Judges Controversial Statements

Days after Calcutta High Court judge Justice CS Karnan, who faces an arrest warrant for his controversial remarks, Law Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad said the Justice Karnan episode calls for a greater scrutiny of the judiciary. Justice Karnan became the first sitting High Court judge to be awarded a jail term for his defamatory remarks against the t...

FIFA was plunged into chaos on Thursday when its ethics judge Hans-Joachim Eckert said in a statement there were no grounds to reopen the controversial bidding process which led to Russia being given the 2018 World Cup and Qatar the 2022 finals.

Press Council of India Chairman Markandey Katju today objected to a Supreme Court judge's statement that Gita and Mahabharat should be taught in schools, saying this is against India's secular feature and Constitution and will do it "great harm."

Delhi Police Commissioner Neeraj Kumar has written to the home ministry, rebutting a magistrate's allegation that three top Delhi cops had tried to interfere with the crucial process of recording gang-rape survivor Amanat's (Not her real name) statement last week. Delhi chief minster Sheila Dikshit had written to Home Minister Sushil Kumar Shinde y...

At a hospital in Delhi, the medical student, who was gang-raped on a moving bus, gave her account of what happened to a judge for the second time today.

The Prime Minister was not allowed to speak in Parliament to clarify his and the government's stand on the auditor's report on the Coal block allocations. The BJP shouted loudly, demanding his resignation, extending the strategy that it adopted all of last week to paralyze parliament. Dr Manmohan Singh then stepped out and spoke to TV cameras sayi...

Days after Calcutta High Court judge Justice CS Karnan, who faces an arrest warrant for his controversial remarks, Law Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad said the Justice Karnan episode calls for a greater scrutiny of the judiciary. Justice Karnan became the first sitting High Court judge to be awarded a jail term for his defamatory remarks against the t...

FIFA was plunged into chaos on Thursday when its ethics judge Hans-Joachim Eckert said in a statement there were no grounds to reopen the controversial bidding process which led to Russia being given the 2018 World Cup and Qatar the 2022 finals.

Press Council of India Chairman Markandey Katju today objected to a Supreme Court judge's statement that Gita and Mahabharat should be taught in schools, saying this is against India's secular feature and Constitution and will do it "great harm."

Delhi Police Commissioner Neeraj Kumar has written to the home ministry, rebutting a magistrate's allegation that three top Delhi cops had tried to interfere with the crucial process of recording gang-rape survivor Amanat's (Not her real name) statement last week. Delhi chief minster Sheila Dikshit had written to Home Minister Sushil Kumar Shinde y...

At a hospital in Delhi, the medical student, who was gang-raped on a moving bus, gave her account of what happened to a judge for the second time today.

The Prime Minister was not allowed to speak in Parliament to clarify his and the government's stand on the auditor's report on the Coal block allocations. The BJP shouted loudly, demanding his resignation, extending the strategy that it adopted all of last week to paralyze parliament. Dr Manmohan Singh then stepped out and spoke to TV cameras sayi...