The Supreme Court on Thursday, while setting aside the High Court order staying the Haryana government’s law reserving 75 per cent of private sector jobs for residents of the state, asked the HC to decide within four weeks, petitions challenging the validity of the legislation. The top court also restrained the state government from taking…Continue Reading

The Supreme Court has directed the Ministry of Housing & Urban Affairs to undertake a detailed scrutiny of state-specific RERA general rules and agreement for sale regulations in a ruling that may drive significant changes in the implementation of the Real Estate (Regulation & Development) Act, 2016 across the states. While homebuyers have been raising…Continue Reading

CBI gave Supreme Court false information on Atal-era HZL sale: Centre

NEW DELHI: In an unprecedented stand that could dent the premier probe agency’s image, the Centre on Monday accused the CBI of presenting fundamentally wrong facts regarding PSU Hindustan Zinc’s disinvestment during the Vajpayee government’s tenure and said it had misled the Supreme Court to direct registration of a fresh FIR for probe into alleged…Continue Reading

Orissa High Court Recruitment 2022: Applications Invited For District Judge Posts, Check Now 

The Orissa High Court is inviting applications from judicial officers for filling up of vacancies in the Cadre of District Judge on the basis of merit through Limited Competitive Examination. An officer in the Cadre of Senior Civil Judge who has completed five years of qualifying service as on February 1, 2022 is eligible to apply…Continue Reading

Myanmar court sentences two prominent activists to death

Kyaw Min Yu, better known as Ko Jimmy, and Phyo Zeyar Thaw, also known as Maung Kyaw, were convicted under the country’s counter-terrorism law Two prominent political activists in military-ruled Myanmar have been sentenced to death for alleged involvement in terrorist activities, an army television station has reported.Myawaddy TV said on its evening news broadcast…Continue Reading

Chit Fund Case: Odisha Court Awards 5-Yr Jail Term To Sai Samrudhi Realcon India MD

Sambit Das, the managing director of Sai Samrudhi Realcon India Limited, a Ponzi firm, was sentenced to five years in jail by a special Odisha Protection of Interests of Depositors (OPID) court in Cuttack on Thursday. On charges of duping depositors, the court handed down the sentence to Das under Section 420 of the IPC and…Continue Reading

Karachi court exonerates woman seven months after her death

(Representational image) a judge can be seen tapping his gavel in a courtroom in this undated photo. — Twitter/FileIn what would appear at first glance a momentous day for Pakistan’s criminal justice system, typically fraught with cases where the innocent needlessly languish in prison, a Karachi court on January 10 exonerated a woman, Saima Farhan,…Continue Reading

Ludhiana court blast accused an ex-cop, had links to Khalistan, ISI: Punjab Police chief

The main accused in the December 23 bomb blast in Punjab court was an ex-cop and had links to Khalistani elements, state’s top police chief Siddharth Chattopadhyaya said, suggesting that the attack was carried out on the behest of Pakistan’s spy agency ISI. Addressing the media for the first time after assuming charge as Punjab’s…Continue Reading

UK court to rule on request to send WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange to US for trial

London: Britain’s High Court is set to rule Friday on whether to overturn an earlier decision and allow WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange to be sent to the United States to face espionage charges. A lower court judge earlier this year refused an American request to extradite Assange to the US to face spying charges over…Continue Reading