others

The Madras High Court had directed the Tamil Nadu government to pay a compensation of Rs 50,000 to a victim, stating that there was gross dereliction of duty by officials with regard to the safety and security of inmates of the Special Prison for Women, Vellore, leading to an attack on a woman prisoner by convict warders. A Division Bench, comprising Justices Elipe Dharma R..

A very important issue about what will be the date when the duty is payable for warehoused goods which are cleared illegally. This concerns a very large number of importers who warehouse the goods and clear them as and when they need them. This is an old issue but controversies never die. The issue has..

 Should you seek information from the Centre through a Right to Information (RTI) petition, you better be conversant in all Indian languages. Even so, chances are you may still not get what you have asked for. M.K. Haridas of The Proper Channel petitioned the Election Commission of India (ECI) for information on the sum accrued by the government by way of forfeited security deposit..

link rel="themeData" href="file:///C:%5CDOCUME%7E..

According to NASSCOM, the H-1B visa restrictions may not affect employees of Indian outsourcing companies as they do not receive any TARP support.  Visa issue being a sovereign function of a foreign Government, Government of India has b..

In an unsual instance so to speak, a local court yesterday issued bailable warrants against the ruling Congress MLA Raghu Sharma for making derogatory remarks in Rajasthan Assembly against Leader of the Opposition and former chief minister Vasundhara Raje. Additional Chief Judicial Magistrate Hari Kishan Goswami while taking suo motu action on the proceeding of the Assembly..

All efforts to release Uttar Pradesh Congress president Rita Bahuguna Joshi, presently under judicial custody for 14 days, went in vain when the Additional District Judge(ADJ) postponed the hearing in the case for tomorrow. Ms Joshi will have to spend at least this night in the women ward of the Moradabad district jail. ADJ Sudha Sharma posted the heari..

Gauhati High Court has taken up the election petition filed by former BJP Lok Sabha MP from Arunachal Pradesh Kiren Rijiju, seeking justice in the April 16 electoral process under the Election Commission (EC). The court yesterday took up the petition for hearing under designated election judge Justice Iqbal Ansari who, taking cognizance of it, admitted the case and fixed th..

First Class Sanjay Kumar Judicial Magistrate has issued directions to Mumbai’s Arthur Road Jail Superintendent to produce jail manual on the complaint of the activist Abhinav Bharat and Malegaon-blast accused Samir Kulkarni, who also stands accused in an incident of church fire in this cantonment town. While recording his statement and other witnesses in the church fi..

The existing methods of handling municipal solid waste at Perungudi, on the city’s outskirts, were not scientific and violate several provisions of municipal rules, an Expert Committee(EC) has said in its report to the Madras High Court. While passing orders in the matter relating to prevention of burning of garbage at Pallikaranai marsh during the last hearing, the c..

 In an effort to save municipal commissioner Jairaj Phatak from the fury of the Bombay high court, the civic administration on Wednesday re-submitted to the standing committee the proposal for the partial closure of the Deonar dumping ground.  According to the proposal, the dump will be fu..

 Elections to the Maharashtra Medical Council, the watchdog body of the medical profession, that were held after a gap of 10 years have come under the scanner of the Bombay high court. Incidentally, the high court had dissolved the last elections held in 1999 because of electoral malpractice.  ..

  Struck by the worst-ever hooch tragedy in Gujarat, which has killed over 150 in the last one week, the state government decided on Wednesday to frame a new law with provisions of death sentence and life imprisonment. Approved by the cabinet, the amendment to the Bombay Prohibition Act, 1949 will be introduce..

Jharkhand High Court rejected the petition of former Chief Minister and MP Madhu Koda and two others regarding removing their names from the cases filed against them for amassing properties disproportionate to their known source of income. The division bench comprising Chief Justice Gyan Sudha Mishra and Justice D K Sinha rejected the petition of businessmen Vinod Sinha and..

Certain changes in the procedure for appointment of notaries have been made in the Notaries Rules, 1956 by the Notaries (Amendment) Rules, 2009 w.e.f. 01.03.2009. As per the new procedure, applicants are also required to appear before the interview board, which ..