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Preparations for Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee’s second full Budget under the Manmohan Singh government should be an area of interest for a variety of reasons. His first Budget was presented in July 2009 under trying circumstances, with the Indian economy struggling hard to tide over the impact of a global economic downturn. His second Budget, ..

1 Where from the stamps/Stamp Papers can be purchased? The Non-Judicial Stamp papers can be purchased from the Licensed Stamp Vendors. 2. How the stamp papers are reached to the Public? The Stamp papers of lower denomination of Rs.10/- Rs.20/- are procured from Security Printing Press, Hyderabad and the Higher denomination of Rs.50/- to Rs.25,000/- are procured from India Secur..

Rule of limitation also contains a rule of justice, especially where a person chooses not to take up requisite legal remedies for an inordinate length of time without reasonable cause, the Tribunal should apply the rule of limitation. CASE LAW DETAILS Decided by: ITAT, DELHI BENCH `C’, DELHI,  In The case of: Foramer France  v. ..

We feel sorry for the loss of any life, even those who deserve to be executed for their crimes. And the death of Akmal Shaikh, a British national who was executed on Tuesday, is no exception. Mourning his death, however, does not mean we disagree with his execution. Nor does it mean we agree with the appeals for his clemency by British Prime Minister Gordon Brown an..

For the last 13 years, the case of Cobell v. Salazar has wound its way through the United States District Court for the District of Columbia like a latter-day version of Dickens's Jarndyce v. Jarndyce. The defendants — the secretaries of interior, Treasury, and the Interior Department's chief of Indian affairs — have changed over the years, and so has th..

After the furore created by the Supreme Court ruling in 1985 which upheld the rights of divorced Muslim women for maintenance under Section 125 of the Criminal Procedure Code (CrPC), and the subsequent enactment of the Muslim Women's Act of 1986, the idea gained ground that a divorced Muslim woman's rights had been extinguished. The popular notion which prevailed at..

(i) SC judges determined not to declare assets.- Hindustand Times dated 12-1-2009 (ii) Comeback Trail. (an undertrial tribal released from jail after 54 years) - The Sunday Express dated 22-1-2006. (iii) HC raps state over consumer courts. Over 17,000 Cases Are Pending In Various Courts, Some Since 1990. - Times of India dated 13-11..

Welcome to the final edition of the Deacons Competition & Consumer Law Update. On 1 January 2010, the Norton Rose group and Deacons Australia are joining forces. We look forward to presenting our next update as the first edition of the Norton Rose Australia Competition & Consumer Law Update. In this edition, we:     * con..

The flurry of visits by Australian VIPs, from Prime Minister Kevin Rudd down in recent times was meant to offset all the bad press the country had been getting here following the repeated attacks on Indian students. But barely have these visits ended and an Indian student doubling up as a cab driver has been stabbed and a businessman found dead. The Australians, it ..

Prime Minister Manmohan Singh aptly echoed the nation's sentiment when he said last week that the survivors of the Bhopal gas tragedy that occurred 25 years ago deserved adequate compensation. Unfortunately, this is one area where successive governments have failed to keep their promise. Though the Centre justifiably appropriated the gas victims' right to legal defe..

Dictionary meaning of the word "ranting " is A loud bombastic declamation expressed with strong emotion (noun) Talk in a noisy, excited, or declamatory manner (verb) My two files on a ranting lawyer are lying orphan as the dosseir  is  not published. A reproduction  will serve the purpose of Lawyersclubindia.font face="TimesNewRomanPS-BoldMT"..

THE Centre has initiated a policy of reducing domestic agricultural prices and allowing the domestic production to decline. The rationale is that the country's food security can be ensured through imports. Hitherto, sugarcane prices were decided by the state governments and the rates hovered between Rs 160 and Rs 180 per quintal. The Centre has now abolished this sy..

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In this-worldly world, he is an expert - a private entrepreneur guiding his company moving nimbly from one business to another.   In other-worldly world, he is also an expert - a researcher in religious studies, and in practically all major religions in China (and in the world).   And in between the two worlds, h..

 Yaakov Neeman's modus operandi - walking the fine line between truth and lies, and apparently crossing that line as well - is not worthy of a commercial lawyer, whose main interest is the outcome for his client. It is intolerable in a justice minister. For over 24 hours, Neeman concealed from the public Prof. Yedidia Stern's condition that he would only accept the post of ..