Under Article 348(2), the Governor of a State may, with the previous consent of the President, authorize the use of the Hindi language or any other language used for any official purpose of the State, in the proceedings of the High Court having it ..
Legal Aid The Government has said that the Legal Services Authorities Act, 1987 does not make any distinction between trial and appeal for providing free legal aid to an accused or a person in custody. Every person who has to file or defend a c ..
Dr. Sutanu Behuria has taken over as the new Secretary in the Ministry of Minority Affairs. He has replaced Dr. Surajit Mitra, who superannuated yesterday. Born on 2nd July 1954, Dr. Behuria belongs to the 1976 batch (H.P. cadre) of the I.A.S. P ..
Parliamentary Standing Committee on Food and Consumer Affairs and Public Distribution has invited views and suggestions from the public in general, associations, institutions, experts and NGO working in the field of standardization regarding Burea ..
The Sahara group has assured its depositors and investors that their money is safe and there will not be any delay in payment commitment from its side. Sahara was reacting to the Supreme Court judgement which directed two of its companies to re ..
Industry body Assocham has asked the government to investigate the coal block allocation issue under the supervision of a sitting or a retired judge. "...if the coal allocation without auction has become a high beta event and there are al ..
A time-limit has been fixed for the fast-track courts to punish the persons found guilty of sexual harassment of minor girls and boys. Section 11 of the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences Act, 2012 covers sexual harassment upon a child be ..
The Government of Gujarat has written on 13.5.2011 to the Government of India in Ministry of Home Affairs, requesting to obtain consent of the President of India to allow the use of Gujarati language in addition to the English language for the pur ..
Representations from various sections of the society including NGOs and Health institutions have been received urging strict enforcement of the provisions made under “Cigarettes and other Tobacco Products (Prohibition of Advertisement and Re ..
The Bar Council of India (BCI) has informed that the Human Resource Development Minister vide his letters dated 06.07.2012 and 30.07.2012 has assured that the powers of the BCI in relation to education institutions leading to grant of degree for t ..