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The Supreme Court on Monday declined to entertain a public interest litigation petition for a direction to the Union government to treat ‘Kinnars’ (neither man nor woman) on a par with the Scheduled Castes/Scheduled Tribes and socially and educationally backward classes, and to reserve separate constituencies for them to contest local bodies, Assembly and parliamentary elections. The petition f..

The Madras High Court Bench here has disapproved the performance of a Principal District Munsif at Srivilliputtur in Virudhunagar district who did not dispose of an interlocutory application despite granting as many as 56 adjournments. Allowing a civil revision petition filed in the Bench against the frequent adjournments, Justice N. Paul Vasanthakumar directed the Munsif to dispose of the..

The Supreme Court on Monday temporarily allowed the banks to go ahead with transactions related to assigning of debts subject to final disposal of their petitions. Three private banks - ICICI Bank, Kotak Mahindra Bank and Standard Chartered Bank - have moved the apex court challenging the Gujarat High Court judgement that banned trading in debts. A bench headed by Justice S H Kapadia, w..

Chennai, January 24 The Supreme Court has empowered high courts to frame rules laying down conditions for lawyers to practice. And yet in a bid to end the month-long standoff, the Madras High Court today withdrew its code of conduct for lawyers. The full court, chaired by Chief Justice Subhashan Reddy who had become the prime target of protesting lawyers, announced the withdrawal of the code fol..

MADURAI: A code of conduct should be laid down for lawyers as well as the police to avoid frequent frictions between the two, the Chief Justice of Madras High Court, Ajit Prakash Shah, has said. Addressing the Southern Districts’ Bench and Bar Meet organised by Bar Council of Tamil Nadu here on Tuesday, he said that a meeting of the Chief Secretary to the Government and top police offici..

If individual tax-payers, like the corporate sector, had hopes of relief in the interim budget, the government has thrown a wet blanket on them, despite stating recently that there was no Constitutional bar on providing fiscal concessions. "Constitutional propriety requires that (the) new government formulates the tax and expenditure policies for 2009-10...," Finance Minister Pranab Mukherj..

Highlights of interim budget New Delhi, Feb 16 (IANS) Following are the highlights of the interim budget presented by Minister for External Affairs Pranab Mukherjee in the Lok Sabha Monday: * Plan expenditure for 2009-10 pegged at Rs.953,231 crore (Rs.9.52 trillion) * Budgetary support for 2009-10 at Rs.2,85,149 crore (Rs.2.85 trillion), 17.16 percent * Additional plan expenditure bet..

Budget Summary INTERIM BUDGET 2009-2010 The Interim Budget highlights the focus on aam aadmi in the development process. The year 2008-09 has seen substantial increase in outlays spanning across sectors. Continuing the trend, the budget for 2009-10 will have increased plan outlays for key sectors and adequate allocations for the flagship programmes which directly impact aam aadmi. The..

Australian Court Fines Air France, KLM For Price Fixing 16 Feb 2009, 1101 hrs IST, AFP Text: SYDNEY: An Australian court has fined four Europe-based airlines a total of 16 million dollars (10.4 million US) for price fixing, the country's competition watchdog said Monday. The Federal Court fined Air France and Dutch carrier KLM six million dollars each after they admitted fixi..

Prime Minister approves Interim Budget for presentation. The Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh has gone through the interim budget related papers and has formally signed the papers forwarding them to the President. Dr. Singh also approved the interim budget speech. The Minister for External Affairs, Shri Pranab Mukherjee, who is holding the additional charge of the Finance Ministry, met the Pri..

Intricacies in adoption law have paved way for India to become the hub of commercial surrogacy which legal experts say poses many challenges for the country, including threats of mushrooming of rackets on the "renting of wombs" in absence of proper framework. The experts said the threat was manifested in the recent baby Manji's case which opened a Pandora's box with release of a floodgate o..

Four minutes and 55 seconds. That is all that the Delhi High Court manages to spare on an average for a matter's hearing in a day due to the burden on its judges, raising concerns among litigants that their cases may not be decided during their lifetime. There are over 1.06 lakh pending cases in the High Court and with 39 judges to dispose of pending and fresh cases, it is no surprise that ..

The Maharashtra Government will soon equip the police force with night vision devices (NVDs) as part of a modernisation drive following the Mumbai terror attack. Home Minister Jayant Patil confirmed that the process to purchase NVDs is on and said the devices would be made available in a couple of months. "NVD is part of high-tech equipment we are purchasing for the police force to moder..

Companies delaying or not filing full disclosures with stock exchanges and with market watchdog SEBI as mandated, will have to face a penalty of up to Rs one crore, a SEBI representative said. "Under certain categories, companies which acquire shares beyond a certain percentage stipulated under the regulations, are required to make dislosures. Under the Sebi Act, offenders are liable for a ..

Saudi Arabia's King Abdullah bin Abdul Aziz has appointed the first-ever female deputy minister in the oil-rich kingdom. Norah al-Faiz became deputy education minister for women's education, local Al- Arabiya website reported Saturday. The king reshuffled his cabinet and named a new central bank governor and a new head of the religious police. Muhammad al-Jasser was appointed by the ..