Source: timesnownews.com New Delhi: Finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman in her maiden Budget speech announced Labour law reforms. Ministry of Labour and Employment has taken steps for drafting four Labour Codes on Wages; Industrial Relations; Social Security; and Occupational Safety, Health and Working Conditions respectively, by simplifying, amalgamating and rationalizing the relevant provisions of the existing Central Labour

Source: newindianexpress.com KOCHI: The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has arrested an accused in the sensational Abdu murder case who was hiding in Qatar for the past several years. The arrested is EA Sihar, 35, of SN Puram, Kodungalloor. The incident related to the case occurred on December 14, 2006, when Abdu, a native of Eriyad

Source: morungexpress.com The Meghalaya High Court has directed that the state additional chief secretary incharge of political department will head a panel formed to examine a CBI report on the 2009 education job scam as the incumbent chief secretary P S Thangkhiew has been named an accused in it. The court has also granted six

Source: thewire.in New Delhi: In yet another blow to chief minister K. Chandrasekhar Rao’s plans to build new secretariat and assembly complexes, the Telangana high court on Monday ordered the state government not to demolish the existing secretariat complex and the historic Errum Manzil Palace. The high court was hearing a batch of petitions opposing the

Source: hindustantimes.com A 45-year-old man died after an unidentified vehicle hit him when he was crossing a road in Manesar on Sunday evening. The police said that the man, identified as Mohammed Fahim Ansari, was from Bihar and lived in Manesar, where he used to work with a private company. The incident took place around

Source: morungexpress.com The Uttarakhand government is planning to ban single-use plastics in all government offices in the state. “We are in the process of banning single-use plastics in all government offices including the Secretariat,” said a top government official. Through this initiative, the use of plastic glasses, folders, bottles, cups and other plastic items will

Source: scroll.in The Delhi High Court on Friday rejected a public interest litigation, asking for a special investigation team to be constituted to look into the attack on a temple in the Capital’s Chawri Bazar area on June 30, Bar and Benchreported. The court dismissed the plea, saying it was a premature request as three first information reports

Source: hindustantimes.com Former Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) MLA from Gandhi Nagar Anil Bajpai, who defected to the BJP just before the Lok Sabha elections, moved the Delhi High Court on Saturday, accusing Delhi assembly speaker Ram Niwas Goel of favouring the ruling party. Bajpai demanded Goel’s ‘recusal’ from hearing the anti-defection petition moved against him

Sourcce: thewire.in Thiruvananthapuram: The Kerala government on Friday ordered a judicial probe into the alleged custodial torture and death of a remand prisoner in a jail in Idukki district, days after the issue rocked the state. The decision was taken at a cabinet meeting chaired by chief minister Pinarayi Vijayan here. Announcing the decision, Vijayan said

Source: barandbench.com The Supreme Court yesterday held that when an accused in a case did not enter appearance before High Court, the High Court should not have decided the case on merits. Instead, it should have issued second notice to the accused or directed the High Court Legal Services Committee to appoint an advocate or