Source:- indiatimes.com NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court has granted pension to eight soldiers who were dismissed by the Army for an act of cowardice during a militant attack in 2003 on an EME battalion in Akhnoor of Jammu & Kashmir. A bench of Justices Dipak Misra and A M Khanwilkar partly allowed the Union government’s

Source:- ndtv.com NEW DELHI:  “Nobody listens to our orders,” the Supreme Court observed today while refusing to accord urgent hearing to a plea seeking massive reforms in police force across the country. “Police reforms are going on and on. Nobody listens to our orders,” a bench headed by Chief Justice J S Khehar lamented while

Source:- indiatimes.com NEW DELHI: Attorney general Mukul Rohatgi has told the Kerala government that the Supreme Court order banning liquor vends within 500 metres of state and national highways does not apply to bars and restaurants that serve alcohol. The AG’s view could apply to other states as well as the court imposed deadline to

Source:- newindianexpress.com NEW DELHI: The Delhi High Court on Thursday is likely to hear a fresh plea seeking audit of the accounts of India Against Corruption (IAC), an anti-corruption movement spearheaded by Anna Hazare during 2011 and 2012. The fresh plea came last week after earlier plea was withdrawn last month as it had wrongly

Source:- intoday.in The ‘Bharatiya Bargirls Union’, an association of women dancers, waitresses, singers and other performers working in bars and hotels in Maharashtra, has challenged the constitutional validity of a 2016 state law putting conditions on dance performances. Saying the new Act “stigmatised their work”, the Bharatiya Bargirls Union has termed it arbitrary and violative

Source:- intoday.in The victims’ family is apprehensive and is expressing that they do not have faith in the state police in connection with the Chitrakoot gangrape in UP at the hands of SP leader Gayatri Prajapati. The family is alleging that they are being threatened by the UP police in connection with the case. On

Source:- hindustantimes.com In a case of honour killing the Supreme Court sent a man from Karnataka to jail for life for killing his pregnant daughter 13 years ago. The top court not only rejected the man’s appeal against the HC verdict, punishing him with just 10-year jail term for the act, but also enhanced his

Source:- hindustantimes.com Depleting water flow makes it impossible to build the Sutlej-Yamuna Link (SYL) canal, said Punjab in the Supreme Court on Thursday, reaffirming a stand that successive governments in the state have taken. Also, Punjab argued that a 2004 state law that terminated water-sharing agreements with its neighbours was never challenged or declared unconstitutional.

Source:- telegraphindia.com New Delhi, March 2: The Supreme Court today said it would refer to a medical board a unique case of whether a 38-year-old cerebral palsy-affected rape victim could be considered a “child” because of her mental condition to determine adequate compensation. The first such case to have come up for consideration before the

Source:- intoday.in Hearing a PIL, the Bombay High Court has asked the Centre to submit a detailed report on the deaths of scientists. The high court observed that the Army and scientists are two sets of people, who needed to be taken care of by the government. The Bombay High Court today asked the central