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National Lok Adalat settles around 35 lakh cases in India: NALSA

The National Lok Adalat held all over the country effectively settled a record 35 lakh cases pending in various courts. The National Lok Adalats were organised by the...

November 25, 2013

Justice A.P.Shah appointed Chairman of Law Commission of India

Justice Ajit Prakash Shah has been appointed as the new Chairman of the 20th Law Commission of India . He has taken charge of the position vacated by...

November 23, 2013

Kirit Parikh committee suggests increase in prices of Diesel, Kerosene and LPG

Kirit Parikh committee on Pricing Methodology for Diesel, Domestic LPG and PDS Kerosene has recommended a price increase of Rs 5 / litre in diesel, Rs 4/ litre in kerosene,...

November 2, 2013

Co-operatives against plan to convert Primary Agricultural Cooperative Societies (PACS) into banking correspondents

The members of co-operative societies are opposed to the ideo of converting Primary Agricultural Cooperative Societies (PACS) into business correspondents for District Credit Cooperative Banks as recommended by...

October 29, 2013

National Commission for STs presents Sixth Report on the working of safeguards for STs to the President of India

The National Commission for Scheduled Tribes chaired by Dr. Rameshwar Oraon presented the Sixth Report on working of safeguard for Scheduled Tribes for 2010-11 to the President of...

October 29, 2013

'State Govts can’t order suspension of films': Justice Mukul Mudgal on draft Cinematograph Bill 2013

The Empowered Committee on film certification chaired by Justice Mukul Mudgal has mandated that no State government can order the suspension of a film. As per the draft...

October 24, 2013

Prof. Ravi Chopra Expert panel to study the impact of Hydro-projects in Uttarakhand

A 17-member expert panel headed by Prof. Ravi Chopra has been constituted by the Union Ministry of Environment and Forests (MoEF) to investigate whether the environmental degradation caused by hydro-electric...

October 22, 2013

Apex court appoints Mudgal Committee to probe IPL spot-fixing

The Supreme Court has appointed a probe panel headed by former Chief Justice of the Punjab and Haryana High Court, Mukul Mudgal, to investigate spot-fixing in IPL matches....

October 16, 2013

Apex court upheld Green Tribunal order on WGEEP report

The Supreme Court dismissed the Kerala government appeal which challenged the jurisdiction of National Green Tribunal (NGT) which directed the Kerala government to stick to the report of...

October 16, 2013

GoI appoints panel to define FDI and FII

Government of India set up a four member committee headed by Arvind Mayaram, Economic Affairs Secretary to clear the ambiguity between Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) and Foreign Institutional...

October 5, 2013

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