The Karnataka Legal Services Cell on Sunday planted one lakh saplings all over the state with Chief Justice of India K G Balakrishnan leading the path in Kannamangala, near Bengaluru International Airport.
The programme was organized across Karnataka’s 154 taluk centres. The CJI lauded the legal cell’s green movement and said the Supreme Court has been [...]
The Seneca Indian Nation’s temporary Buffalo casino will remain open and construction of a permanent facility will continue while a court battle over whether they are legal wages on.
Seneca President Maurice John said Wednesday that a federal court determination that casino gambling is not allowed on the Buffalo site did not contain an order to [...]
The California Supreme Court recently ruled that gay men and women deserve the same rights as straight men and women. The California ruling has, once again, brought to the forefront the issue of gay marriage in Indiana, with demands for a constitutional amendment to preserve an institution that is already suffering from rampant divorce rates, [...]
New Delhi: Chief Justice of India K.G. Balakrishnan on Saturday called for an appropriate legal framework in the criminal justice system to tackle the menace of terrorism. He favoured adoption of a counter terrorism strategy that was aimed at securing the confidence and support of the local people.
Speaking on ‘arbitration and international standards for contract [...]
Britain has sought liberalisation of the Indian legal sector to enable British legal firms open shop in the Legal country.
UK Minister for Justice Bridget Prentice said that India was now becoming a growing economic power and it should go for liberalising its legal sector.
The minister said that around 200 foreign legal firms were already working [...]
Lancashire batsman Mohammad Yousuf is the subject of a legal order banning him from playing in the Indian Premier League, according to an Indian Cricket League lawyer.
The Pakistan international is the subject of a legal wrangle as it is alleged he breached a contract with the rebel ICL to sign with their ICC-sanctioned Twenty20 rival.
Hitesh [...]
The government recently wove a nettle around a mid-sized producer of bio-diesel by repeatedly demanding licences for production, marketing, selling and Legal Questions retailing of bio-diesel. In the absence of a specific regulatory framework on the product, the government’s action does tantamount to harassment-there’s no provisioning of licence for the various activities linked to [...]
Gere made headlines when he kissed Shilpa Shetty, winner of the British reality television show Celebrity Big Brother, several times on the cheek at an anti-AIDS show in New Delhi last year.
Its a badge of somewhat insane courage, he told Reuters during a visit to San Francisco on Tuesday, saying others had also been charged [...]
India’s opposition parties are organising nationwide protests against rising prices of basic foodstuffs, in the latest sign inflation could become the major issue for voters ahead of general elections.
Annual wholesale price inflation has jumped to its highest in more than three years at 7 percent, even after a flurry of duty cuts and export bans [...]
The liquid gold bubbling in giant vats at a refinery near Mumbai attests to the sentiment on the streets of India, the world’s largest consumer of gold, Legal Software as people rush to melt down jewellery to cash in on high gold prices.
Gold refineries have been struggling to keep up with demand as gold prices [...]
