Chennai: A public interest writ petition, seeking to prevent donated temple cows from being sold to slaughter houses, has been filed in the Madras high court. The first bench comprising CJ A K Ganguly and justice F M Ibrahim Kalifulla ordered notice ..
New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Friday refused to entertain a PIL filed by Jamiat-Ulama-i-Hind president Maulana Arshad Madani seeking a CBI probe into the alleged involvement of Hindu fundamentalists in the 2006 Nanded blasts and the one in Malegaon ..
New Delhi: In a first-ever instance of a patent being revoked after being granted, the Madras High Court has set aside pharma major Roche’s patent on key drug, valganciclovir on procedural grounds. A patent on valganciclovir was granted to the compan ..
Chennai: The Tamil Nadu government has told the Madras high court that it would enforce relevant rules and regulations to ensure that unauthorised construction activities, including digging trenches and road works, did not take place in hill stations ..
New Delhi: Two PILs have been filed in the Supreme Court for setting up of a federal investigating agency (FIA) notwithstanding the Centre’s post-Mumbai terror attack promise to examine the feasibility of such a force. The UPA government’s public st ..
New York, Dec. 4: Indian national Jo-seph Palli-purath, who drove all across the US from California to New Jersey to kill his 24-year-old wife, has been brought to Georgia to face trial. Palliparuth, a native of Kerala, who was shackled as he was tak ..
New Delhi: Harassed by a husband’s ‘ugly’ taunts, if a wife commits suicide within seven years of marriage, the man is sure to be booked under Section 498A of the Indian Penal Code for harassing her in the matrimonial home. The reverse has happened. ..
Chennai Dec. 1: A consumer court on Monday ordered the Government General Hospital and the state health secretary to pay a compensation of Rs 5 lakh for medical negligence at the hospital, which caused the death of a 14-year-old boy in 2001. Accordi ..
New Delhi: The Yamuna will finally get cleaner. In a stunning instance of judicial activism, the Delhi high court on Tuesday ordered a two-week jail term for former Delhi Jal Board CEO Arun Mathur and two other top officials of the Board for their fa ..
PILs seek CET for admissions to law collegesReintroducing a common entrance test for law admissions, barring entry of nonstudents on the premises of law colleges and an external disciplinary committee to monitor student activities were some of the su ..