Panel Formed To Draft Central Law For Checking Violence Against Doctors

Source: ndtv.com New Delhi: The Union Health Ministry has entrusted an eight-member sub-committee with the task of drafting a central law to check violence against doctors and other medical professionals, a long-standing demand of the medical fraternity. The sub-committee has been directed to draft the law by July 17, officials said. The panel comprises officials from

Supreme Court’s rule for quota candidates availing age relaxation contradicts its own view

Sources: theprint.in A bench of two Supreme Court judges held in a recent judgment that “a candidate who has availed of an age relaxation in a selection process as a result of belonging to a reserved category, thereafter, cannot seek to be accommodated in/or migrated to the general category seat.” This means that such reserved category candidates

Delhi High Court directed IPAB to hear and dispose of urgent matters Sources: lexology.com The Intellectual Property Appellate Board (IPAB)was formed in 2003 under the provisions of the Trademarks Act, 1999 to expedite the disposal of trademark appeals and rectification/cancellation cases by an expert tribunal. Subsequently, the jurisdiction of IPAB was extended to the appeals

Ill-planned, ill-executed PPP projects behind Uttarakhand’s crumbling health services

Sources: citizenmatters.in Dehradun’s biggest government-run medical college and hospital is the Government Doon Medical College Hospital (GDMCH). It caters to a population of over 10 lakh apart from patients referred from hilly areas. But one can deduce the state of the most basic amenities in the GDMCH when one hears that a 27-year-old pregnant woman

Maratha quotas: Supreme Court refuses to stay Bombay High Court order allowing reservation

Sources: scroll.in The Supreme Court on Friday refused to stay the Bombay High Court’s decision to uphold reservations for the Maratha community in educational institutions and jobs in public services in Maharashtra, LiveLaw reported. Non-governmental organisation Youth For Equality had filed a petition against the High Court’s verdict. However, a bench of Chief Justice of

Nakkheeran case: SC stays Madras HC proceedings against Tamil magazine

Sources: thehindu.com Bench agrees to examine TN government’s plea against the stay order of the Madras High Court, and issues notice to the magazine and its editor R. Gopal seeking their response. The Supreme Court on Friday stayed further proceedings in the Madras High Court related to a plea by Tamil magazine Nakkheeran and its editor challenging

Telangana High Court stays Bhainsa polls

Source: deccanchronicle.com Hyderabad: The Telangana High Court issued interim stay orders directing election officers not to conduct polls in the Bhainsa municipality, Nirmal district, until the due process is followed in the division and delimitation of wards. Justice P. Naveen Rao was dealing with a petition by Mr Kapil Shinde, a resident of  Bhainsa, challenging the

Ex-BJP MP Dinu Solanki, six others sentenced to life in RTI activist murder case

Source: thehindu.com Former Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) parliamentarian Dinu Solanki and six others were on Thursday sentenced to life imprisonment in connection with the brutal killing of a Right to Information (RTI) activist Amit Jethwa in 2010. The special Central Bureau of Investigation court had held the seven accused, including Mr. Solanki, guilty in the murder case

BJP MLA’s daughter moves Allahabad High Court, seeks police protection after citing threat to life from father for marrying Dalit man

Source: firstpost.com Prayagraj (Uttar Pradesh): The daughter of a BJP legislator from Uttar Pradesh on Thursday moved the Allahabad High Court to seek police protection, citing threat to her life from her father after marrying a man outside her caste. The matter came to light on Wednesday after Sakshi Misra (23), daughter of MLA Rajesh Misra, posted