Top Law News Bill against honour killing likely in monsoon session: Girija Vyas April 6, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The bill against honour killing is likely to be introduced in the monsoon session of parliament in July, outgoing chairperson of the National Commission for Women (NCW) Girija Vyas said Wednesday. ‘I believe the bill will be introduced in the monsoon session. With the GoM (group of ministers) approving it, there is no hitch now,’ […] Read more » bill Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee Girija Vyas Home Minister P. Chidambaram honour killing Human Resource Development Minister kapil sibal Krishna Tirath Law Minister M. Veerappa Moily monsoon session NCW Women and Child Development Minister
Top Law News Anna Hazare plans fast unto death for strong Lokpal bil April 4, 2011 by Legal India Admin | 1 Comment on Anna Hazare plans fast unto death for strong Lokpal bil Veteran social activist Anna Hazare Monday said he is starting a “fast unto death” to press for the demand to involve civil society in formulation of the anti-graft Lokpal (ombudsman) Bill. “I will fast unto death, as announced earlier, as the prime minister has refused to form a joint committee with civil society members in […] Read more » activist Arvind Kejriwal Anna Hazare death fast kapil sibal Lokpal bil National Advisory Council plans Prashant Bhushan
Top Law News 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 […] Read more » children Delhi Human Resource Development Minister kapil sibal lakh out of school RTE
Intellectual Property News Right to education to cover secondary schools soon: Sibal January 25, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Human Resource Development Minister Kapil Sibal on Tuesday hoped the Right to Education (RTE) act will cover secondary schools in the coming years. ‘In the coming five years similar rights will cover secondary education,’ Sibal said while addressing a function organised by the ministry and UNICEF. He said the act will address the problem of […] Read more » Human Resource Development kapil sibal Right to Education
Top Law News Supreme Court slams Kapil Sibal on telecom audit remark January 21, 2011 by Legal India Admin | 1 Comment on Supreme Court slams Kapil Sibal on telecom audit remark The Supreme Court Friday slammed Communications Minister Kapil Sibal for his remark that the official auditor’s report was “utterly erroneous” in assessing the loss on award of telecom spectrum at Rs.1.76 lakh crore ($40 billion).”It is unfortunate,” said the apex court bench of Justice G.S. Singhvi and Justice A.K. Ganguly. The court said the minister […] Read more » kapil sibal Supreme Court
Criminal Law News Swamy moves court against Sibal’s attack on CAG January 14, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Janata Party president Subramanian Swamy Friday moved the Supreme Court against the ”intemperate and uncalled for public attack” by Communications Minister Kapil Sibal on the ”CAG methodology”for calculating the loss in allocating 2G spectrum in 2008 at 2001 prices. Swamy said that the way Sibal has led the attack on the CAG methodology for calculating […] Read more » Communications Minister kapil sibal Subramanian Swamy
High Profile Cases Audit ‘erroneous’ in fixing spectrum loss at $40 bn: Sibal January 8, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Short of rejecting the official auditor’s report, Communications Minister Kapil Sibal Friday said the methodology it used was “utterly erroneous” in pegging Rs.1.76 lakh crore ($40 billion) as the notional loss while awarding airwaves for second generation (2G) phone services in 2008.Sibal also slammed the opposition for disrupting the entire winter session of parliament and […] Read more » 3G spectrum Communications Minister kapil sibal
Top Law News Anand’s nationality questioned, Sibal apologises August 25, 2010 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment In a major embarrassment, world chess champion Viswanathan Anand’s nationality was questioned by the human resource development ministry, preventing him from receiving an honorary doctorate from the centrally-run University of Hyderabad Tuesday. Human Resource Development Minister Kapil Sibal intervened and apologised to the chess genius. He blamed the lapse on “procedural issues”. An acutely embarrassed […] Read more » apologises kapil sibal nationality questioned Viswanathan Anand