Judges at the International Criminal Court (ICC) granted its first early release to convicted war criminal from the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). The convict was guilty as an accessory on count of crime against humanity (murder) and four counts of war crimes (murder, attacking
Nestle India Ltd is yet again in news with the food regulator FSSAI has moved to the Supreme Court against the order of Bombay High Court which has lifted the ban on Maggi noodles in the country. Food Safety and Standards Authority of India (FSSAI)
The Supreme Court of India (SC) refused to change a word of its earlier order and warned that contempt notice would be issued if its order on levy of Environment Compensation Charge (ECC) ranging from Rs 700 to Rs 1300 on commercial vehicles entering Delhi
There is much talk of progress and success nowadays. What does it really entail? For argument’s sake, let us confine ourselves to make it mean: Advancement in career and money making prospects. This then presupposes that every- one would always be striving to improve one’s
No doubt grant or not to grant the pardon, is a sovereign function, be it in any form i.e. monarchy, democracy, or even mobocracy to which we may be heading for but for the judicial activism. This is so as these authorities are in possession
A recent report showing that a backlog of 200,000 unsettled cases are pending before various consumer courts is more than enough to indicate that in India, the consumer is anything but the king. In a small district level consumer forum in Kerala, the decision taken
(AIR 2007 SC 1819) The question that was raised in the present case was “Whether the services rendered by an ESI hospital is gratuitous or not, and consequently whether it falls within the ambit of ‘services’ as defined in the Consumer Protection Act, 1986.” The
The expression “Old-World Charm”, what does it really mean? How do we picture it our minds when we have not had the opportunity to live in those times. I suppose the movies set in those periods would give some idea but would it help to
Biotechnology is a rapidly growing field in which new products and services are developed from an increasingly complex and cumulative set of underlying technologies. The sequencing of genes, identifying their functions and mutations, creating systems to selectively express, regulating or silencing genes, predicting protein structures
The past decade has seen a revolution in information systems, which has affected the entire business world. Legal practice is no exception, the immediate and constant flow of relevant information to the right legal users at the right time has become the backbone of legal