Source: thehansindia.com New Delhi : While the Supreme Court is working with its full sanctioned strength, vacancy of judges is on the rise in the 25 high courts of the country, according to latest Law Ministry data. The figures released by the ministry on October 1 show that the high courts faced a shortage of
Source: dhakatribune.com Law, Justice and Parliamentary Affairs Minister Anisul Huq has said the country’s legal system would not spare the people involved in the murder of Abrar Fahad, a second-year student of Electric and Electronics Engineering (EEE) Department of the Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (BUET). The minister said these while addressing a children dialogue
Source: zeebiz.com With over 3.30 crore cases piled up in the Indian courts for disposal, the Narendra Modi-led government has finally instructed the Union Ministry of Law and Justice to “find out a way for reducing delays and arrears” in the country`s justice system. The government has also asked the Law Ministry to initiate structural
Source: dawn.com According to the PBC Executive Committee, a lawyer after assuming public office is duty-bound to get his practising licence suspended from the PBC, but Barrister Nasim didn’t follow this practice. Subsequently, the PBC itself suspended Barrister Nasim’s licence. However, he challenged the suspension before the attorney general. Subsequently, the PBC itself suspended Barrister
Source: latestly.com New Delhi, September 29: The Election Commission of India (ECI) is all set to ask the Union Law Ministry to approve its proposal for empowering itself to deregister political parties and bar contestants from running for election to two seats. This new development comes weeks before the Assembly elections in the Maharashtra and Haryana. Voters
Source: freemalaysiatoday.com PETALING JAYA: The number of Anti-Trafficking in Persons (ATIP) cases that ended in conviction in 2018 was 115, while between January and July this year there were 23 convictions, the de facto law minister’s office clarified today. Samantha Chong, the press secretary to Minister in the Prime Minister’s Department Liew Vui Keong, said
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: deccanherald.com A year after the Supreme Court was informed on 100-plus laws that discriminate against a leprosy-infected person, Union Health Minister Harsh Vardhan has written to 23 states and two central departments with a plea to repeal all such laws as leprosy is a completely curable disease. “Even though the disease is now fully
Source: zeenews.india.com The Election Commission has written to the Law Ministry seeking to link Electors’ Photo Identity Card (EPIC), popularly known as the voter ID card, with the 12-digit Aadhaar number. In its first letter to the ministry, the poll body also sought amendments to the Representation of the People Act, 1950, and stated that
Source :freepressjournal.in New Delhi: The new anti-terror law under which individuals can be declared as terrorists and their properties seized has come into effect, the Home Ministry announced on Wednesday. President Ram Nath Kovind had given assent to the legislation on August 8 after the Lok Sabha passed it on July 24 and the Rajya Sabha
