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MISSING CELL PHONES : KNOW YOUR IMEI NUMBERS 15 Feb 2009, 0405 hrs IST, TNN Text: JAIPUR: Nineteen-year-old Rahul Gupta, a college student in Jaipur, travelling in a city bus from SMS Hospital found his cellphone kept in his belt pouch missing while alighting at the Tonk Road bus stand a couple of days ago. Hopes of getting his cell phone back are few as he did not possess Intern..

Washington: Nearly 1 lakh skilled Indian workers’ prospects of living the American dream may turn sour with Congress barring firms that received bailout money from hiring foreigners through HI-B visa programme if they replace U.S. citizens. Estimates suggest that there are 1 lakh Indian nationals among the 1.63 lakh from across the world who had applied for the skilled worker visa in Financ..

To advance the cause of transparency and probity in public life In line with the requirement for all civil servants It will be applauded as an act of statesmanship New Delhi: Eminent citizens from various walks of life have appealed to Chief Justice of India K.G. Balakrishnan and judges of the Supreme Court and High Courts to voluntarily disclose their assets to advance the cause of tr..

MAN CHALLANED FOR NOT WEARING HELMET WHILE DRIVING CAR 13 Feb 2009, 1837 hrs IST, PTI Text: ALLAHABAD: A local court here has issued summons to a traffic policeman for having challaned a person for not wearing a helmet, though the commuter was driving a car. The incident took place on December 5 last year in Naini locality of the district's trans-Yamuna region when a local busi..

Highlights of Interim Railway Budget 2009-10 INTERIM RAILWAY BUDGET 2009-10 Review of Financial Performance during the year 2008-09 * Freight loading target retained at 850 mt; number of passengers likely to grow by around 7% over previous year. * Implementation of recommendations of VI Central Pay Commission (CPC) likely to cost the Railways Rs 9,000 cr more on staff cos..

Government announces custom duty exemption for newsprint The government today announced special custom duty exemptions to the newspaper and magazine publishing industry in the country. These concessions have been announced in view of the current economic slowdown particularly affecting the newspaper industry. The concessions announced today by an official notification by Finance Ministry are a..

NEW DELHI: Pitching strongly in favour of the meritorious, the Supreme Court has ruled that for promotional posts to be filled on "merit alone" basis, seniority of an aspirant is of no avail as the number of years of service loses its weight completely in the face of merit. This means, if two government servants holding the same post — one junior and the other senior — aspiring for prom..

NEW DELHI: "In India, even God cannot help. He will be a silent spectator as He will also feel helpless" — this observation came from the Supreme Court on Tuesday as it expressed its frustration over the reluctance of the Centre and state governments to take tough measures against bureaucrats and others unauthorisedly overstaying in government accommodation. ( Watch ) The remark indicated..

LUCKNOW LAWYERS ATTACK HUJI CHIEF 11 Feb 2009, 1444 hrs IST, TNN Text: LUCKNOW: Waliullah, the head of HuJI in India, was on Wednesday attacked in the Lucknow High Court premises by a group of about 200 advocates, and was forced to take refuge in a judge’s chamber. Police protection had been given to Waliullah while he was in the court premises. Waliullah is in jail for..

US President Barack Obama has appointed two Indian-Americans, Rashad Hussain and Shomik Datta, to his legal team - the White House Counsel. Hussain has been appointed as Deputy Associate Counsel to the US President and Dutta will be special assistant to President's Counsel, Greg Craig, the White House said. These appointments were made on January 28. Till recently serving as a Trial Attor..

India-Netherlands bilateral trade increases to US $ 7.2 billion in 2007-08 from US $ 3.9 billion in 2006-07 Shri Kamal Nath, Union Minister of Commerce & Industry, has stated that the bilateral trade between India and Netherlands has increased from a level of US $ 3.9 billion in 2006-07 to US $ 7.2 billion in 2007-08. During his interaction with the Dutch Minister for Foreign Trade Mr. Fra..

Thiruvananthapuram, Feb 8 (PTI) Supreme court Judge Justice V S Sirpurkar today suggested setting up of E-Courts to speed up the trial and conviction in cyber crimes. The specialised e-courts exclusively to deal with IT related crimes should be manned by trained judges, Justice Sirpurkar said after inaugurating a national seminar on 'Cyber Crimes, Cyber Laws and Cyber Security' organised by Cen..

AFTER RAJU QUIT, 37 FRONT FIRMS SOUGHT RETURN OF 'LOANS' As it scrutinizes 40 trunkloads of documents in the Satyam scandal, the Andhra Pradesh CID has come across evidence of fund transfers which allowed the IT major to continue declaring huge profits and dividends to its shareholders. Yet through a "confessional" statement dated January 7, founder chairman B Ramalinga Raju admitted to liabilit..

Rail passengers cannot be left at the mercy of burglars and hooligans, the Supreme Court has said rapping the Railways for its failure to protect the luggage of passengers, including those travelling in reserved air conditioned compartments which have attendants, from getting stolen. "We cannot leave the passengers at the mercy of hooligans who enter reserved compartments. We know how unautho..

The Orissa High Court Bar Association:Cuttack Election 2009-10 is scheduled to be held on 28.02.2009...