Top Law News Street children send list of demands to Kejriwal December 30, 2013 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment As Arvind Kejriwal on Saturday took oath as Delhi’s new chief minister, street children became one of the first to send him a list of demands for their betterment. Street and working children through their federation Badhte Kadam congratulated Kejriwal on becoming the “Mukhya Sewak” (chief servant) of the people and sent him through fax […] Read more » Arvind Kejriwal Badhte Kadam federation CHETNA Childhood Enhancement Through Training and Action news Street children send list of demands to Kejriwa todays news todays top news Top news
Top Law News Widows of Vrindavan bid adieu to 2013 December 30, 2013 / December 30, 2013 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The widows of Mathura and Vrindavan bade goodbye to 2013 recalling some happy moments of having participated in festivals like Holi, Durga Puja and Diwali, and ending the year with merry celebrations of Christmas. The spirit of Holi was seen across the five government-run shelter homes in Vrindavan where NGO Sulabh International provided stipend, food […] Read more » Meera Sahbhagini Ashram news NGO Sulabh International Sulabh founder Bindeshwar Pathak todays news todays top news Top news Widows of Vrindavan bid adieu to 2013
Top Law News Religious leaders welcome SC verdict on gay sex December 30, 2013 / December 30, 2013 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Heads of various religious group Sunday welcomed the decision of the Supreme Court criminalising homosexuality and said the verdict was in line with eastern traditions and India’s moral values and religious teachings. The apex court’s Dec 11 verdict declared homosexuality an offence. “The decision of the Supreme Court on Article 377 is not only in […] Read more » homosexuality an offence news Religious leaders welcome SC verdict on gay sex SC verdict on gay sex todays news todays top news Top news
Top Law News Kejriwal urged to take actions on pensions December 30, 2013 / December 30, 2013 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Pension Parishad on Sunday wrote to Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal demanding immediate action on its demand for universalising pensions and declaring Jantar Mantar as “Sangharsh Sthal (protest site)” with toilet, bathrooms and cooking facilities. In two separate letters written to Kejriwal, the Pension Parishad in letters, signed by eight activists including Aruna Roy […] Read more » Aam Aadmi Party AAP Aruna Roy Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal Kejriwal urged to take actions on pensions news Nikhil Dey todays news todays top news Top news
Top Law News Singapore group seeks clarification on Indian deportations December 28, 2013 / December 28, 2013 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Civil society group Workfair Singapore, which works for the welfare of local and migrant workers, has asked the law ministry to clarify why Indians who had charges dropped against them for alleged rioting were eventually deported. As many as 57 Indian nationals, allegedly involved in the Dec 8 riot in the Little India area, have […] Read more » Indian worker Sakthivel Kumaravelu news todays news todays top news Top news Workfair Singapore
Top Law News Russia drops cases against Greenpeace activists December 28, 2013 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Russian authorities have dropped criminal cases against 30 Greenpeace activists from the ship Arctic Sunrise, the environmental group’s lawyer said Wednesday. “All activists have arrived in front of the investigative committee of St. Petersburg to be familiarised with the decision,” Xinhua quoted Andrei Suchkov as telling the Interfax news agency. By Wednesday afternoon, 16 activists […] Read more » Arctic Sunrise Greenpeace activists news Russia todays news todays top news Top news
Top Law News Did Bharara’s office goof up in Khobragade case December 28, 2013 / December 28, 2013 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Did the office of Manhattan’s India-born prosecutor Preet Bharara goof up in the paperwork for the arrest of Indian diplomat Devyani Khobragade to spark a major India-US diplomatic row? Khobragade’s lawyer Daniel Arschack claims so, suggesting that India’s then deputy consul general in New York was only arrested because a federal agent “erroneously and disastrously” […] Read more » Khobragade's lawyer Daniel Arschack Manhattan's India-born prosecutor Preet Bharara news todays news todays top news Top news
Top Law News Modi verdict brings no change in US visa policy December 28, 2013 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Ahmedabad court’s rejection of a petition seeking the prosecution of Narendra Modi for his alleged role in the 2002 Gujarat riots has brought no change in US visa policy for BJP’s prime ministerial candidate. The Gujarat chief minister, who was denied a diplomatic visa to the US in 2005 over the riots, was welcome to […] Read more » Modi verdict brings no change in US visa policy Narendra Modi news todays news todays top news Top news Wall Street Journal
Top Law News Himachal court bans polythene-packed chips and candy December 27, 2013 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Himachal Pradesh High Court Thursday vacated the stay on the state government’s notification banning 25 junk food items in plastic packaging and directed it to implement the ban in the state from Jan 26 next year. However, the ban excludes drinking water, both packed and mineral. A division bench of Justice Rajiv Sharma and […] Read more » Food Safety and Standards (Packaging and Labelling) Regulation of 2011 Food Safety and Standards Act of 2006 Himachal Pradesh High Court Justice Rajiv Sharma Justice V.K. Sharma news todays news todays top news Top news
Top Law News Rights panel notice to UP over children’s deaths in camps December 27, 2013 / December 27, 2013 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) has issued notices to the Uttar Pradesh Chief Secretary and the District Magistrates of Muzaffarnagar and Shamli districts, seeking reports within four weeks, on the death of 40 children, all below five years of age, in the relief camps for the riot victims. The Commission was acting suo motu, […] Read more » Children death Cold wave news NHRC Riot victims todays news todays top news Top news Uttar Pradesh
Top Law News Mulayam’s remark on riot camps taken to minorities panel December 27, 2013 / December 27, 2013 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The National Commission for Minorities on Thursday admitted a petition seeking action against Samajwadi Party chief Mulayam Singh for saying that not one of the Muzaffarnagar riot victims now lives in any relief camp. The petitioner cited remarks made by Mulayam Singh while addressing a party gathering in Uttar Pradesh capital Lucknow on December 23, […] Read more » Mulayam riot camp remark Mulayam Singh Yadav Muzaffarnagar riots news Samajwadi Party todays news todays top news Top news
Top Law News Relief for Modi as court upholds SIT closure report December 27, 2013 / December 27, 2013 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment In a major relief for Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi, a local court Thursday dismissed a petition by a killed Congress leader’s widow, challenging the SIT’s closure report giving a clean chit to him and 58 others in a case relating to the 2002 communal riots. Expressing disappointment over the ruling by Metropolitan Magistrate B.J. […] Read more » Activist Teesta Setalvad former Congress MP Ehsan Jafri Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi Metropolitan Magistrate B J Ganatra news todays news todays top news Top news Zakia Jafri
