including that involving journalists and political persons, for clubbing ...01 Apr, 2024, 01.45 PM IST
- Air India not govt controlled; no longer amenable to writ jurisdiction: Delhi HCJustice Jyoti Singh observed that the petition was undoubtedly maintainable when it was filed in 2016 on account of Air India then being a ...28 Dec, 2022, 02.26 PM IST
- Foreign entity not amenable to writ jurisdiction under Constitution: Delhi HCAsserting that "writs are issued for the performance of public duties", the court observed that the complaint of harassment by the appellan...27 Jul, 2022, 09.02 PM IST
- HCs can't interfere with civil courts' orders under writ jurisdiction: SCThe decision came on a reference sent to the CJI for an authoritative pronouncement by a two-judge bench of the apex court.05 Mar, 2015, 04.13 PM IST
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