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Dismissing a plea challenging the use of Urdu in the signboard of a municipality in Maharashtra, a bench of Justices Sudhanshu Dhulia and K Vinod Chandran on Tuesday also said "language is not religion".

A Bench comprising Justices B.R. Gavai and A.G. Masih heard the suo motu case concerning alleged environmental violations. The Court scheduled the next hearing for May 15, granting the Telangana government four weeks to submit its response to the CEC report. Additionally, it directed the State’s wildlife warden to outline the measures being undertaken to safeguard displaced animals.

A clutch of petitions challenging the constitutional validity of the Waqf (Amendment) Act, 2025 would be heard by Supreme court on Wednesday

As per the cause list published on the website of the apex court, a bench of Chief Justice of India (CJI) Sanjeev Khanna and comprising Justices Sanjay Kumar and K.V. Viswanathan will take up the matter for hearing on April 16.

The CEC, led by Siddhant Das and including members CP Goyal, Sunil Limaye, and JR Bhatt, arrived in Hyderabad on Wednesday evening and began its field inspection of the 400-acre site near the University of Hyderabad on Thursday. Senior officials joined the committee during the site visit.

Supreme Court’s strong strictures against Tamil Nadu Governor RN Ravi — for deliberately withholding ten Bills — should serve as a warning to the Centre over its choice of Governors for non-BJP-ruled States

The land was mortgaged to raise Rs 10,000 cr and if SC declares it as forest land, government will be forced to clear the loan from its treasury on a priority basis

A bench of Chief Justice Sanjiv Khanna and Justices J B Pardiwala and Manoj Misra dismissed the review plea filed by Khem Singh Bhati against the top court's decision of August 2, 2024.

"We are not inclined to entertain the current petition, as the relief sought falls within the realm of policy decisions," the bench observed. While dismissing the plea, the court granted the petitioner the liberty to submit a representation to the appropriate authority.

In a post on X, AICC general secretary Jairam Ramesh said, "The INC will very soon be challenging in the Supreme Court the constitutionality of the Wakf (Amendment) Bill, 2024".

The BRS working president calls Rahul Gandhi the ‘real culprit’ behind Congress’ hypocrisy

Despite heavy rain on Thursday that lashed the city, the energy among students was palpable as they gathered outside the University main gate, sang songs against the State government and celebrated their first victory

The bench, comprising Justice BR Gavai and Justice AG Masih warned that the Telangana Chief Secretary would be held personally responsible for any non-compliance.

During the hearing on Wednesday, the court observed that the Telangana High Court’s Division Bench had no reason to interfere with the Single Bench order, which merely directed the Speaker to fix a schedule within four weeks.

Illegal structures must be razed but in a time-bound and legal manner, without any religious bias

The Chief Minister had stated that there would be no by-elections even if the MLAs of the opposition Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) defect to the ruling Congress

The court noted that despite repeated requests by the petitioners and subsequent directions from the High Court to decide on the issue within a "reasonable period", the Speaker took nearly 10 months to issue a notice on the disqualification petitions, raising concerns about the erosion of constitutional principles.

He also said the 400 acres planned for auction by the State government falls under forest limits.

Speaking to mediapersons in the Assembly, he asserted that by-elections are inevitable and expressed confidence that the apex court would rule in BRS’s favour.

The top court had taken a suo motu cognisance of the matter after the contentious observations of the high court were brought to the notice of Chief Justice of India Sanjiv Khanna by "We the Women of India" collective