Court: follow fiat, don't deny treatment to AIDS patientsNEW DELHI: The Supreme Court on Wednesday approved the Centre's direction to all States that doctors in government and private hospitals should not refuse treatment to People Living with HIV/AI ..
The Allahabad High Court stayed the special recruitment drive for SC and OBC candidates for the post of Assistant Prosecution Officers (APO) slated to be held on October 12.Passing this order, division bench, comprising Justice V M Sahai and Justice ..
The Supreme Court on Monday sought response from 13 States and the Union Territories on a PIL which complained that had not set up any human rights panels.The petition filed through post by an NGO, Citizen Forum on Human Rights, had alleged that thes ..
New Delhi (PTI): Facing criticism of the system of appointment of judges for the Supreme Court and High Courts, Chief Justice of India K G Balakrishnan on Thursday said the procedure was the outcome of a judgement of the Constitution Bench of the ape ..
The ban on SIMI, scheduled to expire in a fortnight, was on Thursday extended indefinitely by the Supreme Court while postponing the September 24 hearing on the Centre's petition, which challenged an order of the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Trib ..
The government, under flak for taking a contradictory stand on the homosexuality law, on Monday told the Delhi High Court not to consider Union Health Minister Anbumani Ramadoss' views on allowing gay sex among consenting adults. "It doesn't matter w ..
The Supreme Court on Monday refused to stay the Central government's notification to impose a ban on smoking in public places from 2nd October.A bench headed by Justice B N Agarwal, while refusing to stay the notification dated 30th May 2008, also tr ..
The Supreme Court has said that seats remaining vacant after implementing the 27 pc OBC quota in central educational institutions have to go to General Category candidates in the same academic year and cannot be carried forward to be filled later.Tho ..
Not everybody is convinced about the September 19 Jamia encounter. Civil society groups, in particular, are punching holes in the police theory. A team of Janhastakshep Campaign Against Fascist Designs and People’s Union for Democratic rights (PUDR ..
India's Supreme Court has upheld a ruling that leprosy patients cannot contest a civic election or hold municipal office in Orissa state.The case was brought to court by two men who were elected to a civic body in Orissa in 2003, but were later disqu ..