Telecom minister Kapil Sibal is the fifth law minister in less than five years after Ashwini Kumar resigned from the post on Friday.

New lawmin? Law minister Ashwini Kumar may soon be replaced through either a minor cabinet reshuffle or a senior minister taking the additional charge of the law ministry, according to CNN-IBN’s sources [ CNN-IBN ] Dutt jail confirmed: SC today dismissed Bollywood actor Sanjay Dutt’s review petition...

Nalsar voyeur action: Nalsar Hyderabad executive council has vowed to set up a committee to take short and long term action against the victimisation of women by voyeuristic media. This follows Friday’s incident where TV channels aired and uploaded distorted news segments of an altercation involving...

India’s first woman additional solicitor general Indira Jaising wrote to the law minister Ashwini Kumar criticising the government’s decision to drop several “competent” woman lawyers from the panel of advocates for handling government litigation in the Supreme Court. She also wrote to chief justice...

A heated exchange between Supreme Court Bar Association (SCBA) president PH Parekh and suspended secretary KC Kaushik at the SC’s Law Day celebrations yesterday caused dignitaries including law minister Ashwini Kumar and chief justice of India Altamas Kabir to temporarily leave the venue. Kaushik an...

Law minister Ashwini Kumar was presented with five complaints against sitting Supreme Court judges on the first day he assumed office last week. Refusing to name the judges, the former senior advocate said all complaints were “in bad taste”. His predecessor in the law ministry, Salman Khursheed, had...