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Some of Britain's biggest law firms arecutting costs for the duration of the downturn by sending tasks including conveyancing, accident claims and due diligence investigations to young lawyers in India. Thousands of Indian lawyers and recent law graduates are being employed by British firms for a fraction of the cost of having the work done in this country. Leading the charge for the cheaper..

Preliminary exam for HCS (judicial) to be conducted by the Haryana Public Service Commission on 16 th November (sunday). Exam centres to be confined to Chandigarh and Panchkula only...

After much dithering, the government has finally decided to introduce a Bill in the ensuing session of Parliament to open up India's higher education sector to foreign entities and regulate their entry and operation. The Foreign Educational Institutions (Regulation of Entry and Operations, Maintenance of Quality and Prevention of Commercialisation) Bill 2007, which got the Cabinet's nod in Febr..

Hyderabad: The Andhra Pradesh High Court on Monday stayed the orders of the National Council for Teacher Education (NCTE) which withdrew the recognition of 14 B.Ed colleges in the state. The judgement was delivered by Justice P.V. Sanjay Kumar, hearing the writ petitions filed by the 14 colleges. These colleges challenged the order passed by the authorities on September 29, 2008.The colleges alleg..

The Supreme Court stayed till further orders the postings of 30 judges of Punjab subordinate courts due to bungling in marking of the answer sheets. Additional Solicitor General Gopal Subramanium told a bench comprising Chief Justice K G Balakrishnan and Justices P Sathasivam and J M Panchal that a three-judge committee of the High Court by a majority decision has found that the selection o..

The Supreme Court has expressed concern over the fate of 96 reserved category candidates who have been kept out of the merit list prepared by the Union Public Service Commission relating to civil services for the year 2007. The apex court wanted to know from the Centre and the UPSC whether such candidates can finally be accommodated in the list or not. Solicitor General G E Vahanva..

Government of India today approved the introduction of a new single, comprehensive law to govern the Indian corporate sector. The Bill is expected to be tabled in Parliament during the upcoming October session. As per PIB Press Release, The Union Cabinet today gave its approval for introduction of the Companies Bill, 2008 in the Parliament to replace the Companies Act, 1956, the existing statut..

The Delhi High Court directed the Union Public Service Commission (UPSC) to make public the cut-off marks obtained by candidates in preliminary test of the civil services examination. A Bench comprising Chief Justice AP Shah and Justice S Muralidhar upheld the order passed by a single judge bench which had held that disclosure of information pertaining to cut-off marks would not harm the inter..

The Supreme Court on Friday agreed to take up a petition filed by a dozen petitioners challenging the revised list of the Civil Service Examination (CSE)-2007 prepared by UPSC. The petition filed by Praneet Choudhary and other candidates who appeared in the exam had questioned the UPSC's decision to revise the result by deleting names of 96 quota candidates from the general list and add..

The Supreme Court today issued notices to the Center, all States and Union Territories on a petition seeking direction to authorities to take immediate steps to improve the condition of government schools which are functioning in a hopeless condition. A Bench comprising Chief Justice K G Balakrishnan and Justice P Sathasivam issued notices after hearing counsel for the petitioner NGO Social Jur..

The Vice President of India Shri Mohd. Hamid Ansari released a book entitled “Constitutional Law of India” authored by Dr. Subhash C. Kashyap at a function here today. Addressing on the occasion the Vice President said that the book is a commendable work by Dr. Kashyap and the articles and debates in the book are a standard work of reference which will be used by the law students and the lawyers b..

The Bombay High Court today stayed the admission process for junior colleges in the metropolis for three days after a PIL was filed opposing a 2003 formula for enrolment proposed by the Maharashtra Government. According to the 70:30 formula, 70 per cent seats are to be reserved for local students (of the district where the institute is located) and rest for those coming from other areas. A D..

Petition moved in SC against revision of result by UPSC A petition was on Wednesday filed in the Supreme Court against UPSC's decision to revise the result of the Civil Service Examination (CSE)-2007 by deleting names of 96 quota candidates from the general list and adding their names to the reserved category list. A Bench headed by Chief Justice K G Balakrishan did not pass any ord..

Collective Brands Inc., which operates the Payless ShoeSource and Stride-Rite shoe store chains, said Friday it has agreed to pay footwear rival K-Swiss $30 million to settle litigation claiming trademark infringement. In a securities filing, Topeka-based Collective Brands said it was not admitting any wrongdoing but that it will agree to a permanent injunction promising to "refrain from making..

The Rajasthan government will soon set up a regulatory board to decide the fee structure for private schools and colleges and to formulate standards for these institutions, Minister of state for technical education, Vasudev Devnani said. The regulatory board would start functioning from next session and would have power to oversee the functioning of the institutions, Devnani said. ..