Supreme-Court

India’s Supreme Court has ordered the federal government to provide a clear timeline for implementing food warning labels on packaged products within 10 days. The move has increased pressure on New Delhi to implement the public health measure. The Supreme Court has intensified pressure on New Delhi to introduce stricter warning labels following complaints from a health nonprofit. The development comes amid a nationwide crackdown on food safety that has seen regulators raid eateries across...

After the president of the Supreme Court Bar Association remarked that lawyers’ income had declined since Justice Zubayer Rahman Chowdhury took office as chief justice, a heated argument broke out between the two sides. At one point, Chief Justice Zubayer Rahman Chowdhury and the entire bench of the Appellate Division left the courtroom. The incident took place during a hearing on Tuesday. Speaking to lawyers, it was learned that multiple writ petitions had been filed on the same issue re...

Justice Md. Habibul Gani of the High Court Division of the Supreme Court has been appointed as a judge of the Appellate Division. The President made the appointment on Thursday under Article 95(1) of the Constitution. The Ministry of Law issued a notification on the matter on Thursday. The notification said the appointment of Justice Habibul Gani will take effect from the day he takes his oath. Meanwhile, Supreme Court Registrar General Muhammad Habibur Rahman Siddiqui said in a separate...

The High Court has dismissed a writ petition challenging the validity of Article 70 of the Constitution and the schedule for the presidential election. The article concerns the vacation of a parliamentary seat for voting against the party in Parliament. The bench led by Justice Khizir Ahmed Choudhury passed the order Tuesday afternoon. The court said there was no substance in the writ petition. It also said that it would be better for Parliament to decide on the validity of Article 70 of...

The US Supreme Court has struck down President Donald Trump’s effort to limit birthright citizenship, dealing a major blow to his anti-immigration agenda. In a 6-3 decision issued Tuesday, the court upheld a lower court ruling that had blocked Trump’s executive order. Plaintiffs challenging the order argued that it violated the 14th Amendment to the US Constitution, which grants citizenship to people born in the United States and subject to its jurisdiction. Trump signed the executive...