Supreme Court refuses to put stay on citizenship law, gives Centre four weeks to respond
Jan 22, 2020, at 12:59 pm
New Delhi/IBNS: Refusing to put an interim stay on the new contentious citizenship law, the Supreme Court on Wednesday gave four weeks' time to the Centre to respond to the 80 odd new petitions challenging the Citizenship (Amendment) Act (CAA).
Supreme Court begins hearing on CAA petitions
Jan 22, 2020, at 10:56 am
New Delhi/IBNS: The Supreme Court on Wednesday began hearing a clutch of petitions on the contentious Citizenship (Amendment) Act (CAA) which was passed by Parliament more than a month ago.
Jan 14, 2020, at 09:00 am
New Delhi/IBNS: At a time when the country is witnessing protests over the new citizenship law passed by the Centre last year, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella on Monday termed the situation in the country as “bad.”
Supreme Court to hear 60 petitions against new citizenship law today
Dec 18, 2019, at 09:29 am
New Delhi/IBNS: The Supreme Court on Wednesday is all set hear 60 petitions filed against the news citizenship law passed by the Indian government recently.
Supreme Court's hearing on violence against Jamia, AMU students tomorrow
Dec 16, 2019, at 11:20 am
New Delhi/IBNS: The Supreme Court will on Tuesday hear the petition on the violence against students at Delhi's Jamia Milia University and Uttar Pradesh's Aligarh Muslim University.
India-Japan summit in Guwahati deferred
Dec 13, 2019, at 02:31 pm
New Delhi/IBNS: As the north-east is on boil over the citizenship law, the India-Japan summit which was scheduled to be held in Assam's Guwahati has been deferred.
TMC's Mahua Moitra moves SC against new citizenship law, fails to get urgent hearing
Dec 13, 2019, at 12:10 pm
New Delhi/IBNS: Trinamool Congress (TMC) MP Mahua Moitra on Friday moved the Supreme Court challenging the validity of the controversial citizenship law which will grant citizenship to Hindu, Sikh, Parsi, Buddhist, Jain, Christian but not Muslim refugees who came to India from Bangladesh, Pakistan and Afghanistan before 2015.