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New Delhi: The Supreme Court chided advocates for seeking adjournments on flimsy grounds like traffic jams, as such an attitude only compounded the woes of people caught in endless litigations. "What traffic jams? Let there be rains, sunshine or even an earthquake. You are supposed to be in the court by 10.30 am. You cannot seek adjournments," a two-judge bench of Justices Markandeya Katju and V ..

Observing that vacancies are not filled by "charity", the Supreme Court has said the government is not under any Constitutional obligation to provide reservation to SCs, STs etc, in preliminary tests conducted for filling up official posts. "Judging of merit may be at several tiers. It may undergo several filtrations. Ultimately, the constitutional scheme is to have the candidates who would b..

The Supreme Court on Monday virtually drew curtains for more than 1,000 clinics and nursing homes operating from residential buildings in Mumbai. It put a virtually impossible condition to them construct an independent stairway or lift for the clinic or nursing home within six months after obtaining permission from the civic body or move out. This means these clinics and nursing homes hav..

4/2/2009 JGU Vice Chancellor Prof. C. Raj Kumar announced the launch of two law scholarships available to students who join Jindal Global Law School(JGLS) in academic year 2009-10. The new merit-based scholarships are the O.P. Jindal Outstanding Merit Scholarships and the Naveen Jindal Young Global Scholarships. The LSATIndia test is the admission test for JGLS, which will enroll its first st..

The Bombay High Court on Thursday sought a report on illegal sand mining operations in coastal districts of Ratnagiri, Sindhudurg and neighbouring Navi Mumbai area. A bunch of PILs, including the one filed by city-based NGO Janhit Manch, has alleged that illegal sand mining is being carried out in several areas of Ratnagiri, Sindhudurg, and Navi Mumbai. In Navi Mumbai's CBD Belapur area..

Last date for registration for ACS December exam is extended till 31-03-2009..

Last Date of Registration for Post Qualification Course in International Trade Laws & WTO for November 2009 Part I Examinations - (18-03-2009)________________________________________Attention of the members is drawn to the Post Qualification Course in 'International Trade Laws and World Trade Organisation' of ICAI intended to equip the members with the specialised skills necessary for deve..

Publication: Times Of India Hyderabad; Date:2009 Feb 24; Section:Times Nation; Page Number: 8 BCI for age limit in law admissions Anyone Above The Age Of 20 Not Eligible For Integrated 5-Year LLB Course: Bar Council Swati Deshpande | TNN Mumbai: Students may have to check their age before joining a law college from this year. The Bar Counil of India (BCI) is imposing an ag..

law courses n Bar Council limits upset legal fraternity Former Union Law Minister Ram Jethmalani has criticised the decision of the Bar Council of India to introduce a minimum age limit of 20 years for BA LLB and 30 years for LLB. “I do not see any logic in this decision,” he said on Sunday. He was speaking to journalists after a speech on “Right to Defence” at Bharati Vidyapeeth University’s Ne..

The Supreme Court (SC) recently came down heavily on institutions conferring distance education degrees in an erratic manner. The SC has maintained that postgraduate degrees awarded by open universities under the distance education programme to students who did not have the basic three-year degree could not be treated on a par with conventional postgraduate degrees. The ruling comes in the ..

PTI New Delhi: With the US auction house not heeding to India’s request for stalling the auction of Mahatma Gandhi’s personal belongings on March 5, the Union government is all set to take recourse to legal course to prevent these five precious articles going under the hammer. Though negotations with the auction house in New York are still on, “we are seriously examining other means including ..

Madras HC lawyers row: SC orders transfer of 5 police officers New Delhi, Feb 26: The Supreme Court on Thursday ordered the transfer of five senior police officers whose names have cropped up in connection with the clashes between lawyers and police in the Madras High Court premises and appointed a committee headed by its former judge B N Srikrishna to probe the unprecedented violence. The c..

NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court on Wednesday directed the educational institutes to expel the students indulging in ragging and inform the police to initiate criminal proceedings against them. “If the authorities are prima facie satisfied about the errant act of any student, they can in appropriate cases pending final decision, suspend the student from the institution, and the hostel if any,..

NEW DELHI: This coming academic session, freshers aka 'fuchas' can drop guard and walk 'bindaas' into the campus. For, big brother Supreme Court on Wednesday sent a chilling signal to rowdy seniors, warning them of dire consequences if they indulged in ragging, even if for the first time. The apex court also warned that colleges found to be lax in preventing ragging or shielding the offende..

The Centre has rejected the recommendation of the 205th Law Commission to reduce the marriage age of men from 21 to 18 years. Rajya Sabha member from Goa Shantaram Naik in a statement said the Centre was in view that if the age of 18 years was retained for the boys and the girls, it was likely that girls younger than 18 years will be married to boys of 18 years. He got this reply from the Pa..