Aditya Verma, the petitioner in the Indian Premier League betting and spot-fixing case, says, as per the Supreme Court order, no official having commercial interest in the BCCI can stand in the elections because of conflict of interest.
Delhi Law Minister Somnath Bharti, who has recently found himself in controversies, on Sunday said that his intentions were good but he was projected in "wrong way" and had he been "aware" of procedures, he could have avoided the wrangles.
He also said nation can't progress unless judiciary gets ready to handle the challenges.
Justice Gogoi, the 46th CJI and the first from a north-eastern state, said it was not the requirement of the Supreme Court that judges 'reach out to our citizenry through the press'.
An apex court bench of Chief Justice Dipak Misra and Justices A M Khanwilkar and D Y Chandrachud said it will soon make the necessary rules for balancing rights of public and protecting dignity of litigants.
Daughter of former deputy PM late Jagjivan Ram, Kumar, 72, was also the first woman to occupy the high office of the LS speaker
Ram Jethmalani passed away a few days before his 96th birthday on September 14.
All efforts are being made to curtail the violence and provide relief to families affected by the Muzaffarnagar riots, the UP government told the Supreme Court on Monday.
Indian cricket captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni said that he does not expect the speculation around his name to stop anytime soon despite nothing concrete coming up against him.
Good judges are going away. We need replacements. The younger lot in the bar are not willing to become judges, says the CJI.
It is easy to criticise but difficult to transform an institution, says CJI Misra
Justice Gogoi lamented that the very issues which give a different identity to a community make its people hate those who are different.
For allegedly making derogatory remarks against women in a BBC documentary on the case
Justice Chelameswar led three senior judges to an unprecedented press conference, mounting a virtual revolt against CJI Dipak Misra.
A day after Parliament approved scrapping of collegium system for appointment of judges in higher courts, the Chief Justice of India R M Lodha on Friday said Parliament and Executive should not interfere in the domain of Judiciary.
The four judges -- Justices J Chelameswar, Ranjan Gogoi, Madan B Lokur and Kurian Joseph -- have taken up their respective business on the first working day of the top court after the January 12 press conference.
BCCI is one of the richest sporting bodies in world sports with a license to rule world cricket but it was Jagmohan Dalmiya who will be credited with it.
'No judge can take up a matter on its own unless allocated by the CJI as the CJI is master of the court,' the top court said.
A roster of the work for fresh cases notified under the order of the chief justice of India will come into effect from February 5 till further orders.
'These things are not forgotten, it will haunt the Supreme Court for a long time.'
At his farewell function, CJI Dipak Misra said that tears of a poor man is equal to tears of a rich man.
A chronology of events relating to implementation of the Justice R M Lodha panel recommendations on structural reforms in the BCCI.
The SC on Wednesday restrained all high courts from entertaining any petition challenging validity of NJAC act meant to replace the two-decade-old collegium system.
"We will work out the parameters then we will see as to how mentioning will be done," he said.
The 'surgical strikes' by India have made the army in Pakistan look unprepared. To prove itself the army will need to hit back: It could be in Kashmir or outside
Abbasi will run the government until Sharif's brother Shehbaz is elected as member of parliament
Indian officialdom enjoys well over a week of Sundays every month
From citizenship rights to hate crimes and police brutality, no wave of persecution in the US has left Indians completely untouched.
Narayanswami Srinivasan suffered a major setback on Thursday as the Supreme Court barred him from contesting any election of the Board of Control for Cricket in India on grounds of conflict of interest.
Following objection from petitioners who claimed conflict of interest.
In a new twist, Chief Justice of India H L Dattu has refused to participate in a three-member panel for selecting two eminent persons in the six-member National Judicial Appointments Commission on whose validity a constitution bench began hearings on Monday.
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