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Slumdog Millionaire gave us a pice of history. A R Rehman has won 2Oscars for Best Original Score and Best Original Song in Slumdog millionaire. The other Indian to win is Rasool Pookutty along with his team for Best Sound Mixing. Kudos to the team for making this happen! Its not as much as about the awards as it is about recognition by fellow artistes of our contribution to cinema...

The Bar Council of India (BCI) at an emergency meeting on Sunday, condemned the “dastardly” attack by the police on advocates, litigants and staff of the Madras High Court, including a High Court Judge, inside the court premises on February 19. It demanded a judicial enquiry into the incident. The meeting said, “Such an attack is an attack on the judicial system of the country which must be con..

President Pratibha Patil has cleared the transfer of the Chief Justice of Allahabad High Court H.L. Gokhale as the new Chief Justice of the Madras High Court. He will assume charge at a time when the Bar is agitated over the police attack on lawyers on February 19. Mr. Justice Gokhale (59), was initially appointed Additional Judge of the Bombay High Court in January 1994 and transferred to ..

List of winners at the 81st annual Academy Awards, presented late Sunday at the Kodak Theatre in Los Angeles: # Best Picture: Slumdog Millionaire # Best Actor: Sean Penn, MilK # Best Actress: Kate Winslet, The Reader # Best Director: Danny Boyle, Slumdog Millionaire # Best Original Score: A.R. Rahman, Slumdog Millionaire # Best Song: A.R. Rahman for Jai Ho penned by Gulzar Slumdog Mill..

NOTA- NEGATIVE VOTING WHAT is NOTA Well, lets start, Politicians are under constant attack following 26/11. A new movement has now asked for change in the election process to allow voters ‘negative voting”. Though the Conduct of Elections Rules has such a provision , the electronic voting machines(EVMS) have no buttons with “None of the above option”, which is also called NOTA internationally. The..

The Madras High Court has directed city police to name on whose authority cops entered the court and lathicharged lawyers on 19th Feb that left many injured and destroyed property and asked TN govt why it should not pay compensation for repairing the damage caused. A Bench comprising Acting Chief Justice (ACJ), S J Mukhopadhaya and Justices V Dhanapalan and K Chandru, which held a special sit..

NEW DELHI: Lawyers, like other professionals, are now free to advertise their services on Internet as the Bar Council of India (BCI) on Monday informed the Supreme Court that it has relaxed its rules on the issue in view of the changing global scenario. In an affidavit filed through its secretary S Radhakrishnan, the BCI submitted that it has decided to permit such advertisements. The B..

The Calcutta High Court on Thursday held that computer graphics teacher Rizwanur Rahman's death in September last was a suicide and not murder. Justice Dipankar Dutta made the CBI report public during the proceedings. The Central Bureau of Investigation submitted the report on the mysterious death of Rizwanur Rahman, who married industrialist Ashok Todi's daughter Priyanka, before the hig..

Chandigarh: Judge dismisses petition challenging the extension granted to PGI Director Dr K K Talwar last year “PGI has been ruined because of the internal politics of a few doctors. These Class III and IV employees have created havoc in the PGI. These people have no respect for a good and renowned doctor, nor do they respect those who serve the society.” That was Justice Surya Kant, who..

Ahmedabad The Gujarat High Court on Thursday ruled that charges under the Prevention of Terrorism Act (POTA) were not applicable to those arrested in connection with the Sabarmati train burning incident in Godhra. The division bench of Justice Bhagwati Prasad and Justice Bankim Mehta upheld the Central POTA Review Committee (CPRC)’s recommendations announced earlier in this connection. The..

This is a discussion on Implementing RTI is great challenge, says HC Chief Justice within the RTI General Discussions forums, part of the RTI Community Lounge category; Chandigarh, Apr 25 (UNI) Punjab and Haryana High Court Chief Justice Vijender Jain today cautioned that implementation of the Right to Information Act, 2005 posed a great challenge as disclosure .....

The Madras high court on Thursday suggested to the Tamil Nadu government to bring an appropriate amendment to its registration rules making it mandatory for the registering officer not to register a deed of cancellation of a sale deed if it was not executed mutually by the parties to the earlier sale deed. Justice S. Nagamuthu quashed the registration of a cancellation deed by the sub-registrar..

Russia Acquits All Accused In Politkovskaya Trial Dated : 19 Feb 2009, 2011 hrs IST, Source : AFP MOSCOW: Text: A Russian jury on Thursday acquitted all the accused in the trial over the murder of Russian journalist Anna Politkovskaya after three months of hearings that failed to shed light on the crime. None of the four accused had been charged with pulling the trigger o..

'Madras High Court was allowed to function only for nine days' New Delhi (IANS): The Supreme Court on Thursday asked Tamil Nadu lawyers why they were striking work at the drop of a hat on issues ranging from changes in criminal laws to the plight of Tamils in Sri Lanka. A bench of Chief Justice K.G. Balakrishnan issued notices to the Madras High Court and various advocates' bodies in the sta..

Several persons, including a judge of the Madras High Court,were injured in a clash between the police and the lawyers in the court premises on Thursday. Police said some advocates resented police arresting 13 lawyers in connection with the assault on Janata Party President Subramanian Swamy in a court hall on Tuesday. The trouble broke out when police were attempting to arrest the lawyers w..