New Delhi, July 6 (IANS) Hours after bidding farewell to the Supreme Court on Friday, Justice Adarsh Kumar Goel was appointed the Chairperson of the National Green Tribunal (NGT) for five years, said a notification…
New Delhi, July 6 (IANS) Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Friday said that they are discussing their next step with lawyers and cabinet ministers after Lt. Governor Anil Baijal refused to hand over the…
New Delhi, July 6 (IANS) Attorney General K.K. Venugopal, the government’s primary lawyer in the Supreme Court, on Friday said the government should consider raising the retirement age of Supreme Court judges to 68 and…
Panaji, July 6 (IANS) While directing the CBI to take over the murder probe of a 22-year-old Finnish tourist Felix Dahl from the state police, the Panaji bench of the Bombay High Court on Friday…
New Delhi, July 6 (IANS) Justice Adarsh Kumar Goel, who headed a bench which delivered the judgment forbidding immediate arrest under SC/ST Act, on Friday said if courts can’t protect the fundamental rights of citizens,…
New Delhi, July 6 (IANS) The Uttar Pradesh government on Friday questioned the Muslim litigants in the Ramjanmabhoomi-Babri Majid title suit case for making “belated efforts” seeking a relook at the 1994 Ismail Farooqui judgment…
New Delhi, July 6 (IANS) The Delhi High Court on Friday ordered Delhi University’s law faculty to allow those students, who were barred from appearing in examinations of their respective semesters for not meeting the…
New Delhi, July 6 (IANS) Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh on Friday said that the government was committed to strengthen and smoothen the twin processes of immigration and visas for Indian citizens and foreigners respectively….
Gurugram, July 6 (IANS) Following non-release of pension and other dues to a widow of a retired Haryana Roadways employee, a luxury bus of the state transport in Gurugram was impounded here on a district…
New Delhi, July 6 (IANS) A new five-judge constitution bench of the Supreme Court has been formed to hear from July 10 pleas for scrapping a law that makes homosexuality a crime. Justice Rohinton Fali…
New Delhi, July 6 (IANS) Two days after the Supreme Court upheld the Delhi government’s primacy in the city’s governance, Lt Governor Anil Baijal on Friday met Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal and assured him of…
New Delhi, July 6 (IANS) The Supreme Court on Friday reiterated that the Chief Justice was the “master of roster” and he alone has the powers to allocate cases to different benches. It also cautioned…
Shimla, July 6 (IANS) Seeking justice for his teenaged daughter who was gang-raped and murdered in Himachal Pradesh a year ago, her father on Friday raised questions over the CBI investigations into the case so…
New Delhi, July 6 (IANS) As a fresh tussle on control over bureaucracy in Delhi escalated, Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal met Lt Governor Anil Baijal on Friday and said the latter will cooperate with his…
New Delhi, July 6 (IANS) Can religious activities be allowed on government land in secular India? The Supreme Court on Friday referred this question to a larger bench to decide. A bench of Justice R.F….
New Delhi, July 6 (IANS) The Supreme Court on Friday sought response from the Central government on a plea seeking direction to formulate guidelines exempting turbaned Sikhs from wearing any headgear during sports events. A…
New Delhi, July 6 (IANS) Terming his rustication farcical, student-activist Umar Khalid on Friday said he will challenge JNU’s decision in court and rejected the enquiry “along with its findings and verdict”. Although no official…
New Delhi, July 6 (IANS) “#ChokeTheDemand”, a city-wide project against commercial sexual exploitation of children driven by a widespread demand for them in the sex industry, highlights the glaring issue through a creative blend of…
Chandigarh, July 6 (IANS) The Punjab State Women’s Commission on Friday said over 30,000 legal cases pertaining to Non-Resident Indians (NRIs) from the state abandoning their wives are pending for disposal and urged the Centre…
Islamabad, July 6 (IANS) Dealing a severe blow to the Pakistan Muslim League (Nawaz) ahead of the general elections, former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif was on Friday sentenced to 10 years in prison while his…