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'Law and Order exist for the purpose of establishing Justice and when they fail in this purpose they become the dangerously structured dams that block the flow of social progress”.  - Martin Luther King, Jr. In a common law legal system like ours, there are three w..

The Union Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) order authorising ten security and intelligence agencies to intercept, monitor, and decrypt information has been challenged in the Supreme Court. Issued on December 20, it has been challenged by Advocate ML Sharma as being illegal, unconstitutional and contrary to public interest. ..

What is happening in West UP? Who is safe in West UP when police officers are themselves not safe here and can be murdered so openly and brazenly by criminals as we saw for ourselves just recently in Bulandshahr? Why is no one really bothered to address the core issue? Why the litigants of West UP are compelled to travel more than 700 km on an average all the way to A..

At the outset, it has be said with deep dismay, dejection and disappointment that Centre has repeatedly poured cold water on the legitimate demand of the more than 9 crore people of West UP for a high court bench in West UP which lawyers of 26 districts are unitedly raising under the banner of “Central Action Committee” formed in May 1981 to pursue the dir..

First and foremost, the latest landmark and laudable judgment delivered by the Delhi High Court in Shambhir & Ors v State in CRLA 152/1996 along with others on 28 November, 2018 upholding the conviction and punishment of over 80 rioters has brought some solace to all those affected people who lost their near and dear ones in the ghastly 1984 anti-Sikh riots which ..

IPO Funding is a short-term loan that banks and other financial institutions provide to the investors to fund their Initial Public Offer (IPO) application. Investors who would like to apply for equity shares in an IPO, but do not have required money can borrow the remaining amount from the financial institutions as a loan. In general, the banks and Non-Banking Finan..

In a latest, landmark and laudable judgment titled Naman Singh alias Naman Pratap Singh and another vs. State of Uttar Pradesh and others in Criminal Appeal No. 1620 of 2018 (arising out of S.L.P. (Crl.) No. 3383 of 2018 delivered by the Supreme Court on December 13, 2018, it was held clearly, categorically and convincingly that, “A reading of the FIR reveals ..

Artificial intelligence (AI) drives value based on business outcomes around customer experience, cost reduction and revenue generation. Successful CIOs understand that AI applications are more than technical and tactical projects and that the application of AI as a technological capability can enable new opportunities and help achieve business goals. p style="..

Central Information Commission (CIC) data shows that 26,504 appeals/complaints cases were pending with CIC, as on 17.12.2018. However, no such State-wise data on applications under the RTI Act is maintained centrally. Subject to the provisions of the Act, Indian citizen can file online application under the Right to Information..

Department of Social Justice & Empowerment has informed that there is at present no proposal in that Department for lowering the age of senior citizen. Government employees become entitle to pension on retirement. There is also no proposal to increase or decrease the age of retirement of Central Government Employees. stron..

As per the data available on the online Centralized Public Grievance Redress and Monitoring System (CPGRAMS), the year-wise number of grievances received and disposed off during the period from 1.1.2014 to 13.12.2018 in respect of Ministries/Departments of Government of India is as under: table border=..

eCourts has now become interoperable with other pillars of the criminal justice delivery system. In a landmark achievement, a pilot was inaugurated on 15th December, 2018 by Hon'ble Mr. Justice Madan B. Lokur, Chairman of Inter-operable Criminal Justice System (ICJS) and Judge-In-Charge eCommittee, Supreme Court of India through Video Conferencing, in the State ..

The details of RBI's Currency and Gold Revaluation Account (CGRA) and Contingency Fund for the last five years are as follows:   p style="text..

The Government has initiated formulation of laws to secure prudential banking and help effect a culture of credit discipline, including, inter alia, in terms of the following:- Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code, 2016 (IBC) has been enacted to create a unified framework for resolving insolvency and bankruptcy matters. IBC, ..

Reserve Bank of India (RBI) vide its guidelines issued on 6.4.2018 on ‘Cash Management activities of the banks - Standards for engaging the Service Provider and its sub-contractor’, advised banks to put in place certain minimum standards  in their arrangements with the service providers for cash management related activities. The guidelines, inter a..