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HC asks Maha to issue circular on weight of book bags

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Voicing concern over heavy bags carried by school children, the Bombay High Court today asked Maharashtra Government to issue a circular within a month fixing a date for implementing recommendations of an expert committee that looked into the issue. Such a circular should also fix the responsibility of monitoring the implementation of the recommendations on […]

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Car-free Gurgaon: NGT questions Haryana govt’s initiative

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A day after Gurgaon observed a ‘car-free day’ to free the roads from traffic congestion, the National Green Tribunal today asked Haryana government to inform it about its actual impact on the pollution level in the city to ascertain . Gurgaon had yesterday observed a ‘car-free day’ to encourage people to use public modes of […]

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Gramin Sewa driver held guilty of insulting woman

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Driver of a Gramin Sewa vehicle, held guilty of making “vulgar remarks” at a woman passenger when she refused to accommodate another person on her seat, has been sentenced till the rising of the court. “The words uttered by the accused describe her body in order to insult her when she did not accommodate one […]

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Child can’t be allowed to suffer due to matrimonial dispute

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A child should not suffer due to a matrimonial dispute between parents whose duty is to provide all basic amenities the minor is entitled to, a Delhi court has said. Additional Sessions Judge Pawan Kumar Jain, while rejecting an appeal filed by the father of a minor girl against a trial court order in a […]

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Three sentenced for life in murder case in UP

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Three persons, including two brothers, were sentenced to life imprisonment by a local court of Ballia(UP) in a 15-year-old murder case. Additional Session Judge Ashwini Kumar Singh held all the three accused guilty yesterday and imposed a fine of Rs 15,000 on them. In May 2000, Nanhak was beaten to death by Vijay Yadav, his […]

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Three sentenced for life in murder case

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A man and his two sons were sentenced to life imprisonment by a local court of gonda here in a murder case. Additional Sessions Judge Satyendra Kumar held all the three accused guilty yesterday and imposed a fine of Rs 10,000 each on them. The court directed that half of the penalty amount should be […]

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HC seeks govt stand on ‘extra chance’ to civil services

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The Allahabad High Court has expressed dissatisfaction with the Centre’s explanation on the “extra chance” given this year to those civil services aspirants who did not appear in the exams in 2011 on account of the agitation against CSAT which is said to have put Hindi medium candidates at a disadvantage. A division bench comprising […]

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Coal scam: CBI asked to supply translated copies of documents

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A special court today directed CBI to supply to the accused translated copies of documents, which are in Marathi, relating to a coal block allocation scam case. Special CBI Judge Bharat Parashar told the investigating officer (IO) to get the documents translated and file it in the court and supply them to the accused by […]

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Govt, TERI to reply on plea for action against Pachauri: HC

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Delhi High Court today sought a response from the government on a plea by a TERI employee alleging that the organisation had not acted against its chief R K Pachauri, as recommended by an internal complaints committee in connection with her sexual harassment complaint. A bench of Chief Justice G Rohini and Justice Jayant Nath […]

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I support plea to summon Manmohan Singh: Ex-MoS

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Former Minister of State for Coal Dasari Narayan Rao today sought summoning of Manmohan Singh, claiming in a Special Court that the office of the then Prime Minister had allocated a coal block to Jindal group after examining and re-examining the matter. Supporting ex-Jharkhand Chief Minister Madhu Koda’s plea seeking summoning of Singh as additional […]

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Court upholds jail term of man

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A Delhi court has refused to set aside the jail term awarded to a convict for molesting a seven -year-old girl, saying the fact that she gave her statement in writing as it “made her fearful” about testifying “negates the grant of any leniency” to him. District and Sessions Judge Anu Malhotra dismissed the plea […]

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Malegaon blasts: Centre rubbishes claims of pressurising SPP

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The Centre today rubbished in the Supreme Court allegations that sacked Special Public Prosecutor Rohini Salian was asked to “go soft” on the accused in the 2008 Malegaon blasts case. “The main allegation is that the prosecutor was asked to go soft. I myself have examined the papers. There is no truth in it,” Attorney […]

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