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CVC Report On CBI Chief Verma To Be Handed To SC Today

A report by the Central Vigilance Commission (CVC) on the corruption charges against the CBI director Alok Verma will be forwarded to a Supreme Court bench headed by Chief Justice of India Ranjan Gogo...

Supreme Court To Take Up Fresh Sabarimala Writ Petitions after Considering Review Petitions Today

A Supreme Court bench comprising CJI Ranjan Gogoi and Justices SK Kaul and KM Joseph adjourned the hearing on four fresh writ petitions challenging the entry of menstruating women between the ages of ...

Haren Pandya Case: Skeletons in the Closet

Above: DG Vanzara at Sabarmati Jail after getting bail in the Ishrat Jahan case/Photo: UNI A shocking admission by a witness in the Sohrabuddin Sheikh alleged fake encounter case has revealed what ...

India’s Doing Business Index: No Rocket Science

Above: PM Narendra Modi with US business leaders in Washington, DC/Photo: UNI While there is a modest improvement, it is still hard to do business in India. For the regulatory burden to be reduced,...

Elopement Cases: Caught in a Bind

Above: Madras High Court/Photo: Wikimedia.org In an attempt to solve the difficult case of a minor girl eloping with a much older married man, the Madras High Court has issued an order that is diff...

Powers of Preventive Arrest: Handle with Care

Above: Awami Action Committee chairman Mirwaiz Umar Farooq being taken into preventive custody for defying house arrest in Srinagar/Photo: UNI The Delhi High Court has laid down comprehensive direc...

Reservation: Caste Away

Above: Marriage often means migration for Indian women, but they then stand to lose their caste benefits/Photo: UNI The apex court has said that a scheduled caste in one state cannot avail of reser...

Supreme Court modifies Compensation Order, Says Interest Be Paid from Date of Death, Not Date Of Award

It took a long time coming but after 19 years, the Supreme Court corrected an error in a judgment passed by the Commissioner for Workmen’s Compensation (Labour Court) in favour of a victim, a bus driv...

No Insurance Compensation For Death On Goods Carriers: Madras HC

Above: A tractor carrying children and women (representative image)/Photo: UNI  The Madras High Court has held that people who died while travelling in goods carriers cannot claim compensation from...

Haryana Government Assures High Court To Remove Dangerous Electricity Wires

The Haryana government has assured the Punjab and Haryana High Court that it will take immediate measures to ensure that dangling wires, worn out electricity poles and stranded conductors on the stree...

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