The Supreme Court Collegium has finally had its way with President Pratibha Patil clearing the names of three High Court chief justices recommended by it for elevation to the apex court despite reservations voiced by the Prime Minister's Office.The P ..
ERADICATION OF TERRORISM—A HUMAN RIGHTS PERSPECTIVE INSPIRED BY THE WRITINGS OF THE BAHA’I FAITHA. K. Merchant*Once more India has witnessed the consequences of terrorist attacks more brutal and gruesome than the ones before and disruption of normal ..
For Immediate ReleaseDecember 8, 2008Contact: Andrew Hollinger, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. 202-488-6133 Lauren Sucher, United States Institute of Peace. 202-429-3822Genocide Prevention Task Force Delivers Blueprint for U.S. Gover ..
New Delhi: India’s Supreme Court on Friday stopped criminal proceedings against the country’s top cricket officials on perjury charges. The Calcutta High Court had last month ordered police to file the charges against six officials of the Board of Co ..
Chennai: A public interest writ petition, seeking to prevent donated temple cows from being sold to slaughter houses, has been filed in the Madras high court. The first bench comprising CJ A K Ganguly and justice F M Ibrahim Kalifulla ordered notice ..
New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Friday refused to entertain a PIL filed by Jamiat-Ulama-i-Hind president Maulana Arshad Madani seeking a CBI probe into the alleged involvement of Hindu fundamentalists in the 2006 Nanded blasts and the one in Malegaon ..
New Delhi: In a first-ever instance of a patent being revoked after being granted, the Madras High Court has set aside pharma major Roche’s patent on key drug, valganciclovir on procedural grounds. A patent on valganciclovir was granted to the compan ..
THE CASE REGARDING VALIDITY OF CHILD MARRIAGE BEFORE SP. BENCH OF DELHI HIGH COURT WAS ADJOURNED FOR 12/12/2008. MR ARVIND JAIN WILL ARGUE THE THE CASE ON THE NEXT DATE.THIS IS GOING TO BE A STEPPING STONE IN JUDICIAL HISTORY. ..
Union Agriculture Minister Sharad Pawar and five other BCCI officials received a reprieve with the Supreme Court staying a Calcutta High Court's directive to initiate criminal proceedings against them for filing "false" affidavits in the Jagmohan Dal ..
A writ petition seeking direction to the Union government to constitute a national investigating agency to combat growing incidents of terrorist violence in the country has been filed in the Supreme Court.The petition filed by advocate Abani Kumar Sa ..