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The Kerala High Court stayed the selection process of films for the Indian Panorama Section of the International Film Festival to be held in Goa.  Single Bench Judge Justice P N Ravindran had also directed issue of notices to the respondents, including the Information and Broadcasting Ministry and the Union Go..

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The Kerala High Court rapped the State Government and the Kerala Tourism Development Corporation (KTDC) in the light of the recent Thekkady boat tragedy that claimed 45 lives.  Justice K T Sankaran observed while granting bail to the accused that the tenders for the boat were issued without any scientific stud..

An unsigned e-mail from an unconfirmed source to a local advocate, urging him to join the Jehadi movement and promising monetary compensation to his family in eventuality of martyrdom, has been taken up by the Special Task Force (STF) of Assam Police. Advocate of Gauhati High Court Ajay Hazarika had received an e-m..

A PIL seeking to know the criteria to obtain membership of the prestigious Institution ‘India International Centre’ (IIC) was transferred yet again for the ninth time to an another bench as the judge showed his inability to hear it citing reasons that he himself is the member of the IIC.  Justice S..

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N C Rajvanshi declared elected as the new president of the Allahabad High Court Bar Association (HCBA).  Mr Rajvanshi defeated his nearest rival U N Sharma with a margin of 282 votes, while B D Tripathi became the new secretary of the association. He has defeated K K Roy with a margin o..

Terming the killing of 95 people in Naroda Patiya area of the city during 2002 riots as "unparallelled in modern soci..

  It is more than three years since the move to do away with a colonial practice in the judiciary was thought of, but the first step    towards its actual implementation has come from a Madras High Court judge.    Justice K Chandru has banned the use of the terms My lord' and Your lordship' by lawyers addressing his cou..

Former Chief Justice of India Justice K N Singh said if the allegations against Karnataka High Court Chief Justice P D Dinakaran were proved, it will damage the image of Constitutional office of the Chief Justice and the judiciary atlarge.  Talking to newspersons on the sidelines of a function here, Justice Si..

The Delhi High Court has slapped a fine of Rs 20,000 on two people for filing frivolous petition challenging arbitrator’s decision which ordered them to pay the instalments to the company which financed them a cargo vehicle 13 years ago.  Justice V B Gupta directed Sheru and Subhan Khan to deposit the am..

Madras High Court Judge K N Basha refused to hear further an anticipatory bail petition filed by Puthiya Tamizhagam (PT) founder K Krishnasway and 11 others.  When the case came up for hearing on the second day before Justice Basha, he did not specify the reason for his disinclination to hear the case any furt..

Karnataka High Court Chief Justice P D Dinakaran's appointment as a judge of the Supreme Court has hit a roadblock with a collegium headed by Chief Justice of India K G Balakrishnan understood to have put on hold the decision on his elevation. The apex court collegium, which met here yesterday, is believed to have sought within a week his response to the allegations that he had amassed land ..

A tenant can be evicted if the landlord wants to start his own business even in a field in which he or she has no prior experience, the Supreme Court has ruled. A bench of Justices Markandeya Katju and Asok Kumar Ganguly has held that if a landlord has a bonafide need of his rented premises for starting a new business and is able to prove his claim convincingly, he cannot be denied the privi..

The Delhi High Court on Monday directed the Delhi Public School Society (DPSS) to pay Rs 8.50 lakh as compensation to its four former women employees for removing them from their jobs and failing to take action against a school principal who sought sexual favours from them. Justice S Ravindra Bhat declined to grant any relief to U S Verma, the then principal of DPS Faridabad, who had c..