The right to eat beef is a part of the right to privacy, which is a part of a citizen’s fundamental right to life, affirmed the Bombay high court today.

The Supreme Court on Friday said the National Eligibility Entrance Test (NEET) for medical admissions will continue but it may permit a state-level common entrance test (CET) for admission to government medical colleges only. However, this will be subject to the stand to be spelt out by the central ...

The Supreme Court today cleared the decks for ousted Uttarakhand Chief Minister Harish Rawat to prove his legislative majority in the state assembly on Tuesday, but nine disqualified rebel Congress legislators won’t be allowed to vote. The top court said it would monitor the voting that is to take p...

In a significant verdict, the Bombay high court today ruled that possession of beef slaughtered outside Maharashtra would not be a criminal offence but it upheld the government’s decision to ban the slaughter of bullocks in the state.

With his Art of Living Foundation (AoL) yet to pay the major chunk of “environment compensation” for its cultural fest on the Yamuna floodplains, spiritual guru Sri Sri Ravi Shankar was on Thursday slapped with a contempt suit for “alleged disrespect shown by him to the orders of National Green Tribunal (NGT)”.

As the hearing of the state Governments in the ongoing NEET [National Eligibility cum Entrance Test] case began this afternoon at Court 2, the Additional Solicitor General, Tushar Mehta, who is the counsel for the Gujarat Government, was the first one to argue.

The government is considering replacing regulators for the the legal, medical, chartered accountancy, cost accountancy, and company secretarial professions.

“Uttarakhand High Court Chief Justice K M Joseph, who recently delivered the strongly-worded judgment quashing President’s Rule in the state, [will be transferred] to the High Court of Andhra Pradesh and Telangana. News of his transfer evoked a strong reaction in legal and other circles, with senior advocate Indira Jaising putting out a series of tweets questioning the collegium’s move,” reported the Indian Express.

A fascinating and depressing story shared on Twitter by a US defence lawyer and collated by Fusion, explains how and why a client pleaded guilty to a charge of assault despite having done nothing wrong.

The Supreme Court collegium has recommended four names for elevation to the Supreme Court.

The Supreme Court on Tuesday asked the Medical Council of India to respond to a batch of applications by various state governments and associations of private medical colleges seeking to hold their own separate examinations for admission to undergraduate medical courses.

At Court No 3 before noon today, the going was tough for the special leave petitions (SLPs), in direct proportion to the persistence of the counsel with their pleas.

Shortly before lunch the matter of the Central Vigilance Commissioner (CVC) appointment came up in Court 3 with Prashant Bhushan, counsel for petitioner, making the submissions of why the CVC’s appointment was dubious.

Last week’s brutal rape and murder of an around 29-year-old Dalit woman who was studying law at Government Law College Ernakulam has galvanised politics in election-bound Kerala, as Chief Minister Oomen Chandy promised a thorough probe while the opposition alleged “inaction”. Jisha’s dead body was f...

In the ongoing hearing of petitions seeking the right to worship for women devotees of the Sabarimala temple before a Justice Dipak Misra-led three-judge bench this afternoon at Court No.4, senior counsel KK Venugopal, while arguing for the temple board, said women could not be recruited to be fielded in the frontline of armed forces, because they lack courage.

The Supreme Court will hear tomorrow (Tuesday) a batch of applications seeking that NEET for admissions to undergraduate medical courses may not be thrust on the states and they may be allowed to conduct their own entrance examinations.

The Supreme Court on Saturday refused to give more time to taxi operators in the National Capital Region (NCR) to switch from diesel to the cleaner compressed natural gas (CNG). The deadline for the change, which has been extended twice, is Saturday. A number of cab operators and their associations ...

The Supreme Court on Saturday refused to re-look at its order directing the holding of two National Eligibility Entrance Tests (NEET) for admission to under graduate medical courses for 2016-17.

“On NEET 2016 you made a good order Sir! Just make it better,” careers coach Mahesh Sarma writes in an open letter to Supreme Court Justice Anil R Dave, who ordered last week that all students who want to take under-graduate medical courses would have to take National Eligibility Entrance Test (NEET).

So, Chief Justice of India (CJI) TS Thakur today lectured senior counsel Abhishek Manu Singhvi…