JKNPP opposes court’s verdict on legalising homosexual relations

August 13th, 2009 NEW DELHI - A two-day annual conference of Chief Justices of various High Courts will begin here from tomorrow. The meeting will be presided over by Supreme Court Chief Justice of India K.G.

July 21st, 2009 BHOPAL - Activists of Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP) here on Monday launched a poster campaign against a recent court verdict decriminalising homosexuality. Activists pasted about 5,000 posters, condemning homosexuality, on bus-stops, markets, vehicles and other crowded places across the city.

July 19th, 2009 SRINAGAR - A two-day seminar themed "Theories of Islamic Law: The methodology of Ijtihad" held in Srinagar discussed the issue of homosexuality among other social problems faced by present-day society. Organised by the University of Kashmir in collaboration with the Institute of Objective Studies, New Delhi, the event saw religious scholars and academicians deliberating on the ways to explore means and methods of Ijtihad (the analysis of problems not covered precisely in the Qur'an) to find solutions to contemporary problems in the light of original sources of Sharia (Quran and Sunnah).

July 19th, 2009 BANGALORE - Religious leaders have asked the government not to leagalise gay sex after a recent court verdict that decriminalised homosexuality in India. Harminder Singh, a Sikh leader said his community would not allow gay marriages.

July 17th, 2009 COIMBATORE - Members of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) community has said that they would speak and persuade the religious leaders, who are opposed to homosexuality. In its recent landmark verdict, the Delhi High Court had ruled that gay sex was no longer a crime, a verdict that will bolster demands by gay and health groups that the government scrap a British colonial law, which bans homosexual sex.

July 13th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Union Minister of Law and Justice, Veerappa Moily, on Monday said that more than 2.6 crore cases were pending in the subordinate courts and over 39 lakh cases were pending in high courts across the country. "As per the reports received from the Registries of the High Courts, 39,10,858 cases were pending in the High Courts and 2,66,50,467 cases were pending in the Subordinate Courts as on December 31, 2008," Moily said.

July 5th, 2009 NEW DELHI J - According to a latest survey as many as 232 judges post are vacant in various high courts of the country. The survey also reveals that nearly 40 lakh petitions are pending before the various high courts in the country.

July 4th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) chief Lalu Prasad Saturday said the Delhi High Court had done a "very dangerous thing" by de-criminalising homosexuality and he would raise the matter in parliament. "It is a very dangerous thing the Delhi High Court has said that it (homosexuality) is not a crime and the law must be amended.

July 3rd, 2009 MORADABAD - A day after the Delhi High Court overturned ban on gay sex, Muslim clerics in Moradabad have issued a fatwa against homosexuality. The Delhi High Court on Thursday had ruled that gay sex was not a crime, a verdict that will bolster demands by gay and health groups that the government scrap a British colonial law.

July 2nd, 2009 Indian court decriminalizes consensual gay sexNEW DELHI — A court ruled Thursday to decriminalize homosexuality in the Indian capital, a groundbreaking decision that could bring more freedom to gays in this deeply conservative country. The Delhi High Court ruled that treating consensual gay sex as a crime is a violation of fundamental rights protected by India's constitution.

May 16th, 2009 BANGALORE - Infosys Technologies co-chairman Nandan M. Nilekani termed the verdict of the 15th Lok Sabha elections 'decisive' Saturday and said it was a signal from people to the government to go for 'bold reforms'.

April 20th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Union Government has extended the term of a Commission, which was set up to analyze the centre-state relations in the backdrop of the changes in the polity and the economy. According to the sources, a meeting of the Union Cabinet chaired by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Monday decided to extend the term of the Commission till June 30.

April 2nd, 2009 NEW DELHI - The Chief Justice of India K. G. Balakrishnan on Thursday announced to set up 60 new Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) courts across the country.

March 30th, 2009 NEW DELHI - The Supreme Court Monday reserved its verdict on Bollywood actor Sanjay Dutt's plea to suspend his conviction in a criminal case to enable him to contest the Lok Sabha polls from Lucknow. A bench of Chief Justice K.G.

February 1st, 2009 NEW DELHI - All the 12 evening courts opened in the three district courts in the national capital to handle cheque bounce cases of less than Rs.25,000 began functioning Monday. With this the total number of evening courts functioning in the five district courts in the national capital is now 18.