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Facts at A Glance (FIRST PHASE OF LOK SABHA ELECTIONS TO BE HELD ON 16. 04.2009)GENERAL ELECTIONS-2009Backgrounder -20 S. No. Item : Number of constituencies going on poll – 124 PCs in 17 States/ UTs (Andhra Pradesh, Arunachal Pradesh, Assam, Bihar, J&K, Kerala, Maharashtra, Manipur, Maghalaya, Mizoram, Nagaland, Orissa, UP, Chattisgarh, Jharkhand, Andaman & Nico..

Chances of Pilibhit BJP candidate Varun Gandhi being released from jail brightened when the Supreme Court today sought an undertaking from him that he will not make any provocative and inflammatory speech if released from jail. A bench comprising Chief Justice K G Balakrishanan and Justice P Sathasivam fixed the matter for hearing on April 16 for further consideration of the petition of Mr Gand..

The Supreme Court today reserved its judgment on the petitions seeking transfer of cases related to the 2002 Gujarat communal violence outside the state of Gujarat to ensure free and fair trial. A bench headed by Mr Justice Arijit Pasayat reserved the verdict after hearing the parties and directed them to file their suggestions on the issue of protection of witnesses and other issues raised by ..

To suggest that the legal profession be treated as any other commercially rendered services and that law firms be considered a commercial entity or a business is sacrilege. One of the reasons for the opposition to the entry of foreign law firms, particularly those from the UK and US, is that they are structured as a business organisation, whereas in India, practice of law is a noble profession. ..

The government may set up an expert panel to advise it on how to prepare norms for companies to record and submit sensitive operational details on cost of production. The government, which is reviewing the scope of cost audit for enterprises, aims to have a separate body that will give crucial inputs on such standards before making them applicable. The panel is expected to have experts from variou..

HC notice to Centre on plea over Sikkim CM's citizenship New Delhi, Apr 8 The Delhi High Court today issued a notice to the Centre on a petition which claimed that Sikkim Chief Minister Pawan Kumar Chamling was not an Indian citizen and sought a direction to the government in the matter. Justice S Ravindra Bhat sought a response from the Centre by July 17 on a petition filed by Padam Praka..

The security threat to the Karnataka High Court appears to have been taken seriously at last by the city police which on Monday deployed 12 gunmen armed with sophisticated SLR rifles to patrol its grounds. The gunmen will check every vehicle entering the court premises, including those of advocates and their clients on every trip they make to it. The city police has appealed to the advocates’ for..

Accounting regulators yet to recognise LLP Amendments needed in regulations. Though the government has initiated the process of registering Limited Liability Partnership (LLP) firms, it would take a while before the chartered accountant (CA), company secretary (CS) and cost accounting firms convert to LLPs. The three regulators — Institute of Chartered Accountants of India (ICAI), Institu..

The Supreme Court declined to give early hearing to a petition challenging the decision of the organisers of IPL Cricket tournament to shift it to South Africa. A bench, comprising Chief Justice K G Balakrishnan and Justice P Sathasivam, declined the request of the petitioners Harshvardhan Surana and Pradeep Kumar Aggarwal, who appeared in person. Their main contention was that since the tou..

Houston (PTI): Supreme Court Chief Justice K G Balakrishnan paid tributes to Martin Luther King Jr in a special ceremony in Atlanta to mark the 41st death anniversary of the anti-apartheid activist. The chief justice, along with a delegation of Ministry of Law and Justice and Indian Law Institute, paid tributes to King in a Special Commemorative Ceremony at The King Center to observe the death ..

Congress leader Jagdish Tytler's fate is likely to be decided by a city court Thursday after the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) gave him a clean chit in a case related to the 1984 anti-Sikh riots here. The court may decide on accepting the CBI closure report against Tytler and ordering the quashing of charges against him or order fresh investigation into the case. De-sealing its final r..

Home Minister P. Chidambaram Tuesday ducked a shoe thrown by a journalist at a press conference here. Chidambaram was replying to a question posed by a Sikh journalist on the Central Bureau of Investigation's (CBI) clean chit to Congress leader Jagdish Tytler on the 1984 anti-Sikh riots. 'Please take him away,' the minister said after the missile was thrown at him. Congress party workers imm..

BANGALORE: There was commotion on Monday afternoon near the High Court following an anonymous call to the control room stating there was a bomb in the court premises. Some unidentified person called the police control room at 2.30 pm and said a bomb has been placed in the High Court and hung the call. Dog and bomb squads immediately arrived on the spot and screened the building. It was then..

Revealing the methods of operation in the multi-crore rupee accounting fraud at Satyam Computer, its ex-CFO Vadlamani Srinivas has told the apex accounting body ICAI that the company's sales were inflated and bank statements had been forged to justify the claim. "He (Vadlamani) told the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India team that they (former Satyam management) only inflated sale..

The Supreme Court has held that police need permission from the judiciary only for a fresh probe into a criminal case and not for any additional probe. Various legal "provisions make it clear that further investigation is permissible, but reinvestigation is prohibited. The law does not mandate taking of prior permission from the magistrate for further investigation," said a bench of Justice SB..