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Mumbai HC grants relief to partition refugees

   28 July 2009 at 17:15

The Bombay High Court, in a recent order, restored the additional lands granted to partition refugees.Satramdas Ramdas and several others had filed a petition challenging the 1995 decision of then state revenue secretary to cancel allottment of land ..

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Registration of Newspapers

   28 July 2009 at 16:51

More than 74,000 newspapers are registered with the Registrar of Newspapers for India (RNI). Uttar Pradesh has the maximum number of titles for registered newspapers—11,789; followed by Delhi with 10,066 registered newspapers and Maharashtra wi ..

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Allahabad HC stays petition challenging reservation in priva

   28 July 2009 at 12:04

The Lucknow Bench of Allahabad High Court today stayed the admission of a PIL challenging implementation of 50% reservation in private engineering colleges in Uttar Pradesh till September 3.The Bench of Justice Pradeep Kant and Justice Rituraj Awast ..

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Gujarat: Advocate removed from state rolls of adcoactes for

   28 July 2009 at 12:02

The Bar Council of Gujarat has removed advocate Pankajkumar Bachubhai Velani of Patan from the state roll of advocates for misrepresentation and suppression of material fact that he was engaged in business of two firms in 2002 when he was enrolled.Th ..

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SC rejects PIL against EVM's

   28 July 2009 at 12:02

The Supreme Court refused to entertain a PIL seeking directions to the Union Government to set up an expert committee to examine if Electronic Voting Machines (EVM) were tamper-proof. A bench comprising Chief Justice K G Balakrishanan and Mr Justice ..

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Economy may grow 6.5% in FY-2010: RBI

   27 July 2009 at 17:37

The Reserve Bank of India on Monday said that the economy may grow 6.5% for the financial year 2010 and stressed that fiscal consolidation was needed fo ..

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Law to stop cutting of trees

   27 July 2009 at 17:29

The government is taking strict steps by effective laws to stop cutting of trees in forest areas and to curb forest mafia.Strict enforcement of the Indian Forests Act, 1927, the Forest (Conservation) Act, 1980 and the Wildlife (Protection) Act, 1972 ..

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Increase in strength of Supreme Court Judges

   27 July 2009 at 17:17

Dr. M.Veerappa Moily, Minister of Law and Justice informed the Rajya Sabha in a written reply that the Lok Sabha passed the Supreme Court (Number of Judges) Amendment Bill, 2008 on 22nd December, 2008 and it received the assent of the President on 5t ..

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Use of Hindi in Supreme Court

   27 July 2009 at 17:17

The Law Commission of India in its 216th Report on “Non-Feasibility of Introduction of Hindi as Compulsory Language in the Supreme Court of India” has, inter-alia, recommended that the higher judiciary should not be subjected to any kind ..

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Madras HC directs police to nab proclaimed offender

   27 July 2009 at 11:03

Madras High Court has directed the Coimbatore Police Commissioner to form a team of officers to arrest a proclaimed offender involved in three cases and produce him before it. ‘Police Inspectors in Coimbatore had kept quiet even after the court ..

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