Law Interns Barred

Income tax notices to the Indian National Congress were issued back in March 2023 and the assessment proceedings demanded for those seven years, as per law, were set to get time barred on March 31, 2024, according to sources.

The Bar Council of India (BCI) assured Indian lawyers on Sunday that foreign advocates and law firms will not be allowed to appear in any court or judicial forum and that they can only advise their clients about foreign laws and international laws.

The Bar Council of India in new rules issued on Wednesday said foreign lawyers and law firms can also advise on international arbitration cases on a reciprocal basis.

Over 100 US lawmakers have asked India to give a "temporary reprieve" to an American donor NGO until a more permanent solution can be found under the Indian laws for the Christian organisation to function. Compassion International is said to be shutting down its India operations after it was put under 'prior permission category' in May last year. W...

Pakistan has said Jamaat-ud-Dawa chief Hafiz Saeed, who has been listed under an anti-terrorism law, can pose a "serious threat" to the nation, and was thus placed under house arrest in the country's "larger interest". The acknowledgement of the danger Hafiz Saeed poses came from Pakistan's Defence Minister Khawaja Asif during an international secu...

Internet search engines - Google, Yahoo and Microsoft's Bing - were ordered by the Supreme Court on Thursday to appoint internal expert body to remove advertisements on sex-determination tests barred by law. "You can't violate the laws of the country. You must become responsive to Indian law," the top court told the three companies on a public inte...

Donald Trump's proposal to bar all Muslims from entering the United States violates U.S. and international law and would never be allowed by the courts, legal scholars said late Monday.

The Supreme Court has reportedly received an anonymous email threatening that it will be blown up. Anti-sabotage checks have been increased in the court since the mail, which came last weekend, according to sources.

Libya's internationally recognized parliament on Monday voted to suspend a controversial law that barred officials from the era of toppled dictator Muammar Gaddafi from holding political posts.

IOC had sent the revised draft Constitution of the IOA which envisaged barring of corruption-tainted persons from contesting IOA elections. IOA had objected to this provision saying that Indian law would prevail on these matters.

The International Olympic Committee had on Thursday sent the revised draft Constitution of the Indian Olympic Association which envisages barring of corruption-tainted persons from contesting IOA elections and had asked the national apex body to revert back on Friday if they have any objection or comments.

A secretive US Drug Enforcement Administration unit is funneling information from intelligence intercepts, wiretaps, informants and a massive database of telephone records to authorities across the nation to help them launch criminal investigations of Americans.

Income tax notices to the Indian National Congress were issued back in March 2023 and the assessment proceedings demanded for those seven years, as per law, were set to get time barred on March 31, 2024, according to sources.

The Bar Council of India (BCI) assured Indian lawyers on Sunday that foreign advocates and law firms will not be allowed to appear in any court or judicial forum and that they can only advise their clients about foreign laws and international laws.

The Bar Council of India in new rules issued on Wednesday said foreign lawyers and law firms can also advise on international arbitration cases on a reciprocal basis.

Over 100 US lawmakers have asked India to give a "temporary reprieve" to an American donor NGO until a more permanent solution can be found under the Indian laws for the Christian organisation to function. Compassion International is said to be shutting down its India operations after it was put under 'prior permission category' in May last year. W...

Pakistan has said Jamaat-ud-Dawa chief Hafiz Saeed, who has been listed under an anti-terrorism law, can pose a "serious threat" to the nation, and was thus placed under house arrest in the country's "larger interest". The acknowledgement of the danger Hafiz Saeed poses came from Pakistan's Defence Minister Khawaja Asif during an international secu...

Internet search engines - Google, Yahoo and Microsoft's Bing - were ordered by the Supreme Court on Thursday to appoint internal expert body to remove advertisements on sex-determination tests barred by law. "You can't violate the laws of the country. You must become responsive to Indian law," the top court told the three companies on a public inte...

Donald Trump's proposal to bar all Muslims from entering the United States violates U.S. and international law and would never be allowed by the courts, legal scholars said late Monday.

The Supreme Court has reportedly received an anonymous email threatening that it will be blown up. Anti-sabotage checks have been increased in the court since the mail, which came last weekend, according to sources.

Libya's internationally recognized parliament on Monday voted to suspend a controversial law that barred officials from the era of toppled dictator Muammar Gaddafi from holding political posts.

IOC had sent the revised draft Constitution of the IOA which envisaged barring of corruption-tainted persons from contesting IOA elections. IOA had objected to this provision saying that Indian law would prevail on these matters.

The International Olympic Committee had on Thursday sent the revised draft Constitution of the Indian Olympic Association which envisages barring of corruption-tainted persons from contesting IOA elections and had asked the national apex body to revert back on Friday if they have any objection or comments.

A secretive US Drug Enforcement Administration unit is funneling information from intelligence intercepts, wiretaps, informants and a massive database of telephone records to authorities across the nation to help them launch criminal investigations of Americans.