'He will do what is Constitutionally right'

With his appointment as AG, the many Constitutional law matters that are pending before the Supreme Court will receive specialised attention. Illustrations: Dominic Xavier/Rediff.com   The......

Senior advocate R Venkataramani named Attorney General of India

Senior advocate R Venkataramani was appointed as the Attorney General of India on Wednesday for a term of three years, according to a notification. He will succeed K K Venugopal, whose term will......

Discriminatory treatment between Nupur Sharma and Zubair: Ex-babus to AG

A group of 72 former civil servants has sought Attorney General K K Venugopal's intervention to advise the government to check the witch-hunt of people exercising their right to free speech by the......

AG cautions Supreme Court of intruding into policy domain

Attorney General K K Venugopal on Wednesday defended The Tribunals Reforms Act of 2021 in the Supreme Court and said that many times the top court through its judgments had waded "into the policy......

Oppn-ruled states take on Centre at GST Council meet

A crucial meeting of the GST Council on compensating states for revenue shortfall began on Thursday with the states ruled by non-NDA parties opposing the Centre's move to ask states to borrow to......

August 27 GST Council meet will be a stormy affair

The 41st meeting of the GST Council, to be held via video conferencing, has just one agenda for discussion -- making up for shortfall in states' revenues, sources said. The GST Council meeting on......

Centre not obliged to pay GST shortfall to states: AG

The attorney general has opined that there is no obligation on the central government to pay the GST compensation shortfall to states and the GST Council has to decide on ways to make good any......

PNB fraud case: Centre, SC at loggerheads

There can't be a parallel inquiry and parallel monitoring by the courts, Attorney General K K Venugopal told the court. The Centre on Friday told the Supreme Court that there cannot be a "parallel......

Who has most sixes in the IPL? Check out the stats

Highest individual innings: Runs For Vs Venue Year BB McCullum 158* KKR RCB Bangalore 2008 M Vijay 127 CSK RR Chennai 2010 PC Valthaty 120* KXIP CSK Mohali 2011 V Sehwag 119 DD DC......

IPL 2011: The story so far!

After 28 matches at the Indian Premier League, Mumbai Indians seems to be the dominant force with Sachin Tendulkar and Lasith Malinga leading the batting and bowling charts respectively. Rajneesh......

Ranji Trophy Round-up: Day Two

A round-up of the second day's play of the Ranji Trophy Super League matches on Friday. Day I wrap Muzumdar slams ton to pilot Mumbai to big lead Riding on contributions from top order batsmen and......

TN in sight of outright win

Former champions Tamil Nadu are in sight of an outright victory as Andhra, after yielding a 319-run lead, were 79 for 1 in their second innings at close, on the penultimate day of their four-day......

Railways on track to victory

Railways put themselves on victory path by restricting Andhra to 202 and closing the day at 151 for no loss in their second innings on the penultimate day of the Elite 'A' Ranji Trophy cricket......