A Delhi court Wednesday sought response from the government and Association of Victims of Uphaar Tragedy (AVUT) on appeals challenging 7-year jail terms awarded to real estate barons Sushil and Gopal Ansal for tampering with evidence in the 1997 case of Uphaar cinema fire which had claimed 59 lives. Additional ... Read More »
Attorney General KK Venugopal told the Bench that the government was agreeable to revisit its 2017 proposal to take over the management control of Unitech and complete the projects so as to bring relief to around 30,000 hassled homebuyers. Accepting the government’s proposal to take over the management control of ... Read More »
LUSAKA: Vedanta Resources on Tuesday plans to challenge the appointment of a provisional liquidator and the intended winding up of its Zambian business without the chance to be heard through lawyers of its choice, documents filed in court show. According to a notice filed in court on June 6, Vedanta wants to ... Read More »
The Supreme Court has said that the standard of entrance examination for premier medical college AIIMS cannot be diluted and has refused to do away with the online MBBS under-graduate entrance test for this year. Some candidates have challenged the AIIMS online entrance test for MBBS courses to be held ... Read More »
The US Supreme Court on Monday refused to step back into the years-long feud over patents between the world’s top smartphone makers, declining to hear Samsung’s appeal of a lower court ruling that reinstated a jury award of about $120 million (roughly Rs. 776 crores) in favour of Apple. The justices left in place a ... Read More »
The Punjab and Haryana high court has held that a student should be 17 years old to take the National Eligibility-cum-Entrance Test (NEET) for admission to MBBS/BDS courses. The high court bench of justice RK Jain, while dismissing the plea of a Jind resident, Ranbir Singh Malik, said that a ... Read More »
Donald Trump’s nominee for the Supreme Court has described the president’s attacks on the judiciary as “demoralising” and “disheartening”. Neil Gorsuch’s comments were made to a Democratic senator and confirmed by his spokesman. The president called a judge who halted his controversial travel ban a “so-called judge”, and said any ... Read More »
Quashing an order of a nationalised bank refusing to grant education loan to a student who intended to pursue his doctoral research abroad, the Madras High Court has observed that loan-seekers must be given a chance to rectify defects in their applications. “Even if the document is defective, the authority ... Read More »
Parliament must vote on whether the UK can start the process of leaving the EU, the High Court has ruled. This means the government cannot trigger Article 50 of the Lisbon Treaty – beginning formal exit negotiations with the EU – on its own. Theresa May says the referendum – ... Read More »
The people of Tamil Nadu have the right to know the status of their Chief Minister’s health, observed the Madras High Court on an urgent mention made by activist ‘Traffic’ Ramaswamy. The court was hearing a PIL by Mr. Ramaswamy, seeking to declare the “real” status of Chief Minsiter Jayalalithaa ... Read More »
NEW DELHI (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Women’s health activists on Friday cheered a ruling by Supreme Court ordering the government to shut down “sterilisation camps” within three years following the deaths of hundreds of largely poor rural women across the country. In a judgment on Wednesday, the Supreme Court said ... Read More »
France’s highest court has overturned the recent ban on “burkinis” in the town of Villeneuve-Loubet, saying it was a clear violation of individual and fundamental liberties. There are similar bans in about 30 coastal towns in France and each one will remain in place until they are legally challenged. However, ... Read More »
