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Share Tweet Plus One Pin It Email Print By: Akanksha Jain August 8, 2018 5:32 pm Change Font Size A circular has been issued by the District and Sessions Judge of the New Delhi District asking all employees to henceforth apply for leaves in Hindi only. District and Sessions Judge Poonam Bamba has issued the circular which is also in Hindi. It asks employees of all grades to henceforth give their leave applications in Hindi. This, the circular says, is a step towards promoting the use of Hindi language in day-to-day official work of the court and to develop an interest in using the language for court work. This circular comes close to the Hindi Diwas which is celebrated on September 14 every year. It is to be noted that President Ramnath Kovind had also emphasised on use of local language in courts for ease of litigants with judgments being provided in local or regional languages. The district courts in Delhi have been trying to promote use of Hindi with … [Read more...] about Now Court Staff In New Delhi Distt Can Apply For Leave In Hindi Only

Feb 19, 3:13 AM EST Newsletter Signup BusinessTechnologyWorldNationalMedia & CultureOpinionSportsLuxury World By Pritha Paul @ZiggyZina143 02/19/19 AT 3:04 AM A U.S. national was found dead in a room at the Indira Gandhi International Airport’s Premium Plaza Lounge in New Delhi, Saturday.The Central Industrial Security Force (CISF) said they alerted the police after the duty manager of the lounge called them to inform that a 52-year-old man from the United States, who had arrived in New Delhi from Coimbatore in the southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu, was not responding.“The passenger was identified as Ian Andrew. The manager said he arrived from Coimbatore by an Air India flight the same day. He booked a room to take a nap. Around 4 a.m. [local time, 5:30 p.m. EST, Friday], he locked the room and did not respond. When the room was opened with a duplicate key, Andrew was found lying unconscious. Medical examination confirmed him dead,” a police … [Read more...] about US National Found Dead At Airport Lounge In New Delhi

By: Live Law News Network 3 March 2019 5:10 AM GMT The President Ram Nath Kovid yesterday promulgated the New Delhi International Arbitration Centre Ordinance 2019. It proposes to establish an international arbitration centre at New Delhi, replacing the International Centre for Alternative Dispute Resolution set-up in the year 1995, which is a society registered under the Societies Registration Act. A Bill for this purpose was passed by Lok Sabha last January. However, it got lapsed as it could not get clearance from upper house before the expiry of the budget session. The proposed New Delhi International Arbitration Centre will be a statutory body, consisting of a Chairperson, two eminent persons having substantial knowledge in international and domestic arbitration, one representative of a recognized body of commerce, Secretary to the Ministry of Law & Justice, Finance Advisor and a Chief Executive Officer. The Chairperson should have been a judge of the Supreme Court or … [Read more...] about Ordinance To Set Up International Arbitration Centre At New Delhi Promulgated

By: Dr. Aman Hingorani 2 May 2019 5:02 AM GMT The 2019 decision of seven Judges of the Pakistan Supreme Court in Civil Aviation Authority v Supreme Appellate Court Gilgit-Baltistan purportedly on the "historical and constitutional issue involving the status, authority and powers of Gilgit-Baltistan" is yet another instance of how Pakistan chooses to distort the Kashmir narrative for political expediency. The judgment penned by the Chief Justice of Pakistan quotes from my book, Unravelling the Kashmir Knot, and yet fails to counter the legal principles set out in the book that would have negated each finding made by the Court in its judgment. The Court has held that the origin of the Kashmir Issue lay in the "accession of Kashmir to India by the Hindu ruler of a Muslim majority state, which was contrary to the expectations of the population and to the basis professed to be preferred by the British for accession by the Princely States." The Court listed the repeated … [Read more...] about Pakistan SC Decision: Another Wake Up Call For New Delhi

Feb 11, 10:59 PM EST Newsletter Signup BusinessTechnologyWorldNationalMedia & CultureOpinionSportsLuxury World By Pritha Paul @ZiggyZina143 02/11/19 AT 10:51 PM A hotel in New Delhi went up in flames in the early hours of Tuesday morning, reportedly killing at least nine people and critically injuring eight others.The fire started around 4:30 a.m. local time (6 p.m. EST Monday) at Hotel Arpit Palace, located in the Karol Bagh area of India's capital city. Smoke was seen coming out of the building as 26 fire engines responded to the spot and battled the blaze.According to deputy chief fire officer Sunil Choudhary, the fire resulted in a situation of chaos inside the building which led some people, believed to be hotel staff, to jump from open windows and others to resort to measures like breaking glass panes to let out smoke, the Times Of Indiareported.After almost half an hour of fighting the fire, emergency workers were able to douse the … [Read more...] about New Delhi Hotel Fire: People Jump From Windows, Several Casualties [Photos, Videos]