Singapore deliberately chose to hype up the copy-paste of arbitral awards by former Chief Justice of India Dipak Misra to put Indian arbitrators in a bad light, Justice Hemant Gupta, Chairperson, New Delhi International Arbitration Centre said on Saturday. Speaking at an India Legal Research Foundation symposium, Justice Gupta said though there may have…
By Inderjit Badhwar There are moments in a nation’s journey that act as silent catalysts—neither dramatic in their announcement nor explosive in their immediate consequences, but historic in their long-term impact. The India-UK Free Trade Agreement, signed last week, is one such moment. In an age marked by supply chain disruptions, tariff skirmishes, and rising…
By Annunthra Rangan India has inked its most consequential Western trade pact in over three decades—the long-anticipated Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA) with the United Kingdom. Signed last week, the deal reflects both economic foresight and geopolitical calibration. It is India’s first major Free Trade Agreement (FTA) with a Western economy since the EFTA…
A Special NIA court in Chhattisgarh on Saturday granted bail to three people, including two Catholic nuns from Kerala, who were recently arrested from Chhattisgarh’s Durg district in an alleged case of forced religious conversion and human trafficking. Principal District and Sessions Judge (NIA Court) Sirajuddin Qureshi passed the order today. Catholic nuns Preethi Merry…
The Supreme Court has directed the Ministry of Power, the Central Electricity Authority (CEA) and the Central Electricity Regulatory Commission (CERC) to jointly prepare a coordinated action plan for reduction of carbon emissions from the power generation sector. The Bench of Justice PS Narasimha and Justice Atul S Chandurkar recently directed the three bodies to…
The Union government has approved the elevation of Advocate Ajit Kumar as judge of the Patna High Court and Advocate Tuhin Kumar Gedela as Additional Judge of the Andhra Pradesh High Court. As per a notification issued by the Ministry of Law and Justice on Friday, in exercise of the powers conferred by clause (1)…
The Union government has approved the elevation of 10 judicial officers as additional judges of the Punjab and Haryana High Court. A notification to this effect was issued by the Ministry of Law and Justice on Friday. The judicial officers appointed as Additional Judges include Virinder Aggarwal; Mandeep Pannu; Parmod Goyal; Shalini Singh Nagpal; Amarinder…
Come August 18, the fourth Bench of the Bombay High Court will start finctioning at Kolhapur district, mainly hearing cases from estern Maharashtra and southern Konkan regions. A notification issued by Chief Justice Alok Aradhe on August 1 said that in exercise of the powers conferred by sub-section (3) of Section 51 of the States…
The Supreme Court on Friday pulled up the Central government and the Delhi Police for letting a Russian woman escape the country with her minor son and reach Russia, in violation of it’s previous orders in a child custody case. The Bench of Justice Surya Kant and Justice Joymalya Bagchi observed that the Delhi Police…
The Delhi High Court on Friday directed the Central government to again review the film Udaipur Files, based on the murder of tailor Kanhaiya Lal in Udaipur, Rajasthan, by August 6. The Division Bench of Chief Justice Devendra Kumar Upadhyaya and Justice Tushar Rao Gedela questioned the Central government’s power to order cuts in the…