Minister of State for Personnel, Public Grievances and Pensions Shri Prithviraj Chavan tabled in Rajya Sabha the Scheduled Castes and the Scheduled Tribes (Reservation in Posts and Services) Bill 2008.The Bill seeks to give statutory backing to the i ..
The Supreme Court has referred to a larger bench a batch of over 100 petitions, challenging the constitutional validity of levying entry tax by state governments on goods.A bench comprising Justices Arijit Pasayat and S H Kapadia, while referring the ..
A Supreme Court judgement which allowed High Courts to hear appeals against Administrative Tribunal awards needs a ‘revisit,’ according to expert opinion.The suggestion to ‘revisit’ the matter came in a Law Commission of India Report forwarded by cha ..
The ‘non-feasibility’ of introducing Hindi ‘as compulsory language in the Supreme Court of India’ has been reported by the Law Commission of India.Acknowledging the right of ‘every citizen, every court’ to understand law, the Commission held that ‘at ..
The Law Commission of India submitted to the Government of India, its 215th Report on “L. Chandra Kumar be revisited by Larger Bench of Supreme Court”. The Hon’ble Chairman of the Commission, Dr. Justice AR. Lakshmanan, former Supreme Court Judge, fo ..
MUMBAI, INDIA: When you lose something on one hand you are destined to get something else on the other. This simple law of nature seems to be relevant in the case of the impact of the US recession on Indian industries. Though the disaster in the US e ..
New Delhi, Dec 26 (IANS) The Law Commission of India has rejected as 'non-feasible' a parliamentary panel's proposal to introduce Hindi as a compulsory language of work in the Supreme Court.In its report submitted to Union Law Minister H.R. Bhardwaj ..
1. Which documents are to be verified before purchase of a Flat ? A. Before you purchase a flat, you have to have a title and document search conducted by a competent advocate. You cannot do it yourself. You have to use the services of a competent ad ..
"Himalayan" for packaged mineral water. He opines that since the term "Himalayan" is a descriptive term, it could potentially acquire distinctiveness and is therefore capable of trademark protection. Apart from the issue of whether the plaintiff in t ..
A recent judgment of the Madras High Court (Colgate Palmolive v. Anchor, O.A. Nos. 493 and 494 of 2008 in C.S. No. 451 of 2008) appears to have modified the law relating to comparative advertising in cases of commercial disparagement, particularly in ..