Islamabad: A defiant Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani on Monday said there is no law under which Pakistan's judiciary can disqualify him, days after his conviction by the Supreme Court for contempt. Gilani, the longest-ruling Pakistan Premier, said that he intended to continue as premier despite calls from opposition parties to resign, saying only the Speaker of the National Assembly or lower house of parliament could disqualify him. "I have...
04:38 PM, Apr 30, 2012
Thiruvananthapuram: Acting Chief Justice of the Kerala High Court Manjula Chellur on Friday gave directions to all the courts in the state for an immediate inquiry into the use of stamp papers, after a massive fraud of fake stamp papers was detected at a lower court here. A media report earlier this week showed the use of fake stamp papers being used by litigators in a few courts here. Following...
02:22 PM, Apr 20, 2012
THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: "It is a not a four-year-old fight, but one which started half-a-century ago," says advocate K P Jayachandran, Thiruvananthapuram Bar Association president and Chairman of the Joint Action Council for agitation for the High Court Bench when the second phase of agitation completes four years. Kerala is the only major state in India, other than Madhya Pradesh, which does not have a High Court or a High Court Bench...
08:50 AM, Feb 13, 2012
After Musharraf shot himself in the foot by messing with the Chief Justice, and got ousted, Pakistan lurched back to democracy. Benazir Bhutto returned in ...
01:49 PM, Jan 16, 2012
New Delhi: The Citizen's Charter Bill, cleared by the Union Cabinet on December 13, will be tabled in Parliament on Tuesday. The bill will spell out a citizen's charter containing a category of goods and services to be delivered in a time-bound manner and setting up a public grievance redressal panel. Team Anna has been demanding that the Judiciary, a Citizen's Charter and a Grievance Redressal mechanism be brought under...
06:40 PM, Dec 19, 2011
When the courts of law are counted as 'heroes' of the year in an annual list, it may mean two things. One, the judiciary in the country is generally 'non-heroic', or non-performing. In other words, it was in the year 2011 only that the courts across the nation got their act together and showed a unique commitment to heroic judgments. Or two, that the courts in India went out of...
03:43 PM, Dec 15, 2011
New Delhi: Admitting that the justice delivery system in the country was slow, Government on Tuesday said efforts were on to ensure matters are decided in courts within three to five years. "I cannot comment on legal system procedures and rule of law," Law Minister Salman Khurshid said when asked about the delay in Afzal Guru case. However, he said, "we are not entirely happy with the pace at which...
04:55 PM, Dec 13, 2011
New Delhi: In another twist in the Lokpal Bill debate, the Standing Committee of Parliament, in another shift in stand, has agreed to include the lower bureaucracy within the anti-corruption body's ambit, but under the state Lokayuktas, while whether to include the Prime Minister has been left to the wisdom of Parliament. With Team Anna getting into top gear demanding the Lokpal Bill, the Standing Committee is ready with the...
09:57 PM, Dec 06, 2011
New Delhi: The CBI was on Tuesday pulled up by the Supreme Court for questioning the impartiality of Gujarat's lower judiciary in hearing the case against former state Home Minister Amit Shah for his alleged role in Sohrabuddin Sheikh's killing by police in a staged shootout. Taking strong exception to the agency's plea that lower judiciary in Gujarat will not deal with the case impartially, a bench of justices Aftab...
01:59 PM, Nov 29, 2011
New Delhi: Media should "hold itself back a bit", says Union Law Minister Salman Khurshid, reflecting growing concern over "trial by the media". Arguments are going on in the Supreme Court in the 2G matter and later the same matter gets discussed in TV studios with one particular anchor playing the judge, he told PTI in an interview. "Now two trials cannot go on for the same guy. There will...
10:55 AM, Oct 16, 2011
An Active Judiciary Is A Peoples Right The hallmark of a great nation is its institutions. The stronger the ability of these institutions to uphold and preserve fundamental values, the greater the nation would be. When Indias founding fathers wrote the Constitution, they created three arms " Parliament, Executive and the Judiciary " of the state that together were to be the keepers of the ideals of the nation as...
11:06 AM, Sep 02, 2011
BJP leader Arun Jaitley said there should be a national level judicial commission for more accountability after the Rajya Sabha passed a motion to remove Justice Soumitra Sen. ...
11:07 PM, Aug 18, 2011
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Journalists are by training cynics, preferring to see every glass as half empty. But cynicism is no longer the exclusive preserve of mediapersons. A wave ...
12:10 AM, Aug 12, 2011
New Delhi: The Government will table the Lokpal Bill in Parliament on Thursday. The proposed anti-corruption legislation was approved by the Cabinet on June 30 keeping out the Prime Minister from its purview. At the June 30 Cabinet meeting both the Government and the Jan Lokpal Bill versions put forward by Anna Hazare's team were discussed. The exemption of the Prime Minister and the judiciary from Lokpal will be main...
05:03 PM, Aug 02, 2011
Ahmedabad: An RTI query has revealed major irregularities in the appointment of clerical staff in a district court in Gujarat, with most of them being relatives of judges. Four years after 80 vacancies for stenographers, clerks and peons were filled up, questions are being raised over the transparency in which these appointments were made. Response to an application filed by RTI activist Janki Prasad Shah revealed that 32 of the...
09:49 AM, Jul 15, 2011
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