Budget Speech by Hon'ble Finance Minister ..
The Union Cabinet has approved the proposals submitted by the Department of Personnel & Training for moving official amendments to the Lokpal and Lokayuktas Bill, 2011 as reported by the Select Committee of Rajya Sabha. The Lokpal and Lokayu ..
The following Bills, after having received the assent of the President on 3rd January 2013, have been published as corresponding Acts in the Gazette of India, Extraordinary, Part-II, Section-1, dated the 4th January, 2013: 1. The Enforce ..
Justice D. K. Jain, Judge, Supreme Court of India, will be the Chairman of the Twentieth Law Commission of India. According to the Notification issued here today, the appointment of Justice Jain will be effective from any day after 24th January 20 ..
272 districts have been identified as backward across the country under the Backward Regions Grant Fund (BRGF) scheme of the Ministry of Panchayati Raj. State-wise list of those backward districts is Annexed. The BRGF is designed to redress region ..
Year-end Review 2012 As pendency of cases in various courts continued to be a major concern of the Ministry of Law & Justice, the focus of pendency reduction drive this year has been to make our judicial system ‘five plus&rsquo ..
The Government of India has always been concerned about the welfare of downtrodden especially Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes. As a part of the affirmative action, reservation in promotion had been available to the SCs and STs since 1955. Ho ..
The President of India Shri Pranab Mukherjee participated in a function organized by the National Human Rights Commission today (December 10, 2012) on the occasion of Human Rights Day at Vigyan Bhavan, New Delhi The President remarked that we ha ..
In exercise of the powers conferred by clause (1) of article 217 of the Constitution of India, the President has appointed Shri Justice Pinaki Chandra Ghose, Judge of the High Court of Andhra Pradesh, as the Chief Justice of the same High Court wi ..
There have been sporadic media reports about the implementation of 25% reservation in private unaided schools as provided under Section 12(1)(c) of the Right of Children to Free and Compulsory Education (RTE) Act, 2009. Such matters are immediate ..