Above: (Left) Calcutta High Court and Allahabad High Court
The government on September 19 appointed 25 additional judges for the high courts of Allahabad and Calcutta. Out of the 25, 19 additiona...
A Mumbai man is single-handedly fighting the system against the imposition of Aadhaar. John Abrahim, a resident of Andheri, has not taken an Aadhaar card for himself or his family and has no plans to ...
Above: ABVP candidates celebrating after winning two posts in the Delhi University Students Union election, in New Delhi (file picture). Photo: UNI
The Delhi High Court on Wednesday (September 20...
Above: Supreme Court. Photo: Anil Shakya
Senior lawyers will no longer get the privilege over junior lawyers in Supreme Court as far as seeking an out-of-turn listing and hearing of their cases is...
Above: Women labourers work at a road construction site near Vapi in Maharashtra. Photo: UNI
The petitioner NGO National Campaign Committee for Central Legislation on Construction Labour claims ce...
Above: A garbage landfill in Ghazipur, New Delhi. Photo: UNI
A clutch of draft bye-laws on sanitary waste disposal in the Capital was approved by the Delhi High Court on Tuesday (September 19). It...
It is now a fact that one of the major reasons for polluted air in Delhi is stubble burning in the neighbouring states of Punjab, Haryana, Uttar Pradesh and Rajasthan. The NGT has taken a serious note...
On the urging of the chief justice of India, five high courts have constituted special benches to reduce the backlog
The huge backlog of cases in Indian courts has been a bane of the judiciary and ...
Six lawyers have been appointed by President Ram Nath Kovind as judges for the High Court of Hyderabad. The High Court functions as a common court for both the states of Telangana and Andhra Pradesh.
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Above: The subordinate judiciary in several states grapples with long pendency of cases, with some dragging on for over a decade. Photo: UNI
The huge backlog of cases has been the bane of the judic...