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In what could be turn out a crucial day in Aarushi Talwar murder case, Nupur Talwar is likely to surrender before a special CBI court in Ghaziabad on Monday. On Friday Supreme Court directed her to surrender before the CBI court in Ghaziabad. A special bench of justice AK Patnaik and justice KS Khehar asked Nupur, accused of dodging several summons [...]
A Delhi court Saturday awarded four years’ rigorous imprisonment to former Bharaitya Janata Party (BJP) president Bangaru Laxman for accepting a bribe from a fake arms dealer in an 11-year-old graft case. Laxman announced he would appeal his conviction. Additional Sessions Judge Kanwaljeet Arora, who also slapped him with a Rs.1 lakh fine, handed down the sentences on the BJP [...]
The Union Labour & Employment Minister Shri Mallikarjun Kharge has informed the Lok Sabha that amendment/review of labour laws is a continuous process in order to bring them in tune with the emerging needs of the economy including to accelerate industrial growth in the country. Recent amendments carried out include those under the Payment of Wages Act, 1936, the Payment [...]
Constitution (Ninety Seventh Amendment) Act 2011 relating to the co-operatives will encourage economic activities of cooperatives which in turn help progress of rural India. It is expected to not only ensure autonomous and democratic functioning of cooperatives, but also the accountability of the management to the members and other stakeholders. The inter alia provides for: (i) incorporation, regulation and winding [...]
The Maintenance and Welfare of Parents and Senior Citizens Act, 2007 was enacted on 31st December 2007. The Act makes maintenance of parents/senior citizens by children/ relatives obligatory and justiciable through Tribunals and provides for revocation of transfer of property by senior citizens in case of negligence by relatives, penal provision for abandonment of senior citizens, establishment of Old Age [...]
With CBI, there are 5 cases pending active investigation for more than 5 years, 1 case pending active investigation for over 10 years and no case is pending active investigation for more than 20 years. Out of the aforesaid 6 cases, 1 is a special Crime case, 3 are disproportionate assets cases and 2 cases pertain to abuse of official [...]
The number of foreign nationals who have entered into the country on valid travel documents and were found to be overstaying came down from 73,441 as on 31.12.2009 to 69, 188 as on 31.12.2010. However, there is no specific data indicating the position of India in the world in the matter of immigration. Police authorities in the States/Union Territories and [...]
As the Supreme Court judgment on February 2 cancelling the issue of 2G licences in 2008 reiterated, auctions are the preferred method of handing over natural resources to the private sector for exploitation. Properly designed and implemented, they are useful methods to discover the true price of the resource being allocated. In addition, they have the benefit of being transparent [...]
Shocking, but true. Barnevarne, a child care service of Norway, took custody of Indian children Abhigyan and Aishwarya from their natural parents Anurup and Sagarika Bhattacharya in May 2011 when they were two and-a-half years and six months old and lodged them in separate foster homes. It charged the mother Sagarika with “negligence and unable to bring up” the children. [...]
Declaring the allocation of 2G spectrum by the Congress-led United Progressive Alliance (UPA) government “illegal” and an example of the arbitrary exercise of power, the Supreme Court on Thursday cancelled all 122 telecom licences allotted on or after January 10, 2008 to 11 companies during the tenure of the former telecom minister, A. Raja. Click here for a .pdf of [...]
First introduced in 1968, the Lokpal bill is yet to get parliament’s nod, and faces an uncertain future with the Rajya Sabha Thursday night adjourning sine die without voting on the legislation. The Lokpal and Lokayuktas bill was first introduced in the fourth Lok Sabha May 9, 1968, and passed the following year. However, while it was pending in the [...]
The Protection of Women against Sexual Harassment at Workplace Bill, 2010, introduced in the Parliament has been referred to the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Human Resource Development. Sexual Harassment at the workplace is a violation of women’s right to equality, life and liberty. It vitiates the work environment and serves to discourage women from participating in work, gravely affecting women’s [...]
The Pension Fund Regulatory & Development Authority (PFRDA) Bill 2011 is almost the same version of the bill introduced in parliament in 2005 with minor changes. When the 2005 Bill was introduced, there was opposition from the government employees as it had direct bearing on the pension prospect of the central government employees who joined service on or after 1-1-2004 [...]
(IANS) President Pratibha Patil’s assent was needed for tabling the Lokpal bill in the Rajya Sabha in accordance with a constitutional procedure. The Lokpal bill needed the president’s assent before coming to Rajya Sabha as several amendments had been moved in the Lok Sabha Tuesday night. According to clause three of Article 117 of Constitution, the president’s assent is mandatory for [...]
London, Nov 30 (IANS) A 57-year-old paralysed man in Britain has asked a court to allow a doctor to ‘lawfully’ end his life of ‘uncertainty, pain, and suffering’. Tony Nicklinson is paralysed below the neck. He is unable to speak and needs help with every aspect of his life. He can only move his eyes and head and communicates using [...]
IAS Officer srilaxmi got arrested by the CBI in relation to Obulapuram mining case. She is charged of granting mines to Obulapuram Mining corporation illegally. During the regime of YS Rajasekhar Reddy, she was IT secretary. Then she granted 68.5 hectares of mines to OMC, rejecting the ones who applied earlier. She is charged of granting the mines to Gali [...]
London, Nov 19 (IANS) More and more elderly people in Britain are getting divorce, a media report said. In 2009, about 11,500 people, over the age of 60, were granted divorce, up four percent in two years. This contrasts with a fall in the divorce rate for all age groups of more than 11 percent, Daily Mail reported Friday. ‘We [...]
New Delhi, Nov 7 (IANS) After a 12-year-old girl told the court she wanted to live with her father, the Delhi High Court transferred her custody while the mother has been granted visitation rights. The judge took the girl, a student of Sardar Patel Vidyalaya, aside in her chamber and spoke to her before passing the order. The mother, who [...]
Washington, Oct 23 (IANS) Consumers who tell little white lies to avoid offending service providers are actually shielding those who inconvenience them. ‘Most consumers have told an inquiring server that their cold meal is fine, a hairdresser that they like their unexpected new look, or a friend that his/her too-snug jeans look great,’ write study authors Jennifer J. Argo of [...]
Bangalore, Oct 16 (IANS) The National Legal Services Authority is working on a special law to safeguard the interests and welfare of transgenders on the lines of Special Marriage Act, Supreme Court judge Altamas Kabir said Sunday. ‘Transgenders are in a most disadvantageous position, not of their own making. Some of them are rejected not just by society, but even [...]
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