The Madras High Court has held that there was no illegality in the appointment of Dr M S Ananth as Director of the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras. In its order yesterday allowing writ appeals challenging a single Judge’s order, a Divisi ..
Treating a petition against the recent strike by resident doctors in Maharashtra as a PIL, the Nagpur Bench of Bombay High Court has issued notices to the Medical Council of India (MCI) and state government over the agitation.Besides the state govern ..
The Andhra Pradesh High Court today stayed an order of the state government to provide financial aid to members of the Christian community to undertake pilgrimage to Bethlehem, Jerusalem and other places.Hearing a Public Interest Litigation (PIL) que ..
The National Human Rights Commission(NHRC) today submitted its inquiry report in the Batla House encounter case to the Delhi High Court for perusal.Accepting the sealed cover report, a Division Bench headed by Chief Justice A P Shah directed the Comm ..
Justice G.Rohini of A.P. High Court on Tuesday dismissed a writ petition filed by B.S. Krupalini , challenging the action of the authorities in refusing to give her a seat in MBBS course on the ground that she was under aged.The petitioner said that ..
The Assembly on Tuesday adopted 30 Bills, including those seeking to levy a duty on transfers of property in municipal areas, regulate conduct of jallikattu and regulate fee collection in schools in the State.Under the Duty on Transfers of Property ( ..
The total number of complaints received by the Prime Minister’s Office, Department of Administrative Reforms & Public Grievances and Department of Pensions & Pensioners’ Welfare during the last three years till date (upto 30.06.20 ..
Central Government has decided to set up 71 additional Special Courts exclusively for trial of CBI cases in various States. A statement showing location-wise and state-wise details of these Courts is as under: State ..
The Madhya Pradesh High Court has directed police to take proper steps to arrest those accused of a schedule caste girl Belkheda village.Chief Justice A K Patnaik and Justice Pankaj Jaiswal yesterday took suo moto action on the basis of a report in a ..
The Supreme Court today stayed till further orders the Punjab and Haryana High Court judgment which permitted abortion of a mentally challenged pregnant woman.A bench comprising Chief Justice K G Balakrishnan and Justices P Sathasivam and B S Chauhan ..