Source:- indiatimes.com PANAJI: In a significant judgement that has a bearing on the procedure adopted by minority institutions in Goa in selecting principals for their schools, the Supreme Court has held that the institutions have to act fairly and in a transparent manner in matters of such appointments. The apex court delivered its verdict recently

Source:- hindustantimes.com A priest who spoke against child abuse was arrested in Kerala for alleged rape of a minor which led to her pregnancy, police said on Tuesday. The 17-year-old gave birth to a baby at a private hospital last month and the accused had shifted both the mother and the newborn to an orphanage

Source:- deccanchronicle.com Kochi: Former Indian Test player S. Sreesanth on Wednesday moved the Kerala High Court seeking a directive to the  Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) to lift the life ban imposed on him by the disciplinary committee of the board. The BCCI had refused to consider a legal notice sent by

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 The fresh plea came last week after earlier plea was withdrawn last month as it had wrongly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