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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..

The Madras high court on Monday issued notices to Bar Council of Tamil Nadu and Puducherry chairman RK Chandramohen and the Bar Council of India on a writ plea seeking disclosure of the name of the Union minister who had attempted to contact Justice Regupathi for a favourable order in a criminal case.  b..

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The Bombay high court on Monday granted Mumbai University liberty to amend its rules in connection with revaluation of exam papers to ensure a speedy process. The order came after a statement was made by university counsel Rui Roderigues that the university was planning to disband an existing expert committee in the pre..

 Madras High Court ordered notice to Union Information and Broadcasting Ministry, Prasar Bharati and the Central Board of Film Certification on a Public Interest Litigation Petition(PIL) seeking a direction to the Centre to regulate and prohibit transmission obscenity, violent, vulgar telecasts and exhibition of indecent dramas, serials, dances and advertisements by private channels. ..

Madras High Court dismissed a petition, challenging the order of the Tamil Nadu Government to hike the salary of MLA’s and allot land for constructing houses. When a Public Interest Litigation (PIL) petition filed by Social activist Traffic Ramasamy came up for hearing before the first Bench comprising Chief Justice H L Gokhale and Mr Justice D Murugesan, Government P..

Madras High Court ordered notice to Chairman of the Tamil Nadu-Pondichery Bar-Council on a Quo-Warranto petition questioning the authority under which R K Chandramohan has been holding the post.  When the petition came up for hearing before a Division Bench comprising Mr Justice F M Ibrahim Kalifulla and Ms Justice R Bhanumathi, the High Court registrar submitted a let..