CAT orders regular review of creamy layer status for staff

Tuesday 14 November '06

Amidst the raging debate over quotas, the Central Administrative Tribunal has for the first time fixed a three-year tenure for non-creamy layer certificates of OBC candidates.

No reason to ban women from Sabarimala: RSS

Monday 13 November '06

Controversy over the ban on entry of women into Kerala’s Sabarimala temple still fresh, the RSS has joined issue and lend its voice for opening up the shrine to any woman who wanted to visit the celibate god.

SC rejects Reliance Airport’s plea on revamp, slams it for letters during bids

Wednesday 8 November '06

In a strong rebuff to the Anil Ambani-promoted Reliance Airport Developers Pvt Ltd, the Supreme Court today upheld a Delhi High Court order endorsing award of contracts for modernisation of Delhi...

Reservation in fraction? When in doubt, round off

Tuesday 7 November '06

When reservation permissible is 7.5 per cent , how many seats out of 100 should be allotted to the reserved category — 7 or 8?

SC upholds power of caste scrutiny panels

Sunday 5 November '06

Should a caste certificate be taken as the last word on a caste claim or is it open to the Caste Scrutiny Committee to examine its genuineness?

‘Shariat courts no threat to judiciary’

Friday 3 November '06

In A controversial move, the UPA government has defended the Darul Qaza or Shariat courts in the Supreme Court...

NDA sale of ITDC’s Agra hotel passes SC scrutiny

Wednesday 1 November '06

In a victory of sorts for the NDA and its disinvestment minister Arun Shourie, the Supreme Court today gave its stamp of approval to the sale of ITDC Hotel Agra Ashok to a private party when the BJP-led coalition was in power.

Mattoo: Verdicts that HC relied on

Tuesday 31 October '06

Sentencing Santosh Kumar Singh to death, the Delhi HC today relied on two Supreme Court judgements which crystallised the law on capital punishments.

Braj: ASI tells Rajasthan to curb illegal mining

Wednesday 25 October '06

Expressing concern over the threat to heritage monuments due to the unchecked mining in Braj region of Rajasthan’s Bharatpur district

SC: Use quota to transcend caste, not perpetuate it

Monday 23 October '06

Amidst the din over quota, the Supreme Court has cautioned against any disproportionate use of “reservation” saying it would prove counterproductive and only help perpetuate casteism.

First time, talk of a ‘well-off’ cut-off in SC/ST quotas

Friday 20 October '06

Fourteen years after the Mandal Commission judgment identified a “creamy layer” only among the Other Backward Classes, the Supreme Court, in a landmark verdict today...

Govt defends its power to place laws in 9th Schedule

Thursday 19 October '06

The Centre today told the Supreme Court that Parliament was empowered under Article 31-B to include any law in the Ninth Schedule leaving only a narrow scope for judicial review.

Alarm bells over foreigners in merchant navy

Tuesday 17 October '06

The decision by the Directorate General of Shipping to allow Merchant Navy to recruit foreigners to offset the shortage of trained Indian personnel has set the alarm bells ringing in the Navy

Politics can’t be the factor in pardon: SC

Thursday 12 October '06

Amidst the clamour over the mercy plea for Mohammed Afzal, ordered to be hanged for his role in the December 2001 Parliament attack case...

SC verdict just beginning: Police reform crusader

Monday 25 September '06

Unlike most IPS officers, for whom their tenure is the time to make a difference, Prakash Singh just couldn’t wait to shed his uniform to do something worthwhile.

SC orders a cop clean-up

Saturday 23 September '06

Insulating the police from politicians, separation of law and order machinery from the investigative apparatus, fixed tenure for police officers starting right from the station house officer

On conversion law change, Modi govt may have gone by rule book

Thursday 21 September '06

The Modi Government in Gujarat may have played it safe when it allowed conversions among Buddhists, Jains and Hindus.

Killers free: 10 yrs on, no justice in Kerala

Monday 18 September '06

‘On going through the records, the evidence is shabby and consisted of infirmities. The prosecution has suppressed the material piece of evidence and genesis of occurrence’

SC moves J&K sex case to Chandigarh, slams the Bar

Tuesday 5 September '06

In a stinging indictment of the J&K Bar Association which had passed a resolution denying any legal aid to the accused in the Srinagar sex scandal

To ringfence babus from netas, a bold new civil service law in the making

Tuesday 29 August '06

Draft Bill sets down a code of conduct that will allow officers to say no to superiors

Child trafficking: Govt frames rescue protocol

Thursday 17 August '06

Treat the child victim with sympathy and not as a criminal”. This explains the thrust of India’s first-ever “protocol for Pre-Rescue...

Diabetes patient dies after tooth extraction

Thursday 10 August '06

Panel finds docs guilty, warns medicos against ‘adventurism’

Without Natwar lubricant, they wouldn’t have struck oil: Pathak

Tuesday 8 August '06

For Saddam Hussein’s Iraq, it was Natwar Singh and the Congress party that mattered and had it not been for this, there was little chance that Andaleeb Sehgal would have got his foot into the illegal oil door.

SC to hear PIL against wheat imports today

Friday 4 August '06

The Supreme Court will hear on Friday, a petiton challenging the UPA Government’s decision to import 57 lakh tonne wheat.

HC breather for medical students on IMC tag

Thursday 3 August '06

Early this year, the Medical Council of India altered its rules for students wanting to pursue MBBS courses outside India.