Clik here to view.
Medical Education Reforms; SC appoints Justice Lodha Committee to oversee the...
LiveLaw News Network In a landmark Judgment the Constitution Bench of the Supreme Court of India has appointed a Three Member Committee headed by Former Chief Justice of India RM. Lodha to oversee the...
View ArticleClik here to view.
The occupation of education cannot be treated at par with other economic...
M.A.Rashid SC upholds Madhya Pradesh Law regulating Admission and Fixation of Fee in Pvt Professional Colleges. A Constitution Bench of the Supreme Court of India Today upheld the constitutional...
View ArticleClik here to view.
RTI Activist files PIL in Supreme Court to ban WhatsApp
LiveLaw News Network RTI Activist Sudhir Yadav has approached the Supreme Court seeking a ban on instant messaging application 'WhatsApp' after it had introduced end to end Encryption on 5th April 2016...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Delhi govt moves SC for modification of order on Taxis
LiveLaw News NetworkThe Delhi government today moved the Supreme Court seeking more time to implement its Saturday order to remove from the roads 30,000 taxis which are running on diesel of petrol and...
View ArticleClik here to view.
SC relief to Freedom fighter’s daughter who was denied pension for having a...
Ashok KM Daughter of a freedom fighter from Kerala, who was denied pension citing that she, though unmarried and had no income, but had a son of age twenty five, born of an extra-marital relationship,...
View ArticleClik here to view.
SC to hear the unique case to invoke POCSO on Friday; Sanjay Hegde appointed...
LiveLaw News NetworkObserving that it is a “serious issue though hypothetical “issue, the Supreme Court today said will hold detailed hearing on Friday and examine whether a man who rapes or sexually...
View ArticleClik here to view.
BCCI Constitution is incapable of achieving transparency, objectivity and...
Continuing to slam the BCCI, the Supreme Court today said the constitution of BCCI is highly incapable of achieving the values of transparency, objectivity and accountability. A bench headed by Justice...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Justices Khanwilkar, Chandrachud, Ashok Bhushan and Sr. Adv. Nageswara Rao to...
In a significant development, Justice Ajay Manik Rao Khanwilkar, Justice Dhananjaya Y. Chandrachud,Justice Ashok Bhushan, and Senior Advocate Mr. L. Nageswara Rao are likely to be elevated as Judges...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Breaking; Uttarakhand Chief Justice K.M Joseph transferred to Andhra Pradesh...
LiveLaw News Network Chief Justice of Uttarakhand High Court Justice KM Joseph has been transferred to Andhra Pradesh High Court. Justice K.M.Joseph was in news recently since the bench headed by him...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Centre’s U-turn on Uttarakhand; now tells SC “seriously considering” Floor Test
LiveLaw News NetworkThe Centre today took a big U-turn in the Supreme Court in the Uttarakhand President’s rule case saying it was “seriously considering” holding of floor test immediately as suggested...
View ArticleClik here to view.
SC refuses to stay large size pictorial warnings on Tobacco products
LiveLaw News NetworkThe Supreme Court today refused to stay the Union Health Ministry directive on increasing the size of pictorial warnings on packets of tobacco products which meant that all...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Govt. shall not issue any ownership certificate to Elephant Owners; SC to...
LiveLaw News Network Persons who are in possession of elephants shall not transfer the elephants outside the State nor shall they part with the elephants by way of transfer in any manner, The Court...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Justice Mohan Shantanagoudar will be the next Chief Justice of Kerala High Court
LiveLaw News Network Karnataka High Court Judge Justice Mohan M. Shantanagoudar will be the next Chief Justice of Kerala High Court. At present he is number three in seniority in Karnataka High Court....
View ArticleClik here to view.
Mixed reactions on Uttarakhand Chief Justice KM Joseph’s Transfer
Ashok KM Whether Justice K M Joseph’s transfer to Andhra Pradesh High court from Uttarakhand High court, two weeks after his judgment highly critical of the Central Government, is a coincidence or is...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Stop the Colonial Practice of Long Vacations for Courts ; CJAR
LiveLaw News Network The Campaign for Judicial Accountability and Reforms has issued a statement suggesting various steps to be taken to improve the efficiency of the Court. The statement issued by its...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Speakers regret the decline of wit in the Supreme Court at the release of a...
LiveLaw News NetworkAt a well-attended function at Indian Law Institute on 3rd May, Justice Dipak Misra released the book, “Makers of the Supreme Court”, authored by Keshav Dayal, and published by...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Citing BPOs, Centre urges SC to modify diesel cab ban order
LiveLaw News NetworkThe Centre today told the Supreme Court that it would also like the Delhi government file a petition seeking more time to implement its April 30 order to remove from the roads...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Chief Justice Thakur rejects the ‘Security Clause’ in the new MoP for...
LiveLaw News Network“Chief Justice of India T.S. Thakur is understood to have rejected the Centre’s proposal in the Memorandum of Procedure on appointment of judges, reserving its right to reject...
View ArticleClik here to view.
SC directs Bihar Govt to reinstate police constable who was terminated 15...
Ashok KM Supreme Court has directed the Bihar Government to reinstate a police constable who was terminated by the Government fifteen years after his appointment on compassionate grounds. In 1991, Md....
View ArticleClik here to view.
Bombay HC invokes ‘collective conscience of society’ to confirm death penalty...
Ashok KM When a person who is educated and aware of the ramifications of such crime commits such a crime in a broad day light with a meticulous planning and executes the same, in our view, it could...
View Article