-PTI A Delhi High Court-appointed panel has recommended that 58 unaided private schools in the national capital refund "unjustly" hiked fees to parents. "The committee has recommended refund of fee unjustly hiked by 58 schools. Among them are 11 schools, where the committee, besides recommending the refund, has also recommended special inspection to be carried out by the Directorate of Education (DoE)," the three-member panel headed by former Rajasthan High Court Chief...

-The Times of India Every month, the Delhi government spends Rs 20 crore of taxpayers' money to provide security to 436 persons, who do not hold any constitutional post and 29 of whom face criminal case, the Supreme Court was informed on Wednesday. The annual tab comes to Rs 240 crore. As against this, the government spends just a little over Rs 3 crore a month to protect the President and Rashtrapati...

-First Post It’s so brutally ironical that Ram Singh, perhaps the most hated man in India today for allegedly masterminding the Delhi gangrape, became a victim of rape himself. We still don’t know how he died, but his father has made it public that Singh had been raped in jail. Not just him, even his co-accused had been raped as well. Retributive justice, some say, because the accused had been made to realise...

-PTI MUMBAI: The Bombay High Court has restrained the Maharashtra Government from allowing excavation of sand in drought-hit villages, saying it would cause shortage of potable water for people and animals. The Court was hearing a petition filed by Rajendra Eknath Dhande, who sought a direction to the authorities to disallow sand excavation in drought-hit Khatgaon village of Karmala taluka in Solapur district. Chief Justice Mohit Shah and Justice Anoop Mohta were of...

-The Indian Express The Supreme Court held on Monday that only a newspaper’s editor whose name is published on its pages can be held responsible for civil or criminal cases lodged against it over offending news items. Referring to the provisions of the Press and Registration of Books Act and taking a cue from its previous verdict, the court ruled that the Act puts prima facie liability only on the editor of...