Canada Trip (East Coast of Canada) May-June 2018

It had been my dream to see the world beyond Europe. This dream was fulfilled by my trip to Canada in end May 2018. This overseas trip was made, as far as my memory goes, in shortest time. Around 21st May, I was browsing some sites for package trip to overseas countries. I stumbled upon Thomas Cook site which was offering 5 Nights 6 days package to East Coast of Canada. I and my wife Meenu already had Canada visa available with us which was expiring on 15th June 2018. I thought of availing this opportunity. However, I was told that the group package departure date is 29th May and only 1 seat is left and thereafter the group departure date is in July. I was a little disappointed to know this and dropped the plan and got busy in my professional work. However, around 24th May, Thomas Cook people got in touch with me and told that now 2 seats are available for the 29th May group departure for said trip. Though time left was very short to complete formalities like making payment etc., we decided to take this trip. So, in a day I made the complete payment to Thomas Cook and they got down to making air / hotel bookings for me. Panic set in as the D day had arrived but the tour operator had still not forwarded the air tickets, hotel accommodation vouchers etc to me. On 27th May, I had to leave for Chandigarh for a case. After attending case there on 28th May, I returned to Delhi by about 7 pm on 28th May Monday. Fortunately, around 6 pm, the Thomas Cook people finally managed to email me the air tickets, hotel accommodation vouchers and other details of the trip to me, which gave me a huge relief .............

Family Trip to Europe : Paris, Switzerland, Liechtenstein, Innsbruck (Austria) October 2017

We were very excited as after a long time, we family of four were going on an international holiday trip, that too, for the first time through a non-customised package tour. I had chosen Cox n Kings and frankly, were quite apprehensive as to how a non-customised trip would work, particularly since we were going to a different continent i.e. Europe. I had booked the package in August 2017 itself. All arrangements like Visa, air tickets, hotels accommodation, fooding (Indian buffet) etc. were done by Cox n Kings. Tickets of few events / destinations in Europe were paid by us separately, which I would point out in later part of this travelogue.

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Election of President of India

The election to the office of President of India and Vice-President of India is going to be held in coming days. Many of you would perhaps be wondering as to what is the procedure for electing the President and the Vice-president of India. 

You should know that the substantive provisions for election to these two offices are laid down in the Constitution of India. The election is held under Presidential and Vice-Presidential Elections Act, 1952 and the Presidential and Vice-Presidential Election Rules, 1974. The public, which otherwise cast vote to elect the Members of Parliament and Members of Legislative Assembly of any State, do not cast vote in this election. Only the Members of Parliament and Members of Legislative Assembly of all States cast vote in this election.  ............

Supreme Court of India takes a path breaking step by ordering installation of CCTV cameras in courts on experiment basis

A Bench of Justice Adarsh Kumar Goel and Justice UU Lalit on 28th March 2017 passed a path-breaking Order in Writ Petition (Criminal) No. 99/2015 titled as "Pradyuman Bisht vs Union of India and others".  In this order, the Supreme Court directed the Government to install CCTV cameras in at least in two districts in every State/Union Territory inside the courts and at such important locations of the court complexes as may be considered appropriate. The Court directed that installation of these CCTV cameras be completed within three months and the report of such experiment be submitted within one month of such installation by the Registrar Generals of the respective High Courts to the Secretary General of Supreme Court who will have it tabulated and placed before the Court. THe matter was adjourned to 9th August, 2017 for further consideration.    .............

Supreme Court issues Contempt notice to sitting High Court Judge

In a first of its kind, the Supreme Court of India has issued Contempt notice to a sitting High Court Judge (Justice C.S.Karnan of Madras High Court) in suo moto proceedings. The notice has been issued in view of serious and reckless allegations by Justice C.S.Karnan against other Judges of the High Court and apparent defiance by Justice C.S.Karnan of the Supreme Court’s orders.

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