All efforts to release Uttar Pradesh Congress president Rita Bahuguna Joshi, presently under judicial custody for 14 days, went in vain when the Additional District Judge(ADJ) postponed the hearing in the case for tomorrow.Ms Joshi will have to spend ..
Gauhati High Court has taken up the election petition filed by former BJP Lok Sabha MP from Arunachal Pradesh Kiren Rijiju, seeking justice in the April 16 electoral process under the Election Commission (EC).The court yesterday took up the petition ..
First Class Sanjay Kumar Judicial Magistrate has issued directions to Mumbai’s Arthur Road Jail Superintendent to produce jail manual on the complaint of the activist Abhinav Bharat and Malegaon-blast accused Samir Kulkarni, who also stands acc ..
The existing methods of handling municipal solid waste at Perungudi, on the city’s outskirts, were not scientific and violate several provisions of municipal rules, an Expert Committee(EC) has said in its report to the Madras High Court.While p ..
In an effort to save municipal commissioner Jairaj Phatak from the fury of the Bombay high court, the civic administration on Wednesday re-submitted to the standing committee the proposal for the partial closure of the Deonar dumping ground. Accordi ..
Elections to the Maharashtra Medical Council, the watchdog body of the medical profession, that were held after a gap of 10 years have come under the scanner of the Bombay high court. Incidentally, the high court had dissolved the last elections hel ..
Struck by the worst-ever hooch tragedy in Gujarat, which has killed over 150 in the last one week, the state government decided on Wednesday to frame a new law with provisions of death sentence and life imprisonment. Approved by the cabinet, the am ..
Jharkhand High Court rejected the petition of former Chief Minister and MP Madhu Koda and two others regarding removing their names from the cases filed against them for amassing properties disproportionate to their known source of income.The divisio ..
Certain changes in the procedure for appointment of notaries have been made in the Notaries Rules, 1956 by the Notaries (Amendment) Rules, 2009 w.e.f. 01.03.2009. As per the new procedure, applicants are also required to appear before the interview b ..
The Supreme Court reserved its verdict on a petition challenging the Delhi High Court judgment of staying the ongoing constructions on the Yamuna river bed for the 2010 Commonwealth games. A bench comprising Chief Justice K G Balakrisnan, Justices P ..