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- India
New entrant Amit Palekar AAP’s CM face for Goa polls
Panaji: The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) on Wednesday announced lawyer-turned-politician Amit Palekar as its chief ministerial face for the next month’s assembly elections in Goa. The 46-year-old lawyer had recently joined AAP…
- Middle East
UAE: Expat lawyers to argue cases in non-Muslim family courts
Abu Dhabi is all set to take a call on amending laws to allow expatriate lawyers to represent cases at the non-Muslim family court, in the capital city of the United Arab…
- India
Lawyer files complaint against JNUSU over Babri Masjid protest march
New Delhi: A Delhi-based lawyer on Tuesday filed a police complaint against Jawaharlal Nehru University Students Union (JNUSU) over organising an event and protest march demanding reconstruction of the demolished Babri Masjid…
- India
Param Bir has no first hand info on graft charges against Deshmukh: Lawyer
Mumbai: Former Mumbai police commissioner Param Bir Singh has no first hand information on his corruption allegations against ex-Maharashtra home minister Anil Deshmukh as details of alleged wrongdoing were provided to him…
- India
Lawyer shot dead inside court campus in Uttar Pradesh
Shahjahanpur: In a frightening replay of the Delhi court incident, a lawyer was shot dead inside the Shahjahanpur civil court on Monday. The incident took place on the third floor of the…
- India
Is the CLAT-2021 exam for NLUs elitist and exclusionary?
Hyderabad: The recently conducted Common law admission test (CLAT) on July 23 for entry into the National Law Universities (NLU’s) has been criticized for its length and the quandary in which it…
- Telangana
Rajasthan lawyer dies in accident at toll plaza in Karimnagar
Karimnagar: A lawyer from Rajasthan died when the car in which he was travelling rammed a truck parked by the roadside at Renikunta village, police said on Tuesday. The 45-year-old lawyer, Rajesh…
- India
Lawyer moves Delhi HC challenging new IT Rules
New Delhi: A lawyer has moved the Delhi High Court challenging the new Information Technology (IT) Rules for allegedly being in gross disregard of the fundamental rights of free speech and privacy of…
- Delhi
Delhi lawyer suspended for holding conversions, nikah in chamber
New Delhi: The Bar Council of Delhi (BCD), through an interim order, on Monday suspended the licence of a lawyer for allegedly using his chamber for performing religious conversion and Muslim marriages.…
- World
ICC’s new chief prosecutor Karim Khan to probe Israel’s war crimes
Hague: Karim Khan (51), a British lawyer and a specialist in international criminal law and international human rights law was sworn in as the chief prosecutor for the International Criminal Court on…
- India
Fugitive diamantaire Mehul Choksi is missing in Antigua: Lawyer
New Delhi: Fugitive diamantaire Mehul Choksi, who is wanted by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) and Enforcement Directorate (ED), has gone missing in Antigua and Barbuda. For the first time, Choksi’s…
- India
AIMPLB secretary Zafaryab Jilani hospitalised after brain stroke
Lucknow:Â Zafaryab Jilani, secretary of All India Muslim Personal Law Board (AIMPLB), well known layer and former additional advocate general of Uttar Pradesh has been hospitalised after he suffered brain haemorrhage. Jilani, 71,…
- India
Activist Sudha Bharadwaj’s health is deteriorating in prison
Mumbai: The health of lawyer and activist Sudha Bharadwaj has been deteriorating in Byculla prison where she is lodged, her family and friends said on Friday. Bharadwaj had requested a medical evaluation…
- India
Former Attorney General Soli Sorabjee succumbs to COVID
New Delhi:Â Former Attorney General Soli Sorabjee died of COVID-19 in a private hospital here on Friday. One the top most lawyers of the country, Sorabjee (91) was tested positive of COVID a…
- India
India’s critical institutions have let down country during COVID-19 crisis: SC lawyer Dushyant Dave
New Delhi: All of India’s critical and leading institutions have let down the country during the present COVID-19 crisis, even though it is by far the worst crisis faced by India since…
