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The State Government has continued its defiant stand on the issue of implementing the order of a Division Bench of the Karnataka High Court on the language policy. Chief Minister B.S. Yeddyurappa told presspersons here on Sunday that there was no change in the Government’s stand that Kannada should have primacy in school education. “We will move the Supreme Court seeking stay on the..

With a view to bringing in far reaching judicial reforms, the UPA government is seriously thinking of introducing the National Judicial Service on the lines of Indian Administrative Service, Union Law Minister Veerappa Moily has said. Addressing a function to mark the first anniversary of High Court Circuit Bench in WALMI campus here yesterday, he said the Centre wanted the ..

The General Budget for the Financial Year 2009-10 presented by Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee today has caused disappointment in the Health and legal sectors. Reacting to the Budget proposals, presented in the Lok Sabha by the Finance Minister, renowned heart surgeo..

Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Monday said the Union Budget 2009-10 is aimed at minimizing the "impact of the global recession" and achieving 8 to 9 per cent growth in the medium term. Describing the budget as rural-development-oriented, Sing..

Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee has presented Budget 2009-10 in Parliament. Beginning his Budget speech, Pranab first thanked the voters for reposing faith in the UPA government.  Here are the Budget highlights even as it’s presented in Parliament:  Total budget expenditure for 2009-10 will be Rs 10,28,032 cr ..

Union Law and Justice Minister M Veerappa Moily said steps would be taken to fill vacant posts of High Court judges and funds would be provided to modernise courts. Inaugurating the Planting of Millions of Saplings organised by the High Court Circuit benches of Gulbarga and Dharwad to commemorate the first anniversary of the circuit benches, he said he would ensure ‘z..

With a view to bringing in far reaching judicial reforms, the UPA government is seriously thinking of introducing the National Judicial Service on the lines of Indian Administrative Service, Union Law Minister Veerappa Moily has said. Addressing a function to mark the first anniversary of High Court Circuit Bench in WALMI campus here yesterday, he said the Centre wanted the..

The Madras High Court has upheld an order of the Central Administrative Tribunal (CAT) for quashing the orders of the Railway Board of 2006 by which the upper age limit of 38 years, plus training period, was applied to all class of candidates, irrespective of their categorisation as OC, OBC, SC and ST, for appointment to the post of Substitute Helper Grade II. In its order ..

A strong demand was made by the Opposition in the Rajya Sabha to "dump" the Union Minister who allegedly tried to "pressurise" a judge of the Madras High Court to sanction anticipatory bail to the accused in a forgery case. Raising the issue during Zero Hour, Leader of the Opposition Arun Jaitley said the mini..

 A petition has been filed in the Madras High Court seeking a CBI probe into the charge by a Judge of the court that a union minister had called him trying to influence him in a pending criminal case. Contending that by attempting to influence Justice R Regupathy, the unnamed minister 'committed gross impropriety' and violat..

The Allahabad High Court reserved its judgment on a criminal contempt petition filed against Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mayawati.  Criminal contempt petition has been filed by ex-MLA Alka Rai, wife of slain BJP MLA Krishnanad Rai. According to the petition, Ms Mayawati, while addressing a public meeting on April 12, 2009 in district Ghazipur, had..

Upholding the judgment of the Divisional Forum, Jammu and Kashmir State Consumer Disputes Redressal Commission (SCDRC), has directed the government to pay Rs 50,000 to a consumer for disconnecting his water connection. Rejecting the appeal of the public health engineering (PHE) department against the order of Divisional Forum, Srinagar of June 14,2008, the SCDRC directed th..

Madras High Court returned a writ petition filed by Pattali Makkal Katchi (PMK) President G K Mani seeking direction to the Election Commission of India to forbear the use of Electronic Voting Machines (EVM) in future elections. A Division Bench Comprising Justice D Murugesan and Justice K Venkatraman directed petitioner to alter his prayer and submit the petition afresh.b..

Madras High Court issued notice to the State Government on a petition filed by the Association of House Surgeons and Post-graduate Medical students, who are on strike demanding decent hike in their stipend. When the matter came up before a Division Bench comprising Justices D Murugesan and K Venkatraman, counsel for the petitioner V S Sethuraman pointed out that medical col..

 The Madras High Court has asked the government to hold discussions with office-bearers of the association of House Surgeons and post-graduate medical students, who are on strike demanding decent hike in their stipend. A division bench comprising Justices D Murugesan and K Venkataraman, before whom the petition filed by an advocate V S Sethuraman on behalf of the House..