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Madras High Court has suggested that Parliament amend the Motor Vehicle (MV) Act to constitute Medical Boards for assessing the disability of accident victims. The certificate issued by the Boards should be accepted as binding on all the accident tribunals in the country, a division bench comprising Justices Ms Prabha Sridevan and T S Sivagnanam observed. /..

Madras High Court has said that homemakers too should be considered earning members and compensation should be computed accordingly in case of their death due to accidents. A division bench comprising Justice Prabha Sridevan and T S Sivagnanam yesterday ruled that ‘the time has come to scientifically assess the value of the unpaid homemaker, both in accident claims an..

July 28, 2009 The Ministry of Environment and Forests is in process to amend Wildlife Protection Act to control wildlife crimes. Speaking at the opening of Bengal Tiger Consultation organized by Wildlife Conservation Trust, Shri Jairam Ramesh, Minister of State for Environment and Forests (I/C) informed there is a need to strengthen this act by introducing suitable changes and strin..

In the backdrop of the recent hooch tragedy in the state that claimed over 130 lives, the Gujarat assembly on Tuesday passed a bill proposing stringent punishment upto death penalty to deal with illicit liquor trade. p style="font-size: 11px; l..

 The Bombay High Court, in a recent order, restored the additional lands granted to partition refugees. Satramdas Ramdas and several others had filed a petition challenging t..

More than 74,000 newspapers are registered with the Registrar of Newspapers for India (RNI). Uttar Pradesh has the maximum number of titles for registered newspapers—11,789; followed by Delhi with 10,066 registered newspapers and Maharashtra with 9,127 reg..

 The Lucknow Bench of Allahabad High Court today stayed the admission of a PIL challenging implementation of 50% reservation in private engineering colleges in Uttar Pradesh till September 3. The Bench of Justice Pradeep Kant and Justice Rituraj Awasthi passed the order on a petition filed by Ajay Swaroop and others.  The state government had ..

The Bar Council of Gujarat has removed advocate Pankajkumar Bachubhai Velani of Patan from the state roll of advocates for misrepresentation and suppression of material fact that he was engaged in business of two firms in 2002 when he was enrolled. The suspension followed an inquiry by the Enrollment Committee. The Bar Council of India also accepted the..

The Supreme Court refused to entertain a PIL seeking directions to the Union Government to set up an expert committee to examine if Electronic Voting Machines (EVM) were tamper-proof.  A bench comprising Chief Justice K G Balakrishanan and Mr Justice P Sadasivam told the petitioner V V Rao and others to approach the Election Commissioner of India for the purpose. ..

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 The government is taking strict steps by effective laws to stop cutting of trees in forest areas and to curb forest mafia.Strict enforcement of the Indian Forests Act, 1927, the Forest (Conservation) Act, 1980 and the Wildlife (Protection) Act, 1972 enable..

Dr. M.Veerappa Moily, Minister of Law and Justice informed the Rajya Sabha in a written reply that the Lok Sabha passed the Supreme Court (Number of Judges) Amendment Bill, 2008 on 22nd December, 2008 and it received the assent of the President on 5th February, ..

The Law Commission of India in its 216th Report on “Non-Feasibility of Introduction of Hindi as Compulsory Language in the Supreme Court of India” has, inter-alia, recommended that the higher judiciary should not be subjected to any kind of even pers..

Madras High Court has directed the Coimbatore Police Commissioner to form a team of officers to arrest a proclaimed offender involved in three cases and produce him before it.  ‘Police Inspectors in Coimbatore had kept quiet even after the court issued proclamation against a person’, Court observed. Considering the sorry state of affair..

Under the proposed Judges Assets Bill, judges of the higher judiciary, failing to declare their assets or providing false declaration will be deemed misconduct, giving way for removing a judge, according to Chief Justice of India K G Balakrishnan. Talking to media persons, he said judges were already declaring their assets to the Chief Justice. But the assets of their depen..