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TAX LAWS TO BE AMENDED FOR TOTALISATION DEALS

   31 August 2009 at 15:07

The government will make necessary changes in tax laws to align them with provisions in social security pacts, as India gets ready to implement its first such agreement with Belgium from September 1. This would allow companies and employees to enjoy ..

Posted in Taxation |   239 Views


Give priority to eyewitness accounts: CJI

   31 August 2009 at 15:04

Chief Justice of India K G Balakrishnan said here on Sunday that eyewitness accounts in criminal cases must be examined properly for speedy disposal of cases. "In some states, eyewitnesses are not heard. On the basis of my personal experience, ..

Posted in Others |   99 Views


Justice denied as compensation claims hang fire

   31 August 2009 at 15:00

If justice delayed is justice denied, then no family member of any custodial death victim has ever got justice in Tamil Nadu. Just consider this. Rohini, whose history-sheeter-husband Lingam was beheaded inside a sub-jail with the knowledge of an ass ..

Posted in Others |   103 Views


Right to Education Act soon: Minister

   31 August 2009 at 14:59

Union minister of state for human resource development Daggubati Purandeswari said the Centre would soon bring an Act on the Right to Education. Though primary education is a subject of state governments, the central government has asked all the sta ..

Posted in Others |   159 Views


Union minister Virbhadra sent questionnaire in CD case

   30 August 2009 at 01:00

The Himachal Pradesh vigilance and anti-corruption bureau has sent a questionnaire to Union minister Virbhadra Singh and his former MP wife Pratibha Singh in an alleged graft case. Separate questionnaires have been sent to them a few days ago, Deputy ..

Posted in Criminal Law |   168 Views


Pak court adjourns 26/11 trial till Sept 1

   30 August 2009 at 00:47

Judge Baqir Ali Rana of anti-terrorism court no 2, who is conducting the trial in the high-security Adiala Jail in the garrison city of Rawalpindi of five LeT operatives accused of involvement in the Mumbai attacks on Saturday ordered a blackout on t ..

Posted in Others |   94 Views


Jaswant moves SC challenging book ban

   29 August 2009 at 14:09

Expelled BJP leader Jaswant Singh on Friday moved the Supreme Court challenging the Gujarat government’s decision to ban his book on Mohammad Ali Jinnah in the state. Singh, along with a representative of Rupa and Co, publisher of the book 'Jinnah -- ..

Posted in Others |   94 Views


Judicial reforms

   29 August 2009 at 14:07

The judicial reform ship floated by the government three months ago with law minister Veerappa Moily as captain has had a smooth sailing till now thanks to tail winds generated by intense public opinion that virtually forced SC judges to bow to deman ..

Posted in Others |   133 Views


My office out of RTI Act's purview: CJI

   29 August 2009 at 14:05

Chief Justice of India KG Balakrishnan on Friday asserted that his office was out of the purview of the country's transparency law, the Right to Information Act. "The office of the Chief Justice is privy to so much of information like privileged comm ..

Posted in Others |   64 Views


Acquitted by court, but caught between cops, jail officials

   29 August 2009 at 13:01

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