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Coal India unions call 3-day strike against stake sale

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Five trade unions operating in Coal India (CIL) and its subsidiaries have served a strike notice against a proposed 5 per cent stake sale in the state miner. The five trade unions – Indian National Trade Union Congress (INTUC), Hind Mazdoor Sabha (HMS), Bharatiya Mazdoor Sangh (BMS), AICWF and All India Trade Union Congress (AITUC)- […]

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Police seek 10 days’ custody of Tunda

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Delhi Police on Tuesday sought 10 days’ police custody of alleged LeT terrorist Abdul Karim Tunda in a local court in New Delhi. Earlier, Tunda was arrested near the India-Nepal border. The Delhi-born, one-handed extremist was on the list of top 20 terrorists wanted by India. Metropolitan magistrate Jay Thareja ordered in-camera proceedings of the […]

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Judicial hurdles to be weeded out: Jayalalithaa

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Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J. Jayalalithaa Tuesday said the Alternate Disputes Resolution (ADR) was an integral part of modern legal practice and would weed out hurdles in universal justice. Inaugurating the ADR Centre here, Jayalalithaa said: “ADR is now an integral part of modern legal practice and jurisprudence. This will go a long way in […]

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Tibetans in exile can apply for Indian citizenship

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Tibetan prime minister-in-exile Lobsang Sangay on Tuesday said any Tibetan in exile in India could apply for Indian citizenship and his administration was not compelling anyone to apply for the citizenship. “The decision to apply for Indian or any other country’s citizenship is a personal choice,” Sangay said, according to a post on the official […]

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Ghaziabad courts closed for eighth day

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Ghaziabad courts remained closed for the eighth day after being forcibly shut by angry lawyers demanding a Allahabad High Court bench in western Uttar Pradesh. “Although the lawyers’ strike call for setting up a high court bench in western Uttar Pradesh is 34 years old, this time the boycott has been collectively intensified in all […]

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SC cautions high courts on reversing acquittals

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The Supreme Court has said that the jurisdiction of high courts in reversing an acquittal after re-appreciating the evidence was “extremely narrow” and could be done only in cases of “miscarriage of justice” during trial. “…the revisional jurisdiction of the high courts while examining an order of acquittal is extremely narrow and ought to be […]

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wo charged with murder of India-born businessman

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Police in Australia have charged two people with the murder of a India-born businessman last month. A 27-year-old woman and a 32-year-old man were arrested and charged Tuesday with the murder of Shyam Dhody July 5, local media reported. Dhody, 37, was shot dead while he was on his bed in his home at Gilston, […]

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Uttar Pradesh asked to fill rights Commission vacancies

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The Lucknow bench of the Allahabad High Court Monday directed the Uttar Pradesh government to fill vacancies in the state Human Rights Commission within a month. A bench of Chief Justice Shiva Kirti Singh and Justice D.K. Upadhyay gave the direction while hearing a public interest litigation filed by activist Nutan Thakur. The state commission […]

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No 12-hour work shift: AITUC

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A proposal in the Goa government’s draft investment policy, released by Chief Minister Manohar Parrikar last week, to increase work shifts to 12 hours, has attracted objection from the All IndiaTrade Union Congress (AITUC). Parrikar Monday promised to look into the matter, if a formal objection was filed by the AITUC with the state government. Speaking to reporters Monday, AITUC general secretary […]

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Men oppose ‘biased’, woman-friendly marriage legislation

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A group of men, who met here over the past two days to discuss  the marriage laws amendment bill, Saturday passed a resolution terming it  “unconstitutional” and biased in favour of women. They also demanded that all family laws should be gender neutral. “We have passed a resolution and declared that Marriage Laws Amendment Bill […]

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Uphold esteem, credibility of judiciary: CJI

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Supreme Court Chief Justice P. Sathasivam Saturday expressed concern over the decline of the peoples’ faith in the judiciary and appealed to the members of the legal profession to uphold and preserve its public esteem and credibility. The CJI, who was here to inaugurate a building of the Gauhati High Court, stressed on the need […]

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Sports bar fined for racial discrimination against Indo-Canadians

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A human rights tribunal in Canada has ordered a popular sports bar to pay C$10,000 each to three Indo-Canadians for racially discriminating against them. The British Columbia Human Rights Tribunal has found the Shark Club of Langley in the Canadian province of British Columbia guilty of denying Surinderjit Rai, Manjit Gill and Manjinder entry to […]

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