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Union Minister of State for Agriculture and Consumer Affairs, has said the Government is giving final ..

Citing the ground realities prevailing in Uttar Pradesh, the Supreme Court today took serious note of huge diversion of public funds for installing statues or photos of powerful political leaders and directed Chief Minister Mayawati, the state government and others to respond within four weeks to a PIL in this regard. The petition sought a CBI probe into expenditure of over..

  Uttar Pradesh Government's controversial project of installing statues of Chief Minister Mayawati on Monday came under the scrutiny of the Supreme Court which sought an explanation from it for allegedly spending crores of rupees from the state exchequer. The apex court issued show cause notice to the state government ..

Karnataka Advocates Society President Ramesh Babu welcomed the decision of the Centre for framing a law to make it mandatory for judges to disclose assets. In a release here, he said the move by Union Minister for Law M Veerappa Moily to frame a law on the lines of the one in force for government servants and politicians was commendable and a healthy measure. ..

A senior IPS officer in Tamil Nadu who is due to retire this month, has got relief with the Madras High Court confirming a Central Administrative Tribunal(CAT) order quashing a charge memo against him. In the light of the Screening Committee’s recommendation that Ramarajan is fit for promotion as DIG, and considering the peculiar facts and circumstances of the case an..

 The Madras High Court has issued a writ of mandamus to the Collector of Tiruvallur district to pay Rs 2.10 lakh, the balance amount of compensation to a person for loss of property in an accident nine years ago. T Ramakrishnan of Tiruvur village in Tiruvallur district submitted that around 1830 hrs, on September one, 2000 anti-social elements, armed with deadly weapon..

A petition was filed in the Karnataka High Court circuit bench here seeking disqualification of the election of former Chief Minister N Dharam Singh, who was elected from the Bidar Lok Sabha constituency, for alleged irregularities. Gurupadappa Nagmarpalli, the BJP candidate from Bidar in the Lok Sabha polls, who was defeated by Mr Singh, filed the petition in the High Court's bench yesterday. ..

 The Supreme court has said ‘dead wood’ among government employees can be compulsorily retired and principles of natural justice were not required to be complied with. A bench comprising Justices S B Sinha and Mukundkam Sharma, in their judgment, noted, ‘The law relating to compulsory retirement is no longer res integra. Such an order of compulsory re..

The Supreme Court has ruled that once a candidate has opted to take the benefit of the OBC reserved category, he cannot be allowed to claim general category. A bench comprising Justices Tarun Chatterjee and H L Dattu while allowing the appeal of Union Government noted, ‘In our opinion, having opted to consider his case only under the OBC category, he cannot thereafter..

The Supreme Court has approved the Madhya Pradesh High Court’s directions to the state police that they will have to file authenticated photograph of the accused, witnesses and complainant along with the charge sheet filed on completion of investigation in a criminal case. A Supreme Court bench comprising Justices Arijit Pasayat, DK Jain and Mukundakam Sharma put its ..

 Union Minister for Law M Veerappa Moily said the government will amend the existing laws, including the IT Act, to combat cyber crimes in the country. Talking at the valedictory function of the Southern Regional Workshop on Cyber Law, he said the country should be equipped in dealing with cyber crimes as tomorrow’s war will be in cyber space.  br..

President Pratibha Patil said here on Saturday that backlog of cases and high cost of litigation were the two main concerns plaguing the judicial system. Citing the old maxim, ‘justice delayed is justice denied,’ she said innovative solutions were needed to urgently tackle the issue. Speaking at the inauguration of the Maharashtra Judicial Academy at Uttan, Ms. Patil said, &..

Indian prisoner Sarabjit Singh, languishing in a Pakistani jail for the past 18 years, has got a new lawyer, days after the country’s Supreme Court dismissed his appeal against capital punishment. Sarabjit’s sister Dalbir Kaur on Saturday said she “no longer had faith” in Rana Abdul Hamid, who was representing him till now. She questioned the lawyer’s non-a..

Calling for proper reform of Indian Commercial Law, Kerala High Court Chief Justice S R Bannurmath today stressed the importance of adopting institutional arbitration instead of ad-hoc arbitrations. Addressing a gathering after inaugurating a national seminar on Maritime Arbitration : Techniques and Enforcement organised by the Indian Council of Arbitration (ICA) and the Kerala Chamber of Comm..

In exercise of the powers conferred by clause (1) of Article 217 of the Constitution of India, the President is pleased to appoint (1) Shri Syamal Kanti Chakrabarti,  (2) Md. Abdul Ghani,  (3) Shri Raghunath Ray,  (4) Shri Mrinal Kanti Sinha and  (5) Shri Prabhat Kumar Dey, to be Judges of the Calcutta High Court, in that ord..