Parliamentary Standing Committee Urges SC To Withdraw Its Petition1/24/2009Parliamentary Standing Committee(PSC) on Personnel, Public Grievances, Law and Justice Chairman E M Sudarshana Nachiappan appealed to the Supreme Court registry to withdraw it ..
Parliamentary Secretaries Case, Caveat Filed In SC1/24/2009Social activist Aires Rodriges filed a caveat before the Supreme Court praying that no appeal filed by the Goa government challenging the High Court order here on the Parliamentary Secretarie ..
Delhi HC: Legal Validity Of New House Tax Laws Challenged1/24/2009The Delhi High Court issued notices to the Centre, Delhi government, the MCD and the NDMC on a petition filed by the Airport Authority of India and others challenging the legality of t ..
SC Directs Vodafone To Respond To IT Authorities1/24/2009In a major setback to Netherlands-based Vodafone, the Supreme Court directed M/S Vodafone to respond to the Income Tax Department notice, demanding two billion dollars as capital gained tax in ..
Centre Rejects Recommendation For Reducing Marriage Age Of Boys1/24/2009The Centre has rejected the recommendation of the 205th Law Commission to reduce the marriage age of men from 21 to 18 years.Rajya Sabha member from Goa Shantaram Naik in a state ..
US Woman Held For Not Returning Library Book25 Jan 2009, 0914 hrs IST, AP Text: INDEPENDENCE, IOWA: An Iowa woman has been arrested because she failed to return a library book. Thirty-nine-year-old Shelly Koontz was arrested on Thursday night on a fi ..
138 OF N.I.Act., One Year Sentence With Fine of Rs. 80,000/- 24 Jan 2009, 2300 hrs IST, TNN KANPUR:Metropolitan magistrate, Kanpur Nagar, Ravindra Kumar Gupta, on Saturday, convicted a property dealer identified as Rizwan Khan, under Negotiable Instr ..
MAN GET RI FOR DOWRY DEATH24 Jan 2009, 2300 hrs IST, TNNKANPUR: Additional district and sessions judge, Kanpur Dehat, CM Dixit, on Saturday convicted a man and his parents for dowry death and sentenced them for ten years rigorous imprisonment, along ..
Judges Are Not Above The aw: Lok Ayukta24 Jan 2009, 2227 hrs IST, TNN Text: MANGALORE:Lok Ayukta Justice N Santhosh Hegde on Saturday regretted the Supreme Court judges hesitating to make public details regarding their assets. "Why judges are hesitat ..
Law Set-aside, Child Labourers Toil At SMC Fair24 Jan 2009, 2312 hrs IST, Yagnesh Mehta, TNN Text: SURAT: It was an irony of sorts at Surat Municipal Corporation- organised Vidya-Suman-IT (book, horticulture and information technology) fairs here on ..