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The State Information Commissioner, Mr P.N. Vijayakumar, has said that there is nothing new about the declaration of assets by judicial officers and the present controversy is over whether the same is to be made public under the Right to Information Act. He said he is of the view that the assets of the judi..

All cases filed by the Maharashtra Pollution Control Board (MPCB) related to municipal solid waste management and untreated sewage, pending with different courts in Maharashtra for years, are now likely to be disposed of within three months.  A bench comprising justices Mridula Bhatkar and J N ..

 Gujarat High Court has struck down rules that empower state government to appoint its secretary, an IAS officer, as president at Gujarat Revenue Tribunal. With this, a two-decade old dispute has come to an end and contention of Tribunal's Bar Association has been upheld. The lawyers had been i..

The Supreme Court Monitoring Committee on Police Reforms headed by retired judge Justice K T Thomas met state government officials on Tuesday to review compliance with directives.  It was found that Karnataka is only partially compliant with the SC directives, that too only by the recently pass..

 The Bombay high court on Tuesday expressed displeasure over the state government's refusal to put in place restrictions on private car users. "(Private car users) have no right to occupy 90% of road space,'' remarked a division bench of Justices Bilal Nazki and A R Joshi. "Till the government comes up wi..

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Rajasthan High Court on Monday directed the state government to restore the light and sound show as well as the audio guide system for tourists at Amber Fort. On August 18, the court had banned all commercial activities at the fort in pursuance of which the state authorities directed these activities to be stopped immed..

The finance ministry has dropped its plans to amend or replace the Fiscal Responsibility & Budgetary Management (FRBM) Act of 2004, which laid down fiscal and revenue deficit targets until 2008-09. The ministry has breathing space until next year before making any fresh commitments, as the government ha..

In a significant ruling, the Allahabad High Court upheld 23% reservation in the Uttar Pradesh government contracts observing it was not in violation of the provisions of the Constitution of India. A division bench composed of Justices Ashok Bhushan and Ram Autar Sharma ruled that 21% reservation to Scheduled Caste and two per cent to Scheduled Tribes in the government contr..

The three-day first media and law training programme organized by Gujarat National Law University (GNLU) concluded on Sunday. The programme brought together experts from fields like politics, media, judiciary, academia among others to discuss the various facets of law and media.  Representative..

 Hindi may be the national language, but the judiciary still swears by the Queen's English. Now, language is the bone of contention between lawyers and judges with a section of lawyers alleging that Delhi's judges prefer English-speaking lawyers to Hindi-speaking ones.  Alleging discrimina..

 The State Information Commission (SIC) chief, Suresh Joshi, has directed the Thane municipal commissioner, Nandkumar Y Jantre, to take action against all appellate authorities in the Thane Municipal Corporation (TMC) who have been sitting on RTI appeals even after the mandatory 30-day period.  ..

A trial court judge earned the wrath of the Delhi High Court for "exceeding his jurisdiction'' and showing lack of "judicial discipline'' by modifying the HC's order. Pulling up the Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate of New Delhi district for cancelling the interim bail of an accused, granted to him by the HC, for no valid reason and making him surrender before the court, Just..

Union Minister for Law and Justice Veerappa Moily said prior sanction should not be necessary for prosecuting a public servant who has been trapped red-handed or found in possession of assets disproportionate to known sources of his income.  Dr Moily also advocated statutory protection for whistleblowers. Stating that the present 65-70 per cent con..

Corruption poses a threat to national security as in the case of Mumbai Blasts in 1993 in which smuggled arms and explosives were used, Chief Justice of India (CJI) K G Balakrishnan said. Financing of terrorist operations through Hawala currency racket and other acts are a pervasive culture of graft that provokes pessimism about the quality of governance, he said. /br..