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The Supreme Court on Wednesday indicated that it might allow execution of 'living will' in cases of passive euthanasia with safeguards like approval by the medical board and where the patient is comatose and their condition is irreversible. A five-judge ...

After coming under intense scrutiny for the proposed transfer of Justice Jayant M Patel of the Karnataka High court to the Allahabad high court, the Supreme Court of India's collegium (which appoints judges to the nation's constitutional courts) have finally ...

The Supreme Court on Friday decided to reconsider its own judgement that dowry harassment complaints must be vetted by a district level committee before arresting the accused. The top court said the judgement passed on July 27 in 'Rajesh Sharma Vs State of UP ...

The Supreme Court on Wednesday commended the Karnataka governments amendment to the law by declaring all child marriages as void and asked other states to follow suit. The Court said early marriage takes away the self confidence of a girl child and subjects ...

Supreme Court judge, Justice R F Nariman, and the constitution bench which delivered the historic ruling recognising privacy as a fundamental right, have been chosen as one of the five global Heroes of Human Rights and Communications Surveillance by a global ...

Retired Justice of Pakistan's Supreme Court, Javed Iqbal, on 11 October assumed charge as the new chief of the National Accountability Bureau (NAB). Justice Iqbal, who will replace Qamar Zaman Chaudhry, assumed charge as the chairman of the NAB-country's apex ...

The recent Supreme Court order on the right to privacy lays down the correct exemptions which protects Aadhar, Finance Minister Arun Jaitley has said.Jaitley, who is in the US to attend the annual meetings of the IMF and the World Bank, was responding to a question at the prestigious Columbia University on how the government is planning to handle Aadhar after the recent Supreme Court decision on the right to privacy. In its judgement in August, a nine-judge bench decreed that that right to ...

The Madhya Pradesh Congress has demanded an inquiry into the business firm of BJP national president Amit Shah's son Jay Shah by a special commission comprising two sitting Supreme Court judges.

Good morning and welcome to the Live! news commentary on Rediff.com.First up, the Supreme Court's Constitution bench will today begin the hearing on a plea favouring euthanasia.A five-judge constitution bench of the top court, headed by Chief Justice Dipak Misra, will hear the case.Besides the CJI, the bench also comprises justices A.K. Sikri, A.M. Khanwilkar, DY Chandrachud and Ashok Bhushan.The court had in February 2014 referred to a Constitution bench a plea ...