New Delhi: Eight-time champions India will start their campaign against The Netherlands on July 30 in the men's hockey competition of the 2012 London Olympics. The London Olympic Organising Committee (LOCOG), alongwith the International Hockey Federation (FIH), unveiled the 12-team hockey competition schedule on Tuesday, that will be held from July 30 to August 11. India, who have been clubbed with Germany (No.2), Korea (No.6), New Zealand (No.7), Belgium (No.11)...
05:52 PM, May 22, 2012
The Union Public Service Commission, popularly known as UPSC, was accorded a constitutional status as an autonomous entity in the new constitution on 26th January, 1950. One of the major functions of the Commission is recruitment to services and posts under the Union through conduct of competitive examinations. The Commission usually conducts a number of examinations every year on an all-India basis for direct recruitment in various fields, such as...
03:36 PM, May 22, 2012
New Delhi: The Central government on Tuesday withdrew its review petition in the 2G spectrum allocation scam case. The government had in its review petition sought clarification from the Supreme Court on its February 2, 2012 judgment that said that all natural resources must be auctioned. The ruling of the apex court had favoured auctioning of natural resources. The Centre had alleged judicial overreach by Supreme Court in its decision...
07:25 PM, May 08, 2012
New Delhi: The Supreme Court will on Tuesday begin hearing the Centre's review petition in the 2G spectrum case. The Centre had alleged judicial overreach by Supreme Court in its decision cancelling 122 2G licences on February 2 this year. The Centre alleged that the executive's policy powers were usurped by the court, implying judicial overreach. ...
07:55 AM, May 01, 2012
New Delhi: A special leave petition filed against former Karnataka chief minister BS Yeddyurappa in the mining scam was withdrawn on Monday after the complainant reportedly told the Supreme Court that the matter before the Chief Justice Bench and the Central Empowered Committee (CEC) "should be pursued without any hindrance". However the CEC recommendations for a CBI probe against Yeddyurappa will be heard by the SC. The fate of Yeddyurappa...
01:24 PM, Apr 23, 2012
New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Wednesday dismissed a plea by telecom companies to review its February 2 judgement cancelling the licences of 122 companies in the 2G spectrum scam. The apex court, however, admitted the government's review petition in the scam. The petition has been listed for hearing in open court on April 13. Seven petitions filed by telecom companies and one plea each by the PMO, the Centre,...
08:34 PM, Apr 04, 2012
New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Tuesday is likely to hear a host of pleas by the Centre and Telecom firms seeking a review of its verdict. The apex court had cancelled 122 2G Spectrum licenses on February 2 granted by former Telecom Minister A Raja and had held that the first-come-first-served (FCFS) policy could not be used for the allocation of natural resources. Seven petitions filed by Telecom companies...
06:34 AM, Apr 03, 2012
New Delhi: Justice KS Radhakrishnan has been put on the Supreme Court bench to hear a bunch of pleas by the Centre and various telecom firms, seeking reviews of various aspects of the verdict cancelling 122 2G spectrum licences. He replaces AK Patnaik, who came in the place of Justice Asok Ganguly, who has retired. Justice GS Singhvi, who is heading the bench in the 2G matters, earlier on March...
01:07 AM, Apr 03, 2012
New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Monday issued a notice to the CBI on Nupur Talwar's review petition in the Aarushi Talwar-Hemraj double murder case, which questioned the trial court taking cognizance of the offense of Aarushi's murder against Nupur. Normally a review plea is heard by the bench in chamber but a bench of justices AK Patnaik and JS Khehar accepted the couple's plea for an open court hearing....
03:34 PM, Mar 26, 2012
New Delhi: In a major setback to West Bengal's Nandigram violence victims, the state government on Friday withdrew its petition from the Supreme Court ordering an investigation into the 2007 firing incident. This, in effect, quashes any probe into those accused in the case, which included several high-ranking officers of the Bengal police. The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) is now expected to start an investigation and submit a chargesheet....
04:54 PM, Feb 24, 2012
New Delhi: Expressing concern over delay by the Centre and state governments in deciding mercy pleas of prisoners on death row, the Supreme Court on Wednesday sought from them the records of all such cases. A bench of justices GS Singhvi and SJ Mukhopadhyay said the home secretaries of all the states would send the records of all cases of mercy pleas to states within three days to the Centre,...
12:40 PM, Feb 22, 2012
New Delhi: Aggrieved by cancellation of its three licences by the Supreme Court, Tata Teleservices on Monday said it will file a review petition against the order as the company had applied for these licences more than 18 months before the 2008 licensing process began. TTL's three licences for Assam, North-East and Jammu and Kashmir were cancelled as part of 122 2G licences issued by former telecom minister A Raja...
08:18 PM, Feb 06, 2012
New Delhi: The big divide between Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Rural Development Minsiter Jairam Ramesh over the minimum wage level under the National Rural Employment Guarantee Act or the NREGA is set to worsen, with the former favouring filing a Special Leave Petition (SLP) with the Supreme Court, challenging a Karnataka High Court judgment that says MNREGS wages cannot be less than the minimum wages notified by the states....
06:42 PM, Jan 22, 2012
New Delhi: Two petitions filed against Gujarat chief minister Narendra Modi are likely to come up for hearing in the High Court on Tuesday. The petitions were filed against Modi for criminal contempt of court as he allegedly disclosed contents of his correspondence with the Gujarat governor on the appointment of the state Lokayukta to the Prime Minister, even when the matter was already pending before the High Court. Modi...
07:19 AM, Jan 17, 2012
New Delhi: The memo case comes up for a hearing in Pakistan's Supreme Court on Monday. Mansoor Ijaz is expected to testify. The Pakistani businessman had claimed that he was asked by former envoy Husain Haqqani to deliver the secret memo to the US seeking assistance in the event of a coup in Pakistan. The case almost brought the civilian govt and military to blows. But on Saturday, Prime Minister...
01:25 PM, Jan 15, 2012
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