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NEW DELHI: The President Saturday promulgated an ordinance – Supreme Court (Number of Judges) Amendment Ordinance 2026 – to increase the strength of apex court judges from 33 to 37 with immediate effect. With this amendment, SC’s strength has now been increased to 38 judges, including CJI.The ordinance will be brought before Lok Sabha and…
NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court on Friday followed through on Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s “save fuel” appeal to the citizens amid the Middle East crisis. It ordered that all matters listed on miscellaneous days, including Mondays and Fridays, as well as on partial working days, will be heard exclusively through video conferencing until further orders….
NEW DELHI: The appointment of Gyanesh Kumar (now CEC) and S S Sandhu as election commissioners in 2023 — who were shortlisted, cleared and appointed within a day — was the focus of a hearing on Thursday in Supreme Court, which “wished” that govt show the same urgency in appointment of judges. Kumar and Sandhu’s…
NEW DELHI: The central government on Tuesday approved an increase in the number of judges from 33 to 37 (excluding the Chief Justice of India) at meeting, six years after it was raised from 31 to 33.The move, which government said aims to strengthen the Supreme Court, is aimed to ensure speedier justice as over…
Solicitor General of India, Tushar Mehta. NEW DELHI: Extraordinary courtroom reverence shown worldwide by lawyers to judges has afflicted some judges with a false sense of divinity, turning a few ‘My Lords’ into bullies, senior advocate and solicitor general Tushar Mehta says in his upcoming book — a take that avoids contempt but may still…
NEW DELHI: Observing that reckless and baseless allegations made against judges strike at the very foundation of judicial independence, which cannot be allowed, the SC on Monday refused to interfere in contempt proceedings against a lawyer who had made various accusations against a sitting judge of the Bombay high court, including that he was associated…
A US federal judge has supported two banned ICE tracking portals. According to a report by The Verge, Judge Jorge L Alonso of the US District Court for the Northern District of Illinois has granted preliminary relief to the creators of an ICE-tracking app and a related Facebook group, backing their claim that government actions…
Panel Draws Fire For Failure To Present Notification On Poll Officers Kolkata: Calcutta HC judge, Justice Krishna Rao, on Thursday slammed the Election Commission for not producing notifications indicating if assistant professors could be appointed as presiding polling officers in assembly elections. “You (EC) can appoint judges also under Section 26 (of the Representation of…
KOLKATA: The involvement of 500-odd judicial officers – judges in lower courts – from across Bengal in the adjudication of doubtful cases flagged on the voters’ list published in Feb has sharply slowed down the disposal of cases in courts in the state.The overall “clearance rate” of cases in Bengal’s lower courts stood at 62%…
Image Used For Representational Image NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court has stepped in to settle a dispute over a law officer recruitment exam in Chandigarh after two judges of the Punjab and Haryana high court gave differing views on the same question, according to news website LiveLaw. The case relates to a 2021 exam conducted…
