Newspapers and periodicals cannot be held responsible if there is a defect in a consumer product whose advertisements are printed in their pages, the Delhi High court has held.Justice Pradeep Nandrajog set aside a trial court order that had directed ...
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PENSION PART OF RIGHT TO LIFE : BOMBAY HC23 Dec 2008, 0300 hrs IST, Swati Deshpande, TNN MUMBAI: Pensioners now have a reason to smile. In a landmark judgment, the Bombay High Court has held that pension is a vital aspect of social security and that...
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MP:10 YEAR LEGAL BATTLE FOR RS. 527An aged person finally got justice after fighting a legal battle for 10 years.Seventy five-year-old B R Sharma had taken a loan of Rs 3,000 from General Post Office, Ratlam, on June 10, 1996. He repaid the loan befo...
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The poor state of roads of Municipal Corporation Delhi (MCD) has come under the scanner of the Delhi High Court which slammed the civic agency for its non-serious attitude towards repairing potholes."The roads of the national capital are bumpy, full ...
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SC directs TN Consumer Disputes Redressal Commission Justice Kanna Dasan to remain on leaveThe Supreme Court directed the chairman of Tamil Nadu Consumer Disputes Redressal Commission Justice Kanna Dasan to proceed on leave till the final disposal of...
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Hospital claims doc not on rolls16 May 2008, 0302 hrs IST, Deeksha Chopra, TNNNEW DELHI: The state consumer commission has ruled that the hospital, not the doctor, will be liable to compensate a patient in case of a botched-up surgery or any other ki...
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DELHI HC: MCD FILES REPLY ON THE STATUS OF COWS DYING IN GAUSHALAS12/18/2008The MCD filed an affidavit in the Delhi High Court in order to curb the mortality rate of cows and other cattle in the Capital. MCD’s Standing Counsel Madhu Tewatia told the ...
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Mumbai: An 11-year-old Labrador has emerged a champion of dog rights by not only winning for himself the right to travel in the elevator of his apartment complex in a Mumbai suburb but getting his master a Rs 5,000 compensation from the apartment’s a...
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New Delhi: The live coverage of the Mumbai terrorist attacks and the subsequent events by the media, in particular television news channels, drew critical observations from Chief Justice of India K.G. Balakrishnan here on Saturday.Speaking at a confe...
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The Government would soon bring in a medical devices Act in a bid to regulate prices of healthcare equipment.Stating that 30 to 40 per cent of healthcare costs comprised diagnostic kits and other medial equipment, Union Science and Technology Ministe...
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