Source: newindianexpress.com BHOPAL: Havaldar Shyam Bahadur Singh of the Rajputana Rifles overcame the pain of bullets in his chest tied with a blood soaked towel to destroy an entire bunker of the Pakistani Army on the indomitable heights of the Drass Sector during the 1999 Kargil War. Two decades later, as the country prepares to
Source: newindianexpress.com New Delhi: The Andhra Pradesh government has no right to issue directions to state power distribution companies and the state’s directive to renewableenergy plants to lower tariffs is against the Electricity Act, said law firm J Sagar Associates that represented ReNew Power in high court against the order. The Andhra Pradesh high court on
Source: news.yahoo.com The latest amendment to the Unlawful Activities Prevention Act (UAPA), with the simultaneous dilution of the Right to Information Act, 2005 by allowing the Modi government to fix the tenure and salaries of the information commissioners while downgrading the Constitutional status of the chief information commissioner— spells danger to democracy. And with the
Source: thenorthlines.com The Jammu and Kashmir High Court on Tuesday asked state government to provide details within two days regarding measures taken for empowering visually impaired persons including those blinded by the shotgun fire in the State. During the hearing of a Public interest litigation before a division bench of the high court, additional advocate
Source: telegraphindia.com he Bengal government’s panel of lawyers in Calcutta High Court, including advocate general Kishore Dutta, boycotted the court of Justice Samapti Chatterjee on Monday, saying the judge was not hearing their submissions properly. Justice Chatterjee said in an open court that she wasn’t bothered with the boycott. “The state panel lawyers have decided
Source: telegraphindia.com The government is learnt to have asked the Supreme Court collegium to reconsider its recommendation to elevate an Allahabad High Court judge as chief justice of Andhra Pradesh High Court. While returning the file relating to Justice Vikram Nath last month, the government did not cite any reason, sources said. They added that
Source: economictimes.indiatimes.com NEW DELHI: The government is learnt to have asked the Supreme Court collegium to reconsider its recommendation to elevate a judge of the Allahabad High Court as chief justice of the Andhra Pradesh High Court. While returning the file of Justice Vikram Nath last month, the government did not cite any reason, sources
Source: greaterkashmir.com The High Court has directed the Jammu and Kashmir government to inform it by July 31 about the steps taken to implement the notified drug policy in the state. A division bench of Chief Justice Gita Mittal and Justice Rashid Ali Dar sought the status report about the implementation of the policy after
Source: newindianexpress.com CUTTACK: The state government on Monday informed the Orissa High Court that it has implemented the Centre’s Witness Protection Scheme-2018.Endorsing the Central scheme on December 5 last year, the Supreme Court had directed all States and Union Territories to implement it in letter and spirit. One Sadasiba Swain had filed a petition in
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
