In the wake of the hooch tragedy claiming 127 lives, the Gujarat government introduced a Bill aimed at amending the existing prohibition law in the Assembly session on Wednesday. The new provisions incorporated in the amendment Bill also include deat ..
A body of urban cooperative banks has appealed to Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee to restore the income tax exemption they enjoyed till 2006. A delegation of Bangalore-based Forum of Urban Cooperative Banks, led by CPI(M)'s Basudeb Acharia, met Muk ..
The Government on Wednesday made it clear that social security number is not mandatory for getting services from Employees Provident Fund Organisation as the present provident fund membership number will suffice. Informing this in the Rajya Sabha, M ..
Justice R.N. Prasad (Retd.), former Chairman of National Commission for Backward Classes (NCBC) passed away on June18, 2009. The Commission in its meeting condoled his death and remembered his contributions to the Commission and for the upliftment of ..
The Ministry of Information & Broadcasting is examining the draft of the proposed Broadcasting Services Regulation Bill in consultation with various stakeholders including the State Governments. Full text of the draft Bill is available on this M ..
The Chief Justices’ Conference held on April 17, 2008 had, inter-alia, resolved that: High Courts will consider either extending working hours upto 5 ½ hours or suitably increasing the working days; High Court Judges be requested to work ..
Reports of alleged corruption in the judiciary have come to the notice of the Government from time to time.The Chief Justice of India and the Chief Justice of a High Court has the competence, as per the ‘in-house procedure’ devised by th ..
The Delhi High Court on Wednesday put its seal of approval on Delhi Action Plan for Total Abolition of Child Labour in the Capital and issued a series of directions to the public bodies concerned for its implementation.The Action Plan has been prepa ..
Advocate-General C.P. Sudhakara Prasad has advised the State government to probe whether any of the technically qualified bidders are interested in taking up the Vizhinjam International Container Transhipment Terminal project since the top bidder Lan ..
The Madras High Court Bench here on Wednesday dismissed a public interest litigation (PIL) petition to restrain the Union government from repealing, amending, modifying or relaxing Section 377 of the Indian Penal Code.The Section states that whoever ..