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The Supreme Court Thursday said it would hear next week a PIL challenging the Jharkhand government's decision to appoint M V Rao as the...

The state cabinet has approved the draft bill to abolish the legislative council after a decision in this regard was taken in the cabinet meeting held here on Monday.

The Supreme Court on Friday stayed the National Company Law Appellate Tribunal's order dismissing the Registrar of Companies (RoC) plea seeking modification of its verdict in the Tata-Cyrus Mistry matter.

New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Friday allowed Congress MP Karti Chidambaram to withdraw the Rs 20 crore which was deposited with the apex court registry as a condition for allowing him to travel abroad.

In a freshly arising matter arising out of the Supreme Court, the Centre has approached with an application seeking permission to disband a special investigation team (SIT) in the 1984 Sikh riots. The SIT is headed by a former Delhi High Court judge S.N. Dhingra and comprised of retired IPS officer Rajdeep Singh and serving IPS officer Abhishek Dular (2006). The committee was set up by order of the Supreme Court on January 11, 2018, entrusted to supervise the further investigation in these cases, were the closure reports were already filed. However, later on, Singh cited ‘personal grounds’ to excuse him from the membership of the said SIT, and thus now the SIT has only two members.

The matter was posted in a special hearing on Sunday and was posted before Justice N.V. Ramana, Ashok Bhushan and Sanjiv Khanna. In the proceedings, the Supreme Court bench issued notices to the newly-sworn in Chief Minister, Devendra Fadnavis (BJP) and deputy chief minister Ajit Pawar. They have been asked by the solicitor general Tushar Mehta to produce letters of the Governor on Monday for passing such orders. 

RBI has told Supreme Court that WhatsApp cannot start their payment business in India. This came as a result of WhatsApp non-compliance with the data localization norm. At present, they are battling the Israeli Spygate (Pegasus) controversy in India. RBI stated that WhatsApp which is owned by Facebook is not following the data localization norm and it has asked National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI) to not launch the WhatsApp payments on Unified Payments Interface (UPI).