Source:-https://www.hindustantimes.com The Allahabad High Court has expressed concern over the opening of schools in Uttar Pradesh amid the pandemic, fearing that young children may catch infection owing to their inability to follow precautions. However, falling short of ordering the closure of schools, a bench of justices Siddhartha Varma and Ajit Kumar asked the state government

Source:-https://www.tribuneindia.com Washington, December 12 President Donald Trump lambasted the Supreme Court on Saturday for declining to take a case he hoped would overturn President-elect Joe Biden’s election victory and called Attorney General William Barr a “disappointment”. The nation’s high court late on Friday rejected an unprecedented lawsuit by Texas seeking to throw out voting results

Source:-https://www.newindianexpress.com CHENNAI: Madras High Court has stalled the attempt of Coimbatore Corporation to develop Singanallur lake, which is classified as a bio-diversity zone under the Smart City programme. Passing an interim order prohibiting commercial fishing in the lake, the court made it clear that no native plants should be removed from the waterbody. The court

Source:-https://www.newindianexpress.com CHANDIGARH: Punjab Deputy Inspector General (Prisons) Lakhminder Singh Jakhar had sent his resignation to the Punjab Government in support of farmers protesting against three farm laws but the government is yet to accept it. 56-year-old Jakhar who had joined the Punjab Prisons Department as Deputy Superintendent Jail on November 11, 1994 will now be

Source:-https://www.tribuneindia.com Union Minister Anurag Thakur on Saturday expressed confidence that J&K would get back 17,000 hectares of land grabbed under the Roshni scheme and action would be taken against the guilty. “The Roshni Act has been struck down by the J&K High Court. It has been termed illegal and unconstitutional. It had been brought in

Source:-https://morungexpress.com Dimapur, December 12 (MExN): The Gauhati High Court, Kohima bench on December 11 admitted a Public Interest Litigation (PIL) filed by three individuals representing the Against Corruption and Unabated Taxation (ACAUT) Nagaland, Public Action Committee (PAC) and Business Association of Nagaland (BAN) against illegal tax collections that are allegedly going on in Nagaland. In

Source:-https://www.newindianexpress.com KOCHI: When Printu N A reached the polling booth in Kizhakkambalam near here along with his wife to cast his vote in the local body polls on Thursday, he was excited because it was his first vote. But what he had to endure at the booth (no.1, ward 7) was nightmarish. A group of

Source:-https://www.newindianexpress.com NEW DELHI: The Delhi High Court is scheduled to hear on Monday a plea by leading Bollywood producers seeking to restrain Republic TV and Times Now from making alleged “irresponsible, derogatory and defamatory remarks” against the film industry and conducting “media trials” against its members on various issues. Justice Rajiv Shakdher, who had earlier

Source:-https://www.newindianexpress.com BHOPAL: Justice Vandana Kasrekar, the lone woman judge of the Indore Bench of Madhya Pradesh High Court died due to COVID-19 related complications at a private hospital in Indore on Sunday morning. After testing positive for the novel Coronavirus recently, the 60-year-old woman judge was first admitted at the Greater Kailash Hospital in Indore.

Source:-https://www.newindianexpress.com NEW DELHI: With the retirement of Chief Justice of Jammu & Kashmir and Ladakh High Court Justice Gita Mittal, Indian judiciary is once again male dominated as all the 26 high courts across the country are headed by men. At present there are only two woman judges in the Supreme Court out of the