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‘Slut Walk’ in Delhi to fight sexual violence

June 20, 2011 / June 20, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment

Organisers of India’s first “Slut Walk” have changed the name of the event and toned down its dress code because of concern the protest is too provocative, media reports said on Friday. “Slut Walks,” which have become a global phenomenon to protest against sexual violence, see women dress in skimpy clothing to challenge the […]

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Delhi rapist jailed for six years

June 12, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment

A Delhi court has sentenced a man to six years in jail and fined him Rs.15,000 for raping a minor girl. “Considering the age of the convict at the time of offence, which was only 20-22 years, and the fact that he has no previous history of involvement in any other case, I am inclined […]

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Delhi to host disabled peoples’ international meet

June 12, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment

Delhi is all set to host the Disabled Peoples’ International (DPI) meet in August this year, a leading disabled rights activist said here Saturday. “The meet will see over 150 differently challenged people from 30 countries. We are also getting requests from people from Europe and Africa who want to attend the meet,” said Javed […]

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Court paves way for fresh power tariff in Delhi

May 23, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment

The Delhi high court on Monday gave the go-ahead to the Delhi Electricity Regulatory Commission (DERC) to fix the power tariff for 2010-11, lifting curbs imposed on the process by the state government. Chief Justice Dipak Misra and Justice Sanjiv Khanna held the Delhi government and private electricity distribution companies responsible for delay in the […]

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Two-thirds of rights violations in Uttar Pradesh, Delhi

May 6, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment

Of the 18,000 human rights violations recorded in India in the first three months of this year, a staggering 65.57 percent, or roughly two-thirds, were reported in Uttar Pradesh and Delhi, shows data from the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC). According to official documents, from Jan 1 to March 31, a total of 18,772 cases […]

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Missing kids of Delhi – children of a lesser god?

April 30, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment

When toddler Ishaan, the son of a businessman, went missing, Delhi Police went into a tizzy, deploying 15 teams to look for him and tracing him in two days. Not everyone’s so lucky though. According to official figures, 550 children have gone missing in the capital since January, of whom only 146 have been found. […]

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Delhi fines 21,600 public smokers in 15 months

April 30, 2011 / April 30, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment

Despite the ban on smoking in public places, people continue breaking the law and as many as 21,600 violators were fined in the national capital over the last 15 months, according to Delhi Health Minister A.K. Walia. ‘Between January 2010 and March 2011, a total of 181,000 places were inspected, and 21,600 persons and 3,200 […]

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Helpline in Delhi soon against child labour

April 26, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment

In a bid to tackle child labour and handle complaints from workers, a toll free helpline would soon be launched by Delhi Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit, a state government official said Tuesday. The helpline number 12789 will be functional between 7 a.m. to 8 p.m., added the official. “It is being commissioned with an aim […]

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No airport development fee for Delhi, Mumbai: SC

April 26, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment

Passengers travelling out of Delhi and Mumbai airports would no longer have to pay Airport Development Fee (ADF) with the Supreme Court on Tuesday quashing the levy which has yielded about Rupees 2,500 crore in two years. Hearing an appeal against the Delhi High Court’s order which had upheld levying of ADF, a bench set […]

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Over a lakh children in Delhi still out of school

April 1, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment

More than one lakh children in the national capital are still out of school, a report by the human resource development ministry said as the Right to Free and Compulsory Education (RTE) Act completed a year Friday since its implementation. The RTE report card which analysed the primary education scenario in the country was released […]

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Jats threaten to halt trains, cut water to Delhi

March 22, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment

Leaders of Haryana Jats Tuesday threatened to halt road and train traffic and disrupt water supply to Delhi if the authorities failed to promise them quotas in government jobs. “If they don’t accept our demands by March 25, we will block the Delhi-Ambala track. If nothing happens by the final deadline March 28, we will […]

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Delhi issues notice to schools on fees hike

March 18, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment

Delhi’s directorate of education (DoE) Friday informed the Delhi High Court that notices have been sent to 25 private schools in the city over fee hike. The notices come after the Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) in its report to the high court termed as ‘unreasonable’ the fee hike by 25 private schools, including Modern […]

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