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The Allahabad HC on Saturday dismissed a writ petition filed by a Kanpur resident seeking ‘monitoring’ of the investigation in connection with an FIR lodged against Samajwadi Party general secretary Amar Singh. A division bench of Justice Sunil Ambawani and Justice Virendra Singh turned down the plea of Shivakant Tripathi, who had registered the FIR against Singh on October 15, observi..

After judges, it is the babus’ turn to take a call on disclosing their assets under the Right to Information Act. A confidential memo in TOI’s possession shows that senior, secretary-level bureaucrats in the government of India plan to meet on November 3 to discuss assets disclosure public employees. The meeting has been convened by the Department of Personnel and Training (DoPT), a mi..

Chief Justice of India K.G. Balakrishnan on Saturday underlined the need for the formation of an All-India Judicial Service, on the lines of the Central civil services, for improving quality of subordinate courts. “While the service-conditions for High Court judges have seen a substantial improvement, we still need to dwell on how to attract qualified persons to a career in the higher judiciary..

New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Friday issued notices to the Centre and others asking them to explain why they should be allowed to charge the development fee at the Delhi airport. Acting on a petition by a consumer rights group, a Bench headed by Justice R V Raveendran sought reply from the Ministry of Civil Aviation, Airports Authority of India (AAI) and the Delhi International Airport Ltd (..

oon, one can expect a more stringent Motor Vehicles Act, state-of-the-art fitness centres to check road worthiness of vehicles in all states and safer road designs to contain the burgeoning number of road deaths in the country. As India ranks first in the world in the number of persons killed in road accidents, superseding even China, the issue of safety on roads seems to be gaining import..

New Delhi: A city court on Saturday deferred its order on the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) plea to withdraw Italian businessman Ottavio Quattrocchi's name from the Bofors gun deal payoff case. Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Kaveri Baweja deferred the order to Nov 6 on whether the CBI's application under section 321 of the criminal procedure code (CrPC) should be accepted. The CB..

The Kerala High Court stayed the selection process of films for the Indian Panorama Section of the International Film Festival to be held in Goa.  Single Bench Judge Justice P N Ravindran had also directed issue of notices to the respondents, including the Information and Broadcasting Ministry and the Union Go..

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The Kerala High Court rapped the State Government and the Kerala Tourism Development Corporation (KTDC) in the light of the recent Thekkady boat tragedy that claimed 45 lives.  Justice K T Sankaran observed while granting bail to the accused that the tenders for the boat were issued without any scientific stud..

An unsigned e-mail from an unconfirmed source to a local advocate, urging him to join the Jehadi movement and promising monetary compensation to his family in eventuality of martyrdom, has been taken up by the Special Task Force (STF) of Assam Police. Advocate of Gauhati High Court Ajay Hazarika had received an e-m..

A PIL seeking to know the criteria to obtain membership of the prestigious Institution ‘India International Centre’ (IIC) was transferred yet again for the ninth time to an another bench as the judge showed his inability to hear it citing reasons that he himself is the member of the IIC.  Justice S..

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N C Rajvanshi declared elected as the new president of the Allahabad High Court Bar Association (HCBA).  Mr Rajvanshi defeated his nearest rival U N Sharma with a margin of 282 votes, while B D Tripathi became the new secretary of the association. He has defeated K K Roy with a margin o..

Terming the killing of 95 people in Naroda Patiya area of the city during 2002 riots as "unparallelled in modern soci..

  It is more than three years since the move to do away with a colonial practice in the judiciary was thought of, but the first step    towards its actual implementation has come from a Madras High Court judge.    Justice K Chandru has banned the use of the terms My lord' and Your lordship' by lawyers addressing his cou..