Media & Entertainment News Anna Hazare has become symbol for a better India April 9, 2011 by Legal India Admin | 1 Comment on Anna Hazare has become symbol for a better India It needed a 72-year-old man with no pretensions, a school dropout at that, to wake up India. And in just five days, Anna Hazare proved that it wasn’t enough to have an honest prime minister if the country really needed to battle and overcome the cancer of corruption. That he managed to unite a people […] Read more » Anna Hazare better India symbol
Top Law News Anna Hazare calls off fast April 9, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Veteran social activist Anna Hazare on Saturday broke his fast after over 90 hours of spearheading the campaign against corruption after government issued a gazette notification constituting a 10-member joint committee of ministers and civil society activists, including him, to draft an effective Lokpal Bill. After a last-minute twist almost derailed a peace deal between […] Read more » Anna Hazare calls off fast former law minister Shanti Bhushan (co-Ccairperson) former Supreme Court judge N Santosh Hegde HRD minister Kapil Sibal law minister Veerappa Moily lawyer Prashant Bhushan minority affairs minister Salman Khursheed RTI activist Arvind Kejriwal Swami Agnivesh
Top Law News Government’s nod to joint panel not end of struggle: Kejriwal April 8, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The central government’s acceptance of a joint committee to frame a strong anti-graft legislation is not the end of the struggle as the bill has to be passed by parliament where many “corrupt leaders” are present, social activist Arvind Kejriwal said on Friday. Addressing the gathering at Jantar Mantar where social reformer Anna Hazare has […] Read more » Arvind Kejriwal Government Jantar Mantar joint panel Kejriwal nod struggle
Top Law News It’s the victory of democracy: Sibal April 8, 2011 / April 8, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment “It is a victory of the democracy,” Human resources development minister Kapil Sibal said on Friday night of the accord that had been reached on forming a joint committee of ministers and civil society leaders to draft an anti-graft legislation that had prompted social reformer Anna Hazare to announce that he would end Saturday morning […] Read more » democracy Prime Minister Manmohan Singh Sibal victory
Top Law News Don’t politicise black money case: Apex court April 8, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Supreme Court on Friday asked all the contending parties in the black money case to refrain from politicizing the issue which was of larger national interest. An apex court bench of Justice B Sudarshan Reddy and Justice SS Nijjar said this after senior counsel Ram Jethmalani told the court that the conversation between Maharashtra […] Read more » apex court black money Hasan Ali Khan Justice B.Sudarshan Reddy Justice SS Nijjar politicise Ram Jethmalani
Top Law News Don’t vote for material benefits: Anna Hazare April 8, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Veteran social reformer Anna Hazare Friday urged India’s voters not to cast their ballots for material benefits. “Don’t vote in exchange for bottle of wine, or any other material thing. Votes are priceless,” Anna Hazare said in reply to a question at a press conference at Jantar Mantar where he is on a fast-unto-death since […] Read more » Anna Hazare don't for material benefits vote
Media & Entertainment News Anna Hazare calls for ‘Jail Bharo’ campaign on April 13 April 8, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment As his fast-unto-death against corruption entered the fourth day Friday and talks with the government stalled on some points, social activist Anna Hazare asked his supporters to court arrest April 13 under a ‘Jail Bharo Andolan’. The septuagenarian had earlier called for the ‘Jail Bharo’ campaign April 12. Anna Hazare’s announcement came after Human Resource […] Read more »
Media & Entertainment News Sonia pleads but Hazare not to give up as talks fail April 8, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment His crusade against corruption triggering a virtual tsunami in India, social reformer Anna Hazare Thursday vowed to fast until death even as Congress president Sonia Gandhi urged him to end the agitation saying his demands will get the government’s “full attention”. Addressing thousands of young and old at the protest venue here, Anna Hazare, who […] Read more » Hazare pleads Sonia talks fail
Top Law News Himachal makes law tougher on drunken driving April 7, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The deadly cocktail of drinking and driving may soon invite a more stringent punishment even for private vehicle owners in Himachal Pradesh. Chief Minister Prem Kumar Dhumal Thursday tabled a bill – the Criminal Law (Himachal Pradesh Amendment) Bill, 2011 – in the state assembly that now makes drunken driving of all vehicles a criminal […] Read more » driving drunken Himachal Law National Crime Records Bureau NCRB tougher
Media & Entertainment News Hazare undeterred by slight weakness, support swells April 7, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The third day of Anna Hazare’s fast-unto-death has started taking a toll on the social activist’s health, with doctors saying Thursday that his blood pressure was slightly high. However, the feisty leader remained unperturbed as he continued to smile and wave at the ever-growing sea of supporters at Jantar Mantar, in the vicinity of Parliament […] Read more » Hazare Jantar Mantar swells undeterred weakness
Media & Entertainment News Court restricts cable operators from showing ‘Thank You’ April 7, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Delhi High Court Thursday restrained cable operators nationwide from distributing, telecasting and broadcasting the forthcoming release “Thank You” and/or otherwise infringing the copyright, production house UTV said in a statement. Those thinking of enjoying on their home TV sets the Akshay Kumar starrer through cable network will have to scrap their plans after UTV, […] Read more » Akshay Kumar Bobby Deol cable operators Celina Jaitly Court Delhi High Court Irrfan Khan restricts Rimmi Sen Sonam Kapoor Suniel Shetty Thank You
Media & Entertainment News Please don’t legalise prostitution, say victims April 7, 2011 by Legal India Admin | 1 Comment on Please don’t legalise prostitution, say victims Twenty-year-old Noor was just 10 when she was sold off to a brothel owner and forced into sex trade in West Bengal. She was rescued by activists a decade later and went on to become a vociferous community mobiliser. Noor says prostitution should not be legalised. ‘Prostitution is a vicious world. If a woman gets […] Read more » Central Bureau of Investigation don’t legalise prostitution