New Delhi: Justice Santosh Hegde on Wednesday said it is "extremely difficult" to believe that allegations raised by Team Anna against Prime Minister Manmohan Singh could exist but demanded an inquiry if there are documents to suggest that some wrongdoing was done. "It is extremely difficult for me to believe, having seen the Prime Minister all these years to say that such an allegation could exist. But at the same...
12:58 PM, May 30, 2012
New Delhi: Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Tuesday hit out at Team Anna saying the corruption allegations against him and other ministers were irresponsible and unfortunate. The Prime Minister further said that he would give up his public life if the allegations made by Team Anna were proved. Talking to reporters on his way back from Myanmar, the Prime Minister said, "I will give up my public life if allegations...
08:35 PM, May 29, 2012
New Delhi: Eminent Team Anna member Justice Santosh Hegde on Tuesday distanced himself from the comment against Prime Minister Manmohan Singh by team member and senior Supreme Court lawyer Prashant Bhushan. Speaking to CNN-IBN, Justice Hegde said that the comment against the Prime Minister was unwarranted. He further said that he was unaware about the proof Team Anna had. The comments from the former Karnataka Lokayukta came hours after Prashant...
05:21 PM, May 29, 2012
New Delhi: Press Council Chairperson Justice Markandey Katju on Monday heaped praise on West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee and found fault with those, including the media, for criticising her. In a statement coinciding with the completion of her one year in office as chief minister, Katju said that it was unfair on the part of some people, including much of the media, to only highlight her defects while overlooking...
03:44 PM, May 21, 2012
Kolkata: Cricketers like Sachin Tendulkar should not be honoured with the Bharat Ratna as the demand to give the award to filmstars and cricket players spoke of 'the low cultural level', Press Council of India Chairman Justice Markandey Katju said on Saturday. "Somebody says the award should go to Tendulkar or to Sourav Ganguly. I say it should be given to none of them," Katju said. "Sometimes demands are made...
12:38 AM, May 13, 2012
New Delhi: The Supreme Court has directed the Centre to take note of the allegations against former Chief Justice of India KG Balakrishnan in the Disproportionate Assets case. The court said that the competent authority at the Centre should look into the allegations and decide accordingly, since there was a laid down procedure to remove a sitting NHRC chief. The Supreme Court's order came on a petition that alleged that...
11:14 AM, May 10, 2012
New Delhi: An NGO, seeking removal of former CJI KG Balakrishnan as the NHRC chairman for his alleged misconduct, on Monday told the Supreme Court that a key document of the Centre on probe into disproportionate assets against him and his kins has gone "missing" from the apex court files. This was told to a bench of justices BS Chauhan and JS Khehar by advocate Prashant Bhushan, the counsel for...
08:43 PM, May 07, 2012
New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Wednesday said the exercise undertaken by it for framing guidelines for reporting court proceedings was aimed at making the press know its "lakshman rekha" and not intended for taking punitive action against the journalists. "Whatever efforts we are making, please don't understand that it is for punishing or taking punitive action. We only want that press should know what is the 'lakshman rekha' for...
08:01 PM, May 02, 2012
New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Thursday refused to quash Justice Dalveer Bhandari's nomination as a judge for the International Court of Justice (ICJ). A bench of justices Altamas Kabir, J Chelameswar and Ranjan Gogoi initially wanted to outrightly dismiss the plea for quashing Justice Bhandari's nomination for ICJ, but later allowed counsel Prashant Bhushan to withdraw it, treating it as "dismissed as withdrawn". Appearing for the petitioner, a post-graduate...
03:41 PM, Apr 26, 2012
In the wake of the CD row surrounding Congress leader Abhishek Manu Singhvi, PCI chairman Justice M Katju has said that social media is totally uncontrolled. ...
08:51 AM, Apr 24, 2012
Abhishek Manu Singhvi quit as chairperson of the Standing Committee on Law and Justice as well as from the post of Congress spokesperson. ...
11:57 PM, Apr 23, 2012
New Delhi: In a dramatic turn of events ahead of Parliament session that begins on Tuesday, Abhishek Manu Singhvi on Monday quit his official posts following the CD controversy. He quit as the Chairperson of the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Law and Justice and also as the Congress spokesperson. Sources say the BJP is likely to raise the issue in the Rajya Sabha on Tuesday and Singhvi is also likely...
09:33 PM, Apr 23, 2012
Abhishek Manu Singhvi resigned as the Congress spokesperson on Monday following the CD controversy. ...
09:30 PM, Apr 23, 2012
New Delhi: Congress Rajya Sabha MP Abhishek Manu Singhvi has quit as the chairperson of Parliament Standing Committee on Law and Justice and as the Congress spokesperson following the CD controversy. Following is the full text of Singhvi's statement on his resignation: I have decided to resign as Chairman, Parliamentary Standing Committee on Law, Justice. Personnel and Grievances and have informed the Hon'ble Congress President accordingly. I have also decided...
06:30 PM, Apr 23, 2012
Kolkata: Criticising the delay in delivering justice, Vice President Mohammed Hamid Ansari on Saturday said the poor people suffered the most due to delayed justice. "It is usually the individual citizen and the poor and marginalised among them, who bear the burnt of inadequate or non-existent Alternate Dispute Resolution mechanisms and extended judicial processes," said Ansari while addressing a function to celebrate 150 years of the Calcutta High Court. Ansari...
01:21 AM, Apr 22, 2012
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