constitutional law

Bureaucrats are set to get a new deal with the Government planning to come out with a bill in the upcoming Budget session of Parliament that is expected to shield them f..

Lecturers and school teachers, who had obtained appointments, promotions and transfers without following statutory rules in collusion with the management, cannot be allowed to continue in the posts, the Madras High Court has held. Justice S. Manikumar passed the ruling while disposing of a batch of 48 writ petitions filed..

New Delhi, Jun 4 : The Supreme Court has dismissed the petition filed by former Madras High Court judge N Kannadasan and the Tamil Nadu government challenging former's removal from the post of President of the State Consumer Dispute Redressal Commission as his integrity was under doubt...

High Court orders notice to EC                 MADURAI: The Madras High Court Bench here on Wednesday ordered notice to the Election Commission on a public interest ..

Every tobacco company will have to carry pictorial warning on cigarette packets from today as per the directions of the Supreme Court. Additional Solicitor General Gopal Subramaniam has given an undertaking to a Supreme Court bench headed by Justice B N Agrawal that the government will make it mandatory for every tobacco company to carry the pictorial warning on cigarette pa..

The Punjab and Haryana High Court upheld that unshorn hair was an essential component of the Sikh religion. Giving this ruling, full bench of the court comprising Justice J S Khehar, Justice Jasbir Singh and Justice Ajay Kumar Mittal dismissed the writ petition of Ms Gurleen Kaur and others, whereby the constitutional validity of the definition of Sikh contained in the Sikh ..

 In another jolt to Uttar Pradesh government, the Allahabad High Court today stayed the implementation of one of its most ambitious projects - Ganga Expressway, cancelling the permission of the environment department of August 23, 2007. The Court, though not touching the project per se, stayed the implementation of the project till the fresh procedure for environmental approval was undert..

The Jammu and Kashmir High Court has dismissed a petition seeking directions to the Election Commission (EC) to quash the 2008 General Assembly elections in the state. The petition was filed by the Awami National Conference (ANC) Vice President Muzaffar Ahmad Shah, cou..

  The Delhi High Court directed the private schools in the national capital not to collect arrears from parents, subjected to the huge burden of fee hike of their wards, giving them a substantial relief. Imposing a stay on the schools for collection of dues accumulated from Jan 1, 2006 to Aug 31, 2008, a bench comprising Justices A K Sikri and V K Jain said the parents need not pa..

 The Supreme Court disapproved of students indulging in political activities in educational institutes by distributing pamphlets against the principals and teachers. A vacation bench of Justices Markandey Katju and Deepak Verma also refused to revoke the rustication orders passed by a college in Kerala against the petitioner, a girl student. Justice Katju, who was heading the bench, aske..

During the hearing of a case a relating to a sting operation against former Union Minister and BJP leader Dilip Singh Judeo, Justice Markandey Katju said: “I totally agree with sting operations. There should be more sting operations. Corrupt elements can be brought to light by these sort of operations.”..

The Finance Act, 2008 received the assent of the President of India on the 10th May, 2008 which contains provisions for direct and indirect taxes for fiscal year 2008..

Expressing concern over the increasing backlog of cases in courts and the slow rate of disposal, Chief Justice of India K.G. Balakrishnan Monday said lawyers could try to settle most of the cases outside courts "as the present establishment cannot cope up". Inaugurating the Hindi website and annual report 2006 of the district courts of Delhi, the Chief Justice of India said: "Th..

The former Prime Minister, Nawaz Sharif, and his brother and Punjab Chief Minister, Shahbaz Sharif, won a crucial political battle on Tuesday with the Supreme Court finally setting aside its own earlier order and a Lahore High Court verdict disqualifying them from contesting elections. The order paves the way for Mr. Nawaz Sharif, the leader of the Pakistan Muslim League (N), to enter Parliame..

The Kerala High Court admitted a writ petition, demanding voting rights for Non-Resident Indians (NRIs). A division bench comprising Chief Justice S R Bannurmath and Justice Kurian Joseph, directed to issue notices to the Union and state Governments and also the Electi..