Time for govt to consider allowing prisoners leave for conjugal visits:...
Observing that it was time for the government to consider whether prisoners could be allowed leave for paying conjugal visits to their spouse, the...
Delhi HC orders CBDT to allow filing of ITR sans PAN...
The Delhi High Court has allowed the filing of Income Tax Returns without the mandatory linking of PAN to Aadhaar and has asked the...
SC orders CPCB to look into compliance in Gujarat quarries
Silicosis among workers grow even as closed units in state reopen following “casual” inspection by state pollution control body
~By Rajesh Kumar
In 2006, an NGO,...
SC debates on future prospect in deciding quantum of insurance compensation
In a case that has come up before a constitution bench of the Supreme Court, a rather important angle in deciding the future prospects...
PIL to stop Ravana effigy burning dismissed by SC
Above: A PIL in SC said that burning of Ravana’s effigy is illegal. Photo: UNI
Anand Prakash Sharma had filed a PIL with the Supreme...
Bail petition of fraud accused rejected by SC
The bail petition of Sai Prasad Media Pvt. Ltd’s managing director Shashank Bhapkar, who was arrested by the economic offences wing of Mumbai Police last year,...
AAP MLAs’ disqualification hearing continues
Above: AAP MLAs leaving the Election Commission’s office (file picture)/Photo: UNI
The Delhi High Court bench of Justices Sanjiv Khanna and Chander Shekhar is...
SC dismisses petition for use of VVPAT in two by-elections
The Supreme Court has dismissed a petition seeking the use of VVPAT with EVMs in the by-elections in Gurdaspur in Punjab and Vengara in...
Bilkis Bano case: No clarity yet on status of convicted police...
Above: Bilkis Bano addressing a press conference in Ahmedabad (file picture).Photo: UNI
The police and the Gujarat government’s position regarding the convicted police officials...
Cornelia Sorabji, India’s pioneer woman lawyer
Above: Google Doodle honours Cornelia Sorabji
Wednesday’s (November 15) Google doodle pays tribute to Cornelia Sorabji, the first woman advocate of India on her 151st...
