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Recruitment Notification | Law Clerk-cum-Research Assistant| Supreme Court of India

13 May 2015

Supreme Court of India Name of Post: Law Clerk-cum-Research Assistant Fixed Emoluments: Rs. 30,000/- per month Age Limit: Candidate must not be above 27 years of age a...

SC stays Madras HC Judge’s minacious order against his Chief Justice

11 May 2015

May,11,2015: The bench posted the appeal filed by the Madras High Court registry against the order passed by Justice Karnan for hearing. The Supreme Court on Monday stayed an interim order pa...

Text of Karnataka High Court's verdict on Jayalalithaa DA case

11 May 2015

May,11,2015: Read the text of the verdict that has a nation riveted - and which let former Chief Minister Jayalalithaa walk free.at the bottom. In a major victory for AIADMK, a special bench...

Live: Jayalalithaa acquitted in DA case

11 May 2015

May,11,2015: Three others also acquitted; massive celebrations at party headquarters in Chennai. In a major victory for AIADMK, a special Bench of the Karnataka High Court set aside the trial...

All eyes on Karnataka High Court verdict

11 May 2015

May,11,2015: It will virtually decide the political future of Jayalalithaa and the AIADMK. The proceedings in court hall 14 of the Karnataka High Court on Monday is certain to have a huge bea...

Experts dispute premise of Juvenile Law Amendments

10 May 2015

May,10,2015: As the proposed amendments to the Juvenile Justice Act, 2000, passed in the Lok Sabha on May 7, faces the Rajya Sabha hurdle, several child rights experts have begun to challenge its p...

Enforcing Traffic laws takes a tool on the Health of Traffic cops

10 May 2015

May,10,2015: Many of the cops had symptoms indicative of early signs of asthma like wheezing, shortness of breath and chest tightness. Half of the Delhi Traffic personnel screened for lung ca...

PM Modi launches three social security schemes for the poor

09 May 2015

May,9,2015: Modi said that 80-90 per cent people in the country neither have insurance cover nor any possibility of pension. After providing bank accounts to 15 crore unbanked people, Prime M...

Jayalalithaa verdict on May 11, prohibitory orders around HC

09 May 2015

May,9,2014: The Special Vacation Single Bench of Justice C.R. Kumaraswamy is scheduled to give the judgement at 11 a.m. With Karnataka High Court all set to give its verdict on May 11 on appe...

NGT orders Delhi households to pay compensation for a cleaner Yamuna

08 May 2015

May,8,2015: The compensation to be paid would be directly proportional to the property or water tax, whichever is higher, paid by a particular household. For a cleaner River Yamuna, the Natio...

Parliament puts seal of approval on Land Boundary Agreement with 119th Constitution Amendment

08 May 2015

May,8,2015: All the 331 members present in the House voted for the bill which became the 100th Constitutional amendment passed by Parliament. In a rare show of bipartisanship, Parliament un...

Supreme Court stays summons to Rahul Gandhi in defamation case

08 May 2015

May,8,2015: Plea in SC challenges constitutionality of criminal defamation under IPC. The Supreme Court on Thursday stayed criminal defamation proceedings against Congress vice-president Rahu...

A Bill for Juvenile Injustice

07 May 2015

May,7,2015: The Cabinet’s nod to amendments in the Juvenile Justice Bill would not only violate the basic principles of the Constitution, but also be in conflict with evidence-based social po...

Juvenile Justice Bill 2014 passed in Lok Sabha

07 May 2015

May,7,2015: The Lok Sabha on Thursday passed the controversial Juvenile Justice Amendment Bill, which seeks to allow children in the 16-18 age group to be tried as adults if they commit heinous cri...

Supreme Court upholds maintenance for live-in partners

06 May 2015

May,6,2015: The Supreme Court on Tuesday said if a live-in relationship breaks down, the man is bound to pay maintenance to the woman and the children born from the relationship.A bench of Justices Vi...

Centre, SC spar over primacy of CJI in judicial appointments

05 May 2015

May,5,2015: Attorney General Mukul Rohatgi had submitted that independence of judiciary did not mean that the CJI and his collegium had primacy in appointment and transfer of judges. Mercury...

Haryana Govt. to give Rs. 1 lakh for information on female foeticide

05 May 2015

May,5,2015: State Health Minister Anil Vij said the Haryana government would give Rs. 1 lakh cash award to anyone who provides information regarding sex determination tests or female foeticides to...

Will the US Supreme Court make history in same Sex Marriage

05 May 2015

May,5,2015: In 1986, Supreme Court Justice Lewis Powell remarked to a clerk: “I don’t believe I’ve ever met a homosexual.” Powell’s comment came in the course of his struggle to understand the stakes...

U.S. Supreme Court upholds New Jersey’s ban on ‘gay conversion therapy’

05 May 2015

May,5,2015:The US Supreme Court on Monday let stand a lower court's ban on therapy intended to change the sexual orientation of gay youths under the age of 18. The justices declined to he...

New database of High Courts unearths a 57-year-old case

04 May 2015

May,4,2015 One-fourth of the cases are pending at the admission stage. Nearly a quarter of the cases pending in High Courts are still at the admission stage; in the Karnataka High Court alone...

Judicial activism is our duty against legislative adventurism: SC Judge

04 May 2015

May,4,2015: ‘Courts dare and ought to say what the law is and what the law should be’In an atmosphere of unease caused by jibes at judicial activism by the executive and legislature, a sitting Supreme...

No scope for reform of convicted corrupt Govt. official: Supreme Court

03 May 2015

May,3,2015: The 11-page verdict delivered by a three-judge bench recently reasons that once a public official is convicted under the Prevention of Corruption Act, 1988, he automatically loses...

Delhi's IGI adjudged World’s Best Airport

03 May 2015

May,3,2015: The Delhi airport scored 4.90 on a scale of 5 points measured by 300 members of the ACI ASQ benchmarking programme. The capital’s Indira Gandhi International Airport (IGIA)...

PIL lawyer badmouths Parliament, faces life ban by Supreme Court

02 May 2015

May,2,2015: The Supreme Court is considering permanently forbidding coal scam PIL lawyer Manohar Lal Sharma from ever filing PILs again after he called parliamentarians “in-house criminals, c...

Lay citizens cannot select judges, says SC

02 May 2015

May,2,2015: Senior advocate Rajeev Dhawan submitted that Article 124A of the 99 Constitution Amendment Act 2014 allowed “random lay people to be appointed by a three-member panel whose majori...

Madras HC stays contempt proceedings against commissioner of police

01 May 2015

May,1,2015: The Madras high court has stayed contempt proceedings against commissioner of police S George and Chennai district collector E Sundaravalli.  Earlier, passing orders in a cont...

'Avoid ego and stop acting in an autocratic manner'- High Court Judge tells his Chief Justice

01 May 2015

May,1,2015: Several damning observations were made by Justice CS Karnan of the Madras High Court. After Justice Karnan  passed an injuction order in a suo motu petition, thereb...

Online medicines sale: FDA orders FIR against Snapdeal CEO

01 May 2015

May,1,2015: Maharashtra’s Food and Drugs Administration (FDA) on Friday said it has ordered filing of FIR against e-commerce major Snapdeal.com’s CEO Kunal Bahl and directors of the company in a case...

Modi government examining IPR issues: USTR

01 May 2015

May,1,2015: The U.S. also urged India to reconsider how to meet its domestic policy objectives through fostering a climate that incentivizes innovation. The Modi Government is not only engage...

Govt. rejects U.S. panel’s report on religious freedom

01 May 2015

May,1,2015: With its references to Modi, the report is likely to cause more India-U.S. friction. India reacted coldly to the report of the U.S. commission on religious freedom that criti...

Did Centre, collegium ever differ? Asks SC

01 May 2015

May,1,2015: The Supreme Court on Thursday asked the Centre to produce statistics of the number of times the Union Law Minister, in the past, accepted or rejected the previous collegium system&rsquo...

To keep eye on cops, SC directs CCTV cameras at Police Stations

30 Apr 2015

April,30,2015: The Supreme Court lately directed the Delhi Police to install CCTV cameras in all police stations in the national capital in two months.Concerned over the behaviour of policemen towards...

Uber’s new SOS button to alert local police control room with GPS details

30 Apr 2015

April,30,2015: Earlier, using the SOS button, users could dial 100 and share their trip details and real-time location with up to five friends, family members. Taxi hailing app Uber on Thursd...

U.S. Congress report slams India on religious freedom

30 Apr 2015

April,30,2015: India stays on 'Tier 2' of 'countries of concern' list. The annual U.S. Congressional Report on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) has criticised the gove...

101 Laws That Have Outlived their Utility

30 Apr 2015

101 Laws That Have Outlived Their Utility

Ten sentenced to 25 years for 2012 attack on Malala

30 Apr 2015

April,30,2015: In 2012, the child rights activist was shot in the head by militants when she was returning from her school in Swat district.Ten Pakistani Taliban militants were on Thursday sentenced t...

Cabinet clears stronger anti-corruption Act

29 Apr 2015

April,29,2015: New amendments has provisions for classifying corruption as a heinous crime and longer prison terms for both the bribe giver and the bribe taker. The Union Cabinet on Wednesday...

‘Concept of marital rape cannot be applied in India’

29 Apr 2015

April,29,2015: Concept of marital rape cannot be applied in India as marriage is treated as a sacrament or sacred as per mindset of the Indian society, government today said.“It is considered that the...

Maharashtra Assembly's privilege notice against Shobhaa De stayed by SC

29 Apr 2015

April,29,2015: The Supreme Court on Tuesday stayed a breach of privilege motion notice issued against writer and columnist Shobhaa De by the Maharashtra Assembly over her tweets against the State g...

Both MCOCA, UAPA can be invoked in terror cases: HC

29 Apr 2015

April,29,2015: Setting aside the order of a lower court, the Bombay High Court on Tuesday held that the stringent Maharashtra Control of Organised Crime Act (MCOCA) and the Unlawful Activities (Pre...