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…
The Kolkata Bench of the National Company Law Tribunal (NCLT) has suspended all proceedings conducted through video conferencing (VC) following a reported cyber security issue. An official order issued by the NCLT Secretariat on July 30, 2025 said the VC proceedings at the Kolkata Bench have been suspended with immediate effect. The virtual proceedings would…
The Supreme Court on Friday granted eight weeks time to the Army Medical College Sciences to pay stipend arrears, calculated at Rs 25,000 per month, to the MBBS interns of 2022. The Bench of Justice Sudhanshu Dhulia and Justice Aravind Kumar pulled up the institution for not complying with it’s previous order. In September 2023,…
An MP/MLA court in Bengaluru on Friday convicted suspended Janata Dal (Secular) leader Prajwal Revanna in a rape case of 2021. The order was passed by Special Judge Santosh Gajanana Bhat. Arguments regarding the quantum of punishment are currently underway. The court is expected to pronounce the quantum of punishment on Saturday. The former Hasan MP…
Former Chief Justice of India DY Chandrachud has officially moved out of the government residence, a month after the Supreme Court wrote to the Central government over his extended stay. Justice Chandrachud told a leading English news website that over the past one week, he and his wife Kalpana have been shifting luggage part by…