Top Law News Modi can apply for visa like anyone else: US September 15, 2013 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Narendra Modi would still have to apply for a visa “like any other applicant”, said the US after the Gujarat chief minister was anointed BJP’s prime ministerial candidate. “There’s no change in our longstanding visa policy,” State Department spokesperson Marie Harf told reporters Friday, while declining to comment on Bharatiya Janata Party’s announcement regarding Modi. […] Read more » application of visa for Modi Modi can apply for visa
Top Law News China’s home alone children are vulnerable: Report September 14, 2013 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Beijing, Sep 14 (IANS) Girls who are left behind at home in rural China and the children of migrant workers are more likely to become victims of sexual assault, said a report. According to statistics released Friday, girls of migrant workers account for up to 88 percent of sexual assault victims in some districts of […] Read more » CCTF China Children and Teenagers' Fund national news news Research Centre for Philanthropy and Social Enterprise todays news todays top news Top news
Top Law News White kurta pyjamas for gang rape convicts September 14, 2013 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The four convicts in the Delhi gang-rape case returned from court to jail and wore white kurta pyjamas, indicating they were no more undertrials. According to the Tihar Jail practice, undertrials who are sentenced in a case get the formal prisoners’ dress and shifted to sections in the prison meant for convicts. Convicts Pawan Gupta […] Read more » Akshay Thakur Convicts Pawan Gupta Mukesh national news news todays news todays top news Top news Vinay Sharma
Top Law News SC notice on PIL seeking shelter for homeless September 14, 2013 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Supreme Court on Friday asked the central and Maharashtra governments to respond to a PIL seeking shelter for people, without a roof of their own, living on footpaths and other open public places. NGO Nav Jivan Sahara Samajik Vichar Manch, in its PIL, urged the court to direct the Maharashtra government restore to the […] Read more » Chief Justice P Sathasivam Justice Ranjana Prakash Desai national news news NGO Nav Jivan Sahara Samajik Vichar Manch PIL seeking shelter for homeless todays news todays top news Top news Yatish Mohan
Top Law News Asaram moves high court for bail September 14, 2013 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Controversial self-styled godman Asaram Bapu, who is in judicial custody in the alleged sexual assault case of a minor, today moved a bail application in the Rajasthan High Court in Jodhpur. The hearing on the petition is scheduled on Monday, one of Asaram’s counsels said. Last week a lower court had rejected the bail plea […] Read more » Asaram Bapu Asaram moves high court for bail sexually assault case of a minor
Top Law News Those who attack women should be brought to justice: UN September 14, 2013 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment As four convicts in the Dec 16 gang-rape of a young woman were Friday sentenced to death, the UN said though it was against capital punishment, perpetrators of crimes against women should be brought to justice. “While the UN does not support capital punishment, perpetrators of crimes against women must be brought to justice,” Rebecca […] Read more » death sentence December 16 gangrape case Delhi gangrape case fight against rape national news news Rebecca Reichmann Tavares todays news todays top news Top news UN Women’s Office for India victim's parents
Top Law News SC stays Karnataka order to Jayalalithaa case prosecutor September 14, 2013 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Supreme Court Friday stayed the Karnataka government communication to special public prosecutor Bhavani Singh asking him not to appear before the Bangalore special court hearing a corruption case against Tamil Nadu Chief Minister Jayalalithaa. A bench of Justice B.S.Chauhan and Justice S.A.Bobde issued notice to Karnataka government and other respondents, returnable in 10 days. […] Read more » counsel Mukul Rohtagi Ilavarasi Jayalalithaa Justice B.S. Chauhan Justice S.A. Bobde national news news public prosecutor Bhavani Singh Sasikala Tamil Nadu Chief Minister Jayalalithaa todays news todays top news Top news V.N. Sudhakaran
Top Law News Over 3,000 Syrians fled to Italy in 40 days: UN September 14, 2013 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Around 3,300 Syrians have fled to Italy by boat in he past 40 days to escape the intensifying conflitct in their homeland, a UN spokesperson said. “The UN Refugee Agency is seeing a sharp increase in Syrians arriving by boat in southern Italy. Over the past 40 days, 3,300 Syrians, of whom more than 230 […] Read more » national news news Syrians fled to Italy Syrians refugees todays news todays top news Top news UN Refugee Agency UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon
Top Law News Death for all four in Dec 16 gang rape September 13, 2013 by Legal India Admin | 1 Comment on Death for all four in Dec 16 gang rape Four convicts in the December 16 gangrape-cum-murder case were on Friday awarded death penalty by a Delhi court which said the gravity of the offence cannot be tolerated. “Death to all,” Additional Sessions Judge Yogesh Khanna said while delivering the verdict in the case that had evoked nationwide outrage and led the government to bring […] Read more » death sentence December 16 gangrape case Delhi gangrape case four accused national news news todays news todays top news Top news
Top Law News CBSE ropes in charity to train differently abled students September 13, 2013 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) has empanelled a charitable society, Manovikas, to provide skills of different kinds to students who are differently abled, an official statement said Friday. Students with special needs in classes IX, X, XI and XII studying in schools affiliated to the CBSE can join Manovikas’s skill knowledge programme to […] Read more » CBSE Central Board of Secondary Education charitable society Manovikas Manovikas Charitable Society president Vikram Dutt national news news todays news todays top news Top news
Top Law News Boycott Commonwealth summit, Human Rights Watch says September 13, 2013 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The heads of Commonwealth governments should boycott the Commonwealth summit in Sri Lanka in November due to its unwillingness to address human rights concerns, Human Rights Watch said Friday. Those governments deciding to attend should send a low-level delegation as a public message of dissatisfaction, it said in a letter to the 54 heads of […] Read more » Brad Adams Commonwealth summit in Sri Lanka in November Lessons Learnt and Reconciliation Commission LLRC national news news todays news todays top news Top news
Top Law News Reject papers if assets, criminal past not disclosed: SC September 13, 2013 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Supreme Court on Friday said that the nomination papers of a candidate would stand rejected if he does not disclose the details of his assets or his criminal antecedents in his nomination papers. The Supreme Court bench headed by Chief Justice P. Sathasivam said that the returning officer had the power to reject the […] Read more » national news news NGO Resurgent India nomination papers Supreme Court todays news todays top news Top news
