Apex court judge quits hearing on Bangalore-Mysore expressway

October 15th, 2009 Lanes reopen after Chicago expressway bucklesCHICAGO — A quick repair job has traffic flowing again on the downtown Chicago expressway where a pavement buckle caused major delays during the evening rush hour. Officials with the Illinois Department of Transportation say crews worked through the night to repair the buckle on the Kennedy Expressway, which is also known as Interstate 90/94.

September 20th, 2009 MYSORE - The ten-day long Dussehra festivities began on a traditional note atop the Chamundi Hills in Mysore. The festival that celebrates good winning over evil began on Saturday with the scion of Mysore, Srikanta Datta Narasimha Raja Wodeyar, holding his court in a throwback to yesteryears.

August 16th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Karnataka Sunday demanded a Supreme Court bench at Bangalore to meet the needs of litigants in south India, while Haryana demanded its own high court at Chandigarh by bifurcating the existing Punjab and Haryana High Court. The varied demands raised by various states during the daylong annual conference of the chief ministers and chief justices of states Sunday also included Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi's demand to prioritise among various categories of civil and criminal cases and tackle the ones with serious implications for the society at the earliest.

July 25th, 2009 MYSORE - The Sessions Court in Mysore on Saturday denied bail to the Sriram Sene Chief Pramod Mutalik and sent him to judicial custody till July 28 for allegedly making inflammatory speech at Kyathamaranahalli, a Mysore suburb, in April this year. Mutalik, who had visited Kyathamaranahalli after the communal clashes in April, had allegedly addressed a gathering of local residents in the locality.

July 19th, 2009 BANGALORE - Religious leaders have asked the government not to leagalise gay sex after a recent court verdict that decriminalised homosexuality in India. Harminder Singh, a Sikh leader said his community would not allow gay marriages.

May 16th, 2009 BANGALORE - The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) was leading in 12 of the 28 Lok Sabha constituencies in Karnataka, while the Congress was ahead in four and the Janata Dal-Secular (JD-S) in three. One-and-a-half hours into counting at 9.30 a.m., the BJP was way ahead of the Congress and the JD-S in Belgaum, Bagalkot, Bijapur (SC), Gulbarga (SC), Raichur (ST), Haveri, Dharwad, Uttar Kannada, Dakshina Kannada, Shimoga, Chitradurga (SC), Mysore, Bellary (ST) and Bangalore Central, election officials said.

May 1st, 2009 NEW DELHI - Expressing happiness over the Supreme Court's decision on Gujarat riots cases, the apex court-appointed Special Investigation Team (SIT) chief, R K Raghavan, on Friday said the trial of the cases would come to an end in less than a year. "I cannot give a fixed deadline.

April 6th, 2009 MYSORE - Sri Ram Sene leader Pramod Muthalik was taken into preventive custody on Monday. "Muthalik had come to visit the Kyatharamanhalli suburb, where group clashes took place this week," Mysore police said, adding that the prohibitory orders had been imposed in the area under Section 144.

March 20th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) parliamentarian Mohammed Shahabuddin Thursday requested the Supreme Court to suspend his conviction in a case of attempted murder to enable him contest the Lok Sabha election - but court turned down his plea for an early hearing. Declining to give the request an urgent hearing, a bench headed by Chief Justice K.G.

February 10th, 2009 NEW DELHI - The Delhi High Court Wednesday asked the government to appoint within three months the chairman for the National Environment Appellate Authority (NEAA) that has been headless for the last eight years. The court also asked the government to pay Rs.20,000 as fine for not following the court's last direction.

February 9th, 2009 CHANDIGARH - Putting Punjab on the roadmap of the speedway era, the state government Tuesday proposed a Rs.50-billion (Rs.5,000-crore) expressway. The showpiece expressway, announced by Deputy Chief Minister Sukhbir Singh Badal here, would link the upcoming international airport at Mohali adjoining Chandigarh, to the industrial town of Phagwara in the Doaba, the land between the Sutlej and Beas rivers.

February 8th, 2009 NEW DELHI - A senior Supreme Court judge quit hearing a lawsuit on construction of the Bangalore-Mysore Expressway Monday after former prime minister H.D. Deve Gowda accused him of bias in favour of the promoters.

February 8th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Former union minister Subramanian Swamy Monday moved the Supreme Court for an early settlement of the Ayodhya dispute between the Hindus and Muslims as to whether the site of the demolished Babri mosque was the birth place of Lord Ram. Swamy wants to have his say during adjudication of a bunch of lawsuits by Hindus and Muslims pending before the apex court.

February 4th, 2009 NEW DELHI - The Supreme Court Thursday permitted Bollywood actor Sanjay Dutt to extend his visit abroad by two weeks. An apex court bench of Chief Justice K.G.

February 3rd, 2009 NEW DELHI - The Supreme Court Wednesday criticised former prime minister H.D. Deve Gowda for trying to influence judges by sending them booklets alleging corruption in the Rs.75 billion (Rs.750 crore) Bangalore-Mysore Infrastructure Corridor (BMIC) project.