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
Top Law News Citing Japan, Indian villagers oppose nuclear plant April 7, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Fear has gripped people in Mandla district of Madhya Pradesh where the authorities plan to set up a 1,400-MW atomic power station. Residents say the nuclear crisis in Japan, triggered by a tsunami, is one more reason why the plant should not come up in their area. Mandla, which is tribal-dominated and is over 400 […] Read more »
Top Law News Youth, office-goers converge on Hazare’s fast venue April 6, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Some bunked colleges and others took leave from work as people from across the country came in droves to central Delhi’s Jantar Mantar Wednesday to support Anna Hazare’s fast-unto-death for a more stringent anti-corruption law. Jitender Jain, 40, who has a transport business in Uttar Pradesh, has been in Delhi since Tuesday to support Hazare […] Read more » converge Hazare's fast venue office-goers youth
Top Law News I-cards, welfare fund proposed for lawyers’ clerks April 6, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Lawyers’ clerks in all district courts in the city may soon get identity cards and access to a welfare fund as the Delhi High Court Wednesday asked its registrar general to meet the district and sessions judge and chalk out a scheme for the purpose. Disposing of a public interest litigation (PIL) filed by a […] Read more » chief A.S. Chandhiok Chief Justice Dipak Misra clerks High Court I-cards Justice Reva Khetrapal lawyers proposed Supreme Court welfare fund
Media & Entertainment News Notice issued to MCD on community hall site April 6, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Delhi High Court Wednesday sought a response from the Muncipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) after it failed to identify a site for the construction of a community hall in a posh south Delhi colony. Issuing notices to Delhi’s civic agency and also the builder DLF Universal, a division bench of Chief Justice Dipak Misra […] Read more » Chief Justice Dipak Misra community hall site Delhi High Court issued Justice Reva Khetrapal MCD notice
Top Law News PM initiated mechanism for talks on Lokpal bill: Soni April 6, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Prime Minister Manmohan Singh had initiated a mechanism to consider suggestions from civil society activists on the anti-graft Lokpal Bill, Information and Broadcasting Minister Ambika Soni said Wednesday. Replying to queries about social activist Anna Hazare’s indefinite fast for a stronger and more comprehensive Lokpal Bill to tackle corruption, Soni said the prime minister had […] Read more » Ambika Soni initiated Lokpal Bill mechanism PM