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Taking stock of the progress made in implementation of various reforms to speed up justice delivery system, continuation of morning/evening courts in lower judiciary for expeditious disposal of the growing number of pending cases, improving court infrastructure were some of the issues discussed on the first day of the three-day conference of Chief Justices that […]

Two judges of the Supreme Court opposed the decision of Chief Justice of India H L Dattu to call a conference of judges on Good Friday and one of them, Justice Kurian Joseph, said “I am deeply hurt… shocked by the tenor” of the response from the CJI rejecting his suggestion while raising questions of

Racist emails released Friday by the city of Ferguson indicate most were sent by a former city court clerk to two police officers, and there’s no indication other city employees were involved. The emails were discovered during an investigation into the August 9 fatal shooting of 18-year-old Michael Brown, who was black and unarmed, by

NEW DELHI: The Delhi high court on Thursday expressed concern over identity of child survivors of sexual offences being disclosed. HC has directed trial courts and hospitals to ensure that guidelines laid down by it are scrupulously followed in all cases relating to children. The court said it is the duty of the hospital where

BENGALURU: Karnataka’s private schools, including CBSE and ICSE institutions, are again headed for a legal battle with the state government over the language issue. The government’s decision to make Kannada the compulsory medium of instruction from classes 1 to 5 in all schools has rankled them. On March 30, the state %legislature passed the Right

PANAJI: Goa minister Francisco Mickky Pacheco, who was convicted for slapping a government servant, on Friday resigned from cabinet. Pacheco on Wednesday filed a review petition before the Supreme Court, pleading for “justice” in the 2006 case of assault on an electricity department junior engineer. “I have pleaded with the SC that I should be

Serena Williams abused her racket, scolded herself and even made angry faces at the sun. In the end, as usual, she took out her frustration on the ball. The seven-time Key Biscayne champion overcame her annoyance and shaky play Wednesday for her 700th career victory, beating Sabine Lisicki 7-6 (4), 1-6, 6-3 to reach the

Government has moved the Supreme Court seeking review of its March 17 verdict setting aside a 2014 notification of erstwhile UPA regime to include Jats in the central list of the Other Backward Classes (OBC) in nine states to accord quota benefits to them. The NDA government moved the apex court days after a meeting

NEW DELHI: A misconduct of an employee cannot entitle the government to cut pension and other post retirement benefit, the Delhi High Court has held. Only when the misconduct is “grave” can the employer slash benefits. “For a retired government servant a cut in pension can be ordered if the misconduct of which he is

NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court on Wednesday stayed the trial court’s decision to summon former PM Manmohan Singh, industrialist Kumar Mangalam Birla, former coal secretary PC Parakh and three others. A bench of Justices V Gopala Gowda and C Nagappan also asked the CBI and Union government to file reply in four weeks to all