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Think India Delhi presents Young India Dialogue on the topic Gender Justice & Equality on April 10-11 2021. Details of the function is given herein below:- Topic : Gender Justice & Equality (Uniform Parameters of Marriage, Divorce, Maintenance & Alimony, Adoption & Guardianship, Succession & Inheritance) Date: April 10-11, 2021 (Sat- Sun) Time: 10:00 am […]

Cyril Amarchand Mangaldas Advises Adani Ports and Special Economic Zones on Acquisition of 58.1% Stake in Gangavaram Port Transaction follows 31.50% stake acquisition from Warburg Pincus GroupDelhi, IndiaCyril Amarchand Mangaldas advised Adani Ports And Special Economic Zone Limited (Adani Ports) on acquisition of 58.10% stake held by D.V.S. Raju and other promoter entities (Promoters) in Gangavaram […]

Pune, Maharashtra, IndiaInstitute of Nutrition and Fitness Sciences (INFS), the largest online fitness institute, launches the country’s first ever Diploma in Nutrition and Fitness (DNF), with pre-bookings starting for the first batch on 24th March 2021. The Diploma covers the twin discipline of Nutrition and Fitness which will enable the students to be successful fitness coaches/nutritionists. […]

Bhubaneswar, 23th March 2021: Hon’ble Mr. Justice Sanjay Kishan Kaul, Judge, Supreme Court of India on March 23, 2021 (Tuesday) inaugurated the SAHYOG Web Portal (https://www.sahyogprobono.org/) which is a step towards enhancing access to justice in the country. SAHYOG- A Pro Bono Research Project is a first-of-its-kind idea in an Indian law school, which aims to further […]

A special NIA court here on Monday rejected the bail plea filed by tribal rights activist Stan Swamy, arrested in the Elgar Parishad-Maoist links case. Additional sessions court judge DE Kothalikar rejected bail pleas of 83-year-old Swamy on merits as well as well as on the medical grounds. Swamy, a Jesuit priest and activist, was […]

The Supreme Court Monday said it would hear in July the pleas seeking mandatory arrest of NRI husbands for deserting their wives and harassing them for dowry.   A bench of Chief Justice Bobde and Justices AS Bopanna and V Ramasubramanian was told by senior advocate Colin Gonsalves, appearing for the petitioner group of women, […]

The Madras High Court on Monday upheld the Tamil Nadu government’s “all pass” order for students of class 9, 10 and 11 without conducting the final examinations. The first bench of Chief Justice Sanjib Banerjee and Justice Senthilkumar Ramamoorthy upheld the GO passed by the Education department on February 25 this year, while disposing of a […]

The Supreme Court on Monday observed that it cannot compel states to file their replies on the issue of manual scavenging, and said it will proceed with the hearing on the plea related to it.   A bench of Chief Justice SA Bobde and Justices AS Bopanna and V Ramasubramanian listed the matter for further […]

In a setback to the BJP-NDA front ahead of the April 6 assembly polls, the Kerala High Court on Monday dismissed pleas of its three candidates challenging the rejection of their nomination papers by returning officers. Justice N Nagaresh accepted the contention of the Election Commission that the court cannot interfere once the notification for […]

The Lucknow Bench of the Allahabad High Court on Monday held that candidates having computer as a subject in BTech, MCA, MSc, BSc Agriculture or BA cannot be denied the opportunity in the recruitment process for posts requiring a CCC certificate. With this observation, Justice Chandra Dhari Singh permitted the petitioners to participate in the […]

The Bombay high court on Tuesday asked what had prompted the Mumbai Police to hold a press conference last year over the alleged television rating points (TRP) scam. “Does the police have an obligation to interact with the press? Why did the commissioner [of police] have to speak to the press?” a bench of Justices […]

With a total loan outstanding of close to INR 150 crore owed to three of the large public sector banks in the country, the decision will enable timely and speedy resolution to the insolvency process pending since last four years Mumbai, March 18, 2021: The Hon’ble Supreme Court of India (“Supreme Court”) in a Special Leave Petition filed […]

  Delhi, March 02, 2021: In its continued effort to expand access to legal education in India, the Law School Admission Council-Global (LSAC Global) has announced that it will award merit scholarships for students who take the  LSAT—India 2021, which is to be administered in March and June of this year. For the consecutive third year, […]

Author Mr. M. B. Nargund who is currently the Additional Solicitor General for India for Karnataka High Court, shared four anectodes in the memory of him with a very heavy heart. A man of disciplines and Principles since early age. Around 70 odd years ago, when he was a teenager, riding a cycle post sunset […]

IndiaManagement and tracking of court and litigation related matters, including matter progress, important dates, documents, budgets, expenses is a common pain point across the legal industry. To empower legal teams, Manupatra has launched ‘myKase’ – a Cloud based platform that integrates, streamlines and automates the activities and operations of law practice, beginning from Intake to […]

A sum of Rs 2,500 was transferred to 6.3 lakh bank accounts in the first phase of the Assam Chah Bagicha Dhan Puraskar Mela Scheme in 2017-18. An additional Rs 2,500 was deposited in 7.15 lakh accounts in the second tranche in 2018-19. Ahead of the Assam elections, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman Saturday launched the third phase […]

A court in Ballia district in Uttar Pradesh has sentenced a young man to life imprisonment for raping a three-and-a-half-year-old girl, police said on Saturday. Superintendent of Police of Ballia Vipin Tada said the man raped the girl in a village in the Chitbadagaav police station area on September 5, 2019. Based on a complaint filed […]

Probably in a first such verdict in Madhya Pradesh, a court in Bhopal has handed five-year imprisonment to four women students of a private pharmacy college for abetting suicide of another student in a 2013 ragging case. In his order on Friday, Additional Sessions court judge Amit Ranjan also imposed a fine of Rs 8,000 […]

Persons in illegal occupation of government or panchayat land cannot claim regularisation as a matter of right, the Supreme Court has said. A Bench of Justices DY Chandrachud and MR Shah said regularisation of the illegal occupation of government or panchayat land could only be as per the policy of the state government and the […]

Supreme Court justice M R Shah on Saturday described Prime Minister Narendra Modi as “our most popular, loved, vibrant and visionary leader”. The praise for the prime minister by Justice Shah came during a function to celebrate diamond jubilee of the Gujarat High Court. “I am proud and privileged to participate in the function to celebrate […]

After you decide to prepare online divorce papers, most probably you will be told that you are not able to negotiate a fair divorce settlement without any support. This is mainly because most attorneys believe that no one can do this better than they do. For many divorcees, that’s true after all. Discussing important issues […]

A webinar will be organized by Adhivakta Parishad Supreme Court Unit on Swami Vivekananda’s Perspective Towards Society and the Youth Details of the function is given herein below:- TOPIC: Swami Vivekananda’s Perspective Towards Society and the Youth Date: 30.01.2021 (SATURDAY) Time: 5:00 PM SPEAKER : MR. JAIDEEP GUPTA, SENIOR ADVOCATE LIVE STREAMING: YouTube:

The Supreme Court Friday observed that criticism of courts is “growing and everybody is now doing it” now, while giving three weeks to cartoonist Rachit Taneja to file her reply on the plea seeking contempt action for her alleged scandalous tweets against the judiciary. The top court also adjourned hearing for two weeks on separate […]

A court in Gujarat’s Mundra in Kutch district on Tuesday issued an arrest warrant against senior journalist Paranjoy Guha Thakurta in a defamation suit filed by the Adani Group. “…accused stands charged with complaint under section 500 of IPC. You are hereby directed to arrest the said accused and to produce him before me,” Judicial Magistrate Pradeep Soni […]