Legal

New Delhi: Justice Bhushan Ramkrishna Gavai is set to be the next Chief Justice of India (CJI). Incumbent CJI Sanjiv Khanna has officially recommended Justice Gavai as his successor, and...

New Delhi: In a major decision, the Supreme Court has ordered the immediate cancellation of licences of hospitals from where newborns are stolen. The Court also came down hard on...

Dhaka: A Bangladeshi court on Thursday issued a fresh arrest warrant against deposed Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, her daughter Saima Wajed Putul and 17 others in a graft case. Dhaka Metropolitan...

New Delhi: The Supreme Court, on Tuesday, made it clear that the governor of a state cannot indefinitely withhold assent to a Bill passed by the Assembly. The Court was...

New Delhi: In a scathing observation, the Supreme Court on Monday blasted Uttar Pradesh Police for routinely converting civil disputes into criminal cases. Calling it “absurd” and a “complete breakdown”...

Bengaluru: Why did a bench of the Karnataka High Court request the Parliament and state legislatures to go in for a Uniform Civil Code (UCC)? Justice Hanchate Sanjeevkumar is of...

New Delhi: After MPs Mohammad Jawed of the Congress and Asaduddin Owaisi of the AIMIM, Amanatullah Khan, an MLA of the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) has taken the legal route...

New Delhi: The National Legal Services Authority (NALSA) has filed a Public Interest Litigation (PIL) in the Supreme Court seeking urgent intervention for the release of elderly and terminally ill...

New Delhi: The Waqf Bill cleared Parliament after marathon debates in both Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha, on back-to-back nights. As the Bill, which seeks to amend the 1995 law...

New Delhi: A petition was filed in the Supreme Court seeking to prohibit children below 13 from using social media. The Supreme Court, however, refused to examine the plea which...