Thursday 3 August '06
The Central Information Commission has upheld the CBI’s decision not to part with information on the defreezing of two London bank accounts...Wednesday 26 July '06
The UPA Government has told the Supreme Court that it has not yet firmed up any policy on job reservation in the private sector.Thursday
20 July '06Is judicial activism a threat to India’s democratic structure? A paper taken up for discussion at the just concluded General Council Meeting of the Centre of Indian Trade Unions believes so.Wednesday
19 July '06President A P J Abdul Kalam has referred to the Election Commission, a complaint seeking disqualification of Rajya Sabha MP and Minister of State for Commerce Jairam Ramesh for allegedly holding an office of profit by being a member of the National Advisory Council.Saturday
15 July '06The timing could not have been better. With increasing social strife and violence threatening to rip apart the society...Friday
30 June '06Mittal has been fighting over registrar recommended for HC Bench by collegium of Punjab and Haryana HCWednesday
21 June '06Lack of political will, forestry institutions in disarray, a forest administration minus vision...these are some of the problems identified by the first ever National Forest Commission (NFC) headed by former Chief Justice of India Justice B.N. Kirpal, as plaguing the country’s forest conservation efforts.Tuesday
20 June '06Politician-mafia encroached forest; report yet to come up for hearingMonday
19 June '06The UPA’s pet project for tribals, Scheduled Tribes Bills 2005, has come in for severe criticism from the country’s first-ever National Forest CommissionTuesday
6 June '06The Supreme Court today fixed July 7 to hear an appeal filed by Sham Shankar Kankaria, a life convict from Maharashtra, whose case the apex court had earlier adjourned by one year on May 15.Friday
26 May '06Lawyer who stood in for counsel wasn’t ready, vacation bench says ‘counsel has caused inconvenience, matter deserves long adjournment’Thursday
11 May '06Maharashtra Minister Swarupsinh Naik tried every trick up his sleeve, from a plea of lack of education to his Scheduled Tribe ‘background’ and even an apology...Wednesday
10 May '06The court rejected contentions that the controversial stock broker Hiten P. Dalal, from whom Stanchart had acquired the bonds, had become their rightful ownerTuesday
9 May '06In disputes over parentage, can a court compel a person to undergo blood or DNA testing?Tuesday
25 April '06As facts lose out to rhetoric in the debate over quotas in the private sector, New Delhi and India Inc should perhaps take a look at the example of South Africa.Friday
21 April '06Taking the Karnataka government to task, the Supreme Court today cleared the Rs 2,250 crore Bangalore-Mysore four-lane express highway project and imposed exemplary costs of Rs 5 lakh on the state government for bringing the issue before it.Sunday
16 April '06In a significant ruling having a bearing on trade and commerce across the country, the SC has held that for a state legislation imposing compensatory tax on any trade to be Constitutional, the levy should have a direct nexus with the trade.Thursday
6 April '06On an official visit to India, Pakistan Law Minister Mohammed Wasi Zafar stuck to his guns today on the Sarabjit issue but skirted questions on mutual legal assistance in matters of terrorism.Friday
31 March '06You might get caught with the copy of a question paper ahead of the exam but there is little the court can do to pin your crime.Wednesday
29 March '06The Central Administrative Tribunal and other bodies of its kind across the country may soon be things of the past.Sunday
26 March '06A week after this paper highlighted the timeline of the Priyadarshini Mattoo murder trial, punctuated by repeated adjournments...Monday
20 March '06Acquittal in the Priyadarshini Mattoo murder came in just three years. Scrutiny of court records shows what justice ran into: power-cuts to counsel saying they have no timeSunday
12 March '06PM Manmohan Singh and CJI Justice Y K Sabharwal, both agreed that the justice-delivery system was in need for urgent reforms.
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