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NEW DELHI: Law minister Sadananda Gowda on Friday said there was no proposal to increase the retirement age of Supreme Court judges from 65 to 68 years. On whether the Centre was considering increasing the retirement age of judges of the 24 high courts from 62 to 65 years, the minister said a constitutional amendment […]

NEW DELHI: The Delhi high court has been informed by the city government’s food safety department that samples of rice dishes collected by it from two popular eateries here have been found to be unsafe. In an affidavit filed by the department, it said that the presence of artificial colour rendered the dishes “unsafe” for

Justice V R Krishna Iyer has passed on to the other world. He scored a century. He was unwell in body al though his spirit was, as always, indomitable. And yet, I cannot shake off a deep sense of grief. My generation, who learned from him of what the Supreme Court was all about, considered

ALBANY (New York): A chimpanzee is not entitled to the rights of a human and does not have to be freed by its owner, a New York appeals court ruled on Thursday. The three-judge Appellate Division panel was unanimous in denying “legal personhood” to Tommy, which lives alone in a cage. A trial-level court had

NEW DELHI: Concerned at rising pendency of cases older than five years in high courts, Chief Justice of India Justice H L Dattu has written to chief justices of all HCs asking them to ensure that such cases are not pending in any court, including the subordinate judiciary under them. Pendency of over five-year-old cases

A new controversy may be brewing for the NDA government as the Solicitor General of India on Wednesday sought to argue on behalf of the Special Investigation Team (SIT) in the Supreme Court in the black money case, amid allegation of “conflict of interest” by petitioner Ram Jethmalani. In a prelude to what can blow

NEW DELHI: The Delhi high court Wednesday dismissed bail plea of businessman Gautam Khaitan arrested in connection with the AgustaWestland VIP chopper deal. Justice VP Vaish said investigations into alleged money laundering by the Enforcement Directorate (ED) is still on and once the ED wraps up probe Khaitan can file plea for bail. In his

Resolute that people’s voices never go unheard before the highest court of the land, Chief Justice of India H L Dattu has set up a special bench, christened “Social Justice Bench”, to specifically deal with the issues troubling a common man in everyday life. This is the first time the Supreme Court will have a

MUMBAI: Two public interest litigation challenging the replacement of the word “Sindh” with “Sindhu” in the national anthem will come up for hearing in the Bombay High Court. Both petitions, filed last year, seek direction to the Maharashtra government to withdraw the text books reflecting the error. The first petition was filed by Mulund resident

INDORE: A BJP MLA on Tuesday allegedly thrashed 15 drug addicts who he claimed were harassing women in a park here, the incident which acquired a political hue after Congress criticized saying it highlights the law and order situation of the state. Eyewitnesses claimed that BJP MLA Sudarshan Gupta beat up 15 miscreants at the