Central information commissioner Shailesh Gandhi has given a new `mantra' to his counterparts across the country for speedy disposal of applications filed under the Right to Information Act. Before drafting a comprehensive action plan for his collea ..
For the second consecutive day, US witnesses on Thursday pointed out the Pakistan connection in the 26/11 terror attack on Mumbai. A US representative of the Yamaha motor company deposing live from the FBI office in Los Angeles via a video-conference ..
The Bombay high court on Thursday heard a petition filed by IL&FS, one of the private developers whose bid for the Rs 813-crore Mantralaya redevelopment plan was rejected as "late''. A bench, headed by the Chief Justice, while reserving its ..
The Mumbai police got a dressing down in the Bombay high court on Thursday. Rapping the MIDC police for illegally detaining two activists a day before US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton visited the city, the HC said the police "must not act l ..
The Madras High Court has allowed an application in a civil suit seeking an order of attachment before judgment of the immovable property in the names of the legal heirs of the late K Kalimuthu, former Speaker of the Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly. ..
The Punjab and Haryana High Court’s division bench has reserved the verdict on the PIL, wherein the issue of recent launch of publicity vans by the Haryana government has been raised alleging it was ruling party’s publicity at the state ..
A two-judge bench of Calcutta High Court stayed an order asking to shut down all computer training centres of the state youth welfare department.The bench, headed by Bishwanath Samaddar, issued the ruling on a petition challenging a single-bench.The ..
Viewing it as an exceptional case, the Orissa High Court last week stayed the conviction and sentence order of a lower court passed against former Nalco CMD S K Tamotia.A CBI special judge court in February had awarded the technocrat three years of ..
The National Human Rights Commission has summoned the Uttar Pradesh Chief Secretary and four other senior officials to appear before it in person here on August 25 following non-compliance of the Commission’s earlier directive for closure of a ..
The Karnataka High Court took a dim view of a delay of four years by the State Government in filing an appeal and asked the Chief Secretary and Principal Secretary, Transport, to be present in court. A Bench headed by Justice K.L. Manjunath, hearing ..