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Shrey hospital fire: How was a residential building used as hospital, HC asks AMC

Source:-https://indianexpress.com Pulling up the Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation (AMC) over the Shrey Hospital fire incident, a division bench of the Gujarat High Court on Tuesday directed the civic body to explain how a building permitted for residential use was converted as a hospital. A fire in the intensive care unit of the private Covid hospital killed

German finance ministry’s new law to boost investment fund operations

Source:-https://www.ipe.com The German Ministry of Finance has proposed a draft law to encourage investment fund activity in the country. The law – Fondsstandortgesetz (FoG) or the Fund Location Act – if passed, it could translate into the implementation of the Directive (EU) 2019/1160 regarding the cross-border undertakings for the collective investment in transferable securities (UCITS).

Covid-19 doesn’t differentiate between rich, poor: Supreme Court

Source:-https://www.hindustantimes.com The coronavirus disease (Covid-19) does not differentiate between the rich and the poor, asserted the Supreme Court on Tuesday as it rued that arguments were being made about how poor people will not be able to pay steeper fines instead of making certain that everyone wears a mask to contain the spread of the deadly

Gulmarg land scam: Judge adjourns hearing for ‘lack of powers’

Source:-https://www.greaterkashmir.com Special judge anti-corruption court on Tuesday adjourned hearing of the infamous Gulmarg land scam case for want of powers in Jammu and Kashmir’s Baramulla district. The first additional district and sessions judge, Baramulla, who is also the judge of the special anti-corruption court for the districts of Baramulla, Kupwara and Bandipora, has adjourned the

Declared a foreigner, 104-year-old man in Assam dies before being able to prove Indian citizenship

Source:-https://scroll.in A 104-year-old man in Assam, who was declared a foreigner by a tribunal in 2018, died before being able to prove his Indian citizenship, the Hindustan Times reported on Monday. Chandradhar Das died at his home in Cachar district’s Amraghat area on Sunday night. He suffered a heart attack, according to The Indian Express.

Election of 10 Rajya Sabha MPs challenged in Allahabad High Court

Source:-https://www.newindianexpress.com LUCKNOW: The election of 10 newly elected Rajya Sabha MPs was challenged before the Lucknow bench of the Allahabad High Court on Monday. The petition was moved by businessman Prakash Bajaj, who was supported by the Samajwadi Party in the elections. The petitioner’s lawyer, Vivek Kumar Singh, said the returning officer had wrongly rejected

NFL team owner moves Delhi High Court to prosecute India-based website for contempt

Source:-https://www.indialegallive.com An application has been filed before the Delhi High Court by the owner of NFL’s Washington Football Team, Snyder has urged the court to issue directions asking the website to release the information with respect to the persons who had uploaded the impugned articles/posts on the platform and disclose the sources from where the

Govt seeks judge’s recusal in Mission Build Andhra Pradesh case

Source:-https://www.newindianexpress.com VIJAYAWADA: The State government on Tuesday requested Justice Rakesh Kumar to recuse himself from hearing petitions filed against the proposed auction of government properties as part of Mission Build Andhra Pradesh. In an affidavit filed in the high court, the government expressed concern that Justice Rakesh Kumar may be biased against it and his

Justice Muralidhar elevated as chief justice of Orissa HC

Source:-https://www.tribuneindia.com Transferred at “midnight” to the Punjab and Haryana High Court in February from the Delhi High Court in midst of the Delhi violence case hearing, Justice S Muralidhar was on Tuesday elevated as the Chief Justice of the Orissa High Court. The senior-most Judge of the Punjab and Haryana High Court, Justice Rajesh Bindal,

Punjab and Haryana HC stays election to state badminton association

Source:-https://www.indialegallive.com The Punjab and Haryana High Court has stayed the election of state Minister Bharat Bhushan Ashu as the chief of the Punjab Badminton Association. The old association’s joint secretary Tajinder Singh had filed a petition in the High Court regarding this election. In this, it was said the elections were held without informing the