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How To Handle Money Issues After Layoffs

How To Handle Money Issues After Layoffs

Rediff.com7 Jun 2023

Begin by creating a household budget. Involve all family members in the exercise and cut costs wherever possible.

Is Hardik Patel set to leave Congress ahead of Gujarat polls?

Is Hardik Patel set to leave Congress ahead of Gujarat polls?

Rediff.com13 Apr 2022

Expressing displeasure over the Gujarat Congress's "style of functioning", party leader Hardik Patel on Wednesday claimed that he was sidelined in the state unit and the leadership is not willing to utilise his skills.

Four-member govt panel to review grace marks for 1500 NEET students

Four-member govt panel to review grace marks for 1500 NEET students

Rediff.com8 Jun 2024

The NTA denied any irregularities and said the changes made in the NCERT textbooks and grace marks for losing time at the examination centres were some of the reasons behind the students scoring higher marks.

Atiq Ahmed, brother brought to Naini jail; to be produced in court on Tuesday

Atiq Ahmed, brother brought to Naini jail; to be produced in court on Tuesday

Rediff.com28 Mar 2023

A video of the incident which occurred at around 6:25 AM shows a cow darting towards the road when it was hit by the vehicle carrying Ahmed. The cow fell near the road divider. After the incident, the vehicle stopped for a while before resuming the onward journey.

Alert! Cheque Bounce May Land You In Jail

Alert! Cheque Bounce May Land You In Jail

Rediff.com18 May 2023

Keep sufficient funds in your bank account until the cheque is cleared.

Swineflu death toll reaches 1,158, Ahmedabad lawyers stay away from work

Swineflu death toll reaches 1,158, Ahmedabad lawyers stay away from work

Rediff.com3 Mar 2015

Swine flu claimed the lives of 43 more people taking the toll in the country to 1,158 with Gujarat and Rajasthan reporting maximum deaths sparking panic among lawyers in Ahmedabad where nearly 10,000 of them on Tuesday stayed away from work.

SC allows Gujarat's appeal in Godhra case

SC allows Gujarat's appeal in Godhra case

Rediff.com8 Sep 2003

The government had appealed the grant of bail by high court to four accused in the Godhra carnage.

Guj govt challenges acquittals in Godhra verdict

Guj govt challenges acquittals in Godhra verdict

Rediff.com25 Jun 2011

The state government has challenged a trial court's decision to acquit 61 persons in the Godhra train burning case in Gujarat high court and sought death sentences for twenty convicts awarded life imprisonment in the case.

'67 Toppers In NEET Are Impossible'

'67 Toppers In NEET Are Impossible'

Rediff.com20 Jun 2024

'In the history of India this kind of scores and ranks has never happened in exams.'

Sedition case: Hardik Patel denied bail by Surat court

Sedition case: Hardik Patel denied bail by Surat court

Rediff.com10 Dec 2015

The bail plea of Patel quota agitation leader Hardik Patel was on Thursday rejected by a district and sessions court in Surat.

Gujarat to challenge clean chit to Ishrat Jahan

Gujarat to challenge clean chit to Ishrat Jahan

Rediff.com8 Sep 2009

The Gujarat government on Tuesday rejected the S P Tamang report which concluded that Ishrat Jahan and three others were killed in a fake encounter in 2004 and said it would challenge it in a higher court.

Appointments in higher judiciary pending due to collegium: Law minister

Appointments in higher judiciary pending due to collegium: Law minister

Rediff.com18 Sep 2022

There is a need to think about the collegium system so that appointments in higher judiciary can be accelerated," Rijiju said.

CJI Ramana's tenure saw putting sedition law on hold, probe into Pegasus

CJI Ramana's tenure saw putting sedition law on hold, probe into Pegasus

Rediff.com26 Aug 2022

Creating a record, the CJI headed apex court collegium meetings led to appointment of 11 Supreme Court judges with nine of them, including three women, appointed in one go.

SC upholds ban on cow slaughter

SC upholds ban on cow slaughter

Rediff.com26 Oct 2005

The High Court had held that the government order imposed unreasonable restrictions on the Fundamental Rights of some petitioners who were involved in the trade.

Naroda Patia convict Bajrangi gets 5-day bail for treatment

Naroda Patia convict Bajrangi gets 5-day bail for treatment

Rediff.com9 Jul 2014

The Gujarat high court on Tuesday granted temporary bail to Vishwa Hindu Parishad leader Babu Bajrangi, serving life sentence in the 2002 Naroda Patia massacre case, to undergo treatment for an eye ailment.

Naroda Patiya case: Kodnani acquitted, Bajrangi's conviction upheld

Naroda Patiya case: Kodnani acquitted, Bajrangi's conviction upheld

Rediff.com20 Apr 2018

The high court upheld conviction of 13 people including Bajrangi, and convicted another three for the first time, while acquitting 18 of the 32 people convicted by the trial court in 2012.

Mukul Rohatgi set to return as attorney general

Mukul Rohatgi set to return as attorney general

Rediff.com14 Sep 2022

Rohatgi was the country's attorney general from June 2014 to June 2017.

SC asks Guj HC to hear Ishrat case plea

SC asks Guj HC to hear Ishrat case plea

Rediff.com6 Sep 2010

The Supreme Court asked the Gujarat High Court to consider and pass appropriate order for constituting a separate Special Investigation Team (SIT) for probing the case relating to killing of Ishrat Jahan in an encounter.

Gulberg massacre convict who jumped bail surrenders

Gulberg massacre convict who jumped bail surrenders

Rediff.com13 Jun 2016

Kailash Dhobi is one of 11 persons convicted for murder and other offences, and is listed as accused number 1 by the SIT in the Gulberg society case in which 69 persons, including former Congress MP Ehsan Jafri, were killed.

CBI registers case in RTI activist Amit Jethwa's murder

CBI registers case in RTI activist Amit Jethwa's murder

Rediff.com9 Oct 2012

The Central Bureau of Investigation on Tuesday registered a case in connection with the sensational 2010 killing of RTI Amit Jethwa outside the Gujarat high court in which a state Bharatiya Janata Party MP is a suspect.

Rahul Gandhi's disqualification against Constitution: Sharad Pawar

Rahul Gandhi's disqualification against Constitution: Sharad Pawar

Rediff.com25 Mar 2023

Congress leader Rahul Gandhi's disqualification as a Lok Sabha member was against the basic tenets of the Constitution and was a 'condemnable' move that highlighted the curtailment of democratic values, Nationalist Congress Party chief Sharad Pawar has said.

Guj HC quashes FIR against gun-totting MP Vitthal Radadia

Guj HC quashes FIR against gun-totting MP Vitthal Radadia

Rediff.com30 Sep 2013

The Gujarat high court quashed a First Information Report filed against member of Parliament Vitthal Radadia for allegedly brandishing his gun at a toll booth in Karjan after the complainant said he "did not wish to pursue the case".

CBI takes charge of Ishrat Jahan encounter case

CBI takes charge of Ishrat Jahan encounter case

Rediff.com6 Jan 2012

A team of CBI officials headed by IG V V Laxminarayan, who heads the Hyderabad Zone of the agency, was handed over the case papers and other documents related to the case in Ahmedabad by officials of the high court-appointed Special Investigation Team (SIT), which has termed the police encounter as "fake".

SC stays defamation proceedings by Jay Shah against The Wire

SC stays defamation proceedings by Jay Shah against The Wire

Rediff.com15 Mar 2018

The chief justice, while repeatedly stressing that he was not commenting on the case before it, also said that sometimes journalists write in a way that amounts to 'sheer contempt of court'.

Probe in Sadik Jamal case already on: CBI tells court

Probe in Sadik Jamal case already on: CBI tells court

Rediff.com3 Jul 2013

A special Central Bureau of investigation court on Wednesday did not pass any order on an application which sought further probe into the Sadik Jamal encounter case, after the investigative agency said that the points raised on the issue were already being probed.

Majority Of Judges Are Upper Castes

Majority Of Judges Are Upper Castes

Rediff.com13 Feb 2023

The law ministry said 78 per cent of high court judges appointed between 2018 and 2022 belonged to the upper caste.

SC agrees to hear Army wife's plea to repatriate POWs from Pakistan

SC agrees to hear Army wife's plea to repatriate POWs from Pakistan

Rediff.com13 Apr 2022

The Supreme Court on Wednesday agreed to hear a plea of the wife of an Indian Army officer seeking repatriation of her husband and other Army officers believed to be held under illegal detention as prisoners of war by Pakistan since the 1971 war.

HC verdict no setback to Modi: Sushma

HC verdict no setback to Modi: Sushma

Rediff.com25 Jul 2009

The high court had on Friday allowed the Special Investigation Team to go ahead with the investigations in the riots cases and question the chief minister who had so far had avoided joining the investigations.

No room for sympathy, compassion before rule of law: SC in Bilkis case

No room for sympathy, compassion before rule of law: SC in Bilkis case

Rediff.com8 Jan 2024

The top court said the faith of people in the efficacy of law is the saviour and succour for the sustenance of the rule of law.

Bilkis Bano case: SC dismisses pleaS by Gujarat IPS officer, 5 others

Bilkis Bano case: SC dismisses pleaS by Gujarat IPS officer, 5 others

Rediff.com10 Jul 2017

A bench of Justices S A Bobde and L Nageswara Rao, while rejecting their appeals, said the trial court had unreasonably acquitted them.

Barbs, name calling: Did LS poll campaign breach all limits?

Barbs, name calling: Did LS poll campaign breach all limits?

Rediff.com31 May 2024

As Election 2024 hurtles towards result day in a medley of mangalsutra, mujra, mutton, machli and other barbs, these may sound like character names from Hindi comics of yore. Instead, these are the mocking, sometimes vicious monikers given by political rivals to each other.

Govt bails out ONGC, OIL of Rs 22,000 crore royalty liability

Govt bails out ONGC, OIL of Rs 22,000 crore royalty liability

Rediff.com28 Feb 2017

Based on this settlement, the Supreme Court has disposed of the case on February 20.

Judge handling Sohrabuddin case transferred

Judge handling Sohrabuddin case transferred

Rediff.com19 Dec 2007

The Gujarat High Court has transferred Additional Sessions and Designated POTA court Judge Sonia Gokani, who was handling several important cases, including the Sohrabuddin Sheikh fake encounter case.

Godhra case: Hearing put off for two months

Godhra case: Hearing put off for two months

Rediff.com6 Apr 2011

The Gujarat high court on Wednesday granted two months' time to the special court to submit case papers of the 2002 Godhra train burning case, in which 11 persons have received death sentence, while 20 others have been awarded life imprisonment.

Modi 'stopped' war, but can't stop paper leaks: Rahul on NEET, NET row

Modi 'stopped' war, but can't stop paper leaks: Rahul on NEET, NET row

Rediff.com21 Jun 2024

Gandhi said Modi's top priority now is to get his Speaker in Parliament and is not bothered about NEET .

SC grants bail to 4 convicts in 2002 Naroda Patiya riots case

SC grants bail to 4 convicts in 2002 Naroda Patiya riots case

Rediff.com23 Jan 2019

The Gujarat high court had on April 20 last year upheld the conviction of 12 out of the 29 accused who were pronounced guilty on various charges by the trial court and had acquitted 17 others, including former BJP minister Maya Kodnani.

Phase 3: Fate of Shah, Scindia among 1300 candidates to be sealed on Tuesday

Phase 3: Fate of Shah, Scindia among 1300 candidates to be sealed on Tuesday

Rediff.com6 May 2024

Among the bigwigs are Union ministers Amit Shah (Gandhinagar), Jyotiraditya Scindia (Guna), Mansukh Mandaviya (Porbandar), Parshottam Rupala (Rajkot), Pralhad Joshi (Dharwad) and SP Singh Baghel (Agra).

SC issues notice to Amit Shah on CBI plea

SC issues notice to Amit Shah on CBI plea

Rediff.com30 Oct 2010

The Supreme Court on Saturday issued a notice to former Gujarat minister Amit Shah on Central Bureau of Investigation's plea seeking cancellation of his bail.

Chinkara case: HC breather for Aamir, Gowarikar

Chinkara case: HC breather for Aamir, Gowarikar

Rediff.com11 Apr 2008

Justice Harsha Devani also stayed the bailable arrest warrants issued by the lower court against the five, including film's director Ashutosh Gowarikar. The HC issued notice to state forest department and adjourned the hearing to April 25. The complaint against Khan and others was filed in the court By Deputy Forest Officer J V Vyas, as they had not responded to the several notices sent by the Forest Department asking them to remain present for questioning, sources said.

SC quashes part of 97th Constitutional amendment on cooperatives

SC quashes part of 97th Constitutional amendment on cooperatives

Rediff.com20 Jul 2021

The 97th constitutional amendment, which dealt with issues related to effective management of co-operative societies in the country was passed by Parliament in December 2011 and had come into effect from February 15, 2012. The change in the Constitution has amended Article 19(1)(c) to give protection to the cooperatives and inserted Article 43 B and Part IX B, relating to them.