International Trade Law Top Law News Bangladesh asked to find abducted witness January 17, 2013 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Bangladesh has been asked by the Human Rights Watch to explain what steps have been taken to trace a witness abducted from near the war crimes courthouse in Dhaka in November last year. Shukho Ranjan Bali was, according to lawyers and witnesses, abducted from the gates of the courthouse Nov 5. More than two months […] Read more » Bangladesh crime during independence Delwar Hossain Sayedee at the International Crimes Tribunal Human Rights Human Rights Watch ICT independence war India International Crimes Tribunal (ICT) lawyers and witnesses Shukho Ranjan Bali trace a witness abducted
Top Law News Congress not involved in cash-for-votes: Police July 22, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Giving a clean chit to the Congress and the Samajwadi Party in the 2008 cash-for-votes controversy in parliament, the Delhi Police Thursday told a court here that arrested middleman Sohail Hindustani, a former Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) worker, was the “mastermind” of the scandal. “During investigation it has come on record that neither any leader […] Read more » Aman Arora Arvinder Singh cash-for-votes cash-for-votes controversy Congress Congress in cash-for-votes scam Delhi Police India latest news Legal News Lovely Singh news Rajya Sabha member Amar Singh S.P. Gupta Samajwadi Party Sanjeev Saxena Sohail Hindustani Special Judge Sangeeta Dhingra Sehgal trust vote
Top Law News India largest source of skilled migrants to New Zealand July 12, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment India has emerged as the largest source country for New Zealand with a 12 percent increase in approval of applications under the skilled migrant category for the 2010-11 financial year. Among the top source countries to New Zealand, Britain decreased by 17 percent, China decreased by 11 percent, South Africa decreased by 37 percent and […] Read more » India New Zealand skilled migrants
Top Law News India may implead in US court to establish ISI’s terror link May 29, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment India is considering impleading in a lawsuit filed by Mumbai terror victims in a New York court to get Pakistan’s spy agency declared a terror outfit, a government official said Sunday. It is likely to submit several documents in the New York court to help prove the Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) had links with terror organisations […] Read more » implead India ISI's terror link US court
Media & Entertainment News Amnesty asks India to stop rights abuse in Kashmir March 21, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Coming down heavily on India for alleged rights violations in terror-riven Jammu and Kashmir, global rights watchdog Amnesty International Monday said the Public Safety Act (PSA) should be revoked in the state. The 600-page Amnesty report – the first on Jammu and Kashmir since 2000 – has termed the PSA a “lawless law”. We strongly […] Read more » Amnesty Amnesty International's Armed Forces Special Powers Act Chief Minister Omar Abdullah Home Secretary G.K. Pillai India Kashmir Public Safety Act Ramesh Gopalakrishnan rights abuse stop
Top Law News Hockey India to send team for Azlan Shah cup: Apex court March 12, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Supreme Court Friday cleared the decks for Hockey India to send the Indian hockey team for the Sultan Azlan Shah cup tournament in Malaysia, starting May 5. The apex court bench of Justice J.M. Panchal and Justice H.L. Gokhale cleared Hockey India to send its team to Malaysia after being told that the International […] Read more » apex court Azlan Shah cup Hockey India Justice H.L. Gokhale Justice J.M. Panchal Supreme Court team
Top Law News Transparency law to free India from poverty, graft: Aruna Roy March 10, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Social activist Aruna Roy Thursday said India’s second war of independence has to be fought with the right to information (RTI) law, to free the nation from poverty and corruption. ‘The next battle is ready with information and understanding of issues through the RTI and it is the ideal tool to help eradicate poverty and […] Read more » Aruna Roy free graft India poverty transparency law
Top Law News Remove India, Pakistan border restrictions: Sikh pilgrims November 21, 2010 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The border restrictions between Pakistan and India should be abolished for peace and prosperity in the region, said a group of Sikh pilgrims from India. Over 4,000 Sikh pilgrims reached Pakistan by special trains through the Wagah border Friday to attend the birth anniversary celebrations of Guru Nanak, the first guru of Sikhism. Sikh pilgrims […] Read more » border India Pakistan restrictions Sikh pilgrims
Top Law News India, US can learn from constitutional experience: Moily October 28, 2010 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Indian constitution is flexible and vulnerable to Supreme Court action, union Law Minister M. Veerappa Moily said, adding that India and the US can learn from each other’s experiences. He was speaking at a panel discussion on ‘Indian Constitution and the United States Bill of Rights’ here Wednesday. ‘This vulnerability of the (Indian) constitution […] Read more » constitutional experience India Moily US
Top Law News Life sentence means freedom in India: Neelam Katara October 6, 2010 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Reacting to the Supreme Court’s verdict in the Priyadarshini Mattoo murder case, Neelam Katara, mother of another murder victim Nitish Katara, on Wednesday said life sentence in India “means freedom for the culprits”. “I know how it feels to lose one’s child. Life sentence in our country means freedom for the culprits, soon they are […] Read more » freedom India Life sentence Neelam Katara
Top Law News Heavy security in India amid appeals for peace September 30, 2010 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Tens of thousands of security personnel were posted across India ahead of the Ayodhya verdict Thursday afternoon. From Kashmir to Kerala, many states were on ‘extra vigil’ fearing trouble in the aftermath of the judgement. ‘We are monitoring the situation minute-by-minute,’ an official in the home ministry . ‘So far satisfactory. We hope the situation […] Read more » amid appeals Heavy India peace security
Top Law News Crime against women rising in India: NCW member September 10, 2010 by Legal India Admin | 1 Comment on Crime against women rising in India: NCW member A case of violence against a woman is registered in India every three minutes and every 29 minutes a woman is raped, National Commission for Women (NCW) member Wansuk Syiem said here Friday. Citing National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB) data, Syiem said: “Over 7,600 women are killed each year because their in-laws consider the dowry […] Read more » against Crime India NCW member rising women