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    The Bombay High Court today upheld the maintainability of the Reliance Natural Resources Limited (RNRL) plea in the long-standing dispute with Reliance Industries Ltd (RIL) involving supply of natural gas from the Krishna Godavari basin. br..

    The Mayawati government approached the Supreme Court against the order of Allahabad High Court to reinstate 18,000 police constables in Uttar Pradesh by May 27 or face contempt of court proceedings. A vacation bench comprising Jus..

    The Supreme Court issued notices to both the Union and Mayawati-led U P governments on a petition challenging the wholesale transfer of IAS and IPS officers in Uttar Pradesh, following dismal performance of the ruling BSP in the State in the..

    A PIL was filed in the Supreme Court today seeking CBI investigation into the alleged misuse of public funds by Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mayawati in installing her own ..

BOA grants 2 formal and one In-Principle Approvals The Board of Approval of the Special Economic Zones (SEZs) met today to consider proposals for setting up of SEZs and also to approve other requests pertaining to SEZs. Addressing the Board of Approval (BOA) members, the Chairman informed that so far 576 formal approvals have been granted for setting up of SEZs o..

The Supreme Court on Friday directed the principal of the Government Medical College, Amritsar, to appear before it on July 17 for failing to comply with its direction to admit a girl student. The vacation Bench comprising Justice B Sudershan Reddy and J Aftab Alam..

A local court today ordered to lodge an FIR against LJP supremo and former Union Minister Ramvilas Paswan for his alleged derogatory remarks against JD (U) MP Ramsunder Das. Chief Judicial Magistrate Prem Ranjan Mishra, taking cognizance of a petition filed against Mr Paswan by the state secretary of JD(U) minority cell Mohammad Nayeem, ordered police superintendent of Vais..

The Madras High Court has expressed anguish over the manner in which the Secretary, Backward and Most Backward Classes Welfare Department, had treated an order of the court without realising his responsibility. Disposing of a contempt petition, a bench comprising Justices F M Ibrahim Kalifulla and B Rajendran said the official had failed to realise the real purport of the o..

The Supreme Court has reprimanded the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS) for denying admission to a medical science student who had secured a high rank in the merit list. A vacation bench comprising Justices B Sudarshan Reddy and Aftab Alam yesterday threatened that it will reopen the entire admission process and order a thorough probe to fix responsibility on th..

The Madhya Pradesh High Court has issued a stay order on a petition that challenged the admission in reserved seats on first come first serve basis for Non-Residential Indians (NRIs) in private engineering colleges in the state. Chief Justice Aang Kumar Patnaik and Justice Ajit Singh issued the order to the state government during the hearing of the plea of Nitin Saxena, ye..

Annual year-on-year rate of inflation turned negative in the week ended June 6, 2009, from 0.13 per cent in the week ended May 30, 2009. This implies that the average wholesale price level was lower during the week ending June 6, 2009, than it was a year ago. The decline in the inflation rate this week is due primarily to decline in the inflation rate of fuel and power, whi..

 In exercise of the powers conferred by clause (1) of article 222 of the Constitution of India, the President, after consultation with the Chief Justice of India, is pleased to transfer Shri Justice Sushil Harkauli, Judge of the Allahabad High Court as a Judge of the Jharkhand High Court and to direct him to assume charge of his office in the Jharkhand High Court on or before 1st July, 200..

In exercise of the powers conferred by clause (1) of article 222 of the Constitution of India, the President, after consultation with the Chief Justice of India, is pleased to transfer Shri Justice Uma Nath Singh, Judge of the Punjab & Haryana High Court as a Judge of the Allahabad High Court and to direct him to assume charge of his office in the Allahabad High Court on or before 1st July,..

Madras High Court has declined to grant anticipatory bail to a college student accused of ragging his junior. While dismissing the petition, Mr Justice R Regupathi said stringent action should be taken against him and the co-accused if concrete material is made available against them.  In his order, Justice Regupathi stated that in spite of the ena..

The Madhya Pradesh High Court has issued notices to State government and Municipality Chairperson, for probe into irregularities in the construction of roads by open tender process. A division bench, comprising Chief Justice Anang Kumar Patnaik and Justice Ajeet Singh, was hearing the Public Interest Litigation Petition of a social worker of Seoni Satish Singh Thakur, who h..