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Urging the Supreme Court to permit it to windup the work of disbursement of compensation to the victims of the Bhopal gas leak tragedy, Office of the Welfare Commissioner has informed the apex court that it was being forced to deal with the fraudsters as the genuine claimants were not traceable. According to the Commissioner, during the period from J..

The Union Government contended before the Supreme Court that it is the absolute owner of all the minerals in the country both under the sea as well as on the earth in the country, including the Natural Gas in Andhra Pradesh Krishna-Godavari Gas Basin which is the main bone of contention between two Ambani brothers. Additional Solicitor General Mohan..

The Centre asserted before the Supreme Court that natural gas was a national asset and not the private property of the Ambani brothers. Additional Solicitor General (ASG) Mohan Parasaran, appearing for the Centre, asserted before a bench comprising Chief Justice K G Balakrishnan, Justices B Sudarshan Reddy and P Sathasivam that the government as th..

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PET IS A NUISANCE CHENNAI: Justice Tamilvanan of Madras High Court has ruled that it is not permissible to grow pets (particularly dogs with barking nature) in a housing locality. For having pets appropriate permission from the municipality board of the respective district ought to have been obtained.   Facts of the case: One Mr. Vikram ha..

It has been made clear that such information cannot be sought directly from the private business groups but from a government department which holds it. Tax statements of a corporate group may be given under the Right to Information (RTI) Act as its privacy clause is limited to individuals and does not extend to organizations, feels chief information comm..

Elected representatives not covered under RTI Act: CIC Sat, Dec 12 06:32 PM Elected representatives including MPs, MLAs and local bodies members are not covered under the Right to Information Act in 'individual' capacity, Central Information Commission has ruled. The Commission, however, has clarified that information regarding their activities can be accessed from bodies to which they are..

Mumbai: Residents of a multistorey complex, Sagar Avenue, at Santa Cruz East have reason to cheer. The suburban Consumer Redressal Forum has given an interim relief order in favour of the residents who claimed that the housing group, Sagar Builders, had undertaken new construction contrary to the original layout. Acco..

THE Central Government has sanctioned 116 posts for the Central Information Commission. The Commission has constituted a Committee to assess its staff requirement. The Government shall examine the report of the Committee as and when received.The Commission has been allotted a plot of land in Delhi for construction of a building of the Commission. Staffing and p..

Such detention cannot be dubbed as violation of a citizen’s personal liberty, the Supreme Court has ruled.The court has held that such frisking and detaining of passengers by the authorities is in national interest. Otherwise, terrorists and vested interests would carry out their activities unchecked, it said. The court was hearing a petition from R..

TOBACCO control rules are being openly flouted in India's commercial hub, Mumbai. There is a ban on advertising of cigarettes and other tobacco products, but there is no Mumbai street where you can't find a cigarette advertisement.   Under the rules, companies are allowed to display product information at ' points of purchase' but the size..

Banks’ association says the process needs a huge effort. Banks may seek time beyond the March 2011 deadline to shift to International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) in view of the mammoth effort required for the switover, according to industry sources.The Indian Banks’ Association (IBA) today said its management committee last week disc..

The Asian Age: New Delhi : Wednesday: 2nd December 2009  Kazmi claims humiliation 26/11 Kasab trial   MUMBAI  A day after being sacked as lone-surviving terrorist Ajmal Aamir Kasab's lawyer by the special court conducting the 26/11 trial, a disgruntled Abbas Kazmi on Tuesday alleged that the prosecution humiliated him throughout the trial. Spe..

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Union home minister P Chidambaram has, in his admonishment of the Mumbai police, pointed to a very unfortunate trend which has developed lately -- senior police officers using the media to score points off each other. The run up to the first anniversary of the November 26 terror attacks saw a most unseemly series of controversies erupting, where police officers accu..