Delhi High Court has asked a rape accused British National, who is out on bail, to approach a trial court to seek permission to travel to the United Kingdom for a period of two months amid the coronavirus lockdown. The accused was seeking permission to travel to the UK to attend to his family, who

Two Advocates have sent a legal notice to the makers of the Netflix’s Hasmukh and have shown objection to certain allegedly derogatory comments made against Lawyer’s community in the show. In the notice sent by Advocate Abhishek Bhardwaj and Advocate Hardik Vashisth, the makers have been asked to remove the inauthentic content and tender an

A warden of Gurugram’s Bhondsi Jail was found COVID-19 positive after he reported to work following a leave, during which he had travelled to his home in Bhiwani. “The warden went to his home on April 9. After he returned from his home, the jail administration conducted a test for coronavirus where the warden was

A lot of people, including Donald Trump, are blaming China for the Covid-19 mess that has already claimed around ₹1.46 lakh lives, locked down the planet, and pushed global economy to the brink. Ashish Sohani, a lawyer from Andheri who practises in the Bombay High Court, wanted to do more than just forward anti-China messages

The Cyber Coordination Centre (CCC) of the Ministry of Home Affairs has warned people that the Zoom video conferencing app for meetings is not a safe platform for government and official use, IANS reported. In the advisory, issued on April 12, it said that “secure use of Zoom meeting platform is for private individuals and

A petition has been filed at the High Court demanding a Central agency probe into the agreement between Kerala government and US-based PR and marketing firm Sprinklr on the data transfer of Covid-19 suspects. A person named Balu Gopalakrishnan has approached the HC seeking Central inquiry. The case will be taken up by court on

On Tuesday, Justice Dipankar Datta, a Senior Judge of the Calcutta High Court, was sworn-in as the new Chief Justice of Bombay High Court. The oath of office was administered to Justice Dutta by Maharashtra Governor Bhagat Singh Koshyari at a brief swearing-in ceremony held at Raj Bhavan. Justice Datta succeeds Justice Bhushan Pradyumna Dharmadhikari

On Friday, in a ruling aimed at preventing the misuse of tax exemptions, the Supreme Court overturned the relief given by the high courts of Gujarat, Guwahati and Sikkim and held that area-based exemptions in the form of tax or duty refunds should be limited to actual manufacturing or value addition. The judgment favours the

An Indian-origin judicial commissioner and intellectual property expert in Singapore has been appointed as a judge of the city-state’s high court by President Halimah Yacob. Judicial Commissioner Dedar Singh Gill will join the high court bench from August 1, 2020, said the Prime Minister’s Office on Monday. Judge Gill, 61, was appointed judicial commissioner of

The Food, supplies and consumer affairs department of Delhi Government has written a letter to Special Commissioner of Police, Crime Branch to lodging an First Information Report (FIR) against a ‘fake website’ indulged in cheating people in the name of issuing Ration Card. According to the letter issued on April 11, an official communication was