Top Law News Making guidelines for adoption by foreigners, HC told January 29, 2014 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The central government Thursday informed the Delhi High Court that the women and child development ministry and the Central Adoption Resource Authority (CARA) were working to formulate guidelines that will govern the adoption of Indian kids by foreign citizen. A bench of Justice B.D. Ahmed and Justice Siddharth Mridul directed “concerned officials” from the ministry […] Read more » advocate Maninder Acharya CARA Central Adoption Resource Authority Justice B.D. Ahmed Justice Siddharth Mridul Making guidelines for adoption by foreigners news todays news todays top news Top news
Top Law News Ponty Chadha killing: Court drops murder charge against accused January 29, 2014 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment A Delhi court has dropped murder charges against Uttarakhand minorities panel’s sacked chairman S.S. Namdhari and other accused involved in the killing of liquor baron Ponty Chadha and his brother Hardeep. The court will frame various charges dealing with conspiracy, trespassing, destruction of evidence and other various charges against all accused Jan 29. Additional Sessions […] Read more » Additional Sessions Judge Vimal Kumar Yadav news Ponty Chadha murder case todays news todays top news Top news Uttarakhand minorities panel's sacked chairman S.S. Namdhari
Top Law News Private hospitals can’t escape obligation for free treatment, court told January 29, 2014 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Delhi High Court was Tuesday informed by the central government that big private hospitals, who got land at concessional rates in the city, “can’t escape the obligation” to provide free treatment to certain percentage of poor patients. Appearing before a division bench of Justice Ravinder Bhatt and R.V. Easwar, central government’s counsel Jatan Singh […] Read more » central government's counsel Jatan Singh Justice Ravinder Bhatt news Private hospitals can't escape obligation for free treatment R.V. Easwar todays news todays top news Top news
Top Law News NGOs attack Punjab move to cut VAT on cigarettes January 28, 2014 / January 28, 2014 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment A decision by the Punjab government to reduce the value added tax (VAT) on cigarettes has been opposed by NGOs and health experts. NGO Voice of Tobacco Victims (VoTV) criticized the state government decision to roll back taxes on cigarettes from 50 percent to 20.5 percent. “Neighbouring states like Himachal Pradesh, Rajasthan and Jammu and […] Read more » news NGO Voice of Tobacco Victims professor at Tata Memorial Hospital Pankaj Chaturvedi todays news todays top news Top news Value Added Tax VAT VoTV
Top Law News Delhi HC summons BJP leaders in defamation suit January 28, 2014 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Delhi High Court Monday summoned BJP parliamentarian Anurag Thakur and his brother Arun Singh Dhumal in a Rs. 3 crore defamation suit filed by an industrialist for linking him and his company with the Himachal Pradesh chief minister. Justice A.K. Pathak, issuing summons, sought responses from Thakur, Dhumal and nine media organisations by March […] Read more » BJP Court Delhi Himachal Pradesh news todays news todays top news Top news Virbhadra Singh
Top Law News Dikshit skips court again, pays costs January 28, 2014 / January 28, 2014 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment A court here Monday allowed former Delhi chief minister Sheila Dikshit exemption from personal appearance in a defamation case filed by her against BJP leader Vijender Gupta as she paid the fine levied by the court for her previous non-appearance. Metropolitan Magistrate Neha allowed Dikshit’s application for exemption from personal appearance and fixed the matter […] Read more » Dikshit skips court again former Delhi chief minister Sheila Dikshit Metropolitan Magistrate Neha news todays news todays top news Top news
Top Law News HC imposes Rs.50,000 cost on Harsh Vardhan, Naseeb Singh January 28, 2014 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Delhi High Court Monday imposed a cost of Rs.50,000 each on BJP legislator Harsh Vardhan and former Congress legislator Naseeb Singh while quashing two cross FIRs registered after both leaders clashed over a news channel survey before the Delhi assembly polls. Justice Indermeet Kaur quashed a first information report (FIR) filed by Congress supporter […] Read more » BJP Charan Singh Congress Court Delhi news todays news todays top news Top news
Top Law News Land acquisition invalid if compensation not paid to owner, says SC January 28, 2014 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment In a significant judgment, the Supreme Court has held that if compensation for land acquired under the 1894 act has not been paid to the land owner or deposited with a competent court and retained in the treasury, then the acquisition would be deemed to have lapsed and would be covered under the 2013 law […] Read more » 1894 act 1894 Land Acquisition Act Justice Kurian Joseph Justice Madan B. Lokur Justice R.M. Lodha Land acquisition news Rehabilitation and Resettlement Act 2013 todays news todays top news Top news
Top Law News Kamal Haasan, Vidya Balan, J.S. Verma, Yuvraj among 127 Padma awardees January 27, 2014 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Noted scientist RA Mashelkar, yoga expert BKS Iyenger, actors Kamal Haasan and Vidya Balan, tennis player Leander Paes, cricketer Yuvraj Singh, and former chief justice of India, the late JS Verma were Saturday conferred the Padma awards on the eve of the 65th Republic Day. While Mashelkar and Iyengar were the two named for Padma […] Read more » JS Verma Kamal Haasan news Padma awardees Republic Day todays news todays top news Top news Vidya Balan Yuvraj
Top Law News Want to table illegal mining report in parliament first, government to SC January 27, 2014 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The central government has moved the Supreme Court urging it to modify its Jan 13 order so that Shah Commission report on illegal mining in Odisha and Jharkhand could be placed first before parliament before it could be submitted to the court as directed by it. “Modify directions contained in the order dated Jan 13 […] Read more » Goa illegal mining Jharkhand news Odisha Supreme Court todays news todays top news Top news
Top Law News Lack of political will to protest violence against women: Javed Akhtar January 27, 2014 / January 27, 2014 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment In the wake of the gang rape of a 20-year-old woman at the behest of a kangaroo court in West Bengal’s Birbhum district, acclaimed Bollywood lyricist Javed Akhtar on Saturday expressed dismay that political parties do not have the “will or courage” to act against such violent incidents because of “vote banks”. “Political parties do […] Read more » acts of violence Lack of political will to protest violence against women news todays news todays top news Top news Violence Against women West Bengal's Birbhum district
Top Law News Sensitise drug peddlers with ill-effects on users: Court January 27, 2014 / January 27, 2014 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Noting that drug addiction has spread like an epidemic, a court here has asked government and other authorities to ponder over the manner for sensitising drug traffickers with the ill-effect and pain of an addict. Noting that there is no provision under Narcotics Drugs and Psychotropic Substances (NDPS) Act, the court has asked jail officials […] Read more » Narcotics Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Narcotics Drugs and Psychotropic Substances (NDPS) Act NDPS news Sensitise drug peddlers with ill-effects on users Special Judge Narinder Kumar todays news todays top news Top news
