Source: livemint.com New Delhi: The Delhi High Court on Wednesday sought a response from the Central government on a plea by detained bureaucrat-turned politician Shah Faesal, from Srinagar, to provide him the copy of the lookout circular issued against him. A bench of Justices Manmohan and Sangeeta Dhingra Sehgal asked the Centre to file its response

Source: indianexpress.com The Punjab and Haryana High Court on Tuesday restrained various employee associations, including the contract workers and resident doctors, from proceeding on any strike or disrupting the functioning of the PGIMER Chandigarh in any manner while ordering a stay on a notice issued by the PGI Contract Workers Union for strike. The contract workers, including

Source: The Supreme Court on Wednesday said it had received a communication from the Ministry of Law and Justice on the collegium’s recommendation elevating Justice Akil Kureshi as Chief Justice of the Madhya Pradesh High Court. A Bench headed by Chief Justice Ranjan Gogoi said his office had received a communication from the ministry and

Source: NEW DELHI: The Chief Justice of India(CJI), Ranjan Gogoi, has written to law minister Ravi Shankar Prasad, asking him to expedite the appointment of 43 judges approved by the Supreme Court collegium, but pending with the government.  The CJI, ET has reliably gathered, has pointed out that there is already 37% vacancy across high courts and

Source: thenewsminute.com With the YSRCP government in Andhra Pradesh dropping clear hints that it had no grand plans for the capital of Amaravati and was even open to the decentralisation of institutions, the demand for a High Court to be established at Kurnool has resurfaced.  Speaking to reporters in Kurnool on Tuesday, Jayaraju Yeggoni from

Source: businesstoday.in Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) is the integration of socially beneficial programs and practices into a corporation’s business model and culture. India is one of the first countries in the world to make CSR mandatory for companies following an amendment to the Companies Act, 2013 (Companies Act) in 2014. Under the Companies Act, businesses

Source: hindustantimes.com Five years on, the investigation by the State Vigilance Investigation Bureau (VIB) into large-scale suspected appointment of school teachers in Bihar on forged documents is far from over. So far, the VIB has registered 337 FIRS involving 903 teachers across the state, of which services of 639 teachers have been terminated by the

Source: indiatvnews.com The Madras High Court has expressed displeasure over non-implementation of orders related to mandatory wearing of helmets by two-wheeler and pillion riders despite the lapse of over an year, and sought an explanation from the Tamil Nadu government. It also asked the state director general of police to furnish the details of number

Source: indianexpress.com Home Minister Amit Shah on Wednesday said the era of third degree torture to solve crimes was over and that police must increasingly use forensic science to investigate cases. He also announced setting up of a forensic science university and called for a nationwide discussion on amendments needed in the Indian Penal Code

Source: thehindu.com The State’s disaster management is itself “disastrous” due to non-implementation of several crucial provisions of the Disaster Management Act, 2005. This, even though the State witnessed several droughts and floods all these years, the Karnataka High Court observed on Monday. A Division Bench comprising Chief Justice Abhay Shreeniwas Oka and Justice Mohammad Nawaz made these