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Arbitration pros resist govt.'s advisory favouring mediation over arbitration The law ministry’s efforts to expedite the enforcement of arbitral awards are expected to significantly benefit the government, which is included as a party in a considerable number of arbitration proceedings. Law minister Arjun Ram Meghwal initiated thenational litigation policy in June soon after taking office.

Governor CV Ananda Bose visits the RG Kar Hospital campus following the rampage and vandalization by miscreants on August 15 at midnight mayhem. The Governor went to the emergency building which was vandalized last night yesterday. He visited the emergency departments, which are inoperative, and other departments. Bose also went to nursing stations and spoke to the nurses.The Governor also went to the chest medicine ward and the seminar hall where the PG students was raped and murdered. The seminar hall remains sealed and police have claimed that it was secured. Bose spoke to the protesting students about last night's incident.Machines at the ICU and HDU were also broken. The machines in the Emergency building have been uprooted, lights and fans shattered, medical equipment and medicines scattered across the floor amid shards of glass and beds and IV drips overturned.

Kolkata doctor rape case LIVE Updates: Amid protests demanding women's safety, RG Kar Medical College and Hospital in Kolkata, where a resident doctor was raped and murdered, was targeted by a massive mob during a demonstration. The Kolkata rape case has brought medical services to a standstill as students and doctors continue to demand justice for the resident PG doctor. Videos show a mob of dozens pushing their way in the emergency ward of the RG Kar Hospital and vandalising chairs.

Google was found last week to have violated antitrust law by illegally maintaining a monopoly in internet search. Now discussions over how to fix those violations have begun. Justice Department officials are considering what remedies to ask a federal judge to order against the search giant, said three people with knowledge of the deliberations involving the agency and state attorneys general who helped to bring the case. They are discussing various proposals, including breaking off parts of Google, such as its Chrome browser or Android smartphone operating system, two of the people said. Other scenarios under consideration include forcing Google to make its data available to rivals, or mandating that it abandon deals that made its search engine the default option on devices like the iPhone, said the people, who declined to be identified because the process is confidential. The government is meeting with other companies and experts to discuss their proposals for limiting Google's power, the people said.

“Marriage is a wonderful institution," Groucho Marx quipped, “but who wants to live in an institution?" His joke played on two kinds of set-ups, the latter referring to the one for mental healthcare. On a serious note, Douglass North defined institutions as “the humanly devised constraints that structure political, economic and social interactions." They comprise “both informal constraints (sanctions, taboos, customs, traditions and codes of conduct) and formal rules (constitutions, laws, property rights)." Samuel Huntington, famous for his discredited “clash of civilizations" thesis, held forth a definition based on particulars instead of universals: “Institutions are stable, valued, recurring patterns of behaviour.

Resident doctors at government hospitals in some states, including West Bengal and Delhi, continued their strike as various doctors' bodies differed over calling off the strike. The Federation of Resident Doctors' Association (FORDA) on Tuesday night called off its strike after meeting Union Health Minister J P Nadda. However, the medics at the central government-run AIIMS-Delhi, the Federation of All India Medical Association (FAIMA), and other Resident Doctors' Associations said that their stir would continue until a central law to curb attacks on medical personnel is implemented and a concrete solution found. In West Bengal, long queues were seen at outpatient department (OPD) ticket counters in government hospitals, where senior doctors joined their junior colleagues in the protest.

allegations of mishandling the rape-and-murder case of a woman trainee doctor, Kolkata Police issued two clarifications on Wednesday. «Reports of KP informing the family about a possible suicide are false. The family confirmed the call did not come from Kolkata Police.» The police also said that it did not cremate the body of deceased.

Allahabad High Court on Wednesday deferred the hearing on a plea against a Varanasi court order refusing to direct the ASI to survey the Gyanvapi mosque's 'wazukhana', as the counsel for the Muslim side did not appear due to «illness». On July 9, the high court granted a month to the mosque management committee to file a counter affidavit on the revision plea and fixed August 14 for the hearing. On Wednesday, an «illness slip» was sent on behalf of counsel for the Muslim side and a request was made to adjourn the matter. Thereafter, the high court fixed August 22 as the next date of hearing in the case. Justice Rohit Ranjan Agarwal passed the order on the revision petition filed by Rakhi Singh, one of the plaintiffs in the Shringar Gauri worshipping suit.

US Government is currently on the brink of going on an all-out war against Google, due to the antitrust case that involved a landmark ruling by a federal court, which claimed that the major tech corporation tried to monopolize the online search market by handing payouts to device manufacturers like Samsung and Apple, in a bid to make Google Search the default search engine on the respective manufactured devices.

Jammu and Kashmir High Court on Wednesday quashed charge sheets filed by the Enforcement Directorate (ED) against former Jammu and Kashmir chief minister Farooq Abdullah and others in connection with its money laundering probe linked to alleged irregularities in the Jammu and Kashmir Cricket Association (JKCA). A single bench order passed by Justice Sanjeev Kumar said no predicate offence was made against the individuals and hence the charge sheet and supplementary charge sheet filed by the ED are quashed. The ED had named National Conference chief Abdullah, Ahsan Ahmad Mirza (former treasurer of JKCA), Mir Manzoor Gazanffer (another ex-treasurer of the JKCA) and some others as accused in the charge sheet.

NGT) has said that only the Centre can decide whether constructing a «strong» battalion infrastructure in a reserve forest area would impact the issue of conservation of forests. The green panel was hearing a plea alleging that Assam's forest department had illegally diverted 28 hectares of reserve forest for the establishment of the 2nd Assam Commando Battalion in the Assam-Nagaland interstate border area of Geleky Reserve Forest in Sibsagar district. It also alleged that unauthorised permission was granted by the then Principal Chief Conservator of Forests (PCCF) M K Yadava, who «misused his power and position to divert a large part of the forest area» without taking consent from the Union Ministry of Environment, Forests and Climate Change (MoEF&CC). In an order passed on August 9, the eastern bench of the NGT comprising judicial member Justice Sheo Kumar Singh and expert member Arun Kumar Verma noted that an affidavit was filed by the present PCCF, stating the construction of the forest battalion was an «activity for forest conservation and management» and while undertaking it, no trees were felled.

Delhi High Court's Justice Subramonium Prasad on Wednesday recused himself from hearing the plea filed by alleged conman Sukesh Chandrasekhar, seeking additional meetings in jail with his lawyers. The recusal was due to the multiple legal cases against Chandrasekhar, which could potentially present a conflict of interest or require a different judicial perspective. Sukesh Chandrashekhar through a plea requested permission to increase his meetings with his legal counsel to five times a week. This request sought an additional three meetings beyond the two meetings per week currently allowed. To support his request, Chandrashekar referred to the Arvind Kejriwal case where he was granted five weekly meetings with his council.

Indian Medical Association (IMA) are likely to meet the agitating doctors at the RG Kar Medical College and Hospital in Kolkata where the body of a woman trainee medico was found last week. IMA national president R V Asokan and its secretary general Anilkumar J Nayak reached the city on Tuesday night. «They may go to the RG Kar Medical College and Hospital and talk to the junior doctors there,» said an association official. Later, they may meet the parents of the deceased doctor at their Panihati residence, he added.

Hindustan Zinc's board of directors will meet on Tuesday, August 20, 2024 to consider and approve the second interim dividend on its equity shares for the Financial Year 2024-25. The Vedanta Group company has set the record date on Wednesday, August 28, 2024.

Supreme Court on Wednesday stayed the National Company Law Appellate Tribunal’s (NCLAT) order, which approved the settlement between edtech firm Byju’s and the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) over unpaid dues of Rs 158 crore. Solicitor General Tushar Mehta, appearing for the BCCI, opposed the appeal against the NCLAT order. Mehta said that because of the stay, the BCCI’s settlement with Byju’s will go. The Supreme Court bench led by Chief Justice of India DY Chandrachud asked BCCI to keep the settlement amount in a separate account till August 23 – the next date of hearing.

Mint Quick Edit | Google's search monopoly ruling: Error 404? By locking more users into its ecosystem of services such as Gmail, Google Maps and YouTube, the company gains access to more user data, which in turn lets it develop newer services and better artificial intelligence technology. The court noted that Google accounts for 90% of global web searches, which denies other companies the opportunity to grow and compete with it. Google has inflated ad prices above free-market levels, it said, giving it the power to pay billions for default status and maintain its monopoly.

RG Kar Medical College students' protest turned into a mass movement on Tuesday with actors, singers, intellectuals, senior doctors, political leaders and students of other universities joining the protest while demanding justice for the rape and murder of a second year Post-Graduate student last Friday. The huge protests were a reminder of the anti-Nandigram movement days. The medical students continued to protest across West Bengal and other parts of the country. Earlier today, doctors and medical students held protests at AIIMS Delhi and other hospitals after the Federation of All India Medical Association called for a nationwide shutdown of OPD services from Tuesday, showing solidarity against the doctor. They raised slogans and demanded justice for the murdered student.

jail is an exception" legal principle is applicable even to offences under special statutes like the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act, the Supreme Court ruled on Tuesday while granting bail to a man accused of harbouring suspected terrorists. A bench of justices Abhay Oka and Augustine George Masih said once a case has been made out for the grant of bail to an accused, the court cannot decline the relief. «When a case is made out for a grant of bail, the courts should not have any hesitation in granting bail. The allegations of the prosecution may be very serious. But, the duty of the courts is to consider the case for grant of bail in accordance with the law. 'Bail is the rule and jail is an exception' is a settled law,» SC said. The verdict came while ordering the release of a retired police constable Jalaluddin Khan, who was booked under the stringent provisions of the anti-terror law and those of the now defunct Indian Penal Code for renting out the upper floor of his house to alleged members of the banned Popular Front of India.

The head of Bangladesh’s interim government says the high-profile resignations of authorities close to ousted Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina are legal after student leaders who organized protests against Hasina’s government issued ultimatums for them to ...

Chamundeshwari Kshetra Development Authority Act of 2024. The High Court had temporarily stayed the implementation of the Act, after a member of the erstwhile Mysuru royal family — Pramoda Devi Wadiyar — challenged its legality. Passed in February, the Act aims to provide for the constitution of an independent statutory authority to undertake the work of «development and maintenance» of 'Shree Chamundeshwari Kshethra'. «We will try to vacate the High Court stay legally,» Siddaramaiah told reporters in Koppal district in response to a question on the High Court stay.

federal judge held last week that Google has a monopoly on online search and has been illegally defending that monopoly for years. The verdict is important and correct, yet it leaves open an important question: What should the remedy be? Judge Amit Mehta, in his 277-page decision, found that Google used a variety of means to hold on to its monopoly power and inflate prices paid by advertisers (and ultimately, consumers) to use Google's search platforms. The remedy, which will be decided by the same judge after hearings begin in early September, needs to tear down the barriers that protect Google's monopoly; if the judge delivers little more than a slap on the wrist to the tech giant, this verdict — a historic victory for the Biden administration's antitrust division — will mean very little. The government's case centered on payments, which in 2021 totaled more than $26 billion, that Google pays Apple and others to be the default search engine on their products. In doing so, Google kept Apple out of the search market and, the judge ruled, weakened its other competitors. But if the court merely decrees that Google now abandon those agreements, it won't be enough to unlock a long-monopolized market. It might even help Google in the short term by saving it some money.