“For those of you who follow former Supreme Court Justice and former Press Council of India (PCI) Chairman, Justice Katju on Facebook, you would have learnt two things over the last couple of months: first he’s holidaying in the US with family and second he’s making very serious allegations of corru...

The Supreme Court on Friday gave CBSE time till August 16 to conduct and declare the results of All India Pre Medical Test (AIPMT) for medical and dental courses for the year 2015-16, despite the CBSE having yesterday requested three months saying it was impossible to conduct the exam in one . The a...

The Supreme Court is likely to pronounce on Friday the verdict that will decide the fate of Sahara chief Subrata Roy and two group directors who are in jail since March 4 last year for not complying with the court’s order to return investors’ Rs.24,000 crores that two group companies SIRECL and SHFC...

Madhan Mohan Punchhi, who passed away aged 81 last night, was Chief Justice of India (CJI) between 18 January 1998 and 9 October 1998.

As was being speculated, the Supreme Court of India has cancelled the All India Pre-Medical and Pre-Dental Test (AIPMT) for the academic session 2015-2016 and has asked the organising body, the Central Board of Secondary Examination (CBSE), to re-conduct the test within four weeks, which the CBSE today told the apex court was impossible.

While refusing to offer an interim relief to the US-based Uber taxi service to ply on the city’s roads, the Delhi high court on Wednesday issued notice to the Delhi government. Justice Mukta Gupta issued notice to Delhi government and police while hearing a plea of the taxi company challenging the r...

PTI reported that the Supreme Court, which cancelled the All India Pre-Medical Entrance Test (AIPMT) on Monday , has agreed to listen to the plea of the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) asking that it needed at least three months to conduct a new AIPMT: A bench of justices RK Agrawal and ...

The Supreme Court Advocate on Record Association (SCAORA) on Wednesday questioned in the apex court the central government’s claim that junking the collegium system for National Judicial Appointment Commission was “the will of the nation”. Assailing the government’s contention that the “nation wants...

The Supreme Court has announced that it will open a child care centre on 1 July at in chambers numbers 8 and 9 of the New Lawyers’ Chambers Building at Bhagwan Dass Road, which will be equipped with “child friendly furniture, utensils, toys and play materials and first aid kit”.

Two publications, Livelaw, which caters to lawyers, and The Hoot, which primarily has journalists as an audience, have written about Bar Council of India (BCI) chairman Manan Kumar Mishra’s legal notice against Legally India.

In last and previous years, there was only a one week miscellaneous week on either side of the apex court’s summer vacations.

The hearing between advocate Deepak Khosla and Khaitan & Co in Kolkata on Thursday (18 June) will be video recorded, in what may be a first in any of the country’s high courts.

Taking a divergent position from the government, the Supreme Court Bar Association (SCBA) Tuesday told the Supreme Court that if it was to strike down the NJAC, then it would result in automatic resurrection of the collegium system followed earlier. “I disagree with the government that the invalidat...

A 42-year-old Bandra resident was booked for drunk driving allegedly, after having locked herself in her car for two hours, chain smoking, allegedly in order to avoid taking a breathalyser test by Mumbai police, who have stepped up their controls of drunk drivers, focusing in particular on women, af...

A Delhi court on Monday extended by four days the police custody of Delhi’s former law minister Jitender Singh Tomar, who has been arrested in a fake degree case. The court order came after Delhi Police submitted that Tomar’s custody is required to ascertain the facts related to a migration certific...

The bail plea of Reliance Industries in-house lawyer Janhavi Gadkar, who allegedly killed two while driving drunk last week Tuesday, has been postponed to Wednesday by a metropolitan magistrate yesterday (Monday), after her lawyer Mahesh Sabnis said she needed urgent medical care to tend to her frac...

The central government on Monday told the Supreme Court that any invalidation of the NJAC for the appointment of judges to the higher judiciary would not result in the automatic resurrection of the collegium system of appointment.

: Environment rights NGO Greenpeace India could be in for more trouble as an ex-staffer has gone public with allegations of rape and sexual harassment by her colleagues. The organisation’s inaction against the perpetrators has spurred more female ex-employees to come out with similar accusations. No...

The Bombay high court today adjourned Salman Khan’s criminal appeal against his culpable homicide conviction of five years in jail, until 1 July, ordering expeditious finalisation of the papers and documents . When the matter came up on Monday, the actor’s counsel Amit Desai informed the high court ...

The Supreme Court has cancelled the All India Pre-Medical Entrance Test (AIPMT) after the paper was leaked but technological challenges remain on how to prevent the same debacle from happening again.