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Dog Races: Hounded Out?

Photo: UNI The Greyhound Racing Board has approached the Punjab & Haryana High Court to allow races of this breed and claimed that they are not tortured or put to any harm ~By Vipin Pubby in...

Appointment of Lokpal: Govt searching for a jurist for selection panel, SC told

Supreme Court had pulled up the Centre for delay in appointing Lokpal, asked DoPT to file an affidavit detailing steps taken to appoint the ombudsman The Supreme Court was, on Tuesday (March 6), in...

Headless body

Above:  NGT has been functioning sans a chairperson since Justice Swatanter Kumar (left) retired in December 2017/Photo: Anil Shakya Staff crisis has led some of the benches of the National Green T...

Justice AK Mittal Case: Cracks in the Collegium

The Punjab and Haryana High Court Justice AK Mittal’s elevation as chief justice of the Delhi High Court was delayed twice due to dissension within various collegiums. It could be used by the gover...

Sohrabuddin Case: Yet Another Hostile Witness

The Bombay High Court order hailed the press as the most powerful watchdog of society. Even as the Bombay High Court quashed a trial court's order barring journalists from reporting proceedings in ...

Honour At What Cost?

Above: The Supreme Court has slammed khap panchayats for objecting to inter-caste marriages In a landmark order, the Supreme Court has said that any adult person can marry anyone of their choice an...

2018: Vital Cases to be Heard

Above: Supreme Court 2018 will see some important cases coming up in the Supreme Court, be it the contentious Aadhaar issue, the Babri Masjid dispute or the tussle between Delhi’s chief minister an...

Top judgments of Delhi HC in 2017

~By Kunal Rao There were some interesting judgments in 2017 that need to be recorded for posterity. They range from legal opinion on playing a small-stakes rummy game at home to intellectual property ...

Important Judgments of 2017

CONSTITUTION OF INDIA SEEKING VOTES IN THE NAME OF RELIGION IS A CORRUPT PRACTICE Date of Judgment: January 2, 2017 Describing religion as a private relationship between man and God, a seven-...

Trademark Cases: Toyota Hits a Roadblock

A case filed by this reputed carmaker against a local company saw it losing the suit in the apex court, which said that trademark rights are territorial, not global ~By Venkatasubramanian The ai...

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