Consultations on judicial reforms held
New Delhi: With over three crore cases pending in courts and lower judiciary facing a shortage of nearly 4,000 personnel, law Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad on Tuesday held consultations on judicial reforms. The issue of finding ways to enable faster disposal of cases at the level of lower judiciary also came up in the meeting. The law Commission could be asked to see how laws, including Code of Civil Procedure and Code of Criminal Procedure, can be amended to ensure speedy justice. Besides top law Ministry officials, the meeting was attended by law Commission Chairman Justice (Retd) A P Shah.
Goa receives permanent venue status for IFFI
New Delhi: A permanent world-class infrastructure for hosting the International Film Festival of India (IFFI) will come up in Goa, Information and Broadcasting Minister Prakash Javadekar on Tuesday said. "Now, Goa has been accorded a permanent venue status, so they are permanent hosts. They are making huge infrastructure for the festival. Therefore, from this year they will start and hopefully by next year it will be a new infrastructure where the festival will take place," he said. Javadekar and Goa Chief Minister Manohar Parrikar had a meeting in this regard.
Monitoring unit for Allahabad-Haldia Jal project
New Delhi: The Shipping Ministry has set up a monitoring unit for its ambitious `4,200 crore Allahabad- Haldia Jal Marg Vikas project on Ganga for commercial navigation as well as cruise tours connecting religious places. The development follows Prime Minister Narendra Modi recent review of important infrastructure projects. In a communication to the Finance Ministry, Shipping Ministry said that the process of establishment of PMU (project monitoring unit) has been completed.
‘Unutilised coal blocks should return to CIl’
New Delhi: Welcoming the Supreme Court verdict on the Coalgate, the left wing trade union CITU on Tuesday said the unutilised coal blocks allotted illegally should returned to public sector undertaking
Coal India limited(CIl). CITU also pointed out that hardly 30 blocks were working out of the more than 200 allocated coal blocks allotted from 1993. "CITU is of the considered and firm opinion that the allocated coal blocks should come back to Coal India limited, and Coal India should be empowered and strengthened with adequate
financial, operational and functional autonomy to act as an only nodal agency to develop, mine, produce and deliver coal both to industries and common people," said CITU General Secretary Tapan Sen in a statement.
CCS TO DISCUSS India-Japan Defence pact
New Delhi: Ahead of Prime Minister Narendra Modi's visit to Japan, the Cabinet Committee on Security (CCS) is expected to discuss on Wednesday a defence pact with that country which will help in enhancing partnership between their militaries and procurement of defence hardware. The CCS is likely to take up the India-Japan Defence Cooperation pact for discussion during the meeting, sources said here.
InT’l celebs to make public annouNcement on DD
New Delhi: International celebrities like Beyonce, Nicole Kidman, Christina Aguilera, Stevie Wonder and Antonio Bendaras will be seen on Doordarshan making public service announcement on the United Nation's Millennium Goals. The announcements will be made during a new programme which will be aired from August 29 at 9 PM, every Friday, a statement released here said.