Senior journalist A Surya Prakash was on Tuesday appointed chairman of the Prasar Prasar Bharati Board, filling a post which had been lying vacant for the last six months.
The decision would affect the lawyers specialising in Sales Tax laws and former Sales Tax officers who work as sales tax practitioners. A bench comprising Justice H K Sema and Justice Markenday Katju while dismissing the petitions filed by the Sales Tax Practitioners Association of Maharashtra and the Bar Council of Maharashtra upholding the Bombay High Court's judgement that held only chartered or cost accountants would be eligible to certify sales tax returns.
The Supreme Court on Friday stayed the death sentence of Mohammed Shoeb Kasam Ghansar, a death row convict in the 1993 Mumbai serial bomb blasts case.
The Supreme Court on Friday expressed displeasure over Raj Thackeray's remarks on people coming to Mumbai from other states.
The court directed the Union government to constitute sufficient number of tribunals to detect alleged infiltration of thousands of Bangladeshis into Assam.
The apex court said a tenant or an occupier of a premises does not have any right to move the government for initiating proceedings under the Public Premises (Eviction of Unauthorised Occupants) Act 1971. Interpreting section 7 of the Act, the apex court said the power to move the Estate Officer for evicting an occupier or a tenant can be exercised only by the landlord/owner.
A bench comprising Justices S B Sinha and Markandey Katju, while admitting the appeal filed by Sharma, who killed his wife Naina Sahni, referred the matter to a three-judge bench for further hearing.
"You are a secessionist movement. You have not stopped your activities," a Bench of Justice S B Sinha and Markandeya Katju observed while dealing with the special leave petition filed by SIMI challenging the ban imposed on it.
"We are not bound by the two-judge bench order," a three-judge bench headed by Chief Justice K G Balakrishnan said, referring to the order of Justices A K Mathur and Markandey Katju, who had stated that the apex court, in several judgments in the past, had interfered by going into the domains of executive and legislature.
In an application, the convicts have cited a judgment of Justice Markandey Katju in which the judge had stated that punishing TADA accused even when the Act has expired could be a violation of Article 14 of the Constitution.
Moreover, the question as to whether the FIR is an ante dated one or not, must be considered having regard to the facts and circumstances of the case, the apex court said.
Employees cannot be transferred to another post if it reduces their salary or pushes them to a lower rank, the Supreme Court has held.
"Under the fact and circumstances of the case, we do not find merit in his appeal," a Bench comprising Justice S B Sinha and Justice Markandeya Katju said dismissing the bail petition challenging the Patna high court order.
The ruling has been handed down by a bench comprising Justices A K Mathur and Markandey Katju, who allowed the appeal of the Punjab government against the order of Punjab and Haryana High Court, which has held that daily wage tractor drivers are also entitled to the pay of regular drivers.
India pacer Mohammad Shami has once again become a victim of social media trolling after he posted pictures of his wife during their daughter's second birthday celebrations.
Prasar Bharti were restrained from interfering with the telecast of the tri-series cricket in Sri Lanka, the US Open tennis, the hockey World Cup as the exclusive telecast rights are with Ten Sports.
The Delhi high court has deferred till Monday, February 6, the hearing on the petition filed by Reliance challenging the award of Delhi and Mumbai airport modernisation contracts to rival companies.
HC stated that the matter had to be dealt with by appropriate authorities.
The Kutch region, which was in the forefront of the movement for raising the height of the Sardar Sarovar dam, was not receiving its due share of water in terms of the award of the tribubal.
A division bench of the Madras high court upheld the BCCI's decision to cancel the tender process for telecast rights for international cricket matches till 2008.
The Bench also rejected the counsel's plea for a direction to the Jharkhand High Court to dispose off the criminal appeal filed by Bhushan against his conviction.
Maharashtra Governor Ch Vidyasagar Rao has rejected a plea to waive off the remaining jail term of actor Sanjay Dutt, convicted in the 1993 Mumbai serial blasts case.
A fact-finding committee has been set up by the Press Council of India to look into the attack on media persons by police personnel in Hisar district during clashes that erupted at the ashram of controversial 'godman' Rampal.
Justice Gogoi's tenure as judge and as CJI was marked by some controversies and personal allegations but that never came in his way of his judicial work that was reflected in the last few days when benches headed by him delivered some path-breaking judgments.
'The reality is that 377 compromises the freedom and affects many of us adversely,' Navtej Singh Johar tells Manavi Kapur.
Backing Supreme Court Judge Justice A R Dave over his call to teach the Gita in schools, a leading Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh ideologue on Wednesday said the work is not a mere religious scripture but a spiritual and philosophic classic and called for it to be declared the "national book."
Ajit Doval, former director of the Intelligence Bureau and the likely NSA, has an enviable record for courage under fire, reports Vicky Nanjappa/Rediff.com
When a university allows a small group of students to prevent classes being held; when the professor selected to hold those classes gives up and goes back to his hometown; what conclusion can be drawn, asks Jyoti Punwani.
'When a girl, travelling alone with her headphones on and listening to music, reaches home safely, that will be the success for me.' PINK producer Shoojit Sircar and his team thanks everyone for making his film a success.
The three promoters - Anil Kumar Sharma, Ajay Kumar and Shiv Priya - had diverted Rs 1,500-1,600 crore through bogus methods like loans and advances between group firms at inflated rates.
Senior judges have developed a cushy arrangement among themselves: you back the appointment of so-and-so advocate's junior, and I will back so-and-so judge's nephew, says Subir Roy
Activist Mazdak Dilshad Baloch expressed satisfaction with the Indian response to the "Baloch appeal", saying Modi's Independence Day speech had played "a major role in spreading awareness" about the "atrocities" of the Pakistani State on Balochistan.
The Prime Minister's Office during Manmohan Singh's tenure had asked why the Supreme Court collegium had not recommended extension for a Madras High Court judge who was facing corruption charges after the collegium expressed its hesitation, Law Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad said in Parliament on Tuesday
The past three weeks have demonstrated that the Congress is still to recover from the drubbing it received in Lok Sabha elections, says Rediff.com contributor Anita Katyal
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