New Delhi: The Union law ministry has cleared a proposal to amend a 147-year-old legal provision that compels Christian couples to wait for at least two years for divorce. The period of separation is one year for other religions. The ministry has decided to reduce the waiting period from two years to one year in […]
The Supreme Court on Wednesday dismissed a public interest litigation petition seeking a complete ban on messaging platform WhatsApp. Well, that’s one more attention seeking chappie being shown his place, but this entire episode does smell somewhat like a basket of not-so-fresh sardines! A Bench led by Chief Justice of India T.S. Thakur asked an […]
New Delhi : The Supreme Court has invoked its inherent powers to directly hear a plea for bail, saying it would take up JNU student union president Kanhaiya Kumar’s petition tomorrow. The bench of Justices J. Chelameshwar and A.M. Sapre brushed aside objections to bypassing the multiple layers of lower courts as it agreed that […]
