The belligerent provocation of various Indian minorities has raised ethnic tensions, says Moody’s Analytics in a report that warned of “a possible increase in violence”. In a report titled `India Outlook: Searching for Potential’, Moody’s Analytics, a division of the Moody’s Corporation rating agenc...

Hardik Patel, a young leader agitating for reservations to Patidar community and currently in jail on sedition charges moved the Gujarat high court challenging the interception of his and his associates’ phone calls by the police and sought an independent inquiry into the matter, reported The New In...

The Supreme Court has expressed concern over Muslim women facing arbitrary divorces and second marriages of their husbands even as their first marriages were subsisting, and has ordered separate hearings into the issue suo motu. Expressing concern on the issue of “gender discrimination… which concer...

Cyril Amarchand Mangaldas (CAM) couldn’t save apparel exporter, the Tavoy Group, from the Competition Appellate Tribunal (COMPAT) imposing Rs 5 lakh in costs against it.

A Delhi district court settled a 54-year-old property dispute while dismissing a Delhi Development Authority (DDA) plea seeking right over a land in east Delhi. The agency did not came into existence at that time, the court stressed.

The Special Investigation Team (SIT), probing the unaccounted money stashed away outside the country to tax havens and ways to bring it back, on Tuesday informed the Supreme Court that it had submitted its fourth report with its registry. After being informed about the submission of the latest repor...

The Supreme Court on Tuesday refused to allow West Bengal and Assam to use photographs of their chief ministers and governors in government ads saying that it would hear in January the petitions including by the centre seeking the review of its verdict restricting use of photographs to those of the ...

The Diwali firecracker ban petition filed by three Delhi toddlers in the Supreme Court, is being opposed by various religious groups, reported The Hindu . The case is being heard at an urgent basis at the Supreme Court. In the previous hearing , the court had asked to issue notices to the concerned ...

Advocate Mathews J Nedumpara has filed a review petition against the Supreme Court’s decision to strike down the National Judicial Appointments Commission (NJAC) Act and the 99th constitutional amendment reported the Times of India . Nedumpara asserts in his petition that the law creating the NJAC d...

Karnataka government advocate general Ravivarma Kumar has submitted his resignation to the chief minister over appointment of two additional advocates general without his opinion reported The Newsminute . This is Ravivarma’s second resignation in two years. Ravivarma was reportedly miffed at appoint...

21 additional judges of three high courts were granted extension through notifications by the Ministry of Law and Justice after receiving the first set of recommendations from the collegium reported Business Standard . Additional judges from Calcutta high court granted extension for three months fro...

Disciplinary proceedings set to begin today against 14 lawyers who were suspended by the Bar Council of India for creating disorder in Madras high court, have been stalled by the Madras high court, reported the Business Standard . A bench of justices R Sudhakar and VM Velumani restrained the Special...

Four judges of Madras high court have set an example for others by carpooling to the courts from their residence reported The Hindu . The practice, initially started by two judges in 2010 has now increased to four justices N Kirubakaran, M Sathyanarayanan, MM Sundresh and S Vaidyanathan travelling t...

A Jain monk requested eight months to answer an Ahmedabad metropolitan magistrate’s summons, as in accordance with his faith he cannot use transport to commute and will have to walk to court from his place of stay at Kolkata, reported the Times of India . The monk - Acharya Kirti Yashurishwarji Maha...

The Assisted Reproductive Technology (Regulation) Bill 2014 was shared by the Health Ministry for Public comments on 30 September. India has been one of the most preferred destination for infertile couples to opt for surrogacy, with an annual revenue of Rs 2500 crore ($390m) in 2011 as reported by P...

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Long live the collegium and it’ll have to… If it continues at the same rates as for the last decade, it’ll take 33 years to fill high court vacancies.

1.5 lakh Below Poverty Line (BPL) family households in Haryana do not have toilets, while 7 lakh do have them, attorney general Mukul Rohatgi told the Supreme Court during arguments on the validity of the amendments to the Haryana Panchayati Raj Act 1994, reported the Indian Express . Rohatgi submit...

Taxi aggregators Uber and Ola cabs plan to get licenses to comply with latest government guidelines reported the Economic Times . Since the two start-ups are not governed by the Motor Vehicles Act 1988 or any of the state acts on vehicles, the Ministry of Road Transport and Highways last week releas...

Advaita Legal won relief from service tax for lottery distributors, in Future Gaming’s Sikkim high court writ challenging the imposition of service tax on them. Advaita senior attorney AR Madhav Rao and associates Rajat Mittal and Nandita Narayan acted for Future Gaming which had challenged Finance ...

The future independence or otherwise of the judiciary will be decided today in the fourth judges case, ruling on the validity or otherwise of the National Judicial Appointments Commission (NJAC).