Signature in a language which is ordinarily not used by a person does not make the will bogus, the Bombay High Court has held while validating the document. The will in question was of Melwani, a Sindhi by birth, and was signed in Gurumukhi, her m...
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The High Court of Calcutta on Thursday allowed film producer Sajid Nadiadwala of Nadiadwala Grandson Entertainment to use the remixed version of the song 'Apni toh jaise taise' in his comedy flick, ‘Housefull’, subject to several conditio...
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NEW DELHI: In the 25th year of the world's worst industrial disaster, India is rushing a bill that may seriously compromise the safety and security of its people in case of an accident at a nuclear plant, according to a report on the proposed Nu...
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The Supreme Court directed the states to prepare a comprehensive policy within eight weeks to prevent the encroachment of public land in the name of religion through construction of religious structures. A bench headed by Justice Dalveer Bhandari a...
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New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Tuesday asked the States and Union Territories to formulate, within eight weeks, a comprehensive policy on removal, relocation and regularisation of unauthorised religious constructions. A Bench of Justices Dalveer Bh...
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System to be Fully Operational within 3 MonthsShri Salman Khurshid, Minister of Corporate Affairs, launched the electronic File Tracking System (FTS) in his Ministry here today. He electronically generated the first File No. under this system, which ...
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BANGALORE: The Karnataka High Court on Thursday, stayed an order of the Central Administrative Tribunal (CAT) which had struck down Rule 5 (3) of the Indian Administrative Services (Appointment by Promotion) Regulations, 1964, according to which no o...
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As is now well known, the Empowered Committee of State Finance Minister (EC) had, in November 2009, issued a First Discussion Paper (Paper) on the dual Goods and Service Tax (GST). This paper had set out the EC’s views on the nature of the dual...
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New Delhi: In a curious case of the right hand not knowing what the left is doing, the law ministry has released the letter written by then chief election commissioner N Gopalaswami to the president seeking removal of fellow election commissioner Nav...
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New Delhi: The Supreme Court (SC) reserved its judgment on the Mayawati government’s plea on Thursday for scrapping the stay on constructions in the periphery of BSP symbols — statues of party founder Kanshi Ram and Mayawati, and the BSP ...
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