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The Kerala High Court has set aside bar council's decision to deny enrollment to nuns as advocates.The court has ruled that nunhood or priesthood can't be a disqualification for being enrolled as advocate.

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The Andhra Pradesh High Court has struck down the five per cent reservation for Muslims in jobs and educational institutions. It has called the government order "unconstitutional''.

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In a landmark judgment Monday, the Kerala High Court ruled that there was "no problem at all" in priests and nuns becoming advocates as the profession would only benefit by their enrolment.

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An Indian, fired from her job for blowing the whistle on excessive lead levels in water supplied to citizens in Washington DC, has emerged victorious in her battle with the city administration after a judge ordered that she be reinstated and awarded damages totalling more than Rs 2.25 crores.

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CPM State Secretary Pinarayi Vijayan has urged the Government to conduct a probe by a Legislature panel into the allegations levelled against Travancore Devaswom Board members and Devaswom Minister K C Venugopal.

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Chief Minister N Dharam Singh, scheduled to take part in a few programmes in Yadagiri taluk in this district on Sunday cancelled his visit as his helicopter developed a technical snag.

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India and the US began their largest joint air exercises on Monday morning at this defence airbase, 120 km southwest of Kolkata, amid protests by supporters of the Communist parties against the growing military ties between the two countries.

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Driven by poverty, a daily wage labourer in Orissa reportedly sold his five month old son for Rs 500, reports said on Monday. The man, Banamali Ajgar, of Subarnapur town in Subarnapur district was unable to maintain his wife and six children from his earnings. He would also spend money on liquor, his wife Santi Ajgar said.

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The police were yet to make any breakthrough in the double murder case in which an 82-year-old man and his 78-year-old wife were stabbed to death at Greater Kailash-I in South Delhi on Saturday.

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After all the venom that the two sides spat at each other, indications are that both the Asom Gana Parishad and its breakaway faction the Asom Gana Parishad (Progressive) could be back together

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Field Marshall S H S J Manekshaw, who led the Indian Army to victory in Bangladesh operations, was rushed to the Army's Specialised Research and Referral Hospital in Delhi for treatment after being flown in from his home in Tamil Nadu early on Monday, army sources said.

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With new age crime posing a daunting challenge for the law enforcers, the CBI is seeking more autonomy and restructuring to become a truly ‘federal investigating agency.’

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While Tamil Nadu was lashed with heavy rains this morning six women were killed and more than 10 injured in a stampede at a relief camp here this morning. The tragedy struck when a large crowd gathered at a relief distribution centre here to collect the state government’s dole of Rs 2,000, rice and clothes.

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A major fire broke out in south Mumbai's Crawford Market around 2 am (IST) on Monday.The fire occurred in the godowns at the fruit section of the market.

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India and Pakistan are set to open the 742-km-long Line of Control (LoC) for quake relief work at one instead of the proposed five points today.This is being done for families to cross and ferry relief and reconstruction material across the LoC for survivors of the devastating October 8 .

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The incessant downpour is back in Chennai and the question on everyone's mind is - will the city experience a repeat of the October 27 floods? The authorities are taking no chances and have ordered a holiday for all schools and colleges.

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As a fallout of the Volcker report, NDTV has learnt that an inquiry will be announced by the government on Monday headed by a former judge.This commission of inquiry will investigate Hamdan Exports, the key agency which the Volcker report claims paid the surcharge or kickbacks on behalf of External Affairs Minister Natwar Singh and the Congress party.

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