Month: September 2019

Bullet train: Unhappy farmers to move Supreme Court against Gujarat High Court verdict

Source: dnaindia.com Unhappy with the verdict of the Gujarat High Court in the petitions challenging the acquisition of their land for the Ahmedabad-Mumbai bullet train project, the farmers and other similarly situated project affected persons on Thursday decided to approach the Supreme Court against the high court’s verdict. Notably, the division bench of Justice AS

Madhya Pradesh HC fines varsity Rs 5 lakh for admission norms violation

Source: indianexpress.com The Madhya Pradesh High Court has imposed a cost of Rs 5 lakh on Sagar-based Dr Harisingh Gour University for violating the state government’s norms on admission to the B.Ed course in its affiliated colleges. The central institution conducted a university-level entrance test for admission to B.Ed course in colleges affiliated to it

Chinmayanand held for sexual assault on law student, police say he has owned up

Source: financialexpress.com Former Union minister and BJP leader Swami Chinmayanand, accused of sexually assaulting a 23-year-old law student at his ashram, was arrested Friday, four days after the woman recorded her statement before a magistrate in Shahjahanpur. Police have not booked him on the charge of rape, and invoked instead sexual intercourse by a person in authority,

Bombay High Court to MSRDC: Don’t fell mangroves in area excess of 200 sq m

Source: indianexpress.com THE BOMBAY High Court on Friday directed the Maharashtra State Road Development Corporation (MSRDC) to confine itself to felling mangroves in an area of only 200 sq m to build 10 pillars for the Bandra-Versova Sea Link. “Only fell the trees required to make pillars, nothing more than that,” Chief Justice Pradeep Nandrajog

Contempt of Court: Punjab and Haryana HC awards six month jail to govt polytechnic college principal

Source: indianexpress.com Holding him responsible for wilful disobedience of an interim order, the Punjab and Haryana High Court has convicted the principal of a government-aided polytechnic college under the Contempt of Court Act and sentenced him to six months in jail. However, the HC ordered a stay on its judgment for 30 days to allow

Delhi High Court dismisses Deepak Talwar’s bail plea in money laundering case

Source: financialexpress.com The Delhi High Court Thursday dismissed the bail plea of lobbyist Deepak Talwar, arrested by the ED in a money laundering case, saying the “magnitude of conspiracy angle” in it is huge and enormous amount of money is yet to be trailed. Justice Rajnish Bhatnagar denied relief to Talwar on the ED’s contention that he

Karnataka High Court refuses to allow online sale of liquor, says no provision in Act

Source: deccanchronicle.com BENGALURU: The Karnataka High Court has refused to allow online sale of liquor to consumers in the state. The court passed the order, while dismissing a petition filed by Hip Bar Pvt Ltd, a company engaged in offering semi-closed prepaid payment instrument (Mobile Wallet) to its customers among other services. Justice S. Sujatha, in

MBBS, BDS admissions: SC upholds HC order on micro-quota in Punjab’s private medical colleges

Source: hindustantimes.com In a setback to the Punjab government, the Supreme Court on Tuesday upheld the Punjab and Haryana High Court’s decision on micro-reservation in private medical colleges in the state. With this, the deadlock over the counselling for MBBS and BDS courses being conducted by the Baba Farid University of Health Sciences (BFUHS), Faridkot,