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IANS 21 February 2017
Polling was under way on a brisk and peaceful note on Tuesday in Maharashtra to pick 10 major civic bodies, including the BrihanMumbai Municipal Corporation, 11 Zilla Parishads and 118 Panchayat Samitis.   By 10 a.m., Mumbai notched around 10 per cent balloting from the 9.20 million...

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IANS 17 February 2017
The Supreme Court has made it easier for the people of middle and lower income groups to approach it to avail legal aid, an official said on Thursday.   The Middle Income Group Scheme, introduced by the Supreme Court, is self-supporting and people whose gross income does not exceed Rs...

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IANS 17 February 2017
TV actor and COO of Elder Pharmaceuticals Anuj Saxena, accused of bribing former Ministry of Corporate Affair official B.K. Bansal who committed suicide, surrendered himself before a Delhi court on Thursday.   Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) Special Judge Gurdeep Singh directed...

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Manoj K (IANS) 17 February 2017
In tax returns filed a year before they were elected, 72% Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and Congress MPs and MLAs claimed they earn less than Rs 10 lakh, according to an analysis of affidavits of 4,848 (of 4,910) lawmakers.   As many as 75% of MPs and MLAs nationwide declared annual...

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IANS 15 February 2017
AIADMK General Secretary V.K. Sasikala, held guilty for corruption, on Wednesday surrendered before a trial court at a prison here.   Sasikala gave herself up at the Central Jail on the city's southern outskirts with her relatives Elavarasi and V.N. Sudhakaran after reaching from...

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IANS 15 February 2017
The Supreme Court on Wednesday directed the shifting of Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) strongman Mohammad Shahabuddin from Bihar's Siwan jail to the Tihar Central Jail here to ensure a free and fair trial.   A bench of Justice Dipak Misra and Justice Amitava Roy said that it's order be...

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Venkatachari Jagannathan (IANS) 15 February 2017
Indian rocket Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV) on Wednesday morning lifted off successfully with a record 104 satellites, including the country's earth observation satellite Cartosat-2 series.   The PSLV-XL variant rocket standing 44.4 metre tall and weighing 320 ton tore into...

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IANS 14 February 2017
The National Lok Adalat disposed off more than 7.7 lakh cases, involving a settlement amount of Rs 2,404 crore, during its recent sitting -- an exercise designed to avoid judicial delays, officials said on Tuesday.   "More than 7.7 lakh cases were disposed off, which included 4.3 lakh...

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IANS 14 February 2017
In a major setback for AIADMK General Secretary Sasikala Natarajan, who was aspiring to be the Tamil Nadu Chief Minister, the Supreme Court on Tuesday restored her conviction in a disproportionate assets case.   A division bench of of Justice Pinaki Chandra Ghose and Justice Amitava...

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IANS 14 February 2017
Taking cognisance of an online petition by a disabled woman, Union Minister for Women and Child Development Maneka Gandhi on Monday wrote to Railways Minister Suresh Prabhu requesting him to facilitate comfortable train travel for the disabled on a "mission mode".   In her online...

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IANS 13 February 2017
New Delhi, The Supreme Court on Monday deferred for three weeks a hearing on contempt proceedings against Calcutta High Court judge Justice C.S. Karnan as he did not appear before the court as directed.   A seven-judge constitution bench directed the next hearing on March 10, noting...

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IANS 09 February 2017
India has handed over a request for the extradition of liquor baron Vijay Mallya to the British High Commission here, the Ministry of External Affairs on Thursday said.   "We have today handed over the request for extradition of Vijay Mallya as received from the CBI to the UK High...

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IANS 08 February 2017
The limits on savings bank cash withdrawals post-demonetisation are to be withdrawn in two stages, the Reserve Bank of India announced on Wednesday, with the limit slated to go up to Rs,50,000 per account from February 20 and to cease from March 13.   The announcement was made by RBI...

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Admiral Arun Prakash (IANS) 08 February 2017
The peremptory rejection of the shipborne variant of the Tejas light combat aircraft (LCA) by the Indian Navy seems to have surprised most navy-watching analysts. Their confusion has been compounded by the near-simultaneous issuance of a global request for information (RFI) for procurement of...

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IANS 08 February 2017
The Department of Consumer Affairs has issued an advisory to the state governments to sensitise companies, hotels and restaurants within their jurisdiction regarding the provisions of the Consumer Protection Act on unfair trade practices.   It also told the states to advise them to...

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IANS 08 February 2017
Supreme Court Chief Justice Jagdish Singh Khehar on Wednesday issued a contempt notice to Calcutta High Court Judge Justice C.S. Karnan for continuously levelling allegations against his Madras High Court counterpart and other judges.   Disclaimer: Information, facts or opinions...

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Devanik Saha (IANS) 07 February 2017
It takes an average of 261 days for a parliamentary law to come into force, according to a report by Vidhi Centre for Legal Policy, a think-tank.   The report analysed 44 laws enacted by Parliament between 2006 and 2015 and calculated the average number of days between a law receiving...

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Devanik Saha (IANS) 07 February 2017
It takes an average of 261 days for a parliamentary law to come into force, according to a report by Vidhi Centre for Legal Policy, a think-tank.   The report analysed 44 laws enacted by Parliament between 2006 and 2015 and calculated the average number of days between a law receiving...

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IANS 07 February 2017
The CBI on Monday said it has registered a case against a commissioner of Income Tax (Appeals) in Delhi, his wife and other unidentified persons on charges of amassing illicit assets worth Rs 4.28 crore.   The premier investigation agency booked the IT Commissioner Haribansh Kumar...

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IANS 07 February 2017
An unknown number of burglars broke into Nobel Laureate and social activist Kailash Satyarthi's house here and stole his Nobel Prize certificate, a spokesman of his foundation said on Tuesday.   The burglary was carried out on Monday night and was discovered by Satyarthi's son. He...

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