Law panel: VIP cases should get extra focus
The Law Commission has sought 'special focus' on cases involving 'influential' persons to avoid long delays in investigation and trial.
It, however, also said any blanket direction to set up special
Petitioners pulled up for claim on land allotment
The Madras high court has pulled up a batch of petitioners who made several claims and counter claims in respect of allotment of land of 1.25 hectares provided by the state government for houseless po
Petition to close down Mossad quashed
The Israeli Supreme Court has dismissed a petition seeking to close down the country's spy agency Mossad.
The petition was filed by a man, identified only as G., who claimed that the organisation att
2G case: Judge warns accused not to play 'tricks' in court
The repeated 'major mistakes' in the applications filed by various accused in the 2G spectrum allocation scam case on Friday irked the special judge who warned them not to play such 'tricks' with the
US sues Apple over e-book price fixing scheme
Apple and five of the publishing industry's top firms have been accused of conspiring to raise prices and block Amazon.com from selling e-books at $9.99 in a US Justice Department suit.
The suit file
Rs17 lakh relief for terror suspect's custody death
In a relief to ten police officers, the Bombay High Court on Tuesday rejected a plea to prosecute them for the custodial death of POTA detainee Khwaja Yunus in 2003, but increased by Rs 17 lakh the co
Life sentence can be a ground for granting divorce: HC
The Karnataka High Court has ruled that life sentence can be a ground to grant divorce.
Rejecting a Miscellaneous First Appeal by a husband serving life in a murder case, a division bench, headed by
HC orders reevaluation of answersheets of judges' exam
The Delhi High Court on Monday ordered a fresh evaluation of the answer scripts for the last year's preliminary test for appointment of judicial officers in the Capital, after deletion of 12 out of 20
SC begins plea against Chidambaram in 2G case
The Supreme Court on Wednesday began hearing the plea for investigating the alleged role of Home Minister P. Chidambaram in the 2G spectrum scam with an NGO claiming that he was in the know of all dev
Allahabad HC issues notice to Rajesh Talwar in Aarushi
The Allahabad High Court on Tuesday issued notice to dentist Rajesh Talwar, facing trial in the murder of his daughter Aarushi, on an application filed by the CBI challenging the trial court's decisio