Top Law News Ensure no forcible shutdown, court tells Mamata August 7, 2013 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment In the wake of the Gorkha Janmukti Morcha (GJM)-sponsored indefinite shutdown in Darjeeling Hills, the Calcutta High Court on Wednesday directed the West Bengal government to ensure there was no forced shutdown and asked it to submit a compliance report in seven days. Hearing a public interest litigation (PIL) seeking the court’s intervention against forced […] Read more » Ensure no forcible shutdown; court tells Mamata national news news todays news todays top news Top news
Top Law News NHRC petitioned on Dalit thinker’s arrest over Facebook post August 7, 2013 by Legal India Admin | 1 Comment on NHRC petitioned on Dalit thinker’s arrest over Facebook post The arrest of Dalit writer Kanwal Bharti by Rampur police for an alleged Facebook post over the suspension of IAS official Durga Shakti Nagpal reached the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) Wednesday. A local social activist Nutan Thakur filed a complaint with the panel, seeking its intervention on Tuesday’s arrest of Bharti. Terming the arrest […] Read more » national news news NHRC petitioned on Dalit thinker's arrest over Facebook post todays news todays top news Top news
Top Law News Court refuses judicial custody of former Andhra ministers August 7, 2013 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Two former ministers of Andhra Pradesh received reprieve when a special court here Wednesday rejected a CBI plea seeking their judicial custody in the alleged illegal assets case involving YSR Congress party chief YS Jaganmohan Reddy. The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) had sought judicial custody of former ministers Sabitha Indra Reddy and Dharmana Prasada […] Read more » Court refuses judicial custody of former Andhra ministers national news news todays news todays top news Top news
Top Law News Animal board wants glass-coated kite strings banned August 7, 2013 by Legal India Admin | 1 Comment on Animal board wants glass-coated kite strings banned The Animal Welfare Board of India (AWBI) has urged all the states and union territories to ban glass-coated, plastic, metal and other cutting forms of ‘manja’ – the thread used in kite-flying contests ahead of Independence Day. “In order to uphold our nation’s animal protection laws, the sale and use of glass-coated, metal, plastic or […] Read more » Animal board wants glass-coated kite strings banned Animal Welfare Board of India AWBI national news news People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals PETA S. Uma Rani todays news todays top news Top news
Top Law News SC reserves order on Lalu’s plea August 7, 2013 / August 7, 2013 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Supreme Court on Tuesday reserved its order on a plea by Rashtriya Janata Dal supremo Lalu Prasad seeking transfer of trial of a fodder scam against him to another trial court. An apex court bench of Chief Justice P Sathasivam, Justice Ranjan Prakash Desai and Justice Ranjan Gogoi reserved the order after Solicitor General […] Read more » Chief Justice P Sathasivam Justice Ranjan Gogoi Justice Ranjan Prakash Desai Lalu Lalu Prasad Lalu Prasad Yadav multi-million-rupee fodder scam national news news Rashtriya Janata Dal supremo Lalu Prasad SC reserves order on Lalu's plea senior counsel Ram Jethmalani Solicitor General Mohan Prasaran todays news todays top news Top news
Top Law News UP gets notice on Swamy move against Chidambaram August 7, 2013 / August 7, 2013 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Delhi High Court on Tuesday issued notice to the Uttar Pradesh government on a plea filed by Janata Party president Subramanian Swamy seeking a probe into the alleged role of now Finance Minister P Chidambaram in the 1987 mass killings at Hashimpura in Meerut. Justice Hima Kohli sought response from Uttar Pradesh through the […] Read more » Finance Minister P. Chidambaram Hashimpura Janata Party president Subramanian Swamy Justice Hima Kohli Malliana national news news todays news todays top news Top news UP gets notice on Swamy move against Chidambaram Vir Bahadur Singh
Top Law News SC nod sufficient to probe corrupt officials: CBI August 7, 2013 by Legal India Admin | 1 Comment on SC nod sufficient to probe corrupt officials: CBI The CBI Tuesday told the Supreme Court that it did not require the government’s sanction for a corruption probe against public servants in court-monitored cases but the government disagreed with this. The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) told an apex court bench of Justice RM Lodha, Justice Madan B Lokur and Justice Kurian Joseph it […] Read more » Attorney General GE Vahanvati counsel Prashant Bhushan Justice Kurian Joseph Justice Madan B. Lokur Justice RM Lodha national news news SC nod sufficient to probe corrupt officials: CBI Senior counsel Amarendra Saran todays news todays top news Top news
Top Law News Award maximum term to Sahara directors, SEBI tells SC August 7, 2013 / August 7, 2013 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) Tuesday urged the Supreme Court to award maximum punishment to Sahara India’s head Subrata Roy and three other directors of its companies for contempt of court by not complying with its order of returning Rs.24,000 crore to investors. “Here is a case where contempt was committed not […] Read more » Arvind Datar Award maximum term to Sahara directors; SEBI tells SC Justice Jagdish Singh Khehar Justice K.S. Radhakrishnan national news news Sahara Housing Investment Corporation Ltd Sahara India Real Estate Corporation Sahara India's head Subrata Roy SEBI Securities and Exchange Board of India todays news todays top news Top news
Top Law News Protest in Meghalaya for Garoland August 6, 2013 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Encouraged by the Congress and the UPA coalition’s endorsement for Telangana state July 30, the demand for Garoland reverberated in the Garo Hills on Tuesday. The Garo Hills State Movement Committee (GHSMC) — a conglomeration of several Garo organisations, including the Garo National Council (GNC), a regional political party — Tuesday began their two-day sit-in […] Read more » Garo Hills State Movement Committee Garo National Council Garoland reverberated GHSMC GNC national news news Protest in Meghalaya for Garoland States Reorganisations Act todays news todays top news Top news
Top Law News Congress, BJP demand security for Bangladesh minorities August 6, 2013 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Congress and the BJP Tuesday demanded permanent rehabilitation and security for displaced Bangladeshi tribals who last week fled to Tripura after ethnic strife broke out with non-tribal Muslims in Chittagong Hill tracts (CHT). Over 200 Congress members led by state party president Diba Chandra Hrangkhawl and working president Ashish Saha met the head of the Bangladesh mission in Agartala, Obaidur Rahman, and […] Read more » Congress and BJP demand security for Bangladesh minorities national news news todays news todays top news Top news
Top Law News China training lawyers to help companies operate abroad August 6, 2013 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment China has launched a special drive to enable its 300 lawyers gain proficiency in foreign-related business within next four years so that they could help more Chinese companies to go abroad. Initiated by Ministry of Justice and the All China Lawyers Association (ACLA), the programme was launched Monday. It would focus on training 120 lawyers in […] Read more » ACLA All China Lawyers Association China training lawyers to help companies operate abroad national news news todays news todays top news Top news Zhao Dacheng
Top Law News Tibetan monk self-immolates in Nepal August 6, 2013 / August 6, 2013 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment A Tibetan died after self-immolating himself in Nepal’s capital town Kathmandu Tuesday, the Central Tibetan Administration (CTA) said here. This was the second self-immolation death in the Himalayan country this year. “A monk set himself afire near a monastery in Kathmandu this (Tuesday) morning. He was taken to a nearby hospital where he was declared dead,” […] Read more » CTA CTA spokesperson Tashi Phuntsok national news news the Dalai Lama Tibetan Administration Tibetan monk self-immolates in Nepal todays news todays top news Top news
