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State chief information commissioner Suresh Joshi and the Central Information Commission (CIC) recently directed that the Bar Council of Maharashtra and Goa do come under the Right to Information (RTI) Act. The directives put state information commissioner Ramanand Tiwari in the spotlight for the wrong reason, because he had earlier ruled to the contrary. Worli resident Rajan Alimchandani had ..

TPC on Saturady moved the Supreme Court seeking quashing of the Bombay high court order giving permission to the Mukesh Ambani’s Reliance Industries Ltd (RIL) to amend its plea in its on-going dispute with the country’s largest utility on the supply of gas from the Krishna-Godavari basin. "It is submitted that the amendment in effect seeks to portray the Central government as the chief..

KOLKATA: Calcutta High Court on Friday directed the government, Subhas Datta, who had filed a PIL on Indian Botanic Garden (Shibpur) and the IBG garden authorities to file affidavits on the issue of the garden being under the direct control of Botanical Survey of India (BSI) and not under the purview of state laws. Datta had moved the PIL alleging mismanagement and poor maintenance of the garden..

KOLKATA: Calcutta High Court on Friday directed police not to take action against Congress MPs Abu Hasem Khan Chowdhury and Mousam Noor in a shrine pillage case till the court disposes of a revision application filed by them. The plea challenged an FIR filed by the inspector-in-charge of Englishbazar police station in Malda on the basis of a complaint by Noor's relative Shehnaz Quadri...

he two-judge bench of the A P High Court overseeing the closure of schools without permission in Vishakapatnam district yet again on Wednesday pointed out to abdication of statutory functions by the state government. The inaction to effect the closure of schools running without permission was seen by the court as not only a failure to implement the law but defiance of judicial orders. ..

he Delhi High Court on Friday raised questions on the `conflicting' laws dealing with rape under which a man who has raped his wife was treated leniently even as others were handed out stringent punishments. A three-judge Bench comprising Justice Vikramjit Sen, Justice Madan B Lokur and Justice Mukul Mudgal, heard a petition filed by the father of an underaged married girl seeking striki..

Peeved at promotion of a "junior" colleague as district and sessions judge, a trial court judge has knocked the doors of the Delhi HC for remedial measures alleging that government norms on promotion have been compromised. The High Court has appointed a committee, comprising its judges, to look into the representation of I S Mehta, additional sessions judge and in-charge of Dwarka cour..

he government has sanctioned 71 new fast-track courts to speed up the war against corruption, according to the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI). These will come up in various states soon. The government's move follows an appeal made publicly to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh by CBI director Ashwani Kumar here last month. Kumar made the plea at a CBI gathering where he pointed out..

Additional Consumer District Forum at Thane recently awarded a compensation of Rs. 3 lacs to a complainant whose daughter is alleged to have expired after a Intra Muscular injection was administered by the Doctor. The Complainants case was that after IM injection was administered abscess developed on her injection site. Thereafter whe was admitted to a private hospital where Incision an..

  A complaint of medical negligence against Dr. L.H.Hirandani Hospital and 3 doctors and a nurse filed by another doctor whose mother expired in this hospital was dismissed by the state consumer forum on 17th October 2008. div style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; text-indent: 0.5in; li..

No more stamp paper. Now an electronic certificate will be stamped with the security features on the document. The e-stamp initiative is all set to be launched in Chennai. Tamil Nadu Minister for Registration and Tourism N. Suresh Rajan recently inspected the facilities for e-stamping in various parts of the city. To begin with, it would be introduced at nine sub-registrar’s offices &mda..

The Thane Municipal Corporation (TMC)'s Standing Committee cleared 52 proposals in its final meeting before the announcement of the state assembly polls on Monday afternoon. The TMC has, due to the passage of resolutions, got a chance to utili..

For the first time, striking lawyers organized a dharna outside the district judge's chamber here on Friday to press for their demand for the latter's transfer by the Gujarat High Court. Babu Rayka, in-charge president, Surat District Bar Association (SDBA), said, "The chief justice of Gujarat High Court is yet to take any decision on the transfer of district judge R P Dholaria. Thus, we..

 The judiciary and the advocates of Kanpur Nagar and Dehat district courts on Friday condoled the death of special judge SC/ST court Kanpur Dehat, Nihal Ahmad Siddiqui, who died here during the intervening night of September 3 and 4, 2009.  The advocates abstained from judicial work while ..

The Supreme Court disposed of a PIL filed by an advocate seeking directions to the Union Government to ensure the safety of Indian students in Australia against racial attacks. Earlier, the Union Government in its affidavit had said all possible steps were being taken to protect the Indian students studying in Australia and the Indian Government was in constant touch with t..