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HC stays GHMC poll process

July 30, 2009 / August 13, 2009 | Leave a Comment

The prospects of holding elections in the immediate future to the Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation virtually disappeared on Wednesday when the High Court stayed the issuance of the poll notification on the ground that the basis for determination of backward class voters was faulty and illegal. A Division Bench comprising Chief Justice Anil Ramesh Dave […]

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Rita Bahuguna gets bail

July 30, 2009 / August 13, 2009 | Leave a Comment

Pradesh Congress president (UP) Rita Bahuguna Joshi was granted bail by a Moradabad court in a case against her for allegedly making derogatory remarks against Chief Minister Mayawati. Joshi has been granted bail by the district court on two sureties of Rs.20,000 each.

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Bail for Muthalik

July 29, 2009 / August 13, 2009 | Leave a Comment

Sri Rama Sene chief Pramod Muthalik, who was arrested in connection with the communal violence that took place here on July 2, was granted bail by the second Judicial Magistrate First Class court here on Tuesday.

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Supreme Court convicts lawyer R.K.Anand for contempt

July 29, 2009 / August 13, 2009 | 1 Comment on Supreme Court convicts lawyer R.K.Anand for contempt

The Supreme Court upheld a Delhi High Court ruling convicting lawyer R.K. Anand for contempt to court in trying to forge a nexus with defence counsel I.U. Khan to shield main culprit Sanjeev Nanda in the BMW hit-and-run case.

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Allahabad HC stays petition challenging reservation in private engg colleges

July 29, 2009 / August 13, 2009 | Leave a Comment

The Lucknow Bench of Allahabad High Court stayed the admission of a PIL challenging implementation of 50% reservation in private engineering colleges in Uttar Pradesh till September 3. The Bench of Justice Pradeep Kant and Justice Rituraj Awasthi passed the order on a petition filed by Ajay Swaroop and others. The state government had also […]

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Three convicted of 2003 Mumbai blasts

July 28, 2009 / August 13, 2009 | Leave a Comment

A special POTA court convicted three persons of carrying out bomb blasts at the Gateway of India and Zaveri Bazaar in Mumbai on August 25, 2003, killing 52 people and injuring 184. Judge M.R. Puranik announced that Haneef Sayyed and his wife Fahmeeda from Marol and Ashrat Ansari from Juhu Galli would be sentenced on […]

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Action Against 353 Forest Mafia During 2009-10 in UP

July 27, 2009 / August 13, 2009 | Leave a Comment

The government is taking strict steps by effective laws to stop cutting of trees in forest areas and to curb forest mafia.Strict enforcement of the Indian Forests Act, 1927, the Forest (Conservation) Act, 1980 and the Wildlife (Protection) Act, 1972 enables prevention of cutting of trees and forest areas. In addition, the State Government of […]

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Admission to BPL Students in Private and Public Schools

July 27, 2009 / August 13, 2009 | Leave a Comment

The Right of Children to Free and Compulsory Education Bill, 2009, inter alia, contains provisions that an unaided school, not receiving any kind of aid or grants to meet its expenses from the appropriate Government or the local authority, shall admit in class I, to the extent of at least twenty-five per cent of the […]

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Increase in strength of Supreme Court Judges

July 27, 2009 / August 13, 2009 | Leave a Comment

Dr. M.Veerappa Moily, Minister of Law and Justice informed the Rajya Sabha in a written reply that the Lok Sabha passed the Supreme Court (Number of Judges) Amendment Bill, 2008 on 22nd December, 2008 and it received the assent of the President on 5th February, 2009. The Supreme Court Registry has informed that “the Judges […]

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Use of Hindi in Supreme Court

July 27, 2009 / August 13, 2009

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