PILs News

SEBI has sought a six-month extension to conclude its investigation into Hindenburg Research's report on the Adani Group.

BBC Documentary Ban: A batch of petitions have been filed by senior journalist N Ram, Trinamool Congress MP Mahua Moitra, and advocate Prashant Bhushan, and also by senior advocate M L Sharma against the Centre's move to ban the screening of the BBC series.

BBC Documentary Row: The two-part BBC documentary, titled ‘India: The Modi Question’, has been in the news ever since its release. It has been dismissed as a biased "propaganda piece" by the government.

BBC Documentary Row: BJP's Rajya Sabha MP Mahesh Jethmalani has accused the British Broadcasting Corporation of taking money from China to “torpedo India’s growth story”.

BBC Modi Documentary Ban: The Supreme Court today said that it will hear pleas challenging the Centre's decision to block a BBC documentary on the 2002 Gujarat riots on Monday next week.

Under Sanjay Mishra's tenure, the ED has launched probe against a number of high-profile people and politicians, including the Congress' first family members Sonia Gandhi, her son Rahul Gandhi and daughter Priyanka Gandhi Vadra's husband Robert Vadra.

The subject-wise roster was introduced by former CJI Dipak Misra after four senior judges of the top court, in January 2018, accused him of assigning cases to benches of preferences while ignoring seniority of judges. 

The roster system for allocation of matters to judges will come into effect from February 5.

 Chinese prosecuting departments had filed 30 public interest lawsuits, mostly related to environmental protection, in courts until the end of June as part of the national pilot programme largely planned on the lines of India's public interest litigations.

The Madras HC Friday dismissed two PILs seeking the postponement of half yearly examinations of Class X and Class XII students of the CBSE Board on the ground that the academic activities were severely affected by the devastating floods in Chennai city.