Jammu and Kashmir’s separatist leader Yasin Malik was heckled by a group of Kashmiri Pandits at the three-day India-Pakistan peace conference here Monday.
Malik, the chief of the Jammu and Kashmir Liberation Front (JKLF), was about to deliver his address on the roadmap to solving the Kashmir issue when some migrants Hindus objected and said: ‘The [...]
A Supreme Court judge Thursday quit a bench hearing a lawsuit by Reliance Power challenging the Allahabad High Court’s ruling on the acquisition of farm land for the Rs.25,000-crore power plant at Dadri, close to the national capital.
As the matter came up for hearing Justice B.S. Chauhan informed the court that he would not like [...]
Srinagar, Dec 26 (ANI): The All Parties Hurriyat Conference (APHC) Chairman, Mirwaiz Omar Farooq has reacted sharply to recommendations made by a high level committee favouring autonomy for the state.
Talking to reporters here on Friday, Farooq said their agenda is “freedom, not [...]
Dhaka, Dec 16 (IANS) Senior Bangladesh Supreme Court judge Mohammed Tafazzul Islam, who confirmed death sentences on a dozen former army officers for killing the country’s founding father Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, has been appointed as the new chief justice.
His appointment by President Zillur Rahman was announced Tuesday evening, The Daily Star reported Wednesday.
He will succeed [...]
Agartala, Dec 15 (IANS) Proceedings in the Tripura assembly were disrupted Tuesday and the house finally adjourned for the day without transacting any business as opposition members vehemently protested Chief Minister Manik Sarkar’s comments on a nexus between outlawed terror groups and political parties.
Slogan shouting Congress legislators led by Leader of Opposition Ratan Lal Nath [...]
New Delhi, Dec 14 (IANS) Seventy-five Rajya Sabha members, led by the opposition Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), Monday submitted a petition to upper house Chairman Hamid Ansari for impeaching Justice P.D. Dinakaran. The Karnataka High Court chief justice faces allegations of land grabbing and amassing wealth beyond his known sources of income.
‘Notice of the motion [...]
New Delhi, Dec 14 (IANS) Seventy-five Rajya Sabha members from non-Congress parties Monday submitted a notice to Chairman Hamid Ansari seeking the removal of Karnataka Chief Justice P.D. Dinakaran, who faces allegations of land grabbing.
‘Notice of the motion signed by 75 members of the Rajya Sabha under Judges (Enquiry) Act 1968 for removal of Justice [...]
New Delhi, Nov 23 (IANS) ‘Get lost!’ This was retired Supreme Court judge M.S. Liberhan’s outburst when confronted by journalists over his leaked report into the Babri mosque razing published Monday.
Ambushed while taking a walk, Liberhan became angry when a journalist asked him if he had perhaps leaked the report to the Indian Express daily [...]
New Delhi, Nov 18 (IANS) The Indian Council of Jurists has selected former Supreme Court judge Justice Arijit Pasayat and Haryana Chief Minister B.S. Hooda among others for its National Law Day awards, 2009.
Council convener Adish C. Aggarwala said President Pratibha Patil has consented to give away the awards during a two-day function at Vigyan [...]
Srinagar, Nov 17 (IANS) The most critical of the working groups set up by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh in 2006 to improve relations between Jammu and Kashmir and the central government has not met for over two years now, putting a question mark on how serious the authorities are when they talk of initiating confidence [...]
New Delhi, Nov 4 (ANI): The Ambani gas dispute took a new turn today with Supreme Court Judge R V Raveendran pulling himself out of the case.
Justice Raveendran, one of the judges hearing the high-profile Ambani vs Ambani case, dropped out of the case citing a possible conflict of interest.
Earlier, the Supreme Court had [...]
Kochi, Oct 31 (IANS) The Kerala High Court Saturday announced the setting up of a green bench which will hear all environment-related cases every Friday and also decided to stop the tradition of a mace holder walking ahead of the judge when he enters the court.
In a statement released here, the high court said that [...]
London, Oct 24 (ANI): American actress/singer Liza Minnelli will testify in her former chauffeur’s sexual harassment suit against her later next month.
The ‘Cabaret’ star has avoided taking to the stand since her ex-driver M’Hammed Soumayah filed papers in 2004 alleging he had been forced to “engage in sexual relations” with her, reports the Daily Express.
However, [...]
Kabul, Oct.14 (ANI): Afghanistan President Hamid Karzai has expressed concern about the investigation into election fraud in Afghanistan.
In an interview on US TV, the BBC quoted Karzai, as saying that the resignation of an Afghan member of the UN-backed panel “cast serious doubt” on its work.
Karzai said that fraud was likely to have [...]
New Delhi, Oct 5 (IANS) The Law Commission of India has recommended getting rid of judges – known as ‘uncle judges’ in legal circles – posted in high courts where they have practised for long and where they might have developed vested interests.
The recommendation is part of the commission’s 233rd report submitted to the union [...]
New Delhi, Aug 27 (ANI): The Ministry of External Affairs has been given clean chit over the alleged discrepancies and imbalances in the Haj Quotas system.
Retired Supreme Court judge Arijit Parsayat, who was appointed to read into the alleged Haj Quotas cam, gave [...]
Adelaide, Aug 14 (ANI): The complaints of a woman, allegedly stripped naked by policemen before being put in padded cell, have made authorities to offer prisoners with “modesty gowns”.
Assistant Police Commissioner Bronwyn Killmier said that the purchase of the reinforced calico gowns was not an admission that the practice, recently revealed in The Advertiser and [...]
