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In exercise of the powers conferred by clause (1) of article 224 of the Constitution of India, the President is pleased to appoint (1) Shri Nishitendu Chaudhury, (2) Shri Lanusungkum Jamir and (3) Shri Manash Ranjan Pathak, to be Additional Judges of the Gauhati High Court, for a period of three months with effect from 22nd August, 2015. ..

In exercise of the powers conferred by article 223 of the Constitution of India, the President is pleased to appoint Shri Justice Ajit Singh, senior-most Judge of Rajasthan High Court, to perform the duties of the office of the Chief Justice of that High Court with effect from 23rd August, 2015 consequent upon the retirement of Shri Justice Sunil Ambwani, Chief Justic..

Appointment of Shri Justice Jayant Manganlal Patel, Senior-Most Judge of Gujarat High Court to Perform the Duties of the Office of the Chief Justice of Gujarat High Court    In exercise of the powers conferred by article 223 of the Constitution of India, the..

Shri Bandaru Dattatreya Chairs Tripartite Meeting    Shri Bandaru Dattatreya, the Minister of State (I/C), Labour & Employment has asked the Employee Associations to bring out concrete suggestions and solutions to improve the health insurance services to..

Prohibition of Employment as Manual Scavengers and their Rehabilitation Act, 2013” (MS Act, 2013)has the following provisions for taking action against any person, local authority or any agency who engage or employ, either directly or indirectly   a manual scavenger:   p style="text-align: ju..

Minister of State (Independent Charge) for Skill Development & Entrepreneurship Shri Rajiv Pratap Rudy has said that it is estimated that out of 487 million workforce, 4.69% possess formal vocational education. In addition to the challenges of re-skilling, up-skilling and Recognition of Prior Learning (RPL) for existing workforce, there is a need to provide skil..

The Government is in the process of drafting a legislation that seeks to provide protection to individuals against breach of their privacy through unlawful means, which, at present, is at consultation stage.  This was stated by the Minister of State for Personnel, Public Grievances and Pensions and Minister of State in the Prime Minister’s ..

The wilful disobedience of any judgment, decree, direction, order, writ or other process of a court or wilful breach of an undertaking given to a court constitute a contempt of court under the provisions of the contempt of Courts Act, 1971. Further, under Article 215 of the constitution of India, every High Court shall be a court of record and shall have all the pow..

The Bar Council of India, a statutory body under the Advocates Act, 1961 (25 of 1961) has informed that the number of fake lawyers cannot be exactly ascertained by now and the Bar Council of India has introduced an exhaustive mechanism/procedure for ascertaining the number and identify of such fake or non-practicing lawyers and with that purpose it has framed Bar Co..

Article 75 and article 164 of the Constitution provides that the total number of Ministers, including Prime Minister and the Chief Minister in the Council of Ministers and the Council of Ministers in a State, shall not exceed fifteen per cent of the total number of members of the House of the People and the total number of the members of the Legislative Assembly of ..

The Hon’ble Supreme court had, Inter-alia, allowed the prayer in a Writ Petition (Civil) No. 521/2002 titled as P. Ramakrishnam Raju Vs Union of India & Others vide judgment dated the 31st March, 2014 directing that “for pensionary benefits, ten years practice as an advocate be added as qualifying service for Judges elevated from the Bar with ef..

The draft Road Transport and Safety Bill, 2015 is still in consultation stage. The latest version of the draft Bill has been sent to State Governments/Union Territory Administrations for their comments/suggestions. The Bill will be sent to the Cabinet Secretariat for introduction in the Parliament as soon as comments/suggestions from State Governments/Union Terri..

Instances of prevalence of forced and bonded labour system are noticed now and then even after its abolition by law with effect from 25th October, 1975. The reasons are spelt out exhaustively at Section 2(g) of The Bonded Labour System (Abolition) Act, 1976. The root of the problem lies in the social customs and economic compulsions and they are yet to chang..

Government had constituted an Expert Committee to review Employees’ Pension Scheme (EPS), 1995 which inter alia recommended providing minimum pension of Rs. 1000/- per month to the pensioners under EPS, 1995 and enhancing wage ceiling for coverage under the Employees’ Provident Funds & Miscellaneous Provisions (EPF & MP), Act, 1952 from  ..

The pendency of cases in Supreme Court has come down from 62,791 matters as on 01.01.2015 to 61,016 matters as on 29.07.2015. The Approved and Working Strength of Judges in Supreme Court is 31 and 28 respectively; and 3 posts of Judges of Supreme Court are vacant as on 01.08.2015. No study has been conducted by the government in the recent past about pendency of cas..