Argus Partners advised electric goods maker Crompton Greaves on its Rs 400m buyout out of joint venture (JV) CG Lucy Switchgear by JV partner W Lucy & Co. W Lucy was advised by AZB & Partners. Argus partner Adity Chaudhury and senior associate Megha Saraf acted for Crompton Greaves. AZB pa...

After a telecom company whose phone users are suffering from frequent call drops complained to the Delhi high court that the call drops were because 130 of its mobile towers had been “wrongly” sealed, the court has ordered that mobile towers erected after valid cellular licenses be de-sealed, report...

The Meghalaya High Court on Friday referred a public interest litigation (PIL) seeking disqualifications of state legislators holding dual post to a larger bench saying that such important issues are required to be decided by a full bench. A division bench of Justice T Nandakumar Singh and Justice S...

The Delhi high court on Friday agreed to consider a plea seeking direction to the central government to fill three vacant posts of information commissioners in Central Information Commission (CIC) in a “time bound” manner. A division bench of Chief Justice G Rohini and Justice RS Endlaw said it will...

A British mother was sentenced to five years in prison for child cruelty after her two-year-old son drowned while she was checking Facebook on her phone, the media reported on Saturday. Claire Barnett, 31, was criticised by the judge for her “bad parenting” and told she posed a danger to any child f...

South Africa’s ruling African National Congress (ANC) on Sunday announced its decision to withdraw the country’s membership from the International Criminal Court (ICC). The decision was made at a meeting of the ruling party’s National General Council (NGC), Xinhua news agency quoted Obed Bapela, hea...

The Bar Council of India (BCI) will appeal the 6 October Madras high court order that suggested disbanding the BCI and replacing it with a body of experts as well as doing away with the three-year LLB degree.

The Supreme Court on Friday sought the central government’s response on a plea by sugarcane farmers association seeking the implementation of the Commission for Agriculture Cost and Prices’ (CACP) report for 2015-16 and a price stabilisation fund. A bench of Chief Justice HL Dattu, Justice SA Bobde ...

The Supreme Court on Friday sought a response from the central and Kerala governments on a public interest suit seeking immediate halt to the killing of street dog by Thiruvananthapuram Municipal Corporation. Notice has also been issued to Thiruvananthapuram Municipal Corporation. A bench of Justice...

The urban development ministry on Friday launched e-publishing of the government’s gazette notifications, putting an end to the long wait for the printed version. The ministry, which holds administrative control of the government’s printing presses, also said it had stopped physical printing of gaze...

The central government on Thursday said that non-Delhi bound trucks and commercial vehicles have no business to use the capital as a transit route as the Supreme Court sought suggestions on ways and means to levy pollution compensatory charges on them for contributing to already alarming air polluti...

The Maharashtra government will have to figure out its stance on the legality of casinos in the state, within six months, after the Bombay high court today ordered it to take a decision on the yet-not-notified Maharashtra Casinos (Control & Tax) Act 1976. Hariani & Co solicitor Anirudh Har...

Arguments in Rajbala vs State of Haryana] began in Court No.6 before justices J Chelameswar and AM Sapre on Wednesday, 7 October with petitioners’ counsel, Kirti Singh making her submissions first. She was followed by senior advocates, Sanjay Parikh and Indira Jaising on 8 October. Indira Jaising, who began her arguments at 2 p.m. was on her legs, when the Court rose for the day at 4 p.m.

The Supreme Court on Friday rejected a plea by Neelam Katara seeking enhancement of sentence to death for Vishal and Vikas Yadav who have been convicted for murdering her son Nitish Katara in February 2002. A bench of Justice Jagdish Singh Khehar and Justice R Banumathi said that while it was a murd...

The Supreme Court on Thursday sought response from the central and Delhi governments on a plea filed by three lawyers seeking ban on the sale and bursting of firecrackers during the festival of Dussehra and Diwali because it further aggravates the already dangerous level of air pollution.

The Supreme Court on Thursday said a constitution bench will hear on 14 October a batch of applications, including one by the central government seeking “clarification/modification” of its 11 August order to permit the use of Aadhaar card for availing benefits under social welfare schemes including ...

Nestle India on Thursday asked the apex consumer court why fresh food safety tests were being ordered on Maggi noodles when a similar exercise has already been conducted as per the directions of the Bombay high court. The matter came up before the National Consumer Disputes Redressal Commission (NCD...

The Bombay high court on Thursday quashed an order of the Income Tax Appellate Tribunal (ITAT) which had ruled that the IT Department had powers to raise a tax demand on telecom giant Vodafone India in a Rs 8,500 crore transfer pricing case. In a terse statement, Vodafone India “welcomed” the high c...

Delhi high court rapped the government yesterday for failing to produce the contracts it has entered into with companies like facebook and google reported The Economic Times . The government had sought time to place the contracts with the court in May and July but has still not produced them. This i...

In a setback to the central government, the Supreme Court on Wednesday refused to modify its 11 August order restricting the use of Aadhaar card for distribution of foodgrain under PDS, supply of kerosene oil and LPG, saying that plea for the clarification or modification of its order would be decid...