Spelling errors, technicalities used to deny citizenship claims in Assam: ReportA new report scrutinizes the legal processes of Assam's Foreigners Tribunals and Gauhati High Court, revealing that 1.6 lakh people were de...
08 Aug, 2025, 02.00 PM IST
Gauhati High Court gets bomb threat, search operation onThe Gauhati High Court received a bomb threat via email on Tuesday from an unknown group called 'Madras Tigers'. Police rushed to the scene...
22 Apr, 2025, 01.38 PM IST
Justice Kotiswar Singh becomes Manipur's first Supreme Court judgeJ&K High Court Chief Justice N Kotiswar Singh and Madras HC Acting Chief Justice R Mahadevan appointed as Supreme Court Judges. Justice Sin...
17 Jul, 2024, 12.14 AM IST
If cleared by centre, Justice Singh will be first SC judge from ManipurSupreme Court collegium recommends elevating J&K HC CJ N Kotiswar Singh and Madras HC acting CJ R Mahadevan to the SC. If approved, Singh w...
11 Jul, 2024, 11.02 PM IST
Supreme Court notice to Assam on SLP challenging Madrasa ActHC's division bench of chief justice Sudhanshu Dhulia and justice Soumitra Saikia had on February 4, 2020, said in its verdict that state-f...
02 Nov, 2022, 12.01 AM IST
26 judges appointed to 5 high courts; 127 HC judges appointed so far this yearThe previous record was achieved in 2016 when 126 high court judges were appointed during the first tenure of the Narendra Modi government,...
12 Aug, 2022, 10.01 PM IST
Gauhati HC directs Deputy Commissioners to take steps to ensure minimum infra facilities without further delayThe approval of the Government of India, in the Ministry of Home Affairs, regarding extension of service of 200 additional FT Members is st...
02 Oct, 2021, 06.39 PM IST
COVID-19 : Gauhati HC extends all interim orders in 4 NE states till June 1The HC considered the difficulties faced by the litigants and lawyers in approaching the courts in these difficult times, particularly due ...
11 May, 2021, 04.35 PM IST
Supreme Court collegium recommends elevation of five judges as Chief Justices of High CourtsAccording to the apex court webside, the Collegium, in its meeting held on December 14, has also approved the proposal to elevate Delhi HC ...
16 Dec, 2020, 06.00 PM IST
Congress may help woman in detentionAmila Shah, a resident of Jamugurihat, was declared a foreigner by the foreigners’ tribunal. “We are exploring legal options and will offer...
28 Jun, 2019, 08.02 AM IST
9 collegium U-turns in 10 yrs, careers of five Supreme Court judges hitTOI inquired from people with knowledge of collegium decisions over the years and found that on nine occasions in the last decade, collegiu...
19 Jan, 2019, 11.34 AM IST
Five high courts get new chief justicesThe appointments were made in courts in Uttarakhand, Sikkim, Calcutta, Gauhati and Bombay.
24 Oct, 2018, 09.04 PM IST
Ranjan Gogoi has no house, no mortgage; Dipak Misra has a flat and a home loanDespite their long stints as HC and SC judges, incumbent CJI Justice Gogoi and ex-CJI Dipak Misra's personal wealth remained paltry when co...
03 Oct, 2018, 02.12 PM IST
After Supreme Court rap, government appoints 10 judgesThe government argued that the court had itself sought an MoP after striking down the National Judicial Appointments Commission.
01 Nov, 2016, 03.01 PM IST
22 HC judges set to retire even as stalemate over NJAC stalls new appointmentsThe law ministry has drawn up a list of 22 additional judges of various high courts whose terms are coming to an end in the next two months.
11 Aug, 2015, 12.46 PM IST
CBI Banks on former PM Lal Bahadur Shastri, 1988 SC verdictTo stress the importance of its continued existence, the CBI will point out to SC that there are over 10,000 CBI cases under trial in vario...
03 Dec, 2013, 04.26 AM IST
Centre to move Supreme Court against Gauhati high court order on CBI todayMinister of state for personnel V Narayanaswamy met attorney general G E Vahanvati on Friday to fathom the legal basis of the HC judgment.
09 Nov, 2013, 11.35 AM IST