As per the information furnished by the Registry of the Supreme Court, the guidelines for entertaining Public Interest Litigations (PIL) have been laid down by the Supreme Court in judicial pronouncements. Administratively, the Registry has generally ..
With just a fortnight to go before the ongoing Budget session comes to an end, the Centre is likely to push for legal amendments to enable State Bank of India raise capital through preference shares and also by preferential allotment or private place ..
The Centre's net direct tax collection grew by just 3.65 per cent to Rs 59,465 crore during the first quarter of the current fiscal year-on-year, as tax authorities gave much higher refund. "Lower growth in net tax collection was mainly on accou ..
Ajmal Amir Kasab, the lone Pakistani gunman captured during the 26/11 terror attack, today told the Mumbai trial court it was free to sentence him to death by hanging if there were doubts that he had pleaded guilty with the intention to escape the de ..
Actor Shiney Ahuja has not admitted before court that he had consensual sex with his domestic help and taken a stand that he was being framed up on rape charges, his lawyer Srikant Shivade said on Sunday. "What the actor had said in his bail pe ..
The Shillong bench of Gauhati High Court today upheld the Chief Judicial Magistrate’s (CJM) decision to reopen the case of senior Congress leader Thomas Nongtdu, who has been accused of financing the Shillong district jailbreak.A single bench o ..
The Madhya Pradesh High Court today reserved its verdict on a public interest litigation challenging the state government’s failure to compensate about 40,000 people ousted by the Maheshwar Dam Project.Residents of 61 affected villages of Alira ..
The first ever “Customs Tariff Database Online” for India was released by the Chief Economic Adviser (CEA) Dr. Arvind Virmani. This endeavour is a result of the research programme initiated by the Economic Division, Department of Economic ..
Lone captured Pakistani terrorist in the 26/11 attacks, Ajmal Amir Kasab today refuted his advocate Abbas Kazmi’s claim that he (Kasab) was mentally tortured by any person in the prison. Mr Kazmi had contended before the court that his client w ..
The Madras High Court has granted an interim stay on an order of the Second Additional District Munsif at Coimbatore as confirmed by the Principal Subordinate Judge, Coimbatore, in a case relating to provident fund contributions from NEPC Airlines a ..