Kapil Sibal

The Supreme Court on Thursday directed the Election Commission of India (ECI) to respond by Monday on how long it will take to decide the bitter dispute between rival factions of the All India Trinamool Congress (AITC) over the party symbol and name

The new identity comes after the poll panel barred the rival factions from using the original All India Trinamool Congress name and its traditional ‘Flowers and Grass’ symbol for the upcoming elections

Solicitor General Tushar Mehta, appearing for the Goa government, made the submission before justice Alok Aradhe, who was considering Tejpal’s appeal in the chamber list, where matters are taken up for preliminary or procedural consideration before being placed before a regular bench

A bench of Chief Justice of India Surya Kant and Justices Joymalya Bagchi and V Mohana made the observation during arguments by senior advocate Kapil Sibal, who urged the Court to reconsider the existing constitutional framework governing disqualification of legislators and the ECI's role in deciding party-symbol disputes

Additional Sessions Judge V B Bohra granted pre-arrest bail to seven other students

The Supreme Court began hearing the UBT faction's plea against the EC's decision favouring the Eknath Shinde-led group

The activist, Amit Tiwari, has also approached the Election Commission of India (ECI) and the Central Board of Indirect Taxes and Customs (CBIC), raising questions over the CJP's legal status and the tax implications of a Rs 1 crore fund pledged by Rajya Sabha MP Kapil Sibal

Cockroach Janata Party (CJP) founder Abhijeet Dipke on Friday intensified his criticism of the judiciary and the Narendra Modi-led government, questioning whether the Supreme Court remains capable of safeguarding India's democratic institutions

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For more than three decades, Prime Minister Narendra Modi of India has cultivated a political mystique sustained by fear, awe and reverence, giving rise to one of the most formidable cults of personality in the democratic world

Mumbai: The Shivaji Park Police have intensified their investigation into 17 FIRs registered in connection with the CJP protest and have begun taking direct action against the accused

Senior advocate and Independent Rajya Sabha MP Kapil Sibal has pledged Rs 1 crore to a legal aid fund established by the Cockroach Janta Party (CJP) to support students and protesters facing legal action following last week's demonstrations at Delhi's Jantar Mantar over the alleged NEET exam paper leak

A bench of justices PS Narasimha and Alok Aradhe issued notice on a petition filed by Sibal in his own name, questioning the interpretation of Paragraph 4 of the Tenth Schedule to the Constitution that permits disqualification to be avoided where legislators claim protection under the merger provision, requiring a two-thirds threshold and allowing members to either join the new group or leave

Hours before the resignation concluded the stir for now, Leader of Opposition Rahul Gandhi stood at a press conference flanked by three young women

In the wake of nationwide student protests over the NEET-UG paper leak controversy, Trinamool Congress general secretary Abhishek Banerjee on Sunday urged the Millennials and Gen Z to reconsider their support for those celebrities, influencers, and sports stars who chose to stay silent during the agitation

Modi’s minister resigns over ‘cockroach party’ protests

Shabana Azmi’s health deteriorated during the gathering

The Delhi High Court is set to hear an urgent petition filed by activist Sonam Wangchuk's wife, Dr Gitanjali J. Angmo, seeking his transfer from Safdarjung Hospital to a private medical facility of the family's choice

The eight had earlier been remanded to three days' judicial custody till Monday by a special remand magistrate

The Independent Rajya Sabha MP used rhyming lines to take pot shots at the BJP

People are now asking on social media how else they can prove that they are Indians

The Congress on Monday launched a sharp attack on the BJP-led government after 20 rebel Trinamool Congress (TMC) MPs announced their merger with the Nationalist Citizens Party of India (NCPI)

A bench comprising Chief Justice of India Surya Kant, and justices Joymalya Bagchi and Vipul M Pancholi issued notices to the Centre, CBSE and NCERT, seeking their replies to the challenge against the policy introduced through CBSE Circular dated May 15, 2026

Kapil Sibal on Friday criticised the Centre over rising prices of petrol, diesel, CNG and milk, taking a swipe at the government’s “achhe din” slogan

Sunjay Kapur died of cardiac arrest on June 12, 2025, while playing polo in London

Congress's Tariq Anwar alleged central agencies were misused in West Bengal to defeat TMC

New Delhi: The Supreme Court has dismissed activist Umar Khalid's plea seeking a review of a verdict denying him bail, while observing that there are reasonable grounds to believe the allegations levelled against him in connection with a conspiracy behind the 2020 Delhi riots

The Supreme Court on Thursday declined to entertain industrialist Anil Dhirubhai Ambani’s challenge to the classification of loan accounts of Reliance Communications group companies as “fraud”, underlining serious allegations of siphoning and diversion of “thousands of crores” of public money and asking him to pursue remedies before the civil court where a related suit is pending

Congress MP P Chidambaram has termed the proposed delimitation bill 'mischievous and diabolical'

Senior advocate Kapil Sibal, appearing for Khalid, requested a bench of Justices Aravind Kumar and NV Anjaria to list the review petition in open court

A bench of justices MM Sundresh and N Kotiswar Singh refused to intervene at this stage, granting liberty to Yadav to raise the issue of prior sanction during trial

The Delhi High Court has upheld a trial court's order declaring UK-based arms consultant Sanjay Bhandari a 'Fugitive Economic Offender'

An MP-MLA court in Delhi sentenced Bharti to a three-year jail term in connection with the embezzlement of an FDR in a cooperative bank

Amit Shah had accompanied Adhikari for the filing of the nomination papers on April 2 in the seat in south Kolkata, where the latter will battle Mamata Banerjee

The bench of Justice Ravinder Dudeja passed the order

The Aam Aadmi Party national convener also accused the ruling party of losing control over public discourse on social media

The ED has filed an FIR against Mamata Banerjee and senior Bengal police officers and has sought a CBI investigation

Cooking gas shortages are already forcing eateries to close as industry bodies warn of widespread economic damage in a country that imports the bulk of its oil and gas

Karnataka Minister Priyank Kharge on Saturday accused the Bharatiya Janata Party BJP of weaponising federal agencies for political gain

The National Council of Educational Research and Training (NCERT) has temporarily halted the distribution of its newly released Social Science textbook for Class 8 after certain inappropriate textual material and an error of judgement was found to have inadvertently appeared in Chapter 4, titled “The Role of Judiciary in our Society” (pages 125–142)

The issue was mentioned for urgent consideration by senior advocate Kapil Sibal, along with Abhishek Singhvi

Congress MP and Supreme Court advocate Kapil Sibal questioned the emphasis on judicial corruption while pointing to alleged wrongdoing in other spheres

J&K CM Omar Abdullah inaugurates the Gon’gul-2026, the 11th SKUAST-Kashmir Agri-Tech Mela, in Shalimar on Saturday

In a related development, the Supreme Court reserved its verdict on a batch of pleas including the one filed by NGO Association for Democratic Reforms (ADR) challenging the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls in Bihar

At the centre of the dispute is a proposed redefinition of the ecologically sensitive Aravalli range, which activists warn could allow swathes of the hills to be opened up for mining and construction