Chief Justice of India (CJI) K.G. Balakrishnan Saturday argued in favour of pocket money for judges' wives on official foreign trips with their husbands, asking what they would eat there if not given the allowance."Somebody who goes abroad h ..

The Rajya Sabha Saturday announced formation of a three-member judicial panel headed by Justice V.S. Sirpurkar of the Supreme Court to probe the allegations of land grabbing against Karnataka High Court's Chief Justice P.D. Dinakaran. The two oth ..

Salvadoran President Mauricio Funes made a formal apology to the victims of the 1980-1992 civil war and acknowledged that state security forces "committed serious human rights violations and abuses of power"."I apologise in the name of ..

Twenty-three years after a custodial death, a Delhi Police sub inspector (SI) was awarded 10 years of rigorous imprisonment by the Delhi High Court Friday for using third degree methods to extract a confession of a man involved in a theft case. A div ..

The Delhi High Court Friday ruled that the charge of abetment to commit suicide cannot be laid against a person merely because he was having bad relations with the victim, unless intention to instigate suicide is proved."The charge under section ..

Delhi Police are to train their personnel to deal with accident cases in an effort to help accident victims and their families get compensation faster, the Delhi High Court was told Friday. According to the new guidelines, the Motor Accident Claims T ..

The government is considering proposals from four state governments to rename their high courts based on the new names of their capitals, a Right To Information query has revealed. The government is considering changing the names of Bombay High Court ..

A federal grand jury has added Pakistan-born Canadian terror suspect Tahawwur Hussain Rana to charges filed against David Coleman Headley, alleging that they participated in conspiracies involving the November 2008 Mumbai terrorist attacks. Pakistani ..

Both the Supreme Court and the Delhi High Court believe that the issue whether the office of the chief justice of India comes within the ambit of the Right to Information Act is a matter of public importance and should be decided by the apex court, A ..

The Supreme Court has locked horns with the government over denial of pocket money to Chief Justice of India K.G. Balakrishnan's wife Nirmala Balakrishnan during one of her foreign jaunts with her husband last year. The chief justice's wife w ..

In a significant development, the Bombay High Court Thursday suo moto ordered the Maharashtra government and the state police to probe the killing of Pune-based RTI activist Satish Shetty. The division bench of Justice F.I. Febello and Justice J.H. B ..

The Delhi High Court Thursday granted bail to suspended chairman of Company Law Board R. Vasudevan in a graft case but restrained him from going outside the national capital. Justice V.K. Shali granted bail to Vasudevan who has been in custody since  ..

A total of 39,046 Indian nationals are believed to be staying illegally in Malaysia as of June 2009, after entering the country on tourist visas, official news reports said Wednesday. Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak said the "missing"  ..

The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) Wednesday filed a chargesheet against former Congress MP Sajjan Kumar in two cases related to the 1984 anti-Sikh riots. The chargesheet was filed before Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Kaveri Baweja at the Tis  ..

The court of the additional district and sessions judge here Wednesday extended the post-conviction bail of disgraced former Haryana police chief S.P.S. Rathore in the Ruchika Girhotra molestation case till Feb 8.Rathore has been asked to deposit his ..

The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) Wednesday filed chargesheets against former Congress MP Sajjan Kumar and others in two separate cases related to the 1984 anti-Sikh riots. Two chargesheets were filed before Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Kave ..

Sikh groups in Britain have threatened "costly" legal action over an order banning bearded amateur boxers from the ring.Muslims expressed outrage after the Amateur Boxing Association of England (ABAE) barred 25-year-old bearded boxer Mohamm ..

The government plans to introduce a bill to amend the Companies Act in the budget session of parliament to enable convergence of Indian accounting standards with the International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS)."The ministry will carry out ..

The Delhi High Court Monday asked a Delhi school to implement the recommendations of the Fifth Pay Commission and pay its teachers accordingly.Justice Kailash Gambhir asked the Rukmani Devi Public School to pay all the arrears, with effect from Janua ..

The United Arab Emirates (UAE) has issued a law restricting the use of tobacco and its marketing, WAM news agency reported.UAE President Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan issued the law banning the import of tobacco and its by-products unless specif ..