Source:- telegraphindia.com Bombay High Court today went into a thorny question that tends to divide parents, children and educationists: should mathematics be compulsory in secondary school? It asked school boards to consider making the subject optional for Class X students as a relief for those planning to later pursue the arts or vocational courses that

Source:- firstpost.com Mumbai: Gangster Abu Salem, convicted for his role in the 1993 Mumbai blasts case, has moved a European Union court in a bid to have himself sent back to Portugal from where he was extradited to India to face the trial. Salem moved the European Union court months before his conviction in the

Source:- timesofindia.indiatimes.com VADODARA: Mother of a 13-year-old girl, who was allegedly raped by her school van driver for six months, alleged on Monday that she and her family was being threatened by an unidentified person and have also been offered money to withdraw the case. The girl’s mother also alleged that the police was not

Source:- oneindia.com More than a month after he went into hiding following a Supreme Court order to jail him, Justice (retired) C S Karnan was arrested from Coimbatore on Tuesday. Close aide and advocate of the retired Calcutta High Court judge confirmed the arrest to OneIndia. “We arrested former high court judge Karnan at around

Source:- newsx.com The Supreme Court has directed that the Majithia Wage Board recommendations on wages for newspaper employees have to be “implemented in toto” and managements could not cite lack of funds for avoiding payments. It also said in its judgment on Monday that there was no difference between full-time employees and contract workers as

Source:- indiatoday.intoday.in Bihar Governor Ram Nath Kovind will, in all likelihood, succeed Pranab Mukherjee as the President of India. BJP president Amit Shah, announcing Kovind’s name for President, said that the alliance partners of the NDA had already been consulted for the presidential election. The BJP has sought support from Opposition parties including the Congress.

Source:- hindustantimes.com The government will appoint 11 high court judges this week despite lack of agreement with the judiciary over a proposal to bring transparency in nominating judges to higher courts. These judges will be appointed in the Madras, Punjab and Haryana and Chhattisgarh high courts, sources in the law ministry said. Judges are selected

Source:- indianexpress.com The Delhi High Court has reduced the life term of a convict, who killed a 25-year-old man, to six years in jail to grant him an opportunity to reform and rehabilitate. A bench of Acting Chief Justice Gita Mittal and Justice Anu Malhotra, which upheld the conviction of the 41-year-old man, showed leniency

Source:- thehindu.com In a set back to several candidates set join posts of Group A and Group B gazetted probationer following their selection, the High Court of Karnataka on Wednesday refused to vacate its April 5 interim order restraining the government from appointing 362 candidates who were selected in the 2011 recruitment batch by the

Source:- thehindubusinessline.com UNITED NATIONS, JUN 20:  Justice Dalveer Bhandari has been nominated by India as its candidate for another nine year term as judge of the International Court of Justice (ICJ), the principal judicial organ of the UN. Bhandari, 69, was elected in April 2012 during simultaneous balloting in both the General Assembly and the