98 percent of electors listed in Bihar draft have submitted their documents for verification as of August 24, 2025 reports Electoral Commission of India. Over 1.8 percent voters still left to submit their documents or they risk being left out of the final list.
The Chief Justice of India has raised concerns about the possibility of an elected state government being at the “whims and fancies” of the Governor, specially in relation to the Governor’s power to withhold assent to bills passed by the State legislature.
The Opposition INDIA bloc on Monday named former Judge of the Supreme Court and the first Lokayukta of Goa, Justice B. Sudershan Reddy as the candidate for the Vice-Presidential election.
Supreme Court has ordered all the street dogs in Delhi and the National Capital Region (NCR) be rounded up within eight weeks and housed in dedicated dog shelters to set up by civics authorities, making it clear that no captured animal will be released back on the streets.
The Supreme Court has once again urged the Election Commission to accept the Aadhaar card and the electoral photo identity card as valid documents for confirming voter identity during the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral polls going on in Bihar.
The Supreme Court on Monday (July 28, 2025) pushed harder for the Election Commission of India (ECI) to accept Aadhaar and the Electors Photo Identity Card (EPIC) as identity documents in the Bihar Special Intensive Revision (SIR), saying “mass inclusion” and not “en masse exclusion” should be the outcome of the exercise in the poll-bound State.
The Supreme Court today issued notices to the Centre and all state governments on the issue of imposition of timelines on Governors and the President to act on Bills in the absence of a constitutionally-prescribed time limit.
The Supreme Court has ruled that all hotels, dhabas, and food stalls along the Kanwar Yatra route in Uttar Pradesh and Uttarakhand must display their food licence and registration certificates. However, it chose not to get involved in recent government orders asking eateries to show QR codes or the names of owners and staff.
Calcutta High Court finally upheld the West Bengal School Service Commission’s authority to conduct the teacher’s recruitment examination under the prescribed rules.
In a major decision, the Delhi High Court has said that secretly recorded conversations between a husband and wife can be used as evidence in divorce cases. The court ruled that if one spouse records a conversation to prove cruelty or mistreatment, it does not break privacy laws.
