The Supreme Court on Wednesday directed to provide security to Bar Council of India members after it suspended the licence of lawyers who resorted to vandalism during the strikes in Odisha and also called for stringent action against the erring advocates allegedly involved in the violence.

Washington [US], September 27 (ANI): A novel role for a cancer-causing gene in controlling an important genetic process that underpins genetic variation in prostate cancer has been identified by researchers from Barts Cancer Institute (BCI) at Queen Mary University of London, the Italian Institute for Genomic Medicine, and the University of Milan.

New Delhi [India], August 8 (ANI): The Bar Council of India and All India Bar Association on Monday showed displeasure with senior Advocate Kapil Sibal on his remarks against Supreme Court and Judiciary.

There has been a discovery of endangered bat species in Rwanda. There was no update on the species for 40 years. The news is thrilling for environmentalists who had assumed it was already extinct. According to the collaboration behind the finding, the Hill’s horseshoe bat is currently thriving in Rwanda’s Nyungwe forest. The International Union […]

Mumbai (Maharashtra) [India], February 14 (ANI/PNN): India's leading compact cotton yarn manufacturer and one of the fastest-growing multinational textile companies, SVP Global Textiles Ltd, has reported a net profit of Rs. 41.23 crore for the Q3FY22 ended December 2021, as against a net profit of Rs. 33.29 crore in Q3FY21, a growth of 23.87%.

New Delhi Dec 21 PTI The Bar Council of India BCI on Tuesday said it will write to the central government seeking investigation by the CBI or NIA of a lawyers alleged murder on Sunday in the Alappuzha District of Kerala Advocate Rajnith Srinivas was hacked to death inside his house in front of his mother wife and daughter on Sunday Morning The BCI being the representative body of the advocates is not supposed to sit tight over such brutal murders of advocates Such incident of killings of the advocates is increasing day by day and the BCI has been demanding for the proper law to protect the Advocates and their family the CBI said BCI Chairperson Manan Kumar Mishra said the council has resolved to write to the government of India demanding the matter to be investigated by some central agency like NIA or CBI Only a central agency can find out the truth and the guilty could be punished it said PTI UK SJK SA

London [UK], November 29 (ANI): An international collaboration involving researchers from Queen Mary University of London, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center (MSK), New York and Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston has secured a Euro 1M research grant from Dutch blood cancer charity, Lymph and Co, to investigate a new treatment target for lymphoma.

New Delhi Nov 20 PTI The Supreme Court has slammed the Uttar Pradesh Bar Council over non appearance in a matter of fake claim petitions involving advocates and said it is the duty of the Bar Council of India and the bar body to maintain the dignity and restore the glory of the legal professionA bench of justices M R Shah and Sanjiv Khanna noted that despite their strong observations against the Bar Council of Uttar Pradesh on October 5 nobody appeared on behalf of the bar bodyThere is no representation on behalf of the Bar Council of UP Filing of the fake claim petitions is a very serious matter It ultimately affects the credibility of the institution as a whole Legal profession is always considered to be a very noble profession and such things of filing fake claim petitions in the Courts cannot be toleratedIt is the duty of the Bar Council of the State and the Bar Council of India to maintain the dignity and restore the glory of the legal profession In the present case unfortunately the Bar Council of UP is not at all serious and as observed hereinabove insensitive the bench saidUnder the circumstances we have no other alternative but to direct the Chairman and the Secretary of the Bar Council of UP to remain present before this Court on the next date of hearing to assist the Court the bench in its November16 order saidThe apex court also took note of a status report filed by the SITconstituted in compliance of the order dated October 7 2015 passed by the Allahabad High Court that out of total 92 criminal cases in various districts registered till date of which 28 advocates have been named as accused persons in 55 cases the investigation has been concluded in 32 casesIn the rest of the cases the investigation is stated to be pending It is stated that consequent to the direction passed by the High Court of Allahabad Lucknow Bench Lucknow to the SIT for investigation of the cases of suspicious claims total 233 suspicious claims of various insurance companies have been dismissed or dismissed in default or not pressed due to of which various claim petitions claiming amount of Rs 3007640000 have been rejected by the tribunalsIt is very unfortunate that despite the fact that the FIRs have been filed as far as back in the year 2016-2017 still the investigation is reported to be pending Even in the cases where charge sheets have been filed no charge has been framed by the courts below the apex court notedThe counsel for Bar Council of India stated at the Bar that despite the fact that Bar Council of Uttar Pradesh is not cooperating and sending the names of the advocates who are indulged in such illegal activities of filing such fake claim petitions if the BCI receives the names of the advocates involved in filing fake claim petitions necessary disciplinary action shall be taken by the BCI against themWe direct the SIT to send to the counsel for the BCI the list of advocates involved in filing the fake claims against whom the FIRscharge sheets are filed within a period of three days from today so that further disciplinary action can be taken by the BCI as stated by Shri Prasad learned counsel appearing on behalf of the BCI the bench saidThe top court had earlier said that SIT was constituted pursuant to the order passed by the Allahabad High Court for conducting enquiry and investigation of the cases related to causing loss in crores of rupees to the insurance companies as back from 2015 and despite the same the investigationenquiry has not been completed till date PTI PKS ZMN

New Delhi [India], September 6 (ANI): The Supreme Court on Monday issued notice to the SCBA (Supreme Court Bar Association) and BCI (Bar Council of India) and others and sought a detailed response from the bodies to a petition seeking an immediate stay of the administrative order passed by the Registrar General of the Uttarakhand High Court terminating the functioning of virtual courts there.

New Delhi [India], August 28 (ANI): A lawyer has filed a Public Interest Litigation (PIL) in the Supreme Court seeking relaxation in advocates dress code and seeking a direction to the Bar Council of India (BCI) to amend its rules to exempt them from wearing black coats and gowns in the summer months in the Supreme Court and the High Courts.