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The Supreme Court has directed all the State and Union Territories to implement the directions of the Union Government to provide supplementary nutrition food to all children in age group of 6 months to 3 years and also to severely underweight children in the age group of 3 o 6 years. A bench comprising Justices Arijit Pasayat and S H Kapadia issued the directions yesterday which include provi..

A judge of the Madras High court has taken to task, a private airways for not serving food during a flight from Madurai to Chennai. Mr Justice S Regupathy, judge of Madras High court filed a complaint against Jet Airways, after the air hostess refused to serve food to him, his assistant and seven other passengers on the ground that ‘they are not their passengers’. The judge and his assistant..

The Supreme Court adjourned by two weeks the hearing of the appeal of the Income Tax Department, Mumbai against the judgment of the Bombay High Court granting exemption of 30 per cent to Bollywood actor Amitabh Bachchan in Income Tax on his income.The Bombay High Court had allowed the petition filed by the superstar seeking exemption of 30 per cent on the grounds that since he was an artis..

Special Public Prosecutor Ujjwal Nikam submitted before a designated court the 312-draft charges against all 47, including lone arrested Pakistani terrorist Ajmal Amir Kasab, Faheem Ansari and Sabauddin Ahmad, accused in the 26/11 terror attacks on the city. The accused also included all the nine deceased of the ten-member Pakistani terrorist gang, that besieged the city for 60 hours during the..

Only audit firms with peer review certificates issued by the ICAI can henceforth conduct audit of listed companies in India. This new norm will come into force from accounting periods commencing from April 1, 2009, the audit profession regulator ICAI decided at a council meeting here on Saturday. Also, financial statements of a company coming out with an initial public offering should only be atte..

The Allahabad High issued Notification for direct recruitment of 69 Vacancies in Uttar Pradesh Higher Judicial Services ( 41 Back Log & 27 Current . Last Date for Submission of Applications is 15-5-2009 - See Hindu Daily 2-4-2009Page 7 ..

The Chief Justice of India has written to chief justices of all High Courts to consider adopting the apex court judges' practice of declaring their assets at the time of their appointment and every year subsequently," said a Supreme Court official, as reported by NDTV/IANS Chief Justice of India K G Balakrishnan has written to all high courts across the country to consider adopting the apex cou..

Justice A C Arumugaperumal Adityan, who retired as the Judge of Madras High Court on April 16 after about 33 years of judicial service, was accorded a farewell by the Bench and the Bar at a brief function here. It was attended by the Madras High Court Chief Justice H L Gokhale and other judges and advocates. On the occasion, Advocate-General G Masilamani recalled Justice Adityan’s noteworthy..

The Supreme Court has disapproved the passing of adverse remarks/observations and strictures against the judicial officers of the lower judiciary. A bench comprising Chief Justice K G Balakrishnan and Justice P Sathasivam while expunging adverse remarks made by Delhi High Court against Additional District Judge of Delhi noted, ‘Our legal system acknowledges the fallibility of the judges, hence ..

The new foreign trade policy, which is being prepared by the commerce ministry, will be aligned with the Goods and Services Tax (GST) only after implementation of this indirect tax mechanism. The new policy is likely to be announced by the next government at the Centre by mid-2009, while the GST is likely to be implemented from April 1, 2010. The current foreign trade policy of 2004-09 was unveile..

The Company Law Board today approved Tech Mahindra's proposed acquisition of a 31 per cent stake in Satyam Computer and asked the buyer to deposit Rs 1,756 crore for the deal by April 21 in a designated account. The CLB, in its order, also asked Tech Mahindra to nominate a maximum of four directors on Satyam's board after depositing the required capital towards the stake purchase. It said that Ven..

The Bombay High Court on Thursday ordered the disciplinary committee of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India (ICAI) to provide a fair hearing to Partha Ghosh, a Price Waterhouse (PWC) partner and a senior manager, DVP Rao, in connection with a case of alleged professional misconduct. The duo, both chartered accountants, had audited the accounts of Global Trust Bank in 2003. ICAI had, ba..

Chief Justice K G Balakrishnan has said terror attacks and violence on basis of religion, caste and gender are posing "considerable challenges" to promotion of human rights but expressed satisfaction that safeguards are provided under the Constitution to meet these. Addressing a South Asian human rights conference at New Delhi on Thursday, he observed that in "an environment of insecurity and..

A senior criminal lawyer from Mumbai, Abbas Kazmi, was on Thursday appointed to defend Mohammed Ajmal Amir Kasab, the lone surviving terrorist in the 26/11 attack. Kazmi, who was appointed by special judge M L Tahilyani, will replace Anjali Waghmare, who was removed by the special court a day earlier on grounds of "professional misconduct". Another lawyer, K P Pawar, appointed last mont..

The Supreme Court on Thursday ordered "forthwith release" of Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Varun Gandhi for two weeks to enable him to file his nomination for Pilibhit Lok Sabha constituency and for the poll campaign. A Bench of Chief Justice K G Balakrishanan, Justice P Sathasivam and Justice J M Panchal ordered Varun Gandhi's release, pending a final decision on his lawsuit challenging..