I just ran across this and thought I'd share. It seems to me like a giant step backwards and huge waste of time. I would think that India has much larger problems to tackle than this.
From Huffington Post
Prerna Lal
Founder, DreamActivist.org
India's Supreme Court...
NEW DELHI
Months after a US court ruled that yoga cannot be construed as an instrument of religious indoctrination, the Supreme Court in India is all set to dwell on the same question: If yoga can be made compulsory in all schools although it may be perceived to have religious overtones...
Sehajdhari row: Supreme Court admits SGPC plea
http://www.hindustantimes.com/Punjab/Amritsar/US-recognises-SGPC/SP-Article1-1131185.aspx
The Supreme Court on Friday provided some relief to the Shiromani Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee (SGPC) by admitting its special leave petition (SLP)...
Supreme Court concerned over rising rape cases, says situation going from bad to worse
PTI Posted online: Mon Aug 26 2013, 20:27 hrs
New Delhi : The huge spurt in rape incidents across the country, including the Mumbai photo-journalist gangrape, on Monday drew strong concerns from the...
SGPC, the supreme landlord
http://www.tribuneindia.com/2013/20130811/punjab.htm#3
Guess who is the biggest landlord in this part of the country? It is not any political or business family, but the Shiromani Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee (SGPC), the elected supreme religious body of the...
Even animals won't do what cops are doing: Supreme Court on rising police atrocities
PTI Posted online: Thu Apr 25 2013, 13:29 hrs
A policeman is seen hitting a woman with a baton during a protest against the rape of a six-year-old in Aligarh. (AP)
New Delhi : Taking strong exception...
SGPC chief says Supreme Court is against minorities, committed judicial murder
Navjeevan Gopal - Fri Apr 12 2013, 15:08 hrs
Amritsar : Expressing resentment over the Supreme Court dismissing the mercy plea of death row convict Devinderpal Singh Bhullar, the chiefs of temporal seat of...
Over 80% rape cases pending in courts: Supreme Court judge
PTI - Mar 16, 2013, 08.45 PM IST
CHENNAI: More than 80 per cent of rape cases were pending in courts across the country while in Tamil Nadu alone two such cases were registered everyday in 2011, Supreme Court judge Justice P...
Khaps can't ask women not to carry mobiles or dress in a particular way: Supreme Court
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/Khaps-cant-ask-women-not-to-carry-mobiles-or-dress-in-a-particular-way-Supreme-Court/articleshow/18017065.cms
By Dhananjay Mahapatra
NEW DELHI: The Supreme...
Sehajdhari row: SGPC to seek time from Supreme Court
Tuesday, July 24, 2012 - 20:30
CHANDIGARH: The Sehajdhari Sikh Federation has filed its reply in the Special Leave Petition of the SGPC before Supreme Court. The respondent Sehajdhari Sikh Federation represented by its National President...
ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - Pakistan's increasingly assertive Supreme Court declared Prime Minister Yusuf Raza Gilani ineligible for office on Tuesday, plunging the country into fresh turmoil as it deals with Islamic militancy, a weak economy and a crisis in relations with the United States...
by Peter Smith
Unity among religious leaders is rare, but a pending U.S. Supreme Court case is drawing together a group beyond the boldest dreams of any interfaith parliament.
Leaders of Roman Catholics, Mormons, Presbyterians, United Methodists, Seventh-day Adventists, Hindus, United...
July 4, 2011
Supreme Court appoints investigation team
headed by retd judge to probe black money
Dhananjay Mahapatra, TNN | Jul 4, 2011, 01.14pm IST
NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court on Monday appointed Special Investigation Team (SIT) headed by a former SC judge to probe black money...
Mon Apr 25, 2011
Belief in a supreme being strong worldwide: Reuters/Ipsos poll
By Patricia Reaney
NEW YORK | Mon Apr 25, 2011 - 12:35pm BST
NEW YORK (Reuters Life!) - Belief in a god, or a supreme being, and some sort of afterlife is strong in many countries around the...
April 19, 2011
Stamp out honour killings ruthlessly: Supreme Court
New Delhi, Apr 19(PTI) Terming 'khap' panchayat as illegal and honour killing as "barbaric and shameful", the Supreme Court today said these should be stamped out "ruthlessly" and asked states to suspend district...
By Anju Kaur, SikhNN staff writer, Washington Bureau
Posted: Wednesday, March 02, 2011 | 08:11 pm
Religious intolerance was allegedly the motivation behind a Texas couple’s court battle to stop the construction of a gurdwaaraa in their neighborhood, which ultimately resulted in an appellate...
• Austin Gurdwara Sahib (AGS) faces the possibility of removal (destruction) based on the Texas Appellate Court's judgment.
• UNITED SIKHS has intervened and filed an AMICUS BRIEF with the Texas Supreme Court to ensure our voice is heard and that Sikh religious freedoms are not so easily...
http://www.hindustantimes.com/Iran-s-supreme-leader-backs-Kashmir-struggle/Article1-628346.aspx
Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has appealed to the Muslim elite worldwide to back the "struggle" in Jammu and Kashmir, equating the northern Indian state with the "nations" of...
Greetings,
Kindly have a look on link of PIL moved in the Supreme Court of India to get ban on cow slaughtering in India...................https://docs.google.com/document/pub?id=1sgTzwqjFr1xlU4uK1HBf-bWPf8B46SzR0yAf1Wo_8Oc.
This PIL 381 of 2010 might be taken up on or after 26-11-2010, senior...
Supreme Court rules to hang
bride burners to stop barbaric act
Punjab Newsline Network
Saturday, 09 October 2010
NEW DELHI: Unless all those who burn their wives are hanged, the barbaric crime would not stop, the Supreme Court has said.
"This (bride burning) is barbaric and wild...
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