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4 Additional Judges appointed to Kerala High Court 12/31/2008 In exercise of the powers conferred by clause (1) of article 224 of the Constitution of India, the President is pleased to appoint (i) Shri Surendra Mohan Kuriakose, (ii) Shri Parappillil Ramakrishnan Nair Ramachandra Menon, (iii) Shri Chandra Villa Koyanalipilla Abdul Rehim, and (iv) Shri Chudalayil Thevan Ravikumar, ad..

Justice Barin Ghosh appointed as Chief Justice of Jammu & Kashmir HC 12/31/2008 In exercise of the powers conferred by Section 95 of the Constitution of Jammu & Kashmir, the President is pleased to appoint Shri Justice Barin Ghosh, Judge, Patna High Court, to be the Chief Justice of the Jammu & Kashmir High Court with effect from the date he assumes charge of his office. PIB>..

NOTICE ORDERED TO TOP CITY SCHOOLS ON KG ADMISSIONS 31 Dec 2008, 0237 hrs IST, TNN CHENNAI: A total of 14 private schools in the city, which have closed pre-primary class admissions for this academic year, were issued notices by the Madras high court on Tuesday. The notices were issued after a journalist filed a public interest writ petition questioning the rationale behind the..

DG & IGP HARPS ON POLICE REFORMS 30 Dec 2008, 0739 hrs IST, TNN BANGALORE: The government has never done anything adequate for the police, says DG and IGP R Sri Kumar. He expressed displeasure over how police reform recommendations have been gathering dust for decades. "When the British created a police force in India, they wanted to control the people through the force. In Eng..

BIHAR SPECIAL COURT BILL 2008 GETS CABINATE SANCTION 30 Dec 2008, 2124 hrs IST, PTI PATNA: In a bid to check corruption in the bureaurcary, Bihar cabinet Tuesday cleared the Bihar Special Court Bill, 2008, envisaging special courts to try graft cases against officials. The bill is aimed at taking action against government employees for accquiring wealth beyond their known sou..

IT ACT AMMENDMENT BILL: LOK SABHA PASSES THE BILL 23-12-2008 11:19:10 IST The lower house of the Indian Parliament, Lok Sabha passed the Information Technology (Amendment) Bill, 2006 on December 22. The Bill added new provisions to the existing Information Technology Act, 2000 to deal with new forms of cyber crimes like publicising sexually explicit material in electronic form, video vo..

TO GIVE JUDGES BIG SALARY HIKE, CABINATE TO PASS ORDINANCE 29-12-2008 17:45:06 IST At the fag end of its tenure, the UPA government has decided to make judges happy. Using its extraordinary powers, the cabinet is all set to give judges a threefold hike in salaries. The hike is likely to be announced next week, since the government does not want to delay the matter any further, which ha..

“Amend Constitution to set up regional apex court benches” J. Venkatesan It will help the poor who can’t travel to Delhi, panel tells Centre Panel is not happy with the persistent opposition Nod for establishment of Benches in Chennai on trial basis New Delhi: The Parliamentary committee on Law and Justice has reiterated its earlier recommendation to the Centre to amend the Constitution..

Judges, like Caesar's wife, should be above suspicion, was the focal point in 2008 for the Supreme Court which took extreme steps to keep the judiciary free from corruption after scams allegedly involving judges broke out. The image of the third pillar of democracy came under a cloud with the names of judges coming up in the Uttar Pradesh provident fund scam and cash-at-judge door scam in Cha..

NEARLY 2.94 CRORE CASES ARE PENDING : JUSTICE S B SINHA12/29/2008Supreme Court Judge S B Sinha said as many as 2.94 crore cases, including petty cases, were pending with the court till date.Addressing a two-day inauguration meeting on the legal awareness programme on mediation, human rights and social development for judicial officers organised by A P State Legal Servi..

SC HANDS-OVER 100 PETITIONS TO CONSTITUTION BENCHThe Supreme Court has referred to a larger bench a batch of over 100 petitions, challenging the constitutional validity of levying entry tax by state governments on goods.A bench comprising Justices Arijit Pasayat and S H Kapadia, while referring the petitions to the Constitution bench, referred 10 questions of public importance for ..

HIGH COURT ORDERS FOR BETTER STATE OF AFFAIRS IN STATE 28 Dec 2008, 0709 hrs IST, TNN With lax bureaucracy and callous politicians consistently failing to come to the common mans rescue, it was the judiciary that offered some hope that not everything was lost. The Punjab and Haryana High Court, often anguished at the sorry state of affairs, came out with some important orders that w..

GENERAL ELECTIONS MAY BE HELD IN APRIL - MAY 2009 : CECNew Delhi The Lok Sabha elections are "most likely" to be held in April-May next year, Chief Election Commissioner N Gopalaswami said on Sunday. "Looks like it would most likely be held in April-May," he said in reply to a question when the elections would be held. "March is a month of examinations. So you could say..

AP HC SUGGESTS A WORKABLE FORMULA POSTS PIL TO DEC, 2912/25/2008A Division Bench of Andhra Pradesh High Court adjourned to December 29 hearing on a Public Interest Litigation (PIL) seeking a ban on road shows by political parties in the state.The Bench comprising Chief Justice A R Dave and Justice R Subhash Reddy which passed an interim order on the PIL filed by an NGO seek..

Minister of State for Personnel, Public Grievances and Pensions Shri Prithviraj Chavan tabled in Rajya Sabha the Scheduled Castes and the Scheduled Tribes (Reservation in Posts and Services) Bill 2008. The Bill seeks to give statutory backing to the instructions in the matter, the Government decided to enact a suitable legislation which will elevate the provisions of the reservation to a statut..