UP HIGH COURT TO GET HI-TECH SECURITY GADGTS24 Dec 2008, 1220 hrs IST, PTI ALLAHABAD: In wake of increasing threat to vital establishments from terrorist outfits, Uttar Pradesh government has decided to equip the High Court buildings with sophistica ..
MAKE COMPETITION ACT IN INDIA MORE STRINGENT : EXPERS SAYSStressing on making the Competition Act in India more stringent, an international expert on Competition Acts said these measures were necessary to attract more foreign investments in the count ..
AFZAL ANSARI TO BE PRODUCED BEFORE LS SPEAKER TODAY 12/24/2008Afzal Ansari, the jailed Samajwadi Party (SP) MP and prime accused in the BJP MLA Krishnanand Rai murder case, was taken to New Delhi for a hearing before Lok Sabha Speaker Somnath Chatter ..
CACUTTA HC REJECTS ASHOK TODI'S BAIL PLEA plea12/23/2008A two-judge bench of Calcutta High Court rejected industrialist Pradip Todi’s bail plea in the Rizwanur Rahman death case.Pradip Todi, brother of Ashok Todi, applied for bail before the High Cou ..
MADRAS HC STAYS ORDER IN DIVORCE CASE12/23/2008A judge of the Madras High Court has stayed his own order, transferring a divorce case from a family court in Chennai to a court in Bangalore.Admitting a review petition filed by R Balaji of Perambur, Ch ..
WB GOVT IMPLEMEMT HC ORDER FOR USE OF LPG IN AUTOS12/23/2008The West Bengal Government said it was determined to implement the High Court order for use of Liquid Petroleum Gas (LPG) in all the autos.All the autos will have to get converted to LPG mod ..
31% HC JUDGESHIP VACANT 12/23/2008More than 31%-- or 277-- of 886 judgeship, in 21 High Courts across India are vacant, Parliament was told today.But in a written reply in the Rajya Sabha, Law and Justice Minister Hans Raj Bhardwaj denied that the co ..
CHENNAI HC : COURT STAYS APPOINTMENT OF IIT-M HEAD24 Dec 2008, 0254 hrs IST, TNN CHENNAI: The Madras High Court on Tuesday set aside the appointment of M S Ananth as director of Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, holding that he had not been ap ..
BOMBAY HC : WIFE LIVING SEPARATELY DOES NOT AMOUNT DESERTION 24 Dec 2008, 0533 hrs IST, Shibu Thomas, TNN MUMBAI: A spouse living in a separate residence doesn't amount to desertion, the Bombay High Court has ruled. Justice V R Kingaonkar of the HC ..
PENSION PART OF RIGHT TO LIFE : BOMBAY HC23 Dec 2008, 0300 hrs IST, Swati Deshpande, TNN MUMBAI: Pensioners now have a reason to smile. In a landmark judgment, the Bombay High Court has held that pension is a vital aspect of social security and that ..