[caption id="attachment_8545" align="alignleft" width="248" caption="Delhi High Court "][/caption] The Delhi High Court Tuesday pulled up the Delhi government and the Delhi Electricity Regulatory Commission (DERC) over appointment of members of the power regulator, saying it is “not happy with the state of affairs”.The division bench of Chief Justice Dipak Misra and ...

[caption id="attachment_8515" align="alignleft" width="257" caption="M. Veerappa Moily"][/caption] Union Law Minister M. Veerappa Moily Monday said that the central government was looking at setting up arbitration centres for commercial disputes in every metropolitan city in the country. Speaking during a ceremony in Panaji, marked to unveil India's first international arbitration outside the national ...

[caption id="attachment_8488" align="alignleft" width="213" caption="lawyer Ram Jethmalani"][/caption] An eight-member team of European Union, which arrived here on Sunday night to witness Human rights activist Binayak Sen's bail hearing tomorrow, faced protests from lawyers and ABVP workers who showed EU representatives black flags and shouted slogans against them. The team that arrived at ...

Delhi Police filed a charge sheet against suspended union home ministry officer Ravi Inder Singh, accused of allegedly leaking sensitive information to unauthorised people, in a court here Saturday. The 2,343-page charge sheet was filed before Special Judge Sangeeta Dhingra Sehgal. The next hearing is slated for Jan 29. Police have sought ...

With Karnataka Governor H R Bhardwaj late on Friday permitting prosecution of beleaguered Chief Minister B.S. Yeddyurappa on land scam and corruption charges, city lawyers Sirajin Basha and K N Balaraj have decided to file a criminal case in a special court here on Monday. 'We are grateful to the Governor ...

 The Punjab and Haryana High Court here Thursday stopped the construction of a controversial multi-storey housing project being executed by Tata Housing Development Company (THDC) in an ecologically fragile zone in Punjab, north of Chandigarh. The court ruling is likely to come as a blow to THDC and a number of ...

[caption id="attachment_8412" align="alignleft" width="259" caption="Teesta Setalvad"][/caption] The Supreme Court Thursday pulled up convenor of NGO Citizens for Justice and Peace, Teesta Setalvad, for sending communications addressed to the special investigating team (SIT) probing the 2002 Gujarat riots to the UN Human Rights Commission. The SIT, headed by former CBI director R.K. Raghavan, ...

A former Research and Analysis Wing (RAW) official, to be frustrated at the frequent adjournments in a human trafficking case against her in the Delhi High Court, tried to undress before a judge Thursday but was stopped by police officials. Nisha Bhatia, in her late thirties, started to undress in a ...

Prime Minister Manmohan Singh raised the issue of black money during a cabinet meeting here Thursday, a day after the Supreme Court queried why the government cannot name those involved in this $1.5-trillion "national plunder". The discussion came against the backdrop of the apex court coming down heavily on the government's ...

[caption id="attachment_8402" align="alignleft" width="240" caption="Sabarimala temple"][/caption] A division bench of the Kerala High Court Thursday came down heavily on the state government and the Devaswom Board on the Sabarimala stampede tragedy, and directed that the 'truth' should come out on the Makara Jyothi that is believed to be a celestial light. The ...