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Meghalaya High Court gets new chief justice

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Justice Prafulla Chandra Pant was Friday sworn in as chief justice of the Meghalaya High Court. Governor KK Paul administered the oath of office to Pant at Raj Bhavan. He was a judge at the Uttarakhand High Court prior to this. Justice Pant, 61, succeeded Justice Toom Meera Kumari, whose term ended over two months ago. Since her […]

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Cabinet nod to child care policy

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The union cabinet Friday approved the National Early Childhood Care and Education (ECCE) policy which aims to help 158.7 million children aged under six, an official statement said. According to the statement, the move would help to implement and monitor the child care policy through national and state councils and also to develop the curriculum […]

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Obama nominates Indian American as district court judge

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US President Barack Obama has nominated an Indian-American attorney from Chicago to a key judiciary post in Illinois. Manish S Shah (40), was announced to be nominated for the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois, along with several other important judiciary nominations. “These men and women have had distinguished legal careers and I […]

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Children urge PM to champion their cause

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Over 25,000 children have sent postcards to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh urging him to keep issues that concern them in focus at the 68th session of the United Nations General Assembly, NGO World Vision India said. The over 25,000 postcards from children across the country represent the voices of over 400 million children in India, […]

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Same-sex couples pick New Zealand for wedding

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More than a quarter of the same-sex couples married in New Zealand in the first month since its marriage equality law came into effect were from abroad. The overseas couples came from countries including China, the US and Britain, Xinhua reported citing New Zealand’s Registrar-General of Births, Deaths and Marriages Jeff Montgomery. Twenty-four of the […]

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Justice Nagappan and Justice S.K. Singh sworn in as SC judges

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Justice C Nagappan and Justice Shiva Kirti Singh were on Thursday sworn in as judges of the Supreme Court. They were administered the oath of office by Chief Justice P Sathasivam. With their appointment, the strength of the apex court judges has gone up to 30. It is still one short of its sanctioned strength […]

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Court reserves order on plea for ‘cautioning’ Dikshit

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The Delhi High Court Wednesday reserved its order on a plea which claimed that a Lokayukta report that suggested “cautioning” Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit was “diluted”. The Lokayukta report recommended to the president of India to issue “caution” to Dikshit for allegedly misrepresenting facts about the completion of 60,000 low-cost flats ahead of the 2008 […]

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Centre gets notice on plea against nod for AirAsia India

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The Delhi High Court Wednesday issued notice to the central government on a plea of BJP leader Subramanian Swamy challenging the clearance given to the proposed low-cost airline AirAsia India. The petition alleged wrongdoing in the process and claimed that according to the policy foreign investment was only permitted in an existing airline but AirAsia […]

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Were allocated coal blocks leaseheld with CIL, SC asks

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The Supreme Court Wednesday asked the government whether coal blocks allocated to the private companies were in the leasehold area of the public sector undertaking Coal India Limited. The court’s query came as it perused the paper placed before it by the government indicating that the coal blocks allocated to the private companies were in […]

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Rise in crime against women in Pakistan

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“HRCP has watched with grave concern the rising incidents of violence against women in Pakistan in recent days,” reported the Dawn newspapaer Wednesday, citing a HRCP statement. “Unfortunately, such incidents have always been commonplace in the country but now such reports are coming not from far-off places but from the main cities,” statement added. The […]

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Natural resources are also for future generations: SC

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The Supreme Court Wednesday said the right to life belongs not only to the present generation but also the future generations when it comes to the exploitation of natural resources. “It is not just right to life of present generation but also of the future generations,” said the apex court green bench of Justice A.K. […]

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South Africa to have anti-hate crime policy

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The South African government is working on a framework policy that will hold the perpetrators of hate crimes accountable, a senior government official has revealed. The proposed Draft Policy Framework on Combating Hate Crimes, Hate Speech and Unfair Discrimination will help balance the right to dignity and the right to freedom of speech in line […]

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