Three days ahead of the trust vote in Parliament, the lawyer in the finance minister P Chidambaram blamed the current stand-off over the Indo US nuclear deal to the “widespread and appalling legal illiteracy” in the country. Speaking at the NALSAR Un ..
Phishing is now spilling over to your mobile phone. The next time you receive an SMS from your mobile operator informing you about a service you have subscribed to and asking you to call a certain number to unsubscribe, beware, it can be a phishing m ..
At law firms in the United States, the billing rate for basic legal services like document review starts around $200 an hour and can appreciate significantly if the firm handling the work is located in a big city like New York or Washington, D.C. The ..
The Government of India is considering amendments to the Transplantation of Human Organs Act, 1994. A note on the amendments proposed in the Act has been posted on the website of the Ministry of Health & Family Welfare i.e. www.mohfw.nic.in. General ..
Chennai, Jul 16 Madras High Court has directed top officials of Tamil Nadu to hold a meeting to determine whether unauthorised occupants of an area were eligible to be rehabilitated.Five senior civil servants appeared yesterday before a Division Be ..
The Supreme Court on Monday decided to hear in open court a matter related to the question whether there should be a judicial probe or a CBI investigation into the UP multi-crore provident fund scam that allegedly involves judges, including one from ..
The Supreme Court on Monday refused to entertain a petition seeking laying down of guidelines for the appointment of Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) of India. "Guidelines have to come through some legislation in accordance with the Constitution ..
Indian-origin lawyer and Britain's foremost human rights advocate Shami Chakrabarti figures among the top 10 most powerful lawyers in The Times' annual list of the Top 100 club.This is another feather in the cap for Chakrabarti, who is already consid ..
Use law as a tool of social engineering: CJI Chief Justice of India K G Balakrishnan on Saturday said law should be used as a tool of social engineering. Addressing a gathering at a Law University in Raipur, Balakrishnan said, "We live in a country w ..
The morbid indifference of some private hospitals in extending primary emergency treatment to accident victims has drawn flak from the doctors community in the city. The recent death of two accident victims under such circumstances have brought vario ..