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Plea in Supreme Court challenging Centre's power to notify a community as minority
India | Jan 24, 2019, 09:45 PM ISTA petition challenging the Centre's power to notify a community as minority under the law was filed in the Supreme Court on Thursday.
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AAP Rajya Sabha MP Sanjay Singh says will file petition in HC to ensure Modi's presence in Parliament
India | Jun 11, 2018, 06:03 PM ISTSingh's move was prompted by a PIL in the Delhi High Court filed by disgruntled AAP legislator
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Petition filed in Pakistan court against JuD chief Hafiz Saeed’s detention
World | Feb 03, 2017, 09:03 PM ISTA petition has been filed in a Pakistan court today against Hafiz Saeed’s detention, claiming that the JuD chief was detained illegally for keeping the Kashmir issue alive. Advocate Sarfraz Hussain filed the petition in
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Petition in US to ‘declare Pakistan terror sponsor’ receives over 5 lakh signatures
World | Oct 03, 2016, 01:56 PM ISTAn online White House petition asking for Pakistan to be declared as a state sponsor of terrorism has gained a record half a million signatures, five times the number needed to get a response from the Obama Administration.
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Bhopal gas tragedy: Plea urges US govt to make Dow appear
India | Jun 14, 2016, 07:05 PM ISTFive NGOs working for survivors of the Bhopal Gas Tragedy today said they have emailed a petition with over 1 lakh signatories to the US White House to mount pressure on Dow Chemical-US to appear before a local court next month.
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Online petitions add to buzz on Raghuram Rajan's RBI tenure
Jun 05, 2016, 02:37 PM ISTNew Delhi: With numerous political and corporate opinions swarming over RBI Governor Raghuram Rajan's tenure, internet is also abuzz with at least seven online petitions doing the rounds in support of a second term for
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Dawood call logs: Hacker files petition in Bombay High Court for protection
India | May 30, 2016, 05:50 PM ISTMumbai: A Gujarat-based person, who claims to have hacked the call records of Dawood Ibrahim, today filed a petition in Bombay High Court seeking protection for himself and CBI probe against Maharashtra minister Eknath Khadse
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26/11 Mumbai attacks: Petition filed to include postmortem reports
India | Mar 20, 2016, 11:57 PM IST26/11 Mumbai attacks: Petition filed to include postmortem reports
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Petition by eminent personalities urges President to pardon Yakub Memon
India | Jul 26, 2015, 09:15 PM ISTNew Delhi: Leaders of various parties including BJP MP Shatrughan Sinha and its expelled MP Ram Jethmalani, eminent jurists and persons from different walks of life today submitted a fresh petition to President Pranab Mukherjee
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Plea for declaring Indira Gandhi's murder a suicide rejected after 29 years
India | Jun 30, 2015, 11:46 PM ISTAhmedabad: Pending for nearly 29 years, a petition seeking declaring Indira Gandhi'sassassination a "suicide through arranged murder" to facilitate Rajiv Gandhi's elevation as prime minister was dismissed at its first hearing by the Gujarat High
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Petition seeking Imran Khan's disqualification rejected
World | Feb 17, 2015, 06:00 PM ISTIslamabad: Pakistan's Lahore High Court (LHC) has rejected a petition seeking disqualification of Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) chairman Imran Khan from Parliament, media reported Tuesday.The petitioner told the court Monday that Article 62 of the constitution
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Online Petition against Google, Yahoo, Flipkart for promoting gender determination
India | Feb 13, 2015, 03:38 PM ISTNew Delhi: In the light of preventing female feoticide, a civil society initiative ‘Girls Counts' has taken most of the e-commerce websites in India under the scanner.The organization has urged the citizens of India to
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Don't pardon Mark Wahlberg, urges online petition
Hollywood | Dec 12, 2014, 10:26 AM ISTLos Angeles: An online petition has urged Massachusetts justice officials to deny Mark Wahlberg his request for a pardon in his 1988 assault conviction.The “Transformers: Age of Extinction” star spent 45 days in jail for
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Petition in Allahabad High Court seeking removal of Bukhari as Imam
India | Nov 07, 2014, 07:30 PM ISTLucknow: The Allahabad High Court has given three weeks time to a petitioner to file the history of New Delhi's Jama Masjid after he sought a direction for quashing the appointment of Syed Ahmed Bukhari
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Madras HC dismisses petition against units 3 to 6 of Kudamkulam Nuclear Power Project
India | Oct 31, 2014, 07:26 AM ISTChennai: The Madras High Court yesterday dismissed a plea filed by an NGO seeking a direction to declare that the consent given for the units three to six of Kudamkulam Nuclear Power Project (KNPP), issued
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Madras HC orders notice on petition seeking to quash Joint Secretary order
India | Oct 09, 2014, 07:55 AM ISTMadurai: The Madras High Court yesterday ordered a notice on a petition seeking to quash the order of the Joint Secretary of the department of financial services of the union government, delineating Salem, Erode, Namakkal
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Madras High Court orders notice to Home Secretary, DGP
India | Sep 11, 2014, 08:14 AM ISTMadurai: The Madurai Bench of the Madras High Court yesterday ordered issue of notice to the Home Secretary, the DGP, the City Police Commissioner and others on a petition seeking action against some police officials,
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Petition filed in court accusing Vaidik of sedition
India | Jul 18, 2014, 06:36 AM ISTChandauli: A complaint was filed yesterday in a local court here against senior journalist Ved Pratap Vaidik accusing him of sedition over his meeting with 26/11 mastermind Hafiz Saeed and his controversial remarks on Jammu
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Petition seeks action against Amit Shah for controversial remark
India | May 09, 2014, 07:55 AM ISTAllahabad: A petition was filed in Allahabad High Court yesterday seeking action against BJP leader Amit Shah for his statement in which he had described Azamgarh district of Uttar Pradesh as a 'haven for terrorists'.
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PIL challenging AP bifurcation dismissed as not maintainable
India | Feb 27, 2014, 08:57 AM ISTChennai : The Madras High Court yesterday dismissed a petition challenging the bifurcation of Andhra Pradesh.The PIL had contended parliament has no power under Article 3 of the Constitution to divide the state.“We are of