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The Uttarakhand High Court has stopped NABARD Chief Umesh Chandra Sarangi from discharging his duties. A bench comprising Chief Justice B K Gupta and Justice B K Bisht gave the ruling on a plea by Deputy General Manager Sushil Das. Das had opposed the April 2007 appointment of Sarangi, a 1977 Maharashtra cadre IAS officer, on the grounds that his appointment did not meet the required norms..

The Supreme Court directed the Election Commission to allot common election symbols to Chiranjeevis Praja Rajyam party and two other political parties in the south as an interim arrangement. Popular Telugu film star Chiranjeevis Praja Rajyam party will get railway engine as the symbol while DMDK, a Tamil Nadu based political party, will get drum and third political party, Lok Satta, has been ..

The Supreme Court today directed the CBI to file a fresh status report within a week giving the names of those judges who are no longer under the scanner of the investigating agency in Rs 7-crore Ghaziabad district court GPF scam. A bench comprising Justices Arijit Pasayat, V S Sirpurkar and G S Singhvi issued the directions after the CBI sought more time to submit third status report in conn..

BJP candidate from Pilibhit Varun Gandhi is likely to approach the Supreme Court within a day or two against an Allahabad High Court judgment dismissing his petition for quashing of FIR registered against him for his hate speech against minority community, the Muslims. A case under section 133(A) IPC has been registered against Varun Gandhi on orders of Election Commission of India for trying t..

Statement of Finance Ministry on Inflation Annual (year-on-year) rate of inflation declined by 17 basis points to 0.3 per cent for the week ended March 14, 2009 from 0.4 per cent in the week ended March 7, 2009. Inflation was 8.0 per cent in the corresponding week of 2007-08. Year-on-year Inflation by Commodity groups Commodity group-wise, the fall in overall inflation in the current wee..

Issuance Calendar for Marketable Dated Securities With a view to enabling institutional and retail investors to plan their investment in a better manner and also for providing transparency and stability in the Government securities market, it has been decided to continue with the system of releasing an indicative calendar for issuance of Government of India securities. It may be noted that G..

3/19/2009 The Haryana Government submitted before the Supreme Court that the construction raised in Aravalli Hill area in Faridabad district, having requisite permission from the authorities concerned, should not be demolished. A bench comprising Chief Justice K G Balakrishnan and Justices Arijit Pasayat and S H Kapadia had directed the parties to maintain status quo in the area on Februar..

The Supreme Court collegium approved the elevation of former Acting Chief Justice and the senior most judge of Madras High Court Justice S J Mukhopadhya for appointment as Chief Justice of the Rajasthan High Court. According to the official sources of the High Court Registry, the appointment would materialise after the elevation of Justices Deepak Verma and Balbir Singh Chauhan, Chief Justice..

The Supreme Court reserved its verdict on the issue whether Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M Karunanidhi, Union Shipping Minister T R Baalu and four others are liable to be prosecuted for contempt of the Court for alleged violation of the apex court order, dated September 30, 2008, directing the DMK and its allies not to enforce state-wide bandh on October 1. The ruling DMK and its allies had given ..

New Delhi: Worried about the mushrooming growth of placement agencies in India's national capital, the Delhi High Court has asked the state government to make laws to regulate the functioning of such agencies. Stressing that there was an urgent need for laws and guidelines to regulate the sector, a division bench headed by Chief Justice Ajit Prakash Shah and Justice Sanjeev Khanna on Wednesday ..

New Delhi: The Supreme Court has sought the Tamil Nadu (TN) government's justification for suspending its two senior police officers, accused of ordering a baton-charge on a rampaging mob of lawyers in the Madras High Court premises on February 19. A bench of Chief Justice KG Balakrishnan sought the justification on a lawsuit by the two suspended police officers - Chennai Additional Commissione..

Issue of 8% Oil Marketing Companies GOI Special Bonds, 2026 Government of India have announced the issue of 8.00 per cent Oil Marketing Companies Government of India Special Bonds, 2026 for Rs. 10,000 crore (nominal). The Special Bonds are being issued to three Oil Marketing Companies as compensation towards estimated under-recoveries on account of sale of sensitive petroleum products durin..

CVC disposed of 371 cases in February 2009 MAJOR PENALTY PROCEEDINGS RECOMMENDED AGAINST 65 OFFICERS The Central Vigilance Commission (CVC) disposed 371 cases during February 2009 referred to it for advice. The Commission launched prosecution against 10 officers. Of these, 4 were from Central Board of Excise and Custom (CBEC) and 3 from Food Corporation of India. The Commission advised init..

The Kerala High Court observed that the law and order situation in the State was in shambles. The observation was made by Justice V Ramkumar while dismissing bail applications filed by the accused -- Ismail, M E Ali and Prashant Kumar -- in the Rahim Pukudacherry murder attempt case. The law and order situation was least felt in the corridors of power where the current sport is electioneeri..

New Delhi: UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Navenethem Pillay, who is on a three-day visit to India, on Monday said the absence of women in the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) and the Supreme Court was a kind of "discrimination". Pillay spoke at length about women's empowerment in India and on expanding role of women in various spheres of the society at a conference organised by the N..