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Chief Justice of India K G Balakrishnan's dismissal of a conscientious objector in the judiciary as a ``publicity seeker'' is the latest in a series of attempts by him in recent months to play down or cover up serious issues concerning judicial accountability.  Rather than addressing the public..

The RTI complaints and appeals dealing with the State Information Commission and its nodal department -- administrative reforms department -- will be heard by the state chief information commissioner (SCIC) Ranjeet Singh Pankaj himself. The new SCIC, who was appointed on June 27 this year, has re-allocated the governmen..

The state unit of All India Lawyer's Union (AILU) on Sunday demanded the constitution of a national judicial commission and decided to send a proposal to this effect to the law ministry. In a meeting held under the chairmanship of its state president Balwant Singh, the union discussed the issue and said judicial commission was a need of the hour in order to completely abolish corruption preva..

Mandating the use of PAN (personal account number) for all high-value transactions was supposed to be an important way of plugging the black economy. But the I-T department is now discovering that has not quite happened. According to the Annual Information Return (AIR) filed with the government, high-value transactions amounted to more than Rs 55.7 lakh crore in 2007-08, almost double the Rs ..

The Delhi High Court has asked police why action was not initiated against owners of vehicles without insurance cover.  Justice J R Midha on Thursday issued a notice to the police commissioner to explain by October 5, why owners of such vehicles are let free, as it amounts to greater risk to them under any eventuality. The court was hearing an appe..

The Madras High Court has granted interim stay on a government order issued in November 2008 by the School Education Department, which made it mandatory for educational institutions established and administered by the Catholic Church to renew their minority status every five years.  Justice P Jyothimani passed the order on a petition by the Tamil Nadu Catholic Educatio..

Expressing concerns over the growing food prices due to scanty rains, the Supreme Court has asked the government to contain the problem. The apex court asked the Centre and the state governments to extend all possible financial, administrative..

The Madhya Pradesh High Court rejected the plea for staying Bhopal civic bodies elections and issued an order that ward-wise women reservation process should not be completed without the court’s permission. The joint bench comprising Chief Justice A K Patnaik and Justice Ajit Singh gave the verdict during the hearing of a petition which challenged the women’s re..

Justice Permod Kohli of the Punjab and Haryana High Court here reserved its verdict on a number of writ petitions by Maheepinder Singh Mahal of Bathinda and others, vide which prayer has been made not to allow Jalandhar-based Punjab technical university (PTU) to make admissions to vacant seats in different engineering disciplines on the basis of the merit and marks in the basic qualification of..

Hearing a contempt petition, the Allahabad High Court issued notices to Mohinder Singh, the chief executive officer of NOIDA and two others asking them to appear in person before the Court on September 15, and show cause as to why the charges for willful disobedience of the order dated January 29, 2009 passed by this Court in first appeal may not be framed for punishing them under the provision..

In a major relief to AIADMK supremo J Jayalalithaa, Madras High Court today upheld the trial court order acquitting her in the multi-crore colour TV scam case. The Court also set aside the conviction of seven others, including former AIADMK Minister T M Selvaganapathy in the case.  Dismissing the appeal petition filed by the Tamil Nadu Government c..

Taking a suo moto action, the Jharkhand High Court issued notice to HRD Secretary and DC, Saraikela, in connection with children falling ill after consuming mid-day meal served at a primary school. About 48 children fell ill yesterday after eating meal served at Urugutu primary school under Raj Nagar block in Saraikela district. When the children were h..

The Calcutta High Court ruled that no construction would be made in and around Victoria Memorial Complex located in the heart of the city. A division bench headed by Bhaskar Bhattacharya issued the ruling on a Public Interest Litigation (PIL) filed by environmental activist Subhas Dutta. The Victoria Memorial authority had planned to build a library and..

The Bombay High Court heavily came down upon Mumbai police for allegedly illegally detaining two social activists, who reportedly intended to protest during US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s recent visit to Mumbai. A Division Bench headed by Justice Bilal Nazki in its order said that police have no right to stop people from demonstrating.  ..

The Kerala High Court asked the State Government to inform it on the status of the inquiry proceedings against senior IAS officer K Sureshkumar.  The court also directed the Government to inform it whether there was any need to keep him under suspension, if the inquiry proceedings were over.  The directions were made by a Division Bench compri..