-The Indian Express The Allahabad High Court on Monday issued notices to the Centre, UP government, Greater Noida and Noida authorities and the Yamuna Expressway Development Industrial Authority (YEIDA) on a petition demanding a CBI probe into land acquisitions in Noida and Greater Noida from 2005 to 2010. Asking them to file counter-affidavits in two weeks, the court said it would examine the maintainability of the petition on the next date...
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A proven case by V Venkatesan
The Supreme Court criticises the Chhattisgarh and Central governments and orders the disbanding of Salwa Judum. THE case Nandini Sundar vs State of Chhattisgarh arose out of a writ petition (civil) filed in 2007 in the Supreme Court by Nandini Sundar, a Professor of sociology at the Delhi School of Economics; Ramachandra Guha, a historian; and E.A.S. Sarma, former Secretary to Government of India and former Commissioner, Tribal Welfare, Government...
More »HC scraps another Noida extension
Allahabad : The Allahabad High Court on Tuesday set aside yet another land acquisition by the Greater Noida Industrial Authority. Using the urgency clause, the Authority had acquired 589 hectares of land in Patwari village, in Noida Extension, in the name of industrial development but had given it away to private builders for residential and commercial projects. The decision comes barely a fortnight after the Supreme Court upheld the high court’s...
More »Court moots scheme to treat poor
The Karnataka High Court on Tuesday proposed a new set of guidelines for the treatment of poor patients by private hospitals, which are seeking waiver of Customs Duty on medical equipment imported during 1980s and 90s as per the then existing scheme. According to the court's proposal, the private hospitals should treat free of cost 20 per cent of patients from below poverty line (BPL) of their total in-patient number in...
More »Who will watch the watchmen? by Minhaz Merchant
The audited balance sheets of the six largest political parties in India are hard to get and harder to decipher: they hide more than they reveal but are nonetheless worth close examination. Between them, the Congress, BJP, BSP, SP, NCP and CPM reported total income of Rs 1,046.76 crore for the year ending March 31, 2009. That was the year in which most of the funds for the 2009 Lok...
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