Top Law News Coal India unions call 3-day strike against stake sale August 21, 2013 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Five trade unions operating in Coal India (CIL) and its subsidiaries have served a strike notice against a proposed 5 per cent stake sale in the state miner. The five trade unions – Indian National Trade Union Congress (INTUC), Hind Mazdoor Sabha (HMS), Bharatiya Mazdoor Sangh (BMS), AICWF and All India Trade Union Congress (AITUC)- […] Read more » AITUC Bharatiya Mazdoor Sangh BMS)AICWF and All India Trade Union Congress CIL Coal India Coal India unions call 3-day strike against stake sale Hind Mazdoor Sabha HMS Indian National Trade Union Congress INTUC national news news todays news todays top news Top news
Top Law News Police seek 10 days’ custody of Tunda August 21, 2013 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Delhi Police on Tuesday sought 10 days’ police custody of alleged LeT terrorist Abdul Karim Tunda in a local court in New Delhi. Earlier, Tunda was arrested near the India-Nepal border. The Delhi-born, one-handed extremist was on the list of top 20 terrorists wanted by India. Metropolitan magistrate Jay Thareja ordered in-camera proceedings of the […] Read more » Hindu Sena President Vishnu Gupta Karim Tunda LeT terrorist Abdul Karim Tunda Metropolitan Magistrate Jay Thareja national news news Police seek 10 days' custody of Tunda todays news todays top news Top news Tunda
Top Law News Judicial hurdles to be weeded out: Jayalalithaa August 21, 2013 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J. Jayalalithaa Tuesday said the Alternate Disputes Resolution (ADR) was an integral part of modern legal practice and would weed out hurdles in universal justice. Inaugurating the ADR Centre here, Jayalalithaa said: “ADR is now an integral part of modern legal practice and jurisprudence. This will go a long way in […] Read more » ADR Alternate Disputes Resolution Judicial hurdles to be weeded out: Jayalalithaa national news news todays news todays top news Top news
Top Law News Tibetans in exile can apply for Indian citizenship August 21, 2013 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Tibetan prime minister-in-exile Lobsang Sangay on Tuesday said any Tibetan in exile in India could apply for Indian citizenship and his administration was not compelling anyone to apply for the citizenship. “The decision to apply for Indian or any other country’s citizenship is a personal choice,” Sangay said, according to a post on the official […] Read more » Central Tibetan Administration CTA national news news Tibetan prime minister-in-exile Lobsang Sangay Tibetans in exile can apply for Indian citizenship todays news todays top news Top news
Top Law News Ghaziabad courts closed for eighth day August 21, 2013 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Ghaziabad courts remained closed for the eighth day after being forcibly shut by angry lawyers demanding a Allahabad High Court bench in western Uttar Pradesh. “Although the lawyers’ strike call for setting up a high court bench in western Uttar Pradesh is 34 years old, this time the boycott has been collectively intensified in all […] Read more » Allahabad High Court Bar Association President Rakesh Tyagi Kakra Ghaziabad courts closed for eighth day national news news todays news todays top news Top news
Top Law News SC cautions high courts on reversing acquittals August 21, 2013 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Supreme Court has said that the jurisdiction of high courts in reversing an acquittal after re-appreciating the evidence was “extremely narrow” and could be done only in cases of “miscarriage of justice” during trial. “…the revisional jurisdiction of the high courts while examining an order of acquittal is extremely narrow and ought to be […] Read more » national news news SC cautions high courts on reversing acquittals todays news todays top news Top news
Top Law News wo charged with murder of India-born businessman August 21, 2013 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Police in Australia have charged two people with the murder of a India-born businessman last month. A 27-year-old woman and a 32-year-old man were arrested and charged Tuesday with the murder of Shyam Dhody July 5, local media reported. Dhody, 37, was shot dead while he was on his bed in his home at Gilston, […] Read more » national news news todays news todays top news Top news wo charged with murder of India-born businessman
Top Law News Gift mobile phone to sister on Rakshabandhan, Delhi high court tells brother August 20, 2013 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The judiciary has time and again come to the rescue of girls facing threats from family members to sacrifice education midway to get married. This time, however, in an unprecedented move while protecting one such college girl, the Delhi high court has directed her brother to gift her a mobile phone this Rakshabandhan for use […] Read more » Gift mobile phone on Rakshabandhan Gift mobile phone to sister on Rakshabandhan Justice Hima Kohli
Top Law News FIR in Goa’s Rs.35,000 crore mining scam August 20, 2013 / August 20, 2013 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment With an eye to a crucial hearing in the Supreme Court later this month, the Goa government has made its first move to prosecute those indicted in a Rs.35,000 crore illegal mining scam in the state. The first information report (FIR) comes after months of going slow in the illegal mining probe. The probe has […] Read more » FIR in Goa's Rs.35000 crore mining scam FIR on Goa Mining Scam Rs.35000 crore mining scam Rs.35000 crore mining scam in Goa
Top Law News SC asks centre about steps to check criminal lawmakers August 20, 2013 by Legal India Admin | 1 Comment on SC asks centre about steps to check criminal lawmakers Aiming to “bring purity in elections”, the Supreme Court Monday questioned the government on steps it intends to take to bar people charged with heinous crimes or found guilty by a commission of inquiry from becoming lawmakers. “The objective is to bring purity in elections. We have to take care that the process is not […] Read more » Additional Solicitor General Paras Kuhad bring purity in elections criminal lawmakers Justice Madan B. Lokur Justice R.M. Lodha SC asks centre to check criminal lawmakers steps to check criminal lawmakers
Top Law News Supreme Court reserves verdict on the use of beacon lights and sirens August 20, 2013 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Supreme Court Monday reserved its order on a plea seeking stripping “high dignitaries”, other than constitutional authorities, of beacon lights and sirens that they have on their vehicles as a status symbol and use to their advantage while travelling The Supreme Court Monday reserved its order on a plea seeking stripping “high dignitaries”, other […] Read more » Justice GS Singhvi Justice V. Gopala Gowda stripping "high dignitaries top news of beacon lights and sirens use of beacon lights and sirens verdict on the use of beacon lights and sirens
Top Law News Uttar Pradesh asked to fill rights Commission vacancies August 19, 2013 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Lucknow bench of the Allahabad High Court Monday directed the Uttar Pradesh government to fill vacancies in the state Human Rights Commission within a month. A bench of Chief Justice Shiva Kirti Singh and Justice D.K. Upadhyay gave the direction while hearing a public interest litigation filed by activist Nutan Thakur. The state commission […] Read more » activist Nutan Thakur Allahabad High Court Chief Justice Shiva Kirti Singh H.K. Sema Justice D.K. Upadhyay national news news todays news todays top news Top news Uttar Pradesh asked to fill rights Commission vacancies
