Top Law News Russia charges Greenpeace activists with piracy October 3, 2013 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Five of 30 Greenpeace activists arrested last month for a protest at a Russian oil platform in Arctic waters were charged Wednesday with piracy, media reported. Russian authorities filed the charges against activists from Brazil, Britain, Russia, Sweden and Finland, the Interfax news agency reported citing an attorney for the environmental watchdog. Greenpeace lawyer Mikhail […] Read more » environmental watchdog Greenpeace activists Greenpeace lawyer Mikhail Kreindlin national news news Russian oil platform Russian President Vladimir Putin todays news todays top news Top news
Top Law News We forced Shinde to write letter: CPI-M October 3, 2013 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Welcoming union Home Minister Sushilkumar Shinde’s missive to state chief ministers urging them to ensure that no Muslim youth is wrongfully harassed in terror cases, the CPI-M Wednesday said it forced Shinde to take that stand. “We raised the issue several times. We raised it at the Sep 23 National Integration Council meeting also. We […] Read more » Communist Party of India-Marxist CPI-M National Integration Council meeting national news news todays news todays top news Top news Union home minister Sushilkumar Shinde
Top Law News Himachal hails Delhi HC ruling in favour of apple growers October 3, 2013 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Himachal government Wednesday hailed the Delhi High Court ruling against the six percent commission fruit merchants in Delhi’s Azadpur market were charging on the apple growers. Horticulture Minister Vidya Stokes said the growers would get a major relief as they would not have to pay extra for selling their produce in Delhi. The relief […] Read more » Delhi High Court Himachal Chief Minister Virbhadra Singh Horticulture Minister Vidya Stokes national news news todays news todays top news Top news
Top Law News Gang-rape acquittal verdict rocks Sweden: activists cry foul October 3, 2013 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Sweden is presently in deep moral throes after the Svea Hovsrätt, the Swedish Court of Appeal, acquitted six teenagers who had been earlier convicted in a lower court for abducting and gang-raping a 15-year old Swedish girl. The acquittal is being branded countrywide, by all sections of Swedish society, as “failed justice” and “totally unacceptable […] Read more » FEMEN global feminist movement Högsta Domstolen national news news Svea Hovsrätt Swedish Court of Appeal Swedish Supreme Court todays news todays top news Top news
Top Law News 115,000 killed in Syrian conflict till now: activists October 3, 2013 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment More than 115,000 people have lost their lives in the 30-month conflict between rebels and the forces loyal to Syria’s President Bashar al-Assad, according to activists. Of this total, 6,000 victims are children, and 4,000 women, the UK-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said Tuesday. Besides civilians, tens of thousands of soldiers and rebel fighters […] Read more » 115000 killed in Syrian conflict Human Rights national news news Syria's President Bashar al-Assad todays news todays top news Top news
Top Law News Rasheed Masood jailed for four years, MP no more October 2, 2013 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Congress MP Rasheed Masood was sentenced to four years in jail here Tuesday for fraudulently nominating undeserving students for MBBS seats when he was a minister in 1990, becoming the first MP set to lose his seat under a new Supreme Court ruling. The Rajya Sabha member, a party hopper from Saharanpur in Uttar Pradesh, […] Read more » Congress MP Rasheed Masood former IPS officer Gurdial Singh Judge J P S Malik national news news Rasheed Masood retired IAS officer Amal Kumar Roy todays news todays top news Top news
Top Law News NGO for homeless and helpless is rendered roofless October 2, 2013 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Maya, a 32-year-old mentally challenged woman, cannot comprehend the complexities of life but she is deeply disturbed by the fact that she no longer has over head the roof she shared with a hundred others. “Our home is gone,” she muttered repeatedly gazing vacantly at the ground where until Monday stood the bamboo-tarpaulin-plastic structure that […] Read more » national news news NGO for homeless and helpless NGO The Earth Saviour’s Foundation Ravi Kalra Taruna Saha todays news todays top news Top news
Top Law News SC issues notice to ex-army chief for contempt October 2, 2013 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Supreme Court has issued contempt notices to former Army chief General VK Singh for allegedly making adverse comments about the top court over the way it handled the issue of his age in the service records. A bench, comprising Justices RM Lodha and HL Gokhale on Tuesday took suo motu cognizance of a newspaper […] Read more » Army chief General VK Singh HL Gokhale justices RM Lodha national news news SC issues notice to ex-army chief Supreme Court todays news todays top news Top news
Top Law News Halt POSCO project, say UN rights experts October 2, 2013 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The construction of a mega steel plant in Odisha should be halted immediately, UN independent rights experts have urged, citing serious human rights concerns. The project reportedly threatens to displace over 22,000 people in Jagatsinghpur district, and disrupt the livelihood of many thousands more in the surrounding area, a statement said. “The construction of a […] Read more » Halt POSCO project national news news POSCO Raquel Rolnik todays news todays top news Top news UN Special Rapporteur
Top Law News Centre wants ban on nicotine-laced gutka, chewing tobacco October 2, 2013 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The government Tuesday pitched for a ban on all forms of chewing tobacco, gutka or supari laced with nicotine, saying these products fell under the prohibition prescribed under the food safety provisions. “Gutka by its definition is a food added with nicotine and flavours” that is prohibited under the Food Safety and Standards (Prohibition and […] Read more » ASG Indira Jaising Centre wants ban on nicotine-laced gutka counsel Prashant Bhushan Food Safety and Standards Justice C Nagappan Justice G.S. Singhvi national news news NGO Indian Asthma Care Society todays news todays top news Top news
Top Law News Rajasthan court sentences rape, murder convict to death October 2, 2013 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment A court in Rajasthan Tuesday sentenced to a man to death after convicting him of raping and murdering an 8-year-old mentally-challenged girl, a lawyer said. The court of District and Sessions Judge Chandra Shekhar in Rajsamand, some 350 km from Jaipur, handed out the capital punishment to 25-year-old Manoj Singh, public prosecutor Pradeep Kumar told […] Read more » District Judge Chandra Shekhar Judge Chandra Shekhar national news news public prosecutor Pradeep Kumar todays news todays top news Top news
Top Law News HC seeks UP’s response on minority welfare scheme October 2, 2013 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Allahabad High Court (HC) sought the Uttar Pradesh government’s response on a PIL seeking to know why only Muslim girls were being given benefits and financial aid under its minority welfare scheme “Hamari Beti, Uska Kal”. A bench of the Allahabad HC consisting of acting chief justice Laxmikant Mohapatra and justice Rakesh Srivastava, while […] Read more » AK Goel Allahabad High Court Hamari Beti justice Laxmikant Mohapatra justice Rakesh Srivastava national news news todays news todays top news Top news Uska Kal