Judiciary

Bhubaneswar: The Supreme Court has lifted the stay imposed on the appointment of Vice Chancellors and faculty members in universities across Odisha, the state government said on Thursday. While hearing the case related to the Odisha…
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New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Thursday dismissed a petition, seeking judicial probe into the April 22 Pahalgam terrorist attack in which 26 people were killed. A bench of Justices Surya Kant and N Kotiswar Singh castigated the counsels…
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Bhubaneswar: A total of 46 Civil Judge (Junior Division) courts have been set up in 22 districts of Odisha to speed up legal proceedings and reduce workload on existing judicial infrastructure, an official release said on Friday. “These…
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New Delhi: Days after it passed strictures on all states to crack down on child traffickers, the Supreme Court, on Monday, ordered the Delhi Police to rescue six missing children at ‘any cost’. The Court has taken suo motu cognizance of…
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Cuttack: The Orissa High Court has directed the state government to provide financial assistance to the widow of a pharmacist who died due to Covid-19 infection while working at a drug distribution centre in a hospital. The division…
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New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Thursday granted the Centre a week’s time to file a response to the petitions challenging the Constitutional validity of the Waqf (Amendment) Act, 2025. The Supreme Court noted an assurance by the Centre…
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New Delhi: Justice Bhushan Ramkrishna Gavai is set to be the next Chief Justice of India (CJI). Incumbent CJI Sanjiv Khanna has officially recommended Justice Gavai as his successor, and forwarded his name to the Union Law Ministry for…
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Cuttack: Senior advocate Manoj Mishra has been elected as the president of Orissa High Court Bar, elections to which was held on March 29. Advocate Sidharth Das won the vice president post, advocate Avijit Patnaik was elected as…
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Cuttack: Orissa High Court judge Justice Arindam Sinha has been transferred to Allahabad HC, according to a notification issued by the Department of Justice on Friday. “In exercise of the power conferred by clause (1) of Article 222 of…
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Chennai: On a day the Supreme Court passed an important verdict, protecting the right to freedom of speech, standup comedian Kunal Kamra moved the Madras High Court, seeking transit anticipatory bail. Kamra, who now lives in Tamil Nadu,…
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