What is the current situation of women judges in India? According Lok Sabha data, no more than 10 per cent of judges in the higher courts are women. The number of women enrolling in law courses has seen a rise of 61 per cent in the last four years with an increase in demand for women lawyers, especially in

Source:- timesnow.tv With more than 700 rape cases being reported since 2013 in Meghalaya, the opposition party United Democratic Party (UDP) on Tuesday said that rise in crime against women could impact the state’s image and affect the state’s economy. “How do we sell Meghalaya as a brand outside with such reports of rape in

Source:- bbc.com A court in western India has handed life prison sentences to a disabled academic and four other people for having links to Maoist rebels waging an insurgency against the state. Professor GN Saibaba of Delhi University, who is paralysed from the waist down, was arrested three years ago but was released on bail.

Source:- ndtv.com NEW DELHI:  The Madras High Court yesterday directed Tamil Nadu Education Department to exempt students of linguistic minority schools from appearing in Tamil language paper. The High Court bench issued the directions in response to petitions filed by Linguistic Minority Schools Management and individual students. According to reports in Press Trust of India,

Source:- huffingtonpost.in The Hyderabad police has sought a Red Corner Notice against two brothers based in New York after their wives approached the police after one of them was divorced over WhatsApp. The older brother had done the same with his wife six months ago. The story came to light recently when Usman Qureshi sent

Source:- daijiworld.com Mar 8: “The fact that Section 498A is a cognizable and non-bailable offence has lent it a dubious place of pride amongst the provisions that are used as weapons rather than shield by disgruntled wives. The simplest way to harass is to get the husband and his relatives arrested under this provision. In

Source:- indiatimes.com GURUGRAM: The district has been put on alert as the verdict in the labour unrest in Maruti Suzuki India Limited’s Plant in 2012 is due on Friday. The district administration has imposed Section 144 and additional cops have been deployed at all sensitive spots as the workers have threatened a protest if the

Source:- hindustantimes.com The Supreme Court refused on Thursday to strike down the jail term of Delhi-based builder Gopal Ansal, who has been sentenced to one-year imprisonment for a fire in south Delhi’s Uphaar Cinema that killed 59 people 20 years ago. A special bench headed by Justice Ranjan Gogoi refused to alter its February verdict

Source:- indianexpress.com Divorce cannot be granted merely because a couple had some heated argument unless it is of recurring nature, the Supreme Court has said. The apex court said that isolated incidents of long past that have been compromised cannot constitute an act of cruelty and it is not a ground to grant divorce. A

Source:- ndtv.com NEW DELHI:  Dhirubhai Ambani, who founded the Reliance conglomerate, deserved the Padma Vibhushan that was given to him posthumously last year, the Supreme Court said today. The award – India’s second-highest civilian honour -was received last year by Kokilaben, Mr Ambani’s wife, at Rashtrapati Bhavan. She was accompanied by both her billionaire sons