Top Law News New law to bring dignity to disabled: PM June 17, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Prime Minister Manmohan Singh Friday said the government was planning to bring a new law that will ensure dignity and equality to the disabled people. India has an estimated 60 million disabled. He also said the government was taking various initiatives that will empower the disabled.”Various initiatives are being taken to address concerns of persons […] Read more » DIGNITY disabled New law PM
Top Law News Moily rules out two drafts of Lokpal bill June 17, 2011 / June 17, 2011 by Legal India Admin | 1 Comment on Moily rules out two drafts of Lokpal bill Union Law Minister M. Veerappa Moily Thursday said that if the logjam between government representatives and civil society members on the anti-graft Lokpal bill continues in the joint drafting panel’s meeting June 20, the union cabinet would be apprised of the differences among members but it would not be presented two drafts. ‘There will be […] Read more » Lokpal Bill Moily two drafts Union Law Minister M. Veerappa Moily
Top Law News Delhi’s elderly seek more security June 15, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Elderly citizens of the city Tuesday demanded more security for themselves during an interaction with senior government officials and NGOs to mark the sixth edition of the World Elder Abuse Awareness Day (WEAAD) observed annually June 15. At the event, organised by NGO International Network for Prevention of Elder Abuse (INPEA), many of the elderly […] Read more » Delhi's elderly security
Top Law News Collect power dues before tenant vacates premises: Court June 15, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Delhi High Court has directed private power distribution companies (discoms) to recover electricity bill dues from a tenant before he or she vacates a premises. The court said this was necessary to ensure that the liability does not fall on the landlord or the subsequent tenant. While hearing a petition filed by a landlord […] Read more » Collect power dues premises tenant vacates
Top Law News Court questions medical college on students’ attendance June 15, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Delhi High Court Tuesday issued notice to Maulana Azad Medical College (MAMC) for allegedly allowing students with barely 30 percent attendance to appear in final exams. The division bench of Justices S. Muralidhar and Justice Rajiv Sahai Endlaw, on its own initiative, took note of a media report on the issue and asked the […] Read more » Justice Rajiv Sahai Justices S. Muralidhar medical college students' attendance
Top Law News Court approves Hindu girl’s adoption by Christian couple June 15, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment A Christian couple’s plea for adopting a two-year-old Hindu girl as their second child has got the nod from a Delhi court which concluded that they were financially sound enough to take care of a fourth family member. Associate professor in Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) Mandira Sarma and her husband Jesim Pais, an assistant professor […] Read more » Christian couple Hindu girl's adoption
Top Law News Apex court wants panel to examine Tamil Nadu school books June 15, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Supreme Court on Tuesday directed an experts committee to be set up to look into the content of textbooks published by the Tamil Nadu government for schools. The apex court bench of Justice BS Chauhan and Justice Swatanter Kumar said a committee of eight experts, to be headed by state chief secretary, will go […] Read more » apex court examine panel school books Tamil Nadu
Top Law News Madras High Court orders uniform school syllabus June 11, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment In a major setback for Tamil Nadu’s AIADMK government, the Madras High Court Friday stayed an amendment to the Tamil Nadu Uniform System of School Education Act that deferred the implementation of a uniform syllabus for school students. Disposing a batch of petitions, the court said the government can conduct detailed study of a common […] Read more » Madras High Court uniform school syllabus
Top Law News 115 mn kids exposed to hazardous work globally June 10, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Around 115 million of the world’s 215 million child labourers do hazardous work and there is an urgent need for action to halt this practice, the International Labour Organization (ILO) said in a report launched in Geneva Friday. The report, ‘Children in hazardous work: what we know, what we need to do’ stated that every […] Read more » ILO International Labour Organization June 12 World Day Against Child Labour
Top Law News RTI query on assets of former CJI Balakrishnan June 9, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment A Right to Information (RTI) appeal was been filed Thursday seeking complete detail of assets and income of National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) Chairman Justice K.G. Balakrishnan during the period 2006-2011. RTI activist Subhash Chandra Agarwal filed his appeal before Joint Secretary J.P. Meena who is appellate authority in the NHRC under the Right to […] Read more » CJI Balakrishnan RTI
Top Law News M.F. Husain dies exiled from his homeland June 9, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Maqbool Fida Husain, who was hailed as the Picasso of India but was forced to live in self-imposed exile from his homeland due to death threats from Hindu radicals, died in London Thursday. He was 95. Husain was ailing from age-related problems for some time and breathed his last in a London hospital after suffering […] Read more » exiled M.F. Husain
Top Law News Case against Digvijay for calling Ramdev ‘thug’ June 6, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment A Bihar court Monday admitted a complaint seeking to register a case of sedition against Congress general secretary Digvijay Singh for calling yoga guru Baba Ramdev a “thug”. The chief judicial magistrate in Muzaffarpur, about 70 km from here, accepted the complaint filed by advocate Sudhir Ojha. Ohja sought to book Digvijay Singh for sedition, […] Read more » Digvijay Ramdev 'thug'