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Notices over construction workers' law
A three-judge Bench headed by Chief Justice of India SH Kapadia asked the officials to be personally present at the next date of hearing to explain their failure in implementing the law. The Bench took strong exception to the fact that besides
Updated: 03/15/2011 10:01P
HC to take decision about PIL on Rathore on April 19
A division bench comprising Chief Justice Ranjan Gogoi and Justice Augustine George Masih today deferred the PIL filed by the World Human Rights Protection Council through its Chairman, Advocate Ranjan Lakhanpal, to April 19 for final adjudication.
Updated: 03/15/2011 10:01P
SC reserves verdict in Prajapati case
The Bench comprising Justices P Sathasivam and BS Chauhan reserved their verdict after extensively hearing arguments by the Gujarat government, state's former minister Amit Shah, petitioner Narmada Bai's lawyer, and the CBI. The state government and
Updated: 03/15/2011 10:01P
31 firms under scanner, claims ED
Reading from the status report which was placed in a sealed cover before the Bench of Justice GS Singhvi and Justice AK Ganguly, senior advocate KK Venugopal informed that in the probe, multicrore foreign transactions had been traced to at least six
Updated: 03/15/2011 10:01P
Crown orders Basi-Virk evidence destroyed
But Associate Chief Justice Anne MacKenzie ruled Tuesday that RCMP files, BC Liberal MLA emails, cabinet and other information must be returned by defence lawyers for destruction. Basi's lawyer Michael Bolton said in an interview with QMI Agency that
Updated: 03/15/2011 10:01P
UBS Is Being Investigated Over Libor
The bank, based in Zurich, said it had been subpoenaed by the Securities and Exchange Commission, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission and the Justice Department in connection with an investigation into whether the bank had tried improperly to
Updated: 03/15/2011 10:00P
New York City bus crash spotlights issues with cut-rate bus companies
In a similar accident Monday night on I-95, a bus that had left Chinatown for Philadelphia crashed in East Brunswick, NJ, killing the driver and a passenger. Though operated by different companies, the buses were among scores that line up in Chinatown
Updated: 03/15/2011 10:00P
UBS at center of LIBOR investigation
The bank, based in Zurich, said it has been subpoenaed by the Securities and Exchange Commission, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission and the Justice Department in connection with an investigation into whether the bank had tried improperly to
Updated: 03/15/2011 10:00P
Delhi High Court gives a clean chit to CM
The High Court of Delhi rejected the case filed against the Chief Minister, Pawan Chamling concerning his dual citizenship in the verdict that was given on 15 th March. The case was filed on April 2009 by the President of Bharatiya Janta Party (BJP)
Updated: 03/15/2011 10:00P
Fukushima nuke plant - 3rd explosion, possible damage to reactor #2 shielding
The Fukushima crisis now rates as a more serious accident than the partial meltdown at Three Mile Island in the US in 1979, and is second only to the 1986 Chernobyl disaster, according to the French nuclear safety authority. After insisting for three
Updated: 03/15/2011 10:00P
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