In what is being described as an unprecendented step, the Lucknow bench of the Allahabad High Court Thursday summoned Uttar Pradesh Chief Secretary Anoop Misra to make personal appearance in a PIL alleging large-scale grabbing of land earmarked and used as the Indian Army firing range in Lucknow. Besides the chief ...

A trial court here has allowed a widow to sell her west Delhi flat, co-owned by her two minor children, to meet the kids' education and other expenses. Babita, who has no source of income and is facing problem in bringing up the children, moved court seeking permission to sell the ...

An official representing the registrar of cooperative societies (RCS) told the Delhi High Court Monday that he has cleared names of a housing society's members eligible to occupy flats in Dwarka in west Delhi. The court had earlier asked the registrar to appear before it in person to explain the delay ...

The Delhi High Court Thursday pulled up the Delhi Development Authority for sealing 65 flats in the Commonwealth Games Village near the Yamuna river. The housing agency was told to de-seal within two days the houses belonging to a group of petitioners. Criticising and rejecting the DDA contention that the flats ...

The Supreme Court Friday said that parliament may consider abolishing or amending a law that enables a trespasser take the title of a building or land from the true owner in certain conditions.   An apex court bench of Justice Dalveer Bhandari and Justice Deepak Verma noted that people were often astonished ...

The Supreme Court has said that while the right to information (RTI) is a formidable tool to fight corruption in governance, it "should not be allowed to be misused or abused" to obstruct national development.  "The (Right to Information) Act should not be allowed to be misused or abused, to become ...

Over 12,000 right to information (RTI) appeals are pending in Gujarat which does not even have a chief information commissioner (CIC), transparency law activist Vinod Pandya said here Monday. "The situation is grave and needs to be addressed and so those active in the field have decided to form a state-level ...

In a first for any Indian Head of State, President Pratibha Patil today declared her assets which include movable and immovable properties worth over Rs 2.49 crore. The President, who today completed four years in office, posted the details of her wealth and properties on her official website. The declaration by the ...

Participants at a public consultation, organised by NGO India Against Corruption here Sunday, demanded that parliament pass the Lokpal Bill as soon as possible to root out corruption from India. A large number of people from all walks of life participated in the consultation, held in Shahadra in east Delhi. ‘This is ...

Of the 18,000 human rights violations recorded in India in the first three months of this year, a staggering 65.57 percent, or roughly two-thirds, were reported in Uttar Pradesh and Delhi, shows data from the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC). According to official documents, from Jan 1 to March 31, a ...