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The Delhi High Court today directed the Sheila Dikshit Government to revoke the driving licence of those multiple offenders who are apprehended while driving under the influence of liquor. The High Court directed that the suggestions given by amicus curie (friend of the court) Mr Anup Bhambani be implemented to check the accidents caused due to driving under the influence o..

Describing the quantum of punishment awarded by the Delhi High Court to a leading Delhi lawyer R K Anand, convicted for contempt of court, as wholly inadequate the Supreme Court today issued him notice for enhancing his punishment for trying to win over a prosecution witness in the BMW hit-and-run case to save culprit Sanjeev Nanda, currently undergoing imprisonment. The De..

 The Delhi High Court clubbed together the petitions of three respondents -- Anglican Church of India, Church of North India and Church of India -- and will decide on merits the natural successor of the Church of England. Each of the three respondents claim to be the successor of the principal Church -Church of England- whose properties worth crores of rupees are sprea..

 The Kerala High Court admitted a writ petition filed by Zoom Developers Private Limited against the rejection of a technical bid by the Technical Evaluation Committee for the Vizhinjam International Container Transshipment Terminal project.  The court had also issued notices to the respondents by speed post.  Single Bench Judge Justice V..

 As per information provided by the Central Information Commission, the number of applications received by various public authorities during the years 2005-06, 2006-07 and 2007-08 were 24436, 171404 and 263261 respectively. Information in respect of the 200..

 The names of the seven companies named in CBI’s FIR registered against the Ex-chairman, Ordnance Factory Board are:span style="font..

The Government proposes to enact a new Emigration Law. The proposed legislation is aimed at transforming emigration into a simple, transparent, efficient, and humane economic process, facilitate legal migration, prevent illegal migration and human smuggling, ena..

The Madras High Court today quashed the order to detain Periyar Dravidar Kazhagam(PDK) General Secretary Kovai Ramakrishnan under the National Security Act (NSA) in a case related to attack on an Army Convoy in Coimbatore on May 2. While allowing a petition filed by Ramakrishnan’s wife Vasanthi, a division bench comprising Justice S J Mukhopadhaya and Justice Raja Ila..

Madras High Court has said the Tamil Nadu government should seriously consider banning the use of plastic bags and other plastic materials upto 60 microns as an immediate step. The court asked the government to bestow its serious attention to the draft Tamil Nadu Throwaway Plastic Articles (Prohibition of Sale, Storage, Distribution and Transport) Bill, pending since 2003, ..

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..