President Patil supports patenting of Ayurvedic medicines; Supreme Court to get additional building; Bombay High Court allows Ministry of Defence to intervene in Adarsh hearing; Yahoo! GC resigns; Deputy GC to take up position on a temporary basis and much more..President Patil supports patenting of Ayurvedic medicines.Speaking at the inauguration of the Ch. Brahm Prakash Ayurved Charak Sansthan in Delhi, President Patil stated that the country should, “..work towards patenting more ayurvedic medicines because many other countries have patented these medicines in their names…”.Supreme Court to get additional building.The government has approved plans to build an additional office building for the Apex Court. The new structure, which shall come up on the land once occupied by the amusement park Appu Ghar, shall also house a waiting area for litigants, a car park and a library..Bombay High Court allows Ministry of Defence to intervene in Adarsh hearing.The Bombay High Court has allowed the Ministry of Defence to intervene in the PILs filed with respect to the Adarsh housing scam. The Ministry has been granted two weeks time to file its reply to the state government’s stand that the CBI cannot probe the scam..Quota for Muslims: Law minister Salman Khurshid served legal notice.Dipen Dave, Vice President of the Gujarat State Bar Council has sent a legal notice to Law Minister Salman Khurshid for his statement regarding reservation for Muslims. The Minister had allegedly stated that vacation benches tend to be “a little conservative” and that he hoped that the regular bench would treat the matter differently. Dave has demanded an unconditional apology from the Minister, failing which he shall file a contempt petition..CCI slaps over Rs 8-crore penalty on Fast Way for abuse of dominant position.The Competition Commission of India has imposed a penalty of over 8 crores on three entities of Fast Way, a cable operator in Punjab and Chandigarh. The penalty amount was calculated at 6% of their average turnover for the last three years, a process similar to the one used in the case involving cement manufacturers..Yahoo! GC resigns; Deputy GC to take up position on a temporary basis.Yahoo! general counsel Mike Callahan has resigned after nearly 13 years at the company. Callahan stated that he was resigning to “pursue new opportunities”. Deputy General Counsel, Ron Bell will now take up the position on a temporary basis..Former Advocate General launches debut album at 80.Former Advocate General Naranarayan Gooptu recently released his debut music album wherein he has sung a host of songs, mostly Rabindra Sangeet. The learned counsel plans to release a second album in the near future..Judge Helped Egypt’s Military to Cement Power.“Tahani el-Gebali, deputy president of the Supreme Constitutional Court, said she advised the generals not to cede authority to civilians until a Constitution was written. The Supreme Court then issued a decision that allowed the military to dissolve the first fairly elected Parliament in Egypt’s history and assure that the generals could oversee drafting of a Constitution.”
President Patil supports patenting of Ayurvedic medicines; Supreme Court to get additional building; Bombay High Court allows Ministry of Defence to intervene in Adarsh hearing; Yahoo! GC resigns; Deputy GC to take up position on a temporary basis and much more..President Patil supports patenting of Ayurvedic medicines.Speaking at the inauguration of the Ch. Brahm Prakash Ayurved Charak Sansthan in Delhi, President Patil stated that the country should, “..work towards patenting more ayurvedic medicines because many other countries have patented these medicines in their names…”.Supreme Court to get additional building.The government has approved plans to build an additional office building for the Apex Court. The new structure, which shall come up on the land once occupied by the amusement park Appu Ghar, shall also house a waiting area for litigants, a car park and a library..Bombay High Court allows Ministry of Defence to intervene in Adarsh hearing.The Bombay High Court has allowed the Ministry of Defence to intervene in the PILs filed with respect to the Adarsh housing scam. The Ministry has been granted two weeks time to file its reply to the state government’s stand that the CBI cannot probe the scam..Quota for Muslims: Law minister Salman Khurshid served legal notice.Dipen Dave, Vice President of the Gujarat State Bar Council has sent a legal notice to Law Minister Salman Khurshid for his statement regarding reservation for Muslims. The Minister had allegedly stated that vacation benches tend to be “a little conservative” and that he hoped that the regular bench would treat the matter differently. Dave has demanded an unconditional apology from the Minister, failing which he shall file a contempt petition..CCI slaps over Rs 8-crore penalty on Fast Way for abuse of dominant position.The Competition Commission of India has imposed a penalty of over 8 crores on three entities of Fast Way, a cable operator in Punjab and Chandigarh. The penalty amount was calculated at 6% of their average turnover for the last three years, a process similar to the one used in the case involving cement manufacturers..Yahoo! GC resigns; Deputy GC to take up position on a temporary basis.Yahoo! general counsel Mike Callahan has resigned after nearly 13 years at the company. Callahan stated that he was resigning to “pursue new opportunities”. Deputy General Counsel, Ron Bell will now take up the position on a temporary basis..Former Advocate General launches debut album at 80.Former Advocate General Naranarayan Gooptu recently released his debut music album wherein he has sung a host of songs, mostly Rabindra Sangeet. The learned counsel plans to release a second album in the near future..Judge Helped Egypt’s Military to Cement Power.“Tahani el-Gebali, deputy president of the Supreme Constitutional Court, said she advised the generals not to cede authority to civilians until a Constitution was written. The Supreme Court then issued a decision that allowed the military to dissolve the first fairly elected Parliament in Egypt’s history and assure that the generals could oversee drafting of a Constitution.”
