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After the landmark decision of the Supreme Court judges to make their assets public, judges of the Sikkim High Court are set to do the same. This is the first such decision in the Northeastern region.  An official source of the HC informed that the asset details of the judges will be placed on the website of the court at the earliest.  /..

Teachers of degree colleges associated with the Lucknow University (LU) on Thursday shot of a petition to the Chief Justice of India (CJI) with the request to intervene and stop the Supreme Court (SC) bench from revoking implementation of the Lyngdoh Committee recommendations in the students' union elections. On the oth..

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  Patna High Court on Wednesday disposed of a PIL filed by lawyer Kalpana, who sought a full-time secretary in charge of the energy department in view of the serious power crisis in the state. The court asked her to make a representation in this regard before the chief secretary.  Whe..

The accident on Wednesday, which left two students dead and nine others injured has once again brought to the fore the callousness on the part of school authorities who openly flout the Supreme Court directives on schoolbuses.  This incident also demonstrates how the city administration's guide..

The two-judge bench of the A P High Court overseeing the closure of schools without permission in Vishakapatnam district yet again on Wednesday pointed out to abdication of statutory functions by the state government. The inaction to effect the closure of schools running without permission was seen by the court as not only a failure to implement the law but defiance of judicial orders. Reacti..

The people in Haryana can now obtain legal advice regarding their cases on a helpline.  Justice Adarsh Kumar Gel of Punjab and Haryana High Court and Executive Chairman of Haryana State Legal Services Authority (HSLSA) inaugurated the legal services helpline (0172-2604055) yesterday. Stating this here, the HSLSA Member Secretary said any person see..

A lawyer filed a suit in the Madurai Bench of Madras High Court on August 31, seeking a ban on the Indian cricket team’s visit to Sri Lanka in the wake of the alleged Tamil genocide in the island nation. Jel Paul Antony, a lawyer, who is a resident of Lake Area here, pointed out in his complaint that 12 lakh Tamils were murdered in Sri Lanka in the last 60 years in th..

The Madhya Pradesh High court has issued notices to state government and state Accountant General (AG) on irregularity in disbursement of pension to a retired Judge of High court. A division bench comprising Chief Justice Anang Kumar Patnaik and Justice Pankaj Jaiswal while hearing the petition of retired Judge R D Vyas yesterday, challenging the act of the state AG, Gwalio..

Delhi High Court dismissed the petition of five Delhi University candidates who challenged the University’s decision to disqualify them in the students union election. Three ABVP and two NSUI candidates had approached the Delhi High Court against Delhi University’s decision to disqualify them from contesting the Delhi University Students Union(DUSU) elections sc..

Members of Bar Association Kota, Bundi and Jhalawar gone on strike for indefinate period for their demand of Rajasthan Highcourt Bench at Kota.    ..

Fire broke out in the Andhra Pradesh High Court building, a heritage structure, destroying the chambers of five judges, a library housing valuable books and a mini-conference hall in the early hours of Monday. More than 100 firemen had to sweat it out for over three hours using 15 fire tenders to douse the flames that began around 4.30 a.m. Though the blaze was put out by 7 a.m...

Some lawyers of Jodhpur has issued an ultimatum to Rajasthan High Court chief justice Jagdish Bhalla to come here for discussion over the split of main bench of HC, Jodhpur.  In a message faxed to Bhalla, the lawyers have set September 2 as deadline for resolving the matter. Spokesperson of the..