US President Barack Obama took his first steps in the White House since taking office and was likely to spend some time in the Oval Office he inherited from George W Bush. . In his first official act since taking the oath of office on Tuesday, Obama ..
SC Asks Cidade To Clear Way To Beach21 Jan 2009, 0315 hrs IST, TNN PANAJI: The Supreme Court on Tuesday directed Fomento Resorts and Hotels to demolish the extended portion of their Cidade de Goa hotel building within three months and open access to ..
Washington, Jan 20 (PTI) Hours before his inauguration, President-elect Barack Obama appointed leading Indian-American lawyer Preeta Bansal as the General Counsel and Senior Policy Advisor in the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) in his administr ..
Lawyers here staged a rally in protest against Indian cricket team touring Sri Lanka and urged the Central Government in New Delhi to intervene and stop alleged atrocities on Tamils in the island nation. The protesting advocates held placards and rai ..
289 Cases Settled In Two Lok Adalat CampsPress Trust Of IndiaRourkela, January 20, 2009A total 289 cases including long pending civil and criminal cases were settled in two different lokadalat held at Biramitrapur and Rajgangpur in Sundergarh distric ..
Advocates of the AP High Court have taken an unprecedented decision to move the Supreme Court to end the delay in appointment of judges. An extraordinary general body meeting of the Bar Association of the AP High Court held here resolved to file a wr ..
Five-Day Jail For Slapping Pupil19 Jan 2009, 2334 hrs IST, TNN Ahmedabad: Sixteen-years after he slapped his student, a teacher in Dhandhuka will now have to undergo a five-day jail term as the Supreme Court has upheld an order passed by the Gujarat ..
NCDRC: Awarding Of Compensation To Hijacked IC 814 Passengers Stayed1/18/2009The National Consumer Disputes Redressal Commission has stayed an order of Delhi State Consumer Disputes Redressal Commission directing the Indian Airlines to pay a compensa ..
10,000 more courts needed to clear backlog: CJI New Delhi (PTI): Warning that the law and order situation would be seriously impacted if criminal courts continued to be flooded with cases, Chief Justice of India K G Balakrishnan has proposed that 10, ..
CJI UNDER RTI ACT OR NOT? It refers to media-reports indicating that Supreme Court registry may approach Delhi High Court against recent full-bench verdict by Central information Commission (CIC) holding Chief Justice of India (CJI) under purview of ..