Can The Incentive To Doctors To Work in Rural Areas Be Limited By The State, SC Set To Examine

The Vacation Bench of the Supreme Court of Justices L.Nageswara Rao and Navin Sinha, today heard arguments and reserved its judgment, on whether the  State can limit the standards for eligibility for incentive marks for doctors for service in remote/difficult areas, as fixed by the Medical Council of India, in the NEET examination, for  admission to post graduate degree courses.As per...

Chattisgarh Government’s Policy To Facilitate “Surrender” Of Suspected Maoists Under Challenge

The “surrender” of the three-term sarpanch of Chintagufa (till 2010) in Chattisgarh, and a member of the Communist Party of India (CPI), Podiyam Panda, to the Chattisgarh Police purportedly on May 9 has led to serious misgivings about the policy of surrender of suspected Maoists, being pursued by the state Government.Panda was picked by the police from near his village in Sukma district...

Delhi HC Issues Notice To Arnab Goswami In Copyright Infringement Suit By Times Now [Read Order]

The Times Now network has sued its former all in all, Editor in Chief, Arnab Goswami for copyright infringement accusing him of stealing their ‘intellectual property”Goswamy who had launched his new media venture, and had aired the first story related to an audio conversation between Lalu Prasad Yadav and Shabuddin and also an audio recording of a conversation on phone between a...

Men Resorting Triple Talaq To Face Social Boycott: AIMPLB In Its New Affidavit In SC [Read Affidavit]

The All India Muslim Personal Law Board (AIMPLB) on Monday told the Supreme Court that it would issue an advisory to ‘Qazis’, requesting them to advice the bridegrooms against resorting to triple talaq to annul their marriage. The Board also decided that those who resort to triple divorce in one go leading to the creation of problems thereafter should be boycotted by the Muslims.In...

Will ‘Governor Sathasivam’ Appoint A Person Convicted By ‘Justice Sathasivam’ As Chairman Of Kerala Forward Community Commission?

The decision to appoint of Balakrishna Pillai as the chairman of the State Forward Communities Welfare Corporation is, in itself, an embarrassment to the constitutional and democratic will of people of this country, but the fact that Justice Sathasivam as Governor of the state shall have to sign the order appointing him is a bigger embarrassment.Justice P Sathasivam served the judiciary as...

Centre Approaches SC Over Uttarakhand HC’s Order Declaring Ganga As 'Living Legal Entity'

HC had said Chief Secretary and the Advocate General would act as the legal parents of the Ganga and Yamuna rivers.The Centre is facing some unique administrative problems following the Uttarakhand High Court order according the status of human entity to river Ganga.Citing this, the Centre has moved the Supreme Court citing administrative issues relating to the implementation of...

Former AMU Scholar Gulzar Wani Acquitted In Sabarmati Express Blast Case After 16Yrs In Prison [Read Judgment]

A Barabanki District Court has acquitted the two accused in the Sabarmati Express Blast Case of 2000. One of the accused is 44-year-old Ex- AMU Scholar Gulzar Wani who was arrested in the case in 2001 by Delhi Police when he was only 28.Additional Sessions Judge MA Khan acquitted Gulzar Ahmad Wani and Abdul Mubeen of all charges due to lack of evidence against them.Nine died and over a...

10 Sidelights Of Triple Talaq Hearing In SC

After six days of continuous hearing, the constitution bench of the Supreme Court on May 18 reserved its verdict on several petitions which challenged the constitutional validity of triple talaq. There was some lighter side also to the otherwise serious and heated exchanges between the Bar and the Bench on the contentious issue. LiveLaw presents you with ten of those. MULTI- FAITH BENCH BUT...

Legal Services Exempted From GST Net, Senior Engagement Will Continue To Be Taxable As Earlier

Services provided or agreed to be provided to a person including a business entity with a turnover up to twenty lakhs in preceding financial year by an individual advocate or firm of advocates will continue to be service tax free under the new Goods and Services Tax regime also. Both direct and indirect legal service are not taxable.Though the service tax is exempted for Senior Advocate...

Arbitration Is A Useful And Speedy Tool For Resolution Of Disputes: Vice President

Shri Hamid Ansari, Vice President of India, while addressing the inaugural session of a two-day Conference on Dispute Management in Infrastructure Projects - New Challenges, organized by the Indian Institute of Technical Arbitration, Delhi, said that arbitration process in India has evolved over the years and now offer a flexible, useful and speedy tool for resolution of disputes that saves...

Legal Assistance Establishments (Nyay Sanyog) To Be Set Up Countrywide: Justice Dipak Misra [Read The Text Of Speech]

With a view to facilitating easier access to information with regard to the legal services, Justice Dipak Misra, Judge of Supreme Court of India and Executive Chairman, National Legal Services Authority has conceived the idea of establishing Legal Assistance Establishments in all the State Legal Services Authorities.The first one was inaugurated by Justice Misra in Delhi on May 17.In...

Pak Dumps Its Legal Team After ICJ Snub

Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif’s advisor on foreign affairs Sartaj Aziz has said that his country will constitute a new team of lawyers to “vigorously” present its case against India at the International Court of Justice (ICJ) in the Kulbhushan Jadhav issue in the next round.The Hague-based court had on Thursday stayed the execution of Jadhav, 46, considered an Indian spy...