ALLAHABAD HC GIVES GREEN SIGNAL TO RAIL COACH FACTORY IN RAI BARELI12/18/2008The Lucknow bench of the Allahabad High Court lifted the status quo orders on the land, at which Rs 2,200 crore rail coach factory was proposed to be set up in Re Bareli -- ..
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 ..
MADRAS HC DISMISSES PETITION TO BAN ON GOOGLE EARTH12/18/2008The Madras High Court dismissed a petition seeking ban on Google Earth, a website, displaying satellite images of the earth’s surface, enabling terrorists to access close-up view of sensiti ..
ALLAHABAD HC EXPRESS ANGUISH OVER SECURIT PROVIDING SYSTEM12/18/2008The Allahabad High Court expressed its dissatisfaction and anguish on the system of providing gunners/security personnel to individuals in the matter it has been implemented, at the ..
CJI: KASAB NEEDS A LAWYER FOR PRPER TRIAL12/18/2008Chief Justice of India K G Balakrishnan underlined the need of providing a lawyer to a convict to defend himself and for a proper trial by court. He was referring to the lone arrested terrorist of 26 ..
GA. JUDGE JAILS MUSLIM WOMEN OVER HEAD SCARF Wednesday Dec. 17, … ATLANTA:– A Muslim woman arrested for refusing to take off her head scarf at a courthouse security checkpoint said Wednesday that she felt her human and civil rights were violated. A ..
MALAYSIA PM DEFENDS HIS JUDICIAL REFORM18 Dec 2008, 0848 hrs IST, AP KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia: Malaysia's prime minister has defended a new law aimed at promoting judicial independence even though it gives him the final say in appointing senior judges ..
U.N. COURT CONVICTS BABOSORA FOR RAWANDA GENOCIDEThu Dec 18, 5:04 am (Reuters) – A U.N. court convicted former army colonel Theoneste Bagosora Thursday of genocide in Rwanda in 1994 and sentenced him to jail for life."Colonel Bagosora is guilty of ge ..
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 ..
Chennai: The Madras high court has rejected a PIL filed by a retired police officer demanding a “total or partial ban” on Google Earth. The Bench comprising the acting chief justice S J Mukhopadhaya and Justice V Dhanapalan disposed of the petition ..