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The Delhi High Court sought response from the Centre and the Delhi government on a PIL seeking its direction to de-concretise pavements in the capital. The petition pointed out that trees on the pavements have become weak due to concretisation as roots were not getting sufficient nourishment. Advocate Sugreev Dubey, appea..

 The Delhi High Court on Wednesday sought response from the CBI on a petition filed by NCSC Chairman Buta Singh accusing the probe agency of illegally summoning him for interrogation in an alleged bribery case involving his son. Singh, a former Bihar Governor and Chairman of National Commission for Schedule Caste (NCSC), contend..

 The Supreme Court on Monday decided to examine whether the process of addition of multi-functional additives (MFAs) to petrol and diesel and retailing them as premium brands amounts to manufacturing for the purpose of imposition of excise duty. The Central Excise department has approached the apex cou..

Court proceedings remained disrupted on Tuesday, as the lawyers have gone on an indefinite strike following no action by the chief justice of Gujarat High Court on their demand to transfer district and sessions judge R P Dholaria.  Hundreds of litigants and undertrials at Surat sub jail were le..

A magistrate's court here has ordered an inquiry under the Atrocities Act against IAS officer Makarand Khetmalis, deputy commissioner of police (crime) Anil Kumbhare and four others for allegedly making castiest remarks against an instrumentation engineer, Mahendra Adsule (31), of Pimpri.  The ..

Calcutta High Court has directed the Bidhannagar ACJM court to complete the trial of the sensational and much-delayed Merlin Park bar-cum-restaurant sleaze racket case by September.  The court has directed that the verdict in the case involving Avtar Singh, husband of former MP and athlete Jyot..

Chopping of trees has become quite routine along E M Bypass and VIP Road. It seldom evokes a strong reaction from the forest department. But on Monday, the department acted swiftly after a row of newly planted trees were chopped near ITC Sonar on the bypass, allegedly by a hoarding agency. A complaint was filed against ..

 To press their demand for a Bench of Rajasthan High Court in Udaipur, a delegation of 35 la..

The chairman of district lok adalat and district and session judge A K Jain on Tuesday issued notice to district collector and municipal corporation, to ban the immersion of Ganesh idols in Anasagar Lake, as the chemicals and synthetic colous used in these statues pollute the water body. The court has asked the district administration to submit their reply by August 28. The petitioner Suhas B..

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 The Madras High Court has asked the Tamil Nadu government to consider locating all cracker shops in Chennai at places like Island Ground and some other appropriate places during the Diwali season.  A suggestion to this effect was made by the first bench comprising chief justice HL Gokhale..

 The Madras High Court has refused to interfere with the Puducherry government's decision to pay Rs 25 lakh to the family of the former lieutenant-governor Govindsing Gurjar, who died in April 2009 while in office.  Gurjar was appointed lieutenant governor on July 23, 2008, and he died on ..

The government on Tuesday got some much-needed relief in dealing with the power crisis. The high court has stayed for six weeks the August 17 directive of the Central Electricity Regulatory Commission (CERC), asking KPTCL to grant open access for export of electricity to outside the state.  Jus..

 The Bombay high court on Tuesday restrained the Maharashtra government from implementing the Allowed-To-Keep-Term (ATKT) facility for students who failed their SSC examinations till it gives its verdict in the matter.  A division bench of Chief Justice Swatanter Kumar and Justice Ajay Kha..

The Madras High Court has said that the Chennai Corporation and Commissioner of Police should consider a proposal to shift temporary cracker shops to the Island Grounds or to some other appropriate place and frame a scheme in this regard.  A Bench, comprising Chief Justice H L Gokhale and Justice R Banumathi, said the officials should explore all possibilities of settl..