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  Plea in Supreme Court challenging Centre's power to notify a community as minority

  India | January 24, 2019 21:45 IST

  A petition challenging the Centre's power to notify a community as minority under the law was filed in the Supreme Court on Thursday.

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  AAP Rajya Sabha MP Sanjay Singh says will file petition in HC to ensure Modi's presence in Parliament

  India | June 11, 2018 18:03 IST

  Singh's move was prompted by a PIL in the Delhi High Court filed by disgruntled AAP legislator

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  Petition filed in Pakistan court against JuD chief Hafiz Saeed’s detention

  World | February 03, 2017 21:03 IST

  A petition has been filed in a Pakistan court today against Hafiz Saeed’s detention, claiming that the JuD chief was detained illegally for keeping the Kashmir issue alive. Advocate Sarfraz Hussain filed the petition in

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  Petition in US to ‘declare Pakistan terror sponsor’ receives over 5 lakh signatures

  World | October 03, 2016 13:56 IST

  An online White House petition asking for Pakistan to be declared as a state sponsor of terrorism has gained a record half a million signatures, five times the number needed to get a response from the Obama Administration.

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  Bhopal gas tragedy: Plea urges US govt to make Dow appear

  India | June 14, 2016 19:05 IST

  Five NGOs working for survivors of the Bhopal Gas Tragedy today said they have emailed a petition with over 1 lakh signatories to the US White House to mount pressure on Dow Chemical-US to appear before a local court next month.

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  Online petitions add to buzz on Raghuram Rajan's RBI tenure

  June 05, 2016 14:37 IST

  New Delhi: With numerous political and corporate opinions swarming over RBI Governor Raghuram Rajan's tenure, internet is also abuzz with at least seven online petitions doing the rounds in support of a second term for

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  Dawood call logs: Hacker files petition in Bombay High Court for protection

  India | May 30, 2016 17:50 IST

  Mumbai: A Gujarat-based person, who claims to have hacked the call records of Dawood Ibrahim, today filed a petition in Bombay High Court seeking protection for himself and CBI probe against Maharashtra minister Eknath Khadse

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  26/11 Mumbai attacks: Petition filed to include postmortem reports

  India | March 20, 2016 23:57 IST

  26/11 Mumbai attacks: Petition filed to include postmortem reports

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  Petition by eminent personalities urges President to pardon Yakub Memon

  India | July 26, 2015 21:15 IST

  New Delhi: Leaders of various parties including BJP MP Shatrughan Sinha and its expelled MP Ram Jethmalani, eminent jurists and persons from different walks of life today submitted a fresh petition to President Pranab Mukherjee

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  Plea for declaring Indira Gandhi's murder a suicide rejected after 29 years

  India | June 30, 2015 23:46 IST

  Ahmedabad: Pending for nearly 29 years, a petition seeking declaring Indira Gandhi'sassassination a "suicide through arranged murder" to facilitate Rajiv Gandhi's elevation as prime minister was dismissed at its first hearing by the Gujarat High

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  Petition seeking Imran Khan's disqualification rejected

  World | February 17, 2015 18:00 IST

  Islamabad: Pakistan's Lahore High Court (LHC) has rejected a petition seeking disqualification of Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) chairman Imran Khan from Parliament, media reported Tuesday.The petitioner told the court Monday that Article 62 of the constitution

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  Online Petition against Google, Yahoo, Flipkart for promoting gender determination

  India | February 13, 2015 15:38 IST

  New Delhi: In the light of preventing female feoticide, a civil society initiative ‘Girls Counts' has taken most of the e-commerce websites in India under the scanner.The organization has urged the citizens of India to

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  Don't pardon Mark Wahlberg, urges online petition

  Hollywood | December 12, 2014 10:26 IST

  Los Angeles: An online petition has urged Massachusetts justice officials to deny Mark Wahlberg his request for a pardon in his 1988 assault conviction.The “Transformers: Age of Extinction” star spent 45 days in jail for

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  Petition in Allahabad High Court seeking removal of Bukhari as Imam

  India | November 07, 2014 19:30 IST

  Lucknow:  The Allahabad High Court has given three weeks time to a petitioner to file the history of New Delhi's Jama Masjid after he sought a direction for quashing the appointment of Syed Ahmed Bukhari

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  Madras HC dismisses petition against units 3 to 6 of Kudamkulam Nuclear Power Project

  India | October 31, 2014 7:26 IST

  Chennai: The Madras High Court yesterday dismissed a plea filed by an NGO seeking a direction to declare that the consent given for the units three to six of Kudamkulam Nuclear Power Project (KNPP), issued

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  Madras HC orders notice on petition seeking to quash Joint Secretary order

  India | October 09, 2014 7:55 IST

  Madurai: The Madras High Court yesterday ordered a notice on a petition seeking to quash the order of the Joint Secretary of the department of financial services of the union government, delineating Salem, Erode, Namakkal

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  Madras High Court orders notice to Home Secretary, DGP

  India | September 11, 2014 8:14 IST

  Madurai:  The Madurai Bench of the Madras High Court yesterday ordered issue of notice to the Home Secretary, the DGP, the City Police Commissioner and others on a petition seeking action against some police officials,

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  Petition filed in court accusing Vaidik of sedition

  India | July 18, 2014 6:36 IST

  Chandauli: A complaint was filed yesterday in a local court here against senior journalist Ved Pratap Vaidik accusing him of sedition over his meeting with 26/11 mastermind Hafiz Saeed and his controversial remarks on Jammu

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  Petition seeks action against Amit Shah for controversial remark

  India | May 09, 2014 7:55 IST

  Allahabad: A petition was filed in Allahabad High Court yesterday seeking action against BJP leader Amit Shah for his statement in which he had described Azamgarh district of Uttar Pradesh as a 'haven for terrorists'.

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  PIL challenging AP bifurcation dismissed as not maintainable

  India | February 27, 2014 8:57 IST

  Chennai : The Madras High Court yesterday dismissed a petition challenging the bifurcation of Andhra Pradesh.The PIL had contended parliament has no power under Article 3 of the Constitution to divide the state.“We are of