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.

A Delhi court on Saturday extended for two more days the police custody of former Delhi law minister Jitender Singh Tomar in a fake degree case, after investigating officials said his questioning was required to unearth the syndicate involved in issuing fabricated documents. Metropolitan Magistrate ...

The story of corporate lawyer Janhavi Gadkar allegedly killing two men in a taxi while she was driving her Audi drunkenly down the wrong side of a Mumbai highway is deeply tragic and troubling, in many ways.

The government today told the Supreme Court that the tax payers had a right to know the quality of judges appointed to the higher judiciary, as it once again criticised the collegium system “of judges appointing judges - for promoting judges who reserved judgments in hundreds of cases after long hea...

A French court today acquitted former International Monetary Fund (IMF) chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn of pimping, holding that there was no proof that he knew that the women at sex parties he attended were prostitutes, reported The Guardian . Strauss-Kahn, 66 - widely known by his initials DSK - was ...

India’s top undergraduate medical entrance exam the CBSE AIPMT 2015 may be cancelled on Monday after today’s observation from Supreme Court justice Amitava Roy that the sanctity of the exam had been compromised this year. Justice Roy was hearing three writs that had asked for the 3 May exam to be cancelled.