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Rajasthan HC dismisses state government’s plea to extend time limit for holding polls for six civic bodies

Source:-newindianexpress JAIPUR: The Rajasthan High Court has dismissed the state government’s application to extend time limit for holding elections for six newly created municipal corporations in the state. A division bench of Chief Justice Indrajit Mahanty and Justice Prakash Gupta on Tuesday dismissed the application to defer the election from October 31 this year to

School fees in Odisha likely to be reduced as govt submits proposal to High Court

Source:-hindustantimes School fees in 6700-odd private schools across Odisha are all set to be reduced for the lockdown period after a joint committee comprising state government officials, school authorities and parents submitted a report in Orissa High Court recommending a reduction of school fee by 26 per cent. The recommendation of the committee came following

Congress is taking support of Arun Jaitley’s arguments against agricultural bills

Source:-pledgetimes The Congress is constantly trying to surround the Narendra Modi government at the Center on agricultural laws. For this, along with the refusal to implement it in Congress-ruled states, protests are also continuing. The Congress party is now resorting to the arguments of former Finance Minister Arun Jaitley to surround the Modi government on

District Bar Association Chandigarh submits plan for resumption of physical hearing of cases in courts

Source:-tribuneindia Stressing on the need to alleviate hardship and sufferings due to restrictive functioning of the courts the District Bar Association (DBA) Chandigarh, Sector43, has readied to resume physical hearings of the courts in a phased manner. In an action plan submitted before District and Sessions Judge, the DBA president, NK Nanda, demanded that physical

Orissa High Court denies permission to terminate pregnancy of differently-abled rape survivor

Source:-indialegallive Bhubaneswar (IL News Service): The Orissa High Court has refused permission to terminate the pregnancy of a physically and mentally challenged 22-year-old woman. The woman is also a rape victim. The woman, also mentally challenged, is a resident of a village in Kujanga Police Station area of Jagatsinghpur district in Odisha. She was raped

Daily Court Digest: Major environment orders (September 23, 2020)

Source:-org Biodiversity conservation Manipur had been making all necessary efforts to fully comply with the mandate of the Biological Diversity Act, 2002 and the Rules framed under it, the Manipur Biodiversity Board said in its report to the National Green Tribunal (NGT). The Board had proposed to constitute 2,282 Biodiversity Management Committees (BMC) across the