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New Delhi, Mar 5 (ANI): Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh has reportedly disagreed with Congress President Sonia Gandhi over the Right to Information (RTI) Act.
As per news channels, Dr Singh is in favour of excluding the office of the Chief Justice of India (CJI) from falling under the ambit of the RTI Act, whereas Sonia [...]

New Delhi, Sep.2 (ANI): The Delhi High Court has on Wednesday said that the Chief Justice of India is a public authority under the RTI Act, which means that asset declaration is covered by the RTI under Section 8 1 (A).

This comes after SC judges had decided tp make their assets public. The only [...]

New Delhi, Aug 29 (ANI): As part of its comprehensive review and rationalisation of the VIP security system, the Union Home Ministry has withdrawn X-category security over of over twenty-four individuals,

The Ministry also decided to reduce the number of personal security officers (PSOs) from three to two to be deployed for X category [...]

New Delhi, Aug 24 (ANI): Chief Justice of India K.G. Balakrishnan on Monday called the Karnataka High Court Judge D.V. Shylendra Kumar’s move to declare his own assets as a publicity strategy, and reiterated his right to speak on matters [...]

New Delhi, July 9 (ANI): The Government is working for a national consensus on judicial reforms, and within a couple of months the judicial reforms will be implemented, Union Law Minister M. Veerappa Moily said.

Speaking during the [...]

New Delhi July 3 (ANI): The Union Government can consider setting up a bench of the Supreme Court in South India, if it receives recommendation from the Chief Justice of India in this regard.

Informing this to the Lok Sabha today, [...]

Palamu (Jharkhand), June 28 (ANI): Absence of rains has taken a toll of many lives, especially of peasants, whose livelihood depends on rains.

A group of farmers in Jhakhand’s Palamu district, in a letter to the President of India, Prime Minister and Chief Justice of India, have asked for permission to commit suicide.

Acute drought [...]

New Delhi, June 26 (ANI): Union Minister for Law and Justice M. Veerappa Moily said that the Government would bring a legislation in the coming Budget session of the Parliament to ensure disclosure of assets by judges mandatory.

The disclosure of assets by judges has [...]

Chandigarh, May 23 (IANS) Chief Justice of India K.G. Balakrishnan Saturday expressed concern over the decline in the number of people approaching the courts in the last few years and urged them to seek the services of the judiciary for legitimate settlement of their cases.
“We are not worried with the number of cases in the [...]

Kolkata, May 1 (ANI): Around 500 people belonging to Anand Marg, an occult sect, participated in a silent procession here on Thursday.

They were demanding a judicial inquiry into the killing of 17 monks and a nun allegedly by the Communist [...]

New Delhi, Apr.17 (ANI): The National Human Rights Institutions of South Asian countries today passed a Resolution after a two day conference in New Delhi and agreed to work towards National Capacity Building through sharing of experience, information and best practices on human rights.

They also agreed [...]

New Delhi, April 10 (IANS) Chief Justice of India K.G. Balakrishnan said there is a new ‘disturbing’ litigation trend in the country – a fall in civil disputes but a rise in criminal cases.
‘Criminal cases have witnessed a three percent rise while there has been six percent decrease in civil cases… This is a disturbing [...]

New Delhi, April 10 (IANS) Outgoing Lok Sabha Speaker Somanath Chatterjee has revived the long-pending, popular demand for more Supreme Court benches, saying that he is a ’strong votary’ of the benches being established at least in metropolitan cities.
‘I must confess that I am a strong votary of setting up the circuit benches of our [...]

In a major relief to lakhs of students studying in about 3,000 unrecognised schools in the Capital, the Supreme Court on Thursday stayed a Delhi High Court order to close down all such schools. The order came from a bench headed by Chief Justice of India K.G. Balakrishnan on a petition filed by an association [...]

THE SUPREME Court on Thursday asked the Uttar Pradesh (UP) government to respond to BJP leader Varun Gandhi’s petition challenging his detention under the National Security Act (NSA). The bench headed by Chief Justice of India K.G. Balakrishnan issued notices to the Pilibhit district magistrate and the UP government after senior counsel Mukul Rohtagi mentioned [...]

Nimesh Kampani can now think of coming back to India. The country’s best-known investment banker and chairman of J.M.Financial has been living in Dubai for the last four months.
The Supreme Court on Thursday gave him interim protection from arrest. He was in Dubai to avoid arrest following allegations that Nagarjuna Finance, a Hyderabad-based company with [...]

NEW DELHI: Chief Justice of India K G Balakrishnan on Thursday announced the setting up of 60 new CBI courts across the country to expedite disposal
of cases involving the agency.
“Sixty new CBI courts will be set up across the country. A recent survey shows 9,000 cases involving CBI are pending in various courts,” Justice [...]

New Delhi, April 2 (IANS) Chief Justice of India K.G. Balakrishnan Thursday supported amendments to the Criminal Procedure Code (CrPC), citing that 60 percent of the arrests made in the country were ‘needless’.
‘Independent studies indicate that up to 60 percent of arrests made in our country are needless since the detained persons do not prove [...]

Sanjay Dutt on Monday faced opposition from certain unexpected quarters in his attempt to step into his father’s shoes for a career in politics. Apart from the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI), there were at least three applications filed by people from Lucknow who opposed his plea for a stay on his conviction to make [...]

New Delhi, Apr 2 (ANI): The Chief Justice of India K. G. Balakrishnan on Thursday announced to set up 60 new Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) courts across the country.

“A recent survey shows 9000 cases involving the CBI are [...]