Indian prisoner Sarabjit Singh, languishing in a Pakistani jail for the past 18 years, has got a new lawyer, days after the country’s Supreme Court dismissed his appeal against capital punishment.Sarabjit’s sister Dalbir Kaur on Saturday ..
Senior IAS officer Ranjit Singh Pankaj has been appointed new Chief Information Commissioner of Uttar Pradesh, a post lying vacant for past eight months.His name was approved by Governor T.V. Rajeswar on a recommendation from the State government, o ..
NEW DELHI: The Delhi High Court has issued notices to the father of a married woman and the Station House Officer of the Mayapuri police station in South-West Delhi on a habeas corpus petition by the woman’s husband seeking a ..
The former Attorney General Milon Banerjee has said there is no evidence to prosecute Justice Nirmal Yadav of the Punjab and Haryana High Court in the “Rs. 15 lakh cash-at-door scam.”Earlier, Justice Nirmal Yadav, in her reply to the show ..
The Andhra Pradesh government served a legal notice to Maharashtra seeking dismantling of five of the 14 crest-gates installed on the Babli project “in utter disregard of the Supreme Court injunction order.”If this was not done within thr ..
The Madras High Court has said that no dumping of garbage on a 67-acre grazing land at Kuthambakkam in Tiruvallur district, about 40 km from here, will be permitted, until further orders.Passing interim orders on public interest litigation petitions ..
Calling for proper reform of Indian Commercial Law, Kerala High Court Chief Justice S R Bannurmath today stressed the importance of adopting institutional arbitration instead of ad-hoc arbitrations. Addressing a gathering after inaugurating a nationa ..
Chief Justice of India K. G. Balakrishnan has named Justice B. Sudershan Reddy of the Supreme Court chairman of the three-member panel set up by the Rajya Sabha to look into the issue of impeachment proceedings against Justice Soumitra Sen of the Cal ..
In exercise of the powers conferred by clause (1) of Article 217 of the Constitution of India, the President is pleased to appoint(1) Shri Syamal Kanti Chakrabarti, (2) Md. Abdul Ghani, (3) Shri Raghunath Ray, (4) Shri Mrinal Kanti Sinha and (5) Shri ..
In exercise of the powers conferred by clause (1) of Article 217 of the Constitution of India, the President is pleased to appoint Shri Sonam Phintso Wangdi to be a Judge of the Sikkim High Court, with effect from the date he assumes charge of his of ..