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SC dismisses PIL seeking quashing of food security Ordinance

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The Supreme Court Monday dismissed a PIL seeking the quashing of the National Food Security Ordinance on the grounds that it wasUPA government’s politically inspired pre-election propaganda camouflaged as a scheme to feed the hungry mouths. “What is your problem if under the scheme some poor people are benefitted,” observed a bench of Justice T.S. Thakur and Justice Vikramajit […]

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Kerala High Court wants strict laws to curb cheating

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The Kerala High Court Monday asked the state government to enact stringent laws against fraudsters. “The state government should think of enacting laws similar to the Fraud Act in England,” Justice S.S. Satish Chandran said while denying bail to dancer and film actress Shalu Menon in the solar scam cheating case. “If stringent punishments are […]

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Don’t file review petition on common test: Jayalalithaa

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Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J.Jayalalithaa has expressed her government’s strong objection to the centre’s move to appeal against the apex court’s judgment quashing the National Eligibility cum Entrance Test (NEET) for medical admissions. In a letter to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh July 28, 2013, text of which was released to the media here Monday, the […]

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Court notices to centre, Reliance on gas price

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Supreme Court on Monday issued notice to the centre and Reliance Industries on a public interest litigation seeking review of the recent government decision to hike from 2014 the gas prices from $4.2 to $8.4 million British thermal unit (mmBtu). The apex court bench headed by Chief Justice P. Sathasivam issued notice on the PIL […]

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Controversial Dhoni photo ‘animated’, cops tell court

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Police Saturday told a Delhi court that Indian cricket captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni’s controversial photograph in a magazine, depicting him as a Hindu god and holding a shoe in his hand, was “animated”. In a report given to Metropolitan Magistrate Mayuri Singh, police told the court that the photo was a “work of art” and Dhoni […]

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Ex-royal’s daughters get Rs.20,000-crore relief from court

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A court here has declared a 32-year-old will “forged” and illegal” and granted inheritance of properties and assets worth a whopping Rs 20,000 crore ($4.4 billion) to the two daughters of the erstwhile Maharaja of Faridkot, Harinder Singh Brar. The properties and assets include the palatial Faridkot House on New Delhi’s Copernicus Marg, a royal […]

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2G court issues fresh summons to Anil Ambani

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A Delhi court today issued summons to Reliance ADA Group Chairman Anil Ambani and his wife Tina Ambani to appear as prosecution witnesses before it next month in the 2G spectrum allocation case. While Anil has been summoned on August 22, Tina has been asked to appear before the court on August 23. According to court sources, special CBI judge O P […]

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PM petitioned against amendments to RTI Act

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Activists have launched an online petition addressed to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh against the amendment likely to be made to the Right to Information (RTI) Act in the upcoming parliament session. “We are informed that the government is thinking of amending the RTI Act to negate the Central Information Commission order that the political parties are public authorities under the act,” said […]

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Court to pronounce sentence in Batla House shootout

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A Delhi court Monday will pronounce the sentence in 2008 Batla House shootout case in which the lone accused and Indian Mujahideen (IM) operative Shahzad Ahmad was convicted. Additional Sessions Judge Rajender Kumar Shastri, who convicted Ahmad for killing Delhi Police Special Cell Inspector M.C. Sharma during Batla House shootout, will pronounce the quantum of sentence. Ahmad, from Azamgarh in Uttar Pradesh, was […]

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Youth who tried to molest techie in Bengal train arrested

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A youth, who allegedly tried to molest a woman techie in a moving train in West Bengal, forcing her to jump out, was arrested on Saturday, police said. Debshankar Shaw, 36, was arrested from Uttarpara in Hooghly district on the basis of a sketch based on the description of the accused given by the victim. […]

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2G case: AIIMS team checks Dayalu Ammal’s health

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A four-member team of medical experts from New Delhi’s AIIMS carried out a check on Dayalu Ammal, the wife of DMK president M Karunanidhi, here on Saturday to ascertain whether she is in a good condition to depose before a CBI court in the 2G telecom scam. A key prosecution witness in the case, Dayalu […]

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SC seeks firm set-up to regulate new drugs’ clinical trials

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The Supreme Court Friday asked the central government to discuss with states all facets of a legal framework to regulate and monitor clinical trials of new drugs by foreign firms across India. A bench of Justice R.M.Lodha and Justice Madan B. Lokur also asked petitioner Swasthya Adhikar Manch, the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC), NGOs […]

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