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

Source:- india.com Darbhanga (Bihar), Mar 3 (PTI) A court here today awarded a man a jail term of 10 years after finding him guilty of rape committed four years ago. Additional District and Sessions Judge Brajkishore Kumar Malviya also slapped a fine of Rs 50,000 on Subodh Kumar, failing which he would have to serve

Source:- indiatimes.com NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court today expressed grave concern over farmers’ suicide due to indebtedness and crop failure and said it felt the government was going in a “wrong direction” in tackling the real problem. Asking the Centre to apprise it of the policy roadmap to address the burning issue, a bench headed

What is the current situation of women judges in India? According Lok Sabha data, no more than 10 per cent of judges in the higher courts are women. The number of women enrolling in law courses has seen a rise of 61 per cent in the last four years with an increase in demand for women lawyers, especially in

Source:- timesnow.tv With more than 700 rape cases being reported since 2013 in Meghalaya, the opposition party United Democratic Party (UDP) on Tuesday said that rise in crime against women could impact the state’s image and affect the state’s economy. “How do we sell Meghalaya as a brand outside with such reports of rape in

Source:- bbc.com A court in western India has handed life prison sentences to a disabled academic and four other people for having links to Maoist rebels waging an insurgency against the state. Professor GN Saibaba of Delhi University, who is paralysed from the waist down, was arrested three years ago but was released on bail.

Source:- ndtv.com NEW DELHI:  The Madras High Court yesterday directed Tamil Nadu Education Department to exempt students of linguistic minority schools from appearing in Tamil language paper. The High Court bench issued the directions in response to petitions filed by Linguistic Minority Schools Management and individual students. According to reports in Press Trust of India,

Source:- huffingtonpost.in The Hyderabad police has sought a Red Corner Notice against two brothers based in New York after their wives approached the police after one of them was divorced over WhatsApp. The older brother had done the same with his wife six months ago. The story came to light recently when Usman Qureshi sent