Top Law News Anna Hazare’s movement might become a case study for XLRI August 31, 2011 / August 31, 2011 by Legal India Admin Gandhian Anna Hazare’s success with his anti-corruption movement might soon become a case study for management students at the famed XLRI School of Business and Human Resources. “The movement is fit as case study for budding management students here and we are seriously contemplating to look into various aspects of the movements, particularly Hazare’s […] Read more » Anna Hazare Anna Hazare's movement case study for XLRI XLRI
Media & Entertainment News How Anna united people for a common cause August 27, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment There is hardly any similarity between 50-year-old Raghubir Prasad, a rickshaw puller from Bihar, and 20-year-old Meneka Sharma, a student in Delhi. Yet they have been bound together by a common link called Anna Hazare. Prasad has been literally camping at the Ramlila Maidan here in central Delhi for the past 11 days – ever […] Read more » Anna Hazare Anna united people for a common cause Jan Lokpal bill Ramlila ground
Media & Entertainment News Anna’s blood pressure falls, health deteriorates August 27, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Doctors attending on Anna Hazare Saturday expressed worry over the fasting social activist’s falling blood pressure and said he should end his fast, which entered day 12, as his health has begun to deteriorate. “Blood pressure that was earlier steady has come down and his heart rate has increased. The cause of worry is the […] Read more » Anna Hazare Anna's blood pressure falls Anna's health deteriorates
Media & Entertainment News Hazare wants three key issues resolved to end fast: Patkar August 27, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Anna Hazare will not break his fast unless the parliament moves a resolution on the three key issues, activist Medha Patkar said late Friday night after she and other civil society members met Law Minister Salman Khurshid here. ‘Anna Hazare is insistent he will not break the fast without the three key issues being resolved,’ […] Read more » activist Medha Patkar Anna Hazare Bhaiyyu Maharaj Law Minister Salman Khurshid Lokpal bills Prashant Bhushan
Top Law News Supreme Court adjourns plea challenging Anna’s arrest August 26, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Supreme Court Friday adjourned hearing on a plea seeking to declare the arrest of activist Anna Hazare on Aug 16 a violation of his fundamental rights. An apex court bench of Justice P. Sathasivam and Justice B.S. Chauhan adjourned the hearing observing that the petitioner, National Panthers Party chairman Bhim Singh, should obtain Hazare’s […] Read more » Anna Hazare Home Minister P. Chidambaram Human Resource Development Minister Kapil Sibal Justice B.S. Chauhan Justice P. Sathasivam plea challenging Anna's arrest Supreme Court violation offundamental rights
Media & Entertainment News I won’t give up even if I die: Hazare August 24, 2011 by Legal India Admin | 1 Comment on I won’t give up even if I die: Hazare Addressing thousands at the Ramlila Maidan Wednesday, a smiling but frail Anna Hazare said he will not give up his fast till the government meets all his demands for a strong anti-graft bill, even if it costs him his life. “Till the government does not accept all my demands, I will not give up,” said […] Read more » Anna Hazare Ramlila Maidan
Top Law News Delhi lawyers support Hazare August 17, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Lawyers Tuesday organised a half-hour impromptu protest outside the Delhi High Court here against the detention of Gandhian activist Anna Hazare and his supporters, seeking implementation of a strong anti-corruption bill. “This is the black day of Indian democracy as the government has taken an unconstitutional step to scuttle the peaceful and democratic protest of […] Read more » Anna Hazare anti-corruption bill Arvind Kejriwal Delhi High Court Delhi lawyers Kiran Bedi
Top Law News Ramdev to meet president August 17, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Yoga guru Baba Ramdev will meet President Pratibha Devisingh Patil Wednesday to submit a memorandum against the arrest of Gandhian activist Anna Hazare. Ramdev will meet the president at 11.45 a.m., said a statement from the guru.He will then go to Tihar Jail to meet Hazare, it added. Hazare was jailed here Tuesday ahead of […] Read more » Anna Hazare anti-corruption law President Pratibha Patil Swami Ramdev
Media & Entertainment News Shiv Sena leader calls Hazare ‘Taliban Gandhi’ August 6, 2011 by Legal India Admin | 1 Comment on Shiv Sena leader calls Hazare ‘Taliban Gandhi’ Shiv Sena leader and former Maharashtra minister Sureshdada Jain on Saturday called anti-corruption crusader Anna Hazare a ‘Taliban Gandhi’. Jain, who has filed a defamation case against Hazare, said in Jalgaon that “nobody can misuse the name of Mahatma Gandhi” in the manner the crusader is doing in his agitation on the anti-graft Lokpal bill. […] Read more » Anna Hazare Lokpal Bill Shiv Sena Sureshdada Jain Taliban Gandhi
Top Law News Plea in Supreme Court to restrain Hazare from fasting August 2, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Supreme Court was moved Monday by an activist from Maharashtra seeking direction to anti-corruption campaigner Anna Hazare not to launch an indefinite fast from Aug 16 to press his demands on the Lokpal bill. Hazare’s demands were unconstitutional and amounted to intrusion in the legislative domain of parliament, said petitioner Hemant Patil, a businessman-cum-social […] Read more » Anna Hazare anti-corruption campaigner Anna Hazare bringing the prime minister under the purview of the lokpal. Lokpal Bill Supreme Court
Media & Entertainment News Hundreds gather as Anna Hazare begins day-long fast June 8, 2011 by Legal India Admin | 1 Comment on Hundreds gather as Anna Hazare begins day-long fast Singing devotional songs and holding placards, hundreds of supporters gathered near Rajghat in the capital Wednesday morning to support veteran Gandhian Anna Hazare and participate in a day-long fast to protest the crackdown on yoga guru Baba Ramdev. With the weather turning a little benevolent and the tricolour fluttering in the background, a smiling Anna […] Read more » Anna Hazare
Media & Entertainment News Anna Hazare hurt by Congress’ RSS remark: Kejriwal June 7, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Gandhian Anna Hazare is “hurt” by the Congress terming him the face of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS), civil rights activist Arvind Kejriwal said here on Tuesday. “He has a lot of self-respect and is very hurt by this statement. He is writing a letter on it and you will have to wait for one-and-a-half […] Read more » Anna Hazare Congress' RSS Kejriwal