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Govt. brings new, simple IT return forms

31 May 2015

May,31,2015: The Finance Ministry on Sunday came out with new three-page income tax return (ITR) forms, dropping the controversial provision for mandatory disclosure of foreign trips and dormant ba...

President gives nod to re-promulgation of land ordinance

31 May 2015

May,31,2015: President Pranab Mukherjee has given nod to re-promulgation of the controversial land ordinance, which could not be converted into law during the recently concluded Budget Session of P...

Govt Launches KhoyaPaya, A Web Portal For Missing Children

31 May 2015

May,31,2015: With 11 children disappearing every hour in the country, the government will on June 2 roll out a web platform for people to directly report, track and upload information on missing ch...

Courting 150 years of history in Bombay Presidency

29 May 2015

May,29,2015: Permanent Judicial Museum at the Bombay High Court is a tour into antiquity with artefacts and narrative aids. Before electricity came to India, a manually operated cloth fa...

Delhi HC refuses to stay Centre's notification

29 May 2015

May,29,2015: The Delhi High Court on Friday refused to stay the May 21 notification issued by the Ministry of Home Affairs granting absolute powers to Lieutenant Governor in certain matters, includ...

Supreme Court takes on board Centre versus Kejriwal row over Delhi

29 May 2015

May,29,2015: Meanwhile orders Delhi HC to consider MHA notification dispassionately. Without directing a stay on the Delhi High Court's remarks calling the Centre's May 21 notificatio...

Final Result | Chhattisgarh Civil Judge (Entry Level) Examination 2014

29 May 2015

  Final Result | Chhattisgarh Civil Judge (Entry Level) Examination 2014 Monday, March 23, 2015  ...

Court allows Greenpeace India to operate two of its domestic accounts

27 May 2015

May,27,2015: The Delhi High Court on Wednesday allowed Greenpeace India to operate two of its domestic accounts and access its fixed deposits. The Central Government, however, reiterated what...

Black Money: FM delighted as Swiss Banks reveal Account Holder's names

26 May 2015

May,26,2015: Finance Minister Arun Jaitley on Tuesday said the move should provide enough indications of actions to follow for those holding unaccounted assets outside India. “I have be...

‘ACB of Delhi Govt. can act against Delhi Police’

26 May 2015

May,26,2015: Delhi High Court says it can also arrest police personnel. In a shot in the arm for the Aam Aadmi Party, the Delhi High Court ruled on Monday that the Delhi government’s Anti-c...

Supreme Court to hear petition seeking guidelines for AG appointment

25 May 2015

May,25,2015: In a surprising move, the Supreme Court has agreed to hear a petition that objected to the appointment of Mukul Rohatgi as the Attorney General (AG). The plea also sought framing of de...

DMK to move Supreme Court against Jayalalithaa's acquittal

25 May 2015

May,25,2015: "I firmly say that the party will file an appeal in the disproportionate assets case against Jayalalithaa in the Supreme Court," DMK president M Karunanidhi said in a statemen...

No decision yet on appointment of CVC, CIC

23 May 2015

May,23,2015: The Prime Minister-led selection committees could not arrive at a decision on the appointment of chiefs of Central Information Commission (CIC) and Central Vigilance Commission (CVC) a...

Congress asks President not to give nod to Gujarat anti-terror law

23 May 2015

May,23,2015: Congress on Saturday made a strong plea to President Pranab Mukherjee not to give his nod to a controversial anti-terror law passed by Gujarat Assembly, a measure which has failed to g...

India flooded with unsafe fixed dose combination drugs

23 May 2015

May,23,2015: Many unapproved FDC formulations contain banned, restricted, or never approved drugs Millions of unapproved formulations and products of fixed dose combinations (FDCs) available...

Ireland says 'yes’ to same-sex marriage

23 May 2015

May,23,2015: Several priests have voted in the referendum in favour of legalising gay marriage, according to Irish media reports.The Republic of Ireland voted strongly in favour of legalising same sex...

SC panel sets deadline to States on road safety

22 May 2015

May,22,2015: States were given time till June 30 to enforce 13 directions issued the apex court, including removal of roadside ads and ban on alcohol sales on national highways....

Being Maoist is not a crime: Kerala HC

22 May 2015

May,22,2015: "Therefore, police cannot detain a person merely because he is a Maoist, unless police form a reasonable opinion that his activities are unlawful", the Kerala High Court has...

Gujjars demand 5% reservation in Govt. jobs

21 May 2015

May,21,2015: The demonstrators sat on a dharna on railway tracks blocking the Delhi-Mumbai tracks near Pilukapura in Bharatpur. Members of Gujjar community on Thursday revived their agitation...

Re-conduct of AIPMT test is ‘last resort’: SC

21 May 2015

May,21,2015: The ASG further said the court should keep in mind the fact that six lakh students have taken this examination. Reconducting the All India Pre-Medical Test examination, which saw...

Faridabad Development Corporation Act,1956

20 May 2015

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Kashmir- The Complete True Story

19 May 2015

1. Introduction   2. Geography & History   3. History   4. The Accession   5. Tribal Raids and the Accession   6. The United Nati...

SC moved to make political parties' funding public

19 May 2015

May,19,2015: The Supreme Court was moved on Tuesday for a declaration to make political parties "public authorities" under the Right to Information Act The Supreme Court was moved o...

Final Result | Chhattisgarh Civil Judge (Entry Level) Examination 2014

19 May 2015

Monday, March 23, 2015 Viva-voce for Chhattisgarh Civil Judge (Entry Level) Examination 2014 were held from 16th March to 21st March, 2015....

Delhi HC: Birds Have A Fundamental Rights To Fly In The Sky, they Deserve Sympathy

18 May 2015

May,18,2015: Delhi High Court observed that, bird trading is violation of their fundamental rights to fly in the sky without being kept in cages or subjected to cruelty; and they have right to...

Her crime a blow to society's faith in educated daughter as caregiver: SC

18 May 2015

May,18,2015: Calling it an abhorrent crime of parricide shaking the Indian society's aspirations of an educated daughter as a caregiver more responsible than a son, the Supreme Court confirmed...

After 42 years in coma, nurse Aruna Shanbaug dies

18 May 2015

May,18,2015: Shanbaug, brutally raped by a wardboy in 1973, was taken care off by a group of KEM hospital nurses and doctors for the last four decades. Aruna Shanbaug (67), former nurse of Mu...

Don’t judge a woman by her husband’s past: SC

18 May 2015

May,18,2015: ‘A woman has her own identity and is not a proxy for her husband’ Highlighting that a woman is not a proxy for her husband and enjoys her own identity, the Supreme Co...

SC moves to get bail for poor undertrials

18 May 2015

May,18,2015: Undertrials languishing in jails can be released on personal bondsNoting that 67 per cent of those lodged in the prisons in the country are undertrials who are too poor to get bail, the S...

SC upholds validity of Company Law Tribunal

18 May 2015

May,18,2015: The Supreme Court on Sunday upheld the constitutional validity of the National Company Law Tribunal (NCLT) and its appellate forum under the Companies Act of 2013. A five-judge C...

What The World Thinks Of Indian States

17 May 2015

May,17,2015: Google Auto-complete is a great way to find out what the hive-mind is thinking. The feature has been around for more than 10 years; the suggestions are based on the popularity of what...

Over 11,000 women to be recruited in central security forces

17 May 2015

May,17,2015: Over 11,000 women will soon be recruited in central security forces for combat duties such as border guarding and law and order assignments. The government has already set in mot...

Suicides after Jayalalithaa sentence: AIADMK gives Rs 7 crore to families

16 May 2015

May,16,2015: AIADMK on Saturday said that it has disbursed over Rs 7 crore as relief to families of 244 persons who allegedly committed suicide following Jayalalithaa’s conviction in a graft...

Zuckerberg deletes post with wrong India map

16 May 2015

May,16,2015: There were sharp remarks by Indian netizens against the wrong map put by Zuckerberg following a launch in Malawi of internet.org Strong reactions by Indians on a wrong infographi...

Works of Defence Act, 1903

14 May 2015

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10 DAILY HABITS THAT WILL GIVE YOU INCREDIBLE WILLPOWER AS A PROFESSIONAL

13 May 2015

“We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act, but a habit.” – Aristotle. Success is a lot of small things done well, day after day. What...

Cabinet clears bill to check benami transactions aimed at curbing domestic black money

13 May 2015

May,13,2015: To check the generation of black money in the country, the Cabinet today approved the new Benami Transaction (Prohibition) Bill which provides for stringent measures against violators....

SC says no to politicians’ photos on Government ads

13 May 2015

May,13,2015: The apex court, however, permitted the use of photographs of the President, Prime Minister and CJI in the advertisements. In a historic judgment holding that taxpayers' money...

Parliament clears Black Money Bill

13 May 2015

May,13,2015: "For the first time, unlawful, undisclosed income abroad has been taxed under this law at a tax rate of 30 per cent with an additional 30 percent penalty on it." Parlia...

Result | Bihar District Judge (Entry Level) Preliminary Exam 2015

13 May 2015

The High Court of Judicature at Patna has declared the result of the Preliminary Test of Bihar District Judge (Entry Level) Exam 2015. The Preliminary Test of Bihar Distric...