The Union government has told the Bombay High Court that Agniveers are different from regular soldiers. This means families of deceased Agn...

Contract workers often seek permanent jobs after long service. Indian courts examine if contractor arrangements are genuine or a ploy to av...

The Supreme Court has decisively dismissed calls for quotas regarding promotee judges in the Higher Judicial Service, asserting that no per...

The Supreme Court is addressing a critical issue concerning judicial officers. Many entry-level judges face slow career advancement. The co...

The Supreme Court is considering a key issue. It involves judicial officer appointments as district judges. The court examined if prior exp...

The Supreme Court is currently examining rules for appointing district judges. The core issue is whether judicial officers with prior exper...

There is no consensus on establishing an All-India Judicial Service due to differing opinions among stakeholders, as confirmed by Union law...

There is no consensus at present on a proposal to set up an All India Judicial Service, a recruitment mechanism for appointment at the leve...

AIJS, cloaked as a judicial reform, is, however, a political gimmick that aims to transfer the recruitment and appointment of district judg...

The establishment of All-India Judicial Service (AIJS) is likely to be made part of the agenda of a proposed meeting between Union Law Mini...

Before the draft is taken to the Union Cabinet, the broad features of the proposed all-India service will be shared with the higher judicia...

The SC is asking HCs and state governments to give a projection about the additional manpower and infrastructure required to tackle the hug...

The document, sent to all members of the parliamentary consultative committee on law and justice, also states that most of the 24 high cour...

The proposal comes close on the heels of several states, including some ruled by the BJP, opposing the formation of an all-India judicial s...

Law Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad had touched the issue at a recent meeting of parliamentary consultative committee on Law and Justice, whic...

It had said that district courts across the country were grappling with a backlog of 2,81,25,066 civil and criminal cases in the period bet...

A series of steps and observations, which have emanated from the Supreme Court vis-a-vis various unrelated cases over the past few days, co...