The Supreme Court ruling spelling out the rights of women in “live-in” relations created a controversy of sorts in the court on Friday with a senior woman law officer of the Centre lodging her protest with the bench that delivered the verdict on the use of certain expressions which she termed “derogatory” to women.

The Supreme Court, in a significant ruling on Thursday, said that a woman in a “live-in” relationship was entitled to maintenance on the breakup of the relationship — provided that such a liaison met

The Supreme Court during the past 60 has defined complex constitutional and statutory provisions to lay down the principles for strengthening democracy and governance through the rule of law.

As a section of academics and historians have raised questions on the Archaeological Survey of India’s Ayodhya excavation report, former ASI director R. Nagaswamy, examined by the Allahabad high court as the key evaluator of the excavation results had stated that it “indisputably” showed the existence of a temple beneath the disputed structure (Babri Masjid).

Though the Karnataka high court verdict on the 11 BJP rebel MLAs petition is awaited with anxiety in the political circle after the court made Thursday’s trust vote by the B.S. Yeddyurappa government subject to its ruling, the 2004 disqualification of six Haryana legislators makes an interesting case for study for the stakeholders as the Supreme Court had upheld the Speaker’s decision two years later.

Three Mughal period documents — Baburnama, Ain-I-Akbari and Early Travel to India — were among the 18 crucial historic documents examined by the Allahabad high court in the Ayodhya title suit and all

The Chief Justice of India S.H.

Despite the moves for a negotiated settlement on the Ayodhya title suit by some parties, the process for the final round of litigation in the Supreme Court was virtually set in motion with the Hindu Mahasabha filing a “caveat” pleading that no order be passed without notice being issued to it.

Though both CBI and Enforcement Directorate came up with status reports on the progress of investigation into the spectrum 2G scam against telecom and IT minister A.

The Supreme Court has taken as serious note of some officials of the state governments involving in a “racket” of delaying the filing of appeals in high-stake commercial cases and let private industries and contractors getting away with huge financial benefits by winning the case in trial courts without it being examined on merits by the high courts or the SC.