Month: October 2019

Source – newindianexpress.com0 CUTTACK:  The ongoing cease-work by the Orissa High Court Bar Association has taken a new turn with the Bar Council of India (BCI) directing it to immediately call off the agitation and member lawyers to resume court work.The association has been boycotting court work since October 14 “to show protest against” the recent

Source – newindianexpress.com HYDERABAD: In the view of the recent Telangana High Court directions on the conduct of polls to municipalities and municipal corporations, Telangana Election Commissioner V Nagi Reddy asked the District Collectors to be prepared for conducting the polls for the urban local bodies (ULB) as the election notification will be issued by the

Source – newsclick.in Is Prime Minister Narendra Modi subtly preparing his party’s cadre and that of Sangh Parivar affiliates for a Supreme Court verdict which is not completely in favour of Hindu parties in the Ayodhya case? Or, did he convey a message to Muslim parties that they should accept the judgement even if they

Source – firstpost.com New Delhi: As the telecom sector stares at a massive payout following a Supreme Court order, the government has constituted a Committee of Secretaries to work out a financial bailout package that may include lowering of spectrum charges as well as ending the era of free mobile phone calls and dirt cheap data.

Source – vox.com Not that long ago, the Tenth Amendment was the new hotness in Republican circles. Shortly after President Obama took office, Republicans looked to the amendment — a states’ rights provision providing that the federal government’s powers are not limitless — as a way to prevent the federal government from doing much of

Source – lexology.com There has been a recent and peculiar development in the field of international jurisdiction for orders passed by Indian Courts. This development unfolded in the case of Swami Ramdev & Anr v. Facebook Inc. & Ors., in which a decision has been passed for removing defamatory content posted online without a geographical limit. The

Source – thehindu.com The State of Jammu and Kashmir will transition into two Union Territories of J&K and Ladakh on October 31, and the process will begin with the swearing-in of the two newly appointed Lieutenant-Governors in Srinagar and Leh, respectively. The bifurcation and downgrade of the State into Union Territories will be a “low-key” affair, a

Source – news.careers360.com NEW DELHI: The strike by Uttarakhand Ayurvedic Medical College students over non-implementation of a court order against fee hike entered the twenty-eighth day on Monday, October 28, with no signs of any end to the impasse. On October 9, last year, the High Court of Uttarakhand ordered private ayurvedic medical colleges to refund

Source – news18.com Kochi: The authorities on Monday failed to implement a court order directing to facilitate entry of Orthodox faction priests and followers into a church in Kothamangalam to offer prayers following strong resistance from Jacobite faction priests and faithful. The Orthodox faction priests and followers withdrew from the scene after their hours-long stand-off with

Source – Tension prevailed in Kothamangalam in Ernakulam district in Kerala on Monday after a large number of priests and followers belonging to the Jacobite faction prevented those belonging to the Orthodox faction from entering a church to take its possession as per a Supreme Court’s 2017 verdict regarding the Church’s management. In its order, the apex