Former Chief Justice of India K G Balakrishnan has been appointed as Chairperson of the National Human Rights Commission.65-year-old Balakrishnan, who retired on May 12, will be the sixth chairperson of the Commission and will have a tenure of five ..
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Sir, Reconstitute SIT: Guj ex-minister Jaspal Singh wrote to SC, urging that SIT be reconstituted Singh had urged the SC to notice Raghavan's and SIT's pro-Modi posture DNA Correspondent Even as the Special Investigation Team (SIT) was in ..
The woes of trial court judges, working in pathetic conditions in remote areas, will soon be over. The Supreme Court on Friday said it would work out a scheme in two months time to make provision for better working conditions in over 16,000 courts a ..
President Pratibha Patil on Saturday signed the ordinance dissolving the Medical Council of India. The health ministry on Friday had issued the ordinance to dissolve the MCI. For the time being, the MCI is to be replaced by a 7-member expert committ ..
IN A development that could provide legitimacy to the demand for caste-based census, the Madras High Court has issued a fresh direction to the Centre to conduct caste-wise enumeration in the country. Allowing a PIL by lawyer R Krishnamoorthy, a ..
Touching upon several significant areas in the working of Centre-state relations, the Justice Madan Mohan Punchhi report submitted recently to the government has made over 200 recommendations. These include radical ones like amending Articles 355 an ..
Chief Justice of India-designate Sarosh Homi Kapadia might just create a record of sorts when he continues working during the Supreme Court’s approximately two-month-long summer vacation, which begins from May 17. During the vacation, only two ..
SC dismisses Jayalalithaa's plea for quashing an assets case.The Supreme Court on Tuesday dismissed a petition of former Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa seeking quashing of a disproportionate assets case, ..