New Delhi, Nov. 20: After many years of delay, India may finally have a comprehensive law to deal with atrocities against children. The Union law ministry has asked the women and child development ministry to prepare a comprehensive law on the issue ..
Khammam, May 15: The toddy tappers in Agency area are distressed at tribals being allowed rights on palm trees through a 1970 regulation. They are planning to launch an agitation to urge the government to relax the rules to protect them from poverty. ..
They Will Have To Reimburse Separated Wife’s Medical Expenses: SCNew Delhi: Cost of estrangement continues to mount for husbands — who are mandated by law to pay the wife maintenance — with the Supreme Court churning out judgments giving a very expan ..
New Delhi: Irked that a woman levelled false rape allegations against her husband as a pressure tactic to force the couple’s parents to accept the marriage, Delhi HC has slapped a fine of Rs 10,000 on her. Quashing an FIR lodged by her in September ..
The Union cabinet is reported to have decided to introduce a new version of the Judges (Inquiry) Amendment Bill. The 2008 Bill is believed to provide for establishing a National Judicial Council to inquire into allegations of “misbehaviour” or “incap ..
Chennai: The discharge of health minister M R K Panneerselvam from a disproportionate wealth case has been challenged in the Madras high court. When a petition filed by the Cuddalore-based P Ravindran seeking to condone a delay of 310 days in filing ..
Chennai: Seeking to free the city police from political shackles, the Madras high court made it clear that there should not be interference from any political quarter in the probe into the November 12 campus clash at the Dr Ambedkar Government Law Co ..
New Delhi: Madras High Court Chief Justice AK Ganguly, Patna HC Chief Justice RM Lodha and Kerala HC Chief Justice HL Dattu will be the new judges of the Supreme Court, while there is a strong possibility of two more appointments. The way for their ..
The lure of easy money and ignorance draw the gullible into this trap time and again — I refer to prize chit schemes and money circulation schemes. In 1977, a woman in Tiruchi started a simple scheme. You pay her Rs 1,000 and, after 21 days, collect ..
Chennai: Holding the government as being vicariously liable for the death of a school student, who died after his classmate banged his head against a wall, the Madras high court has awarded Rs 6 lakh compensation to his parents. Justice N Paul Vasan ..