Advocate Mahesh Sonak who is appearing for Raj Bhavan was directed by the division bench of Bombay High Court at Goa, comprising of Justice S A Bobde and FM Reis, to advice and instruct the Public Information Officer (PIO) to not to deny information to other applications under the Right to Information Act on the reason that a matter was pending in the High Court.
After a tragic year, Ahmad Sheikh wants to move on, but waits faithfully on the Indian judicial system hoping for a miracle. More than a year ago, his son, Zahid Farooq, 16, was shot dead by a Border Security Force (BSF) patrol party on the February, 5. His teenage son was playing cricket near Nishat Garden, a tourist hub on the outskirts of Srinagar when he was shot dead.
48 advocates, who were affiliated to the Human Rights Protection Movement, were arrested by the police for staging a road roko agitation in front of the District Court Complex on Uniform School Education (USE) issue.
Ten supporters of yoga guru Baba Ramdev have been arrested on charges of rioting, causing damages to public property and obstructing public servants from discharging their duties while they were being evicted from the Ramlila grounds.
In a cry for religious freedom and sentiments, Gov. Rick Perry and state Attorney General Greg Abbott supported an emergency appeal filed by the Medina Valley Independent School District against the ban imposed by U.S. District Court Judge Fred Biery, on prayer at their graduation ceremony. The original law suit by an agnostic family whose son attends Medina Valley High School in Castroville. They were of the opinion that their son would suffer “irreparable harm” if anyone prayed at his graduation ceremony.
Congress General Secretary Digvijay Singh’s house was attacked by unknown mob shouting against congress Government and making slogans favoring Yoga Guru Ramdev. Digvijay Singh’s residence was pelted with stones by some unidentified crowd as the outcome of Digvijay’s remarks against Ramdev whom he had termed as ‘thug’ on Sunday morning after Delhi police crackdown in the yoga guru’s fast unto death at Ramlila Ground in New Delhi.
The Supreme Court has issued a notice to the United Progressive Alliance (UPA) government to explain the midnight crackdown on Baba Ramdev and his supporters on the Ramlila Ground on intervening night of June4-5. Taking suo moto cognizance of the police action at the Ramlila Ground the court issued notice to Union Home secretary GK Pillai, Delhi Police commissioner BK Gupta, Delhi Chief Secretary PK Tripathi and Delhi administration.
According to the Drug Controller General of India’s (DCIG), twenty-five people died in clinical trials carried out by nine pharmaceutical companies in 2010 out of which families of five received compensation amount ranging from Rs. 1.5 lakh to 3 lakh. Dr. Surinder Singh, DCIG, has summoned these nine pharmaceutical companies namely, Weyth, Quintiles, Lilly, Amgen, Bayer, Bristol Mayer, Sanofi, PPD and Pfizer on June 6, 2011 to question them on the amount of compensation they have decided to pay to the victims and also threatened that if they failed to pay the compensation, all the trials and present and the ones yet to start will not be allowed.