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  The Supreme Court has stayed for a week the Ayodhya title suit verdict that was due t..

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A tenant who fails to pay rent despite court's order cannot seek its protection against eviction from premises, the Delhi High Court has said. The Delhi Rent Control Act grants protection to the defaulter tenant if the due sum is d..

From 1-July-2010 writing cheque with alterations will cost you time and money Paper-based cheque writing is one of your popular mode for making and receiving payments in our country. Use of cheque by you is widespread and constitutes an important part of your regular payment transactions. Most of the time you write all details, like payee’s name, amount in figures, amo..

 Signature in a language which is ordinarily not used by a person does not make the will bogus, the Bombay High Court has held while validating the document. The will in question was of Melwani, a Sindhi by birth, and was signed in Gurumukhi, her mother tongue. According to the will dated March 20, 1991, she had bequeathed h..

The High Court of Calcutta on Thursday allowed film producer Sajid Nadiadwala of Nadiadwala Grandson Entertainment to use the remixed version of the song 'Apni toh jaise taise' in his comedy flick, ‘Housefull’, subject to several conditions. Earlier this month, Justice Nadira Patherya of the Calcutta High Court had issued an order restraining ..

NEW DELHI: In the 25th year of the world's worst industrial disaster, India is rushing a bill that may seriously compromise the safety and security of its people in case of an accident at a nuclear plant, according to a report on the proposed Nuclear Liability Bill prepared by Greenpeace India. Senior advocate of the SC and former attorney general Soli Sorabj..

The Supreme Court directed the states to prepare a comprehensive policy within eight weeks to prevent the encroachment of public land in the name of religion through construction of religious structures. A bench headed by Justice Dalveer Bhandari also directed the states to tell the Supreme Court, what can be done to the existing encroachment, wh..

New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Tuesday asked the States and Union Territories to formulate, within eight weeks, a comprehensive policy on removal, relocation and regularisation of unauthorised religious constructions. A Bench of Justices Dalveer Bhandari and K.S. Radhakrishnan pointed out that in its December 7,..

System to be Fully Operational within 3 Months Shri Salman Khurshid, Minister of Corporate Affairs, launched the electronic File Tracking System (FTS) in his Ministry here today. He electronically generated the first File No. under this system, which has been developed and maintained by National Informatics Centre (NIC). With this the Ministry..

BANGALORE: The Karnataka High Court on Thursday, stayed an order of the Central Administrative Tribunal (CAT) which had struck down Rule 5 (3) of the Indian Administrative Services (Appointment by Promotion) Regulations, 1964, according to which no officer from the State civil services could be promoted to the IAS cadre after they reach 54 years of age. ..

As is now well known, the Empowered Committee of State Finance Minister (EC) had, in November 2009, issued a First Discussion Paper (Paper) on the dual Goods and Service Tax (GST). This paper had set out the EC’s views on the nature of the dual GST, its coverage, the manner of its applicability, its coverage and on several other design aspects of t..