-The Indian Express While Leader of Opposition in the Rajya Sabha Arun Jaitley may have been the first frontline politician to raise the issue of a “cooling-off” period for retired judges, many who have been a part of the higher judiciary have voiced this concern in the past. Former union law minister Jaitley said on Sunday that the “clamour for post-retirement jobs among judges is affecting the impartiality of the judiciary” and...

-The Hindu Business Line The Supreme Court has answered only the first of the five questions posed before it — whether auction is the only permissible Constitutional mode of alienation of natural resources? It has declined to answer the remaining, lest it is misunderstood as interfering with and commenting upon the 2G verdict in which the Apex Court had cancelled as many as 122 telecom licenses. In the event, the 2G verdict stays;...

-The Times of India The Supreme Court on Monday took serious note of a PIL alleging that there had been apathy on the Centre and Manipur government's part to bring to book the guilty among armed forces and state police, which allegedly were responsible for 1,528 extra-judicial killings in last 30 years. The impact of the magnitude of extra-judicial killings of innocent citizens in Manipur was visible on a bench of Justice...

-PTI The Supreme Court on Wednesday directed the centre and state governments to provide basic infrastructure, including drinking water and toilets, in all schools within six months. A bench headed by Justice K.S. Radhakrishnan fixed the time limit and asked the governments to take steps to provide the basic facilities in schools across the country. The bench said that all its previous directions pertaining to providing infrastructure should be implemented within the...

-The Telegraph The Manmohan Singh government has decided to aggressively highlight the Supreme Court’s opinion on allocation of natural resources to debunk the CAG’s coal report that presumed losses of Rs 1.86 lakh crore. Although the government had given a restrained formal response yesterday, senior ministers P. Chidambaram, Salman Khurshid and Kapil Sibal were fielded again today. The ministers carefully avoided attacking the CAG directly but the essence of their argument was that...