Source – timesofindia.indiatimes.com MUMBAI: Seven months after a Mumbai-based financial consultant was booked on rape charges, the victim girl appeared before the Bombay high court to give her consent to quashing the criminal proceedings saying she now realised they could not get married since both of them belonged to different religions. A division bench of

Source – hindustantimes.com The stage is set to elect the country’s 14th President. A total of 4,896 lawmakers will vote on Monday to elect the successor of Pranab Mukherjee, who demits office on July 25. Given the BJP-led NDA’s strength, its candidate Ram Nath Kovind appears to have the advantage against his opponent, Meira Kumar, a

Source – ndtv.com NEW DELHI:  The Supreme Court has said it will examine whether an IIT can withhold the results of a final-year student, who was terminated after being held guilty in a sexual harassment case.A bench of justices S A Bobde and L Nageswara Rao issued notice to the Centre and IIT-Kanpur on the plea of

Source – livemint.com Ahmedbad: The Gujarat high court on Monday cleared the way for the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) to press ahead with the bad-loan resolution process, dismissing Essar Steel Ltd’s petition challenging the initiation of bankruptcy proceedings against the company. The ruling throws judicial weight behind RBI’s 13 June directive asking lenders to initiate action

Source – dailyo.in As many as 696 days after the Supreme Court had asked for the Aadhaar matter to be heard in front of a Constitution Bench, on July 18-19, the case is finally being presented in front of a five-member bench to decide all issues pertaining to Aadhaar, which include mandatory unique identification for

Source – ndtv.com New Delhi – One last opportunity to deposit the 500- and 1,000-rupee notes that were banned in November will defeat the whole point of demonetisation as well as the battle against black money, the government told the Supreme Court today.Earlier this month, the top court had asked the centre to consider a final

Source – abc.net.au India’s Supreme Court has intervened in the nation’s ban on the sale of cattle for slaughter, but there are questions about how long it will last. The Indian Government banned the sale of cattle for slaughter to appease the majority Hindu population, which believes cows to be sacred. India is the world’s second-largest

Source – ndtv.com NEW DELHI:  Ram Nath Kovind, former Bihar Governor, is set to be India’s next President as votes are being counted today in the presidential election held on Monday. Mr Kovind, nominated by the ruling BJP-led National Democratic Alliance is expected to get almost 70 per cent of the votes for an easy win

Source – hindustantimes.com A rare 9-judge bench of the Supreme Court said the right to privacy is not absolute, making its first observations on Wednesday as it began hearing on an issue that could have a sweeping impact on issues such as the Aadhaar scheme and the law criminalising homosexuality. Led by the Chief Justice of

Source – financialexpress.com The Orissa High Court today asked the state government to restrict the quantum of reservation for SC, ST and OBC or Special Categories in employment and education to 50 per cent. Quashing the Socially and Economically Backwards Classes (SEBC) Act of 2008, which was notified by the Odisha government in February 2009 for