The Special Court hearing the 2G Spectrum case on Friday turned down the bail plea of the former Telecom Secretary, Siddhartha Behura. His counsel submitted that Mr.Behura had no role in deciding the modified first-come first-served policy, cut off dates and dual technology terms and also claimed that Mr.Behura had joined the Telecom services on January 1st, 2008, after the decisions were taken.
The same sex couples in Illinois are given the right to enter into civil unions and enjoy all the protections and privileges same as that of the married couples, from Wednesday. Illinois joined five other states in legalizing civil union in January. The Gov. Pat Quinn signed the law in front of the crowd of cheering residents during a ceremony that was conducted in the Chicago auditorium and declared that purpose behind the same is to show the whole world that the people of Illinois believe in equality before law.
United Nations in a report published by it on Friday warned that restrictions imposed by governments upon right to freedom of opinion and expression on internet are the violation of human rights. Article 19 of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights lays down the types of restrictions that would be considered as the obligations upon the party states to guarantee the right to freedom of expression. In the report Frank Larue, UN special designate appointed to submit the report on freedom of expression provides examples of governments restricting, controlling, manipulating and censoring Internet content without any legal basis for imposing such restrictions.
On Thursday, a Delhi Court rejected the plea whereby it directed the CBI to not to include the Reliance ADAG Chairman Anil Ambani, Tata group chief Ratan Tata, corporate lobbyist Niran Radia and DMK Chief Karunanidhi’s wife Mrs.Dayalu Ammal as accused in the 2G scam case.
To protect the interests of the students seeking admission the Centre is proposing a new law to check unfair practices in schools with respect to donations, nexus with coaching centre’s etc.
In Law firms in transition survey 2011 it has find out that confidence is High among US law firm leaders in all size of firms. Two Third of the most firms increased gross revenue in 2010 and nearly 75 percent grew revenues per lawyer and profits per equity partner. Overhead reduction and equity partner shrinkage remain important contributors to profitability.
Jaycee Dugard, the US kidnap victim claims her 18 years of life has been stolen by the couples Philip and Nancy Garrido as she had been kidnapped and abducted at the age of 11.
Union textiles Minister, Dayanidhi Maran, refuted the allegations against him that he had misused his position as Telecom Minister.
The latest allegation against him states the he had misused his ministerial position in order to get free BSNL telephone lines for his brother’s company, Sun TV. and great loss has been caused by him to BSNL by using Government provided telephone connections for vested interests.