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Patna, Feb 25 (UNI) The judicial functioning in Bihar was paralysed today after about 100,000 advocates struck work demanding cancellation of a new order that required lawyers to work thirty mintues more in week days. The agitation, spearheded by the Lawyers Association of Patna High Court, affected the courts work as hearing of the cases could not be taken up across the state. Convenor of ..

Patna, Feb 25 (UNI) The judicial functioning in Bihar was paralysed today after about 100,000 advocates struck work demanding cancellation of a new order that required lawyers to work thirty mintues more in week days. The agitation, spearheded by the Lawyers Association of Patna High Court, affected the courts work as hearing of the cases could not be taken up across the state. Convenor of ..

New Delhi, Feb 25 (UNI) Taking a serious note of lawyers and police clash in the Madras High court, the Supreme Court today indicated that it may order a judicial inquiry by a retired High Court Judge. A bench comprising Chief Justice K G Balakrishnan and Justices P Sathasivam and J M Panchal also made it clear that police station inside Madras High Court premises must be immediately removed a..

Terming the Tamil Nadu court violence as "serious" and "sad", the Supreme Court directed the state government to inform it by Thursday at whose instance the police had entered the Madras High Court premises on 19th February, the day of the lawyer-police clash. "We want to know at whose instance the police was allowed to enter the premises of the High Court," a bench headed by Chief Justice K ..

Delhi Police Collects Rs 6.99cr From Traffic Violators Dated : 25 Feb 2009, 1114 hrs IST, NEW DELHI: Source :PTI Text: NEW DELHI: Traffic violators in the national capital are filling the coffers of Delhi police with the force collecting a whopping 6.99 crore from them during the first 45 days of this year. The amount was collected by traffic police from the wrong-doers thi..

Granted approvals to one hundred seventy three Industrial Parks for claiming tax exemptions under Section 80 IA of Income Tax Act, 1962As per the Industrial Park Scheme, 2002, the Government of India has granted approvals to one hundred seventy three Industrial Parks for claiming tax exemptions under Section 80 IA of Income Tax Act, 1962 during the period from 1-04-2005 to date.The..

WORLD WAR-II BOMB DEFUSED IN GERMANY Dated : 24 Feb 2009, 1550 hrs IST, Source : AP BERLIN: Text: German police say 15,000 residents were evacuated from their homes during the night in a northern town as experts defused a World War II-era bomb. Residents in part of Celle were evacuated on Monday evening after the bomb was found on the grounds of an industrial property. ..

MOTHER SELLS NEWBORN TO PAY HOSPITAL BILLS Dated : 24 Feb 2009, 1718 hrs IST, Source : PTI HYDERABAD: Text: In a heart-rending incident, a young poverty-stricken single mother in Andhra Pradesh sold her newborn son to a childless couple for Rs 6,000 rupees so that she could pay her medical bill in a government hospital. "My financial position is really bad," a distraugh..

The Supreme Court today preponed the hearing of petition seeking directions to Tamil Nadu lawyers to resume work forthwith to February 25. A bench comprising Chief Justice K G Balakrishnan and Justice P Sathasivam advanced the hearing when petitioner Muralidharan, an advocate, contended before the court that he could not argue his cases in the Madras High Court due to the lawyer's strike, followi..

In a bid to break the logjam on the lawyers-police standoff, the Tamil Nadu government will hold talks with several advocates' associations in Chennai on Tuesday. State Law Minister Duraimurugan, accompanied by senior civil and police officials, would be meeting the association representatives on Tuesday morning. Chief Secretary K S Sripathy, Home Secretary S Malatym, DGP KP Jain and Ci..

BOA of SEZs approves 9 proposals ________________________________________ The Board of Approval of the Special Economic Zones (SEZs) met here today to consider proposals for setting up of Special Economic Zones and also to approve other miscellaneous requests pertaining to SEZs. Addressing the Board of Approval members, the Chairman informed that so far 560 formal approvals h..

Provision of Budget for Interest Subvention to all Scheduled Commercial Banks in respect of Rupee Export Credit The Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs today approved the provision of additional funds, to the tune of Rs.450 crore, to provide immediate relief to the exporters by way of providing interest subvention to mitigate hardships on account of global melt down.As a measure ..

It's all due to blessings of Lord Shiva: Pinki's mother It's all due to the blessings of Lord Shiva that a documentary on her daughter has got an Oscar, the elated mother of eight-year-old protagonist of "Smile Pinki", which won the honour at Los Angeles, said here today (February 23). "Gaon ke logan mil ke teen din se Bhagwan Shankar ka yagya karat rahe hain aur aaj Mahashivaratri par ham..

Dharavi erupted in joy and hundreds of its slumdwellers woke before dawn and stayed glued to handful of TV sets today as 'Slumdog Millionaire', a film that ran through the stark poverty and deprivation in India's biggest shantytown, scooped eight Oscar awards. As one entered the filthy and cramped 535-acre slum where lakhs lived in a square kilometre area in its narrow lanes, every face sported..

‘OBLIGED, MY LORD ’: lAWYERS SCORE OVER JUDGES Dated: Feb 22, 2009 at 0029 hrs IST Source : Express india New Delhi : Text : New Delhi Saturday saw Delhi High Court judges and lawyers play it out on a different field: a Twenty20 tie at the Ferozeshah Kotla Stadium. The lawyers won the match by a huge margin but the result didn’t matter much in this case at least. How’s this for an..