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About 70,000 cases, some of them pending for decades, were settled by Lok Adalats since 2007 amicably in Jammu and Kashmir where 3807 cases have been disposed of by the State Human Rights Commission (SHRC) and 1035 cases have been recommended for ex-gratia relief. This..

The Madhya Pradesh High Court today directed issuance of contempt notices to the state Secretary and Commissioner (Medical Education) and the Dean, Gandhi Medical College, Bhopal, for not refunding excess fees to a petitioner despite court orders. Chief Justice Anang Kumar Patnaik and Justice Pankaj Jaiswal heard the plea of Mr Vikash Khare, a 2008 batch student who was giv..

 The Government is preparing a roadmap for judicial reforms in the country which aims, inter alia, at reducing pendency in the courts, at providing quick and effective justice, introducing accountability of the judges and bringing the transparency in judici..

The Ministry of Environment and Forest has made the Environmental Clearances process more transparent than before. The Ministry, in the past, received some communications from NGOs complaining about the violation of rules regarding matters such as non-implementa..

The Bill for establishment of the National Green Tribunal (NGT) is under finalization. As environmental cases are inter-sectoral and cross-cutting in nature it is difficult to exactly quantify the same. The NGT intends to reduce the load of ..

About 70,000 cases, some of them pending for decades, were settled by Lok Adalats since 2007 amicably in Jammu and Kashmir where 3807 cases have been disposed of by the State Human Rights Commission (SHRC) and 1035 cases have been recommended for ex-gratia relief. This was informed at review meeting of Law department held here today under the chairmanship of Minister for La..

Sarva Dharam Sansad (SDS), a religious organisation having representatives of all religions, decided to approach the Supreme Court, seeking direction to the authorities to remove all religious structures built on public land through encroachment across the country. Senior Advocate K T S Tulsi agreed to help the SDS in preparing the PIL. This decision ha..

 The Madhya Pradesh High Court issued notice of contempt of court to two state government officials in Uraon and other tribal caste Certificate matter. A division bench while hearing the contempt petition yesterday issued notice to Chief Secretary Rakesh Sahni and Principal Secretary Sudesh Kumar. Several organisations belonging to Scheduled Tribe ..

In order to have an appropriate mechanism to deal with matters relating to equal opportunities for deprived groups and diversity in living, educational and work spaces, the Government had constituted two Expert Groups. One Expert Group was to examine and determine the structure and functions of an Equal Opportunity Commission and the other one was to recommend an appropriate ‘diversity in..

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..

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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..