New Delhi: The Bar Council of India (BCI) on Wednesday allowed foreign lawyers and law firms to practice foreign law and diverse international law and international arbitration matters in India, as reported by LiveLaw. This will be on a reciprocity basis. For this, the BCI has notified the Bar Council of India Rules for Registration […]
New Delhi: India has dropped from fifth to eighth place in terms of the world’s most polluted countries in 2022. According to the ‘World Air Quality Report’ released by Swiss firm IQAir, out of the 50 most polluted cities in the world, 39 are in India. On the basis of the data collected from 131 […]
Ahmedabad: The Gujarat High Court has sought the state government’s reply on a public interest litigation (PIL) seeking a ban on the use of loudspeakers for reciting ‘azaan’ (call to prayer) in mosques. A division bench of Acting Chief Justice A J Desai and Justice Biren Vaishnav on Monday allowed Shaktisinh Zala, a Bajrang Dal […]
New Delhi: President Droupadi Murmu has asked officers of the Indian Revenue Service (IRS) to create an environment that was both conducive to tax collection and friendly to tax-payers. She advised them to remember that taxpayers were not just sources of revenue, but were partners in nation-building. The president was speaking to officer trainees of […]
Lucknow: After cases of drunk flyers urinating on co-passengers, an off-duty train ticket examiner has been accused of relieving himself on a woman on the Kolkata-Amritsar Akal Takht Express. The alleged incident occurred on the night of March 13. Munna Kumar, the accused train ticket examiner (TTE), has been arrested, a Government Railway Police (GRP) […]
New Delhi: The Bar Council of India on Tuesday told Delhi High Court that it will consider within “reasonable time” the issue of introducing Right to Education Act as a compulsory subject in law colleges. A bench headed by Chief Justice Satish Chandra Sharma was hearing a public interest litigation by NGO Social Jurist, which […]
New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Monday directed authorities to remove a mosque from the premises of the Allahabad High Court within three months, telling the petitioners opposing the demolition that the structure stood on a terminated lease property and they can’t claim it as a matter of right to continue. The petitioners, Waqf Masjid […]
Mangaluru: Senior BJP leader K S Eshwarappa on Monday said loudspeakers used for ‘Azaan’ (muslim call for prayer) disturb people, especially students who study for examinations and patients in hospitals. He was responding to a query on his comments on Azaan made during the party’s Vijay Sankalp Yatra on Sunday at Shantinagar, which has gone […]
New Delhi: A High Level Committee, headed by Home Minister Amit Shah, has approved the release of an additional Rs 1,816 crore to five states, including Karnataka, as central assistance for the natural disasters faced by them. According to an official statement, the assistance will be provided to Assam, Himachal Pradesh, Karnataka, Meghalaya and Nagaland […]
New Delhi: Defending senior Congress leader Rahul Gandhi’s statements on the state of country that he gave during his visit to the UK, party leader Shashi Tharoor said, “There is nothing he needs to apologise for,” Accusing the BJP of indulging in “blatant politics”, Shashi Tharoor alleged that Gandhi is being falsely implicated on trumped-up […]