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- Policy & trade, IndiaCommittee formed only to address the grievances of farmers, not biased: CJI BobdeChief Justice Sharad A Bobde criticised media reports questioning members of the Supreme Court's farm laws committee, saying it was formed only to hear farmers' grievances.
- Policy & trade, PunjabPunjab farmers are forced to burn stubble, say government failed to provide incentivesPunjab farmers say they are burning paddy stubble because the state has not paid the Supreme Court-ordered incentive and residue machinery is hard to get.
- Policy & trade, IndiaSC steps in to break the deadlock between the Centre and the farmers on the new farm lawsThe Supreme Court put the three farm laws on hold and set up an expert committee, but farmer unions rejected the panel as pro-government and said they would accept only repeal.
- Soil, water & climate, Tamil NaduSC gives green signal to Nilgiris elephant corridor; assents to right of passageThe Supreme Court dismissed a petition by Mudumalai resort owners against a 2011 Madras High Court ruling, clearing the Nilgiris elephant corridor and the closure of resorts in its path.
- Policy & trade, IndiaJustice NV Ramana, the first lawyer from an agricultural background to take oath as Chief Justice of IndiaPresident Ram Nath Kovind has appointed Justice NV Ramana, born into an agricultural family in Andhra Pradesh's Krishna district, as the 48th Chief Justice of India.
- Policy & trade, IndiaSC brings discarded PIL challenging Centre’s farm laws into reconsiderationThe Supreme Court restored lawyer M L Sharma's PIL arguing that Parliament had no power to legislate on agriculture, a state subject, after earlier dismissing it.
- Policy & trade, IndiaSC shows faith in government, refuses to entertain pleas seeking enquiry into R-Day violenceThe Supreme Court declined on February 3 to intervene over violence during the farmers' Republic Day tractor rally, saying it was confident the government was enquiring into it.
- Policy & trade, DelhiSC: Delhi Police to decide the fate of the tractor rally on 26 JanuaryThe Supreme Court declined to ban the farmers' January 26 tractor rally and left the decision on its entry into Delhi to the Delhi Police.
- Policy & trade, IndiaSupreme Court attempts at getting individual opinions of the farmers through the agriculture panelThe Supreme Court-appointed committee on the farm laws opened a portal for individual farmers' views, while member Anil Ghanwat said repeal was not on the cards.