Law Minister Veerappa Moily

Former Law Minister Veerappa Moily spoke to NDTV and called for the creation of a central statutory body or authority to oversee 'lateral entry' recruitment into the higher ranks of the civil services.

Former Union Law Minister, M Veerappa Moily, on Tuesday acknowledged that the second Administrative Reforms Commission (ARC), chaired by him in 2005 did recommend lateral entry into government services.

The names of advocates Santosh Govindrao Chapalgaonkar and Milind Manohar Sathaye have been cleared by the Central government for them to be appointed as Bombay High Court judges

Senior Congress leader M Veerappa Moily today attacked Law Minister Kiren Rijiju over his remarks on the issue of appointments of judges, saying the comments were in "total defiance" of the law of the land

The Supreme Court on Monday punishing activist-lawyer Prashant Bhushan was unwarranted, former Union Law Minister M Veerappa Moily said and felt that the case against him could have been referred to the Bar Council of India.

Senior Congress leader and former Union Law Minister M Veerappa Moily on Thursday dubbed the idea of renaming India as 'Bharat' or 'Hindustan' as "foolish" and one with "nuisance value."

Former Union law minister M Veerappa Moily mocked the "One Nation, One Election" idea on Thursday, saying it was akin to fixing the human lifespan.

Former law minister and senior Congress leader Veerappa Moily is in the headlines for his staunch defence of the EVM or electronic voting machine after his party joined other opposition parties to petition the Election Commission against the machines.

After an eight-hour debate, the Lok Sabha on Wednesday passed four GST or Goods and Services Tax-related bills putting the government on course for the launch on July 1 of the country's biggest tax reform since Independence. GST will subsume a slew of indirect taxes levied by the Centre and states, transforming India into a single market. The bills...

Four Bills related to the Goods and Services Tax or GST will be debated in the Lok Sabha or lower house of Parliament today, as the government pushes to meet a July 1 launch date for the unified tax regime that subsumes a slew of indirect taxes at the centre and in states. Seven hours have been allotted for today's debate, which is likely to begin ...

A home ministry inquiry has established that documents relating to the Ishrat Jahan encounter case have indeed gone missing during the tenure of former home minister P Chidambaram. But it failed to pin down responsibility - mentioning only that the papers were "removed" or "misplaced". Now, the government may order a CBI inquiry to establish culpab...

A grieving mother who spearheaded the Uphaar victims' fight for justice has met Congress President Sonia Gandhi, then law minister Veerappa Moily and is now waiting to meet the current law minister, Sadananda Gowda. Her plea: Don't let what happened to my children happen to others.

Petroleum Minister M Veerappa Moily today said the Congress would not protect anybody and the law would take its own course on senior party leader Jagdish Tytler in the 1984 anti-Sikh riots case.

At least four ministers were unhappy after the Cabinet reshuffle on Tuesday. Gurudas Kamat and Veerappa Moily clearly could not hide their disappointment after new ministers were inducted into the Cabinet.Gurudas Kamat, sources said was upset at not being given a Cabinet rank. He did not attend the swearing-in ceremony at Rashtrapati Bhawan. Kamat ...

Salman Khurshid has taken over as the new Law Minister from Veerappa Moily. He met Moily this morning to take stock of his ministry. He declared that a strong Lokpal Bill is high on his priority list along with the Judicial Accountability Bill and the Communal Violence Bill.

Former Law Minister Veerappa Moily spoke to NDTV and called for the creation of a central statutory body or authority to oversee 'lateral entry' recruitment into the higher ranks of the civil services.

Former Union Law Minister, M Veerappa Moily, on Tuesday acknowledged that the second Administrative Reforms Commission (ARC), chaired by him in 2005 did recommend lateral entry into government services.

The names of advocates Santosh Govindrao Chapalgaonkar and Milind Manohar Sathaye have been cleared by the Central government for them to be appointed as Bombay High Court judges

Senior Congress leader M Veerappa Moily today attacked Law Minister Kiren Rijiju over his remarks on the issue of appointments of judges, saying the comments were in "total defiance" of the law of the land

The Supreme Court on Monday punishing activist-lawyer Prashant Bhushan was unwarranted, former Union Law Minister M Veerappa Moily said and felt that the case against him could have been referred to the Bar Council of India.

Senior Congress leader and former Union Law Minister M Veerappa Moily on Thursday dubbed the idea of renaming India as 'Bharat' or 'Hindustan' as "foolish" and one with "nuisance value."

Former Union law minister M Veerappa Moily mocked the "One Nation, One Election" idea on Thursday, saying it was akin to fixing the human lifespan.

Former law minister and senior Congress leader Veerappa Moily is in the headlines for his staunch defence of the EVM or electronic voting machine after his party joined other opposition parties to petition the Election Commission against the machines.

After an eight-hour debate, the Lok Sabha on Wednesday passed four GST or Goods and Services Tax-related bills putting the government on course for the launch on July 1 of the country's biggest tax reform since Independence. GST will subsume a slew of indirect taxes levied by the Centre and states, transforming India into a single market. The bills...

Four Bills related to the Goods and Services Tax or GST will be debated in the Lok Sabha or lower house of Parliament today, as the government pushes to meet a July 1 launch date for the unified tax regime that subsumes a slew of indirect taxes at the centre and in states. Seven hours have been allotted for today's debate, which is likely to begin ...

A home ministry inquiry has established that documents relating to the Ishrat Jahan encounter case have indeed gone missing during the tenure of former home minister P Chidambaram. But it failed to pin down responsibility - mentioning only that the papers were "removed" or "misplaced". Now, the government may order a CBI inquiry to establish culpab...

A grieving mother who spearheaded the Uphaar victims' fight for justice has met Congress President Sonia Gandhi, then law minister Veerappa Moily and is now waiting to meet the current law minister, Sadananda Gowda. Her plea: Don't let what happened to my children happen to others.

Petroleum Minister M Veerappa Moily today said the Congress would not protect anybody and the law would take its own course on senior party leader Jagdish Tytler in the 1984 anti-Sikh riots case.

At least four ministers were unhappy after the Cabinet reshuffle on Tuesday. Gurudas Kamat and Veerappa Moily clearly could not hide their disappointment after new ministers were inducted into the Cabinet.Gurudas Kamat, sources said was upset at not being given a Cabinet rank. He did not attend the swearing-in ceremony at Rashtrapati Bhawan. Kamat ...

Salman Khurshid has taken over as the new Law Minister from Veerappa Moily. He met Moily this morning to take stock of his ministry. He declared that a strong Lokpal Bill is high on his priority list along with the Judicial Accountability Bill and the Communal Violence Bill.