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As India goes crazy about Anna Hazare, a small reminder. In Manipur, a woman called irom Sharmila has been on a hunger strike for 10 years because Media does not highlight that. Let’s now do something for Sharmila…
Stand with Anna Hazare -- Victory!!!
We won!!! After a massive and unprecedented outpouring of public pressure, the government has given in and met all of Anna Hazare’s demands!! Over 500,000 of us signed the petition - at one point 30,000 people per hour! The petition was widely covered in the national press as evidence that the anti-...
STAND WITH ANNA HAZARE
Right now, Anna Hazare , a 73-year-old Gandhian, sits fasting in the burning sun, and he will stay until death — unless the government agrees to consider a powerful law that could rid Indian politics of the scourge of corruption. This “Modern Mahatma” is taking the utmost act of courage and determin...
Merits and demerits of 2011 Budget and What's for Legal Industry!
The budget of 2011 presented on 28 th February of this year by Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee was reflection of the economy being back to pre crisis trajectory, marking the growth at 8.6% for 2010-11 and provided blueprint for 9% growth rate in the coming fiscal year. Merits: The Government effor...
Enabling school kids to fight corruption with information: Petitition- RTI drafting in languages' syllabus
You can sign the petition here http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/rti-in-schools/ It reads: School children in India should be taught on how to draft an RTI (Right to Information) application as a part of their school curricullum. Just as students learn ‘letter writing’ in English, Hindi or other la...
Facebook Blunder and Mahatma 'Ghandi'
Just take a look around in your friend circle or anywhere else you want to and I am sure you will be easily able to find “I don’t have Facebook” kind of people. I know its difficult but it’s not that hard to spot such odd entities. It’s really strange for someone to not have a Facebook and yes FYI, ...
all india bar exam
By introducing all india bar exam no useful purpose has been served in the field of legal reform answer to many question are not correct according to legal india . Many intelligent students did not appear in bar exam due to their family circumstances . a large number of candidates who are said to ha...
Corruption makes India a Soft State
Corruption has never been an “alien” for millions of Indians. It has crept so comfortably in our life that we no longer consider it as a major topic to discuss over. Admission of wards into schools and colleges, getting a railway berth, getting a passport, getting a stamp paper, these are very few o...
Amazing World
Who indiscriminatley kills hundreds with a bomb we call Terrorist and who indiscriminatley kills thousands with a TSunami we call God… Amazing na…
Plagiarism in Law School: So What?
Note : The only reason I post this is because plagiarism has become a habit most law schoolites have become unnervingly comfortable with; this is the only nexus the topic has to law in general. Hopefully it will remind all of us that we were not brought up to respect copycats. I do not aim to offend...
THE LEGAL JUNCTION
Legal Research has always been one of the most important activities in the life of a law student. It would not be wrong to say that these are the law students who are most capable in analyzing a topic in the legal context. Everyday several incidents take place in the society and sometimes there come...
Admissibility of DNA Technology in the Indian Legal System
What is DNA TEST? DNA test or ‘DNA Profiling’ as popularly known is a technique in which a sample of DNA is run through a laboratory assay to generate information about it, looking specifically for DNA which could identify the source of the sample, or be used as a base of comparison between two samp...
WHAT AILS OUR SUBORDINATE JUDICIARY?
JUSTICE” is one thing that everyone whether rich or poor profoundly yearns for besides requisite ROTI, KAPRA AND MAKAN in life for soulful enjoyment of one’s all mundane gains and acquisitions. No wonder taking cue of this vital human need our constitution framers accorded due primacy to this noble ...
ONGC to lose 'Navratna' Status
** What is meant by Navratna Status? Historically, an ornament composed of nine precious gems was referred as ‘Navratna’. This term was also used to refer nine extraordinary ministers/clerks in the court of ‘Akbar’. It is evident from the available statistics that whenever the term ‘Navratna’ has co...
A Conspicuous Yet Nascent Debate on Euthanasia in Our Country
Euthanasia has assumed phenomenal importance of late, in fact a debate whether it should be recognized as a right or not has been going on for quite sometime in India, some organizational moves and legislative measures are also in this regard. There isn’t one dimension to this debate behind euthanas...
Informal Discussion Group in NUJS
Informal Discussion Group, which can also be termed as a platform through which students can discuss general issues with eminent personalities not only from legal sector, but also from other areas such as arts, sports, literature etc. For the first time Informal Discussion Group was started in St. S...
narco analysis test a technology of torture!!
Duress”. Duress is where a man is compelled to do an act by injury, beating or unlawful imprisonment (sometimes called duress in strict sense) or by the threat of being killed, suffering some grievous bodily harm, or being unlawfully imprisoned (sometimes called menace, or duress per mines). Duress ...
ILS Pune’s Jessup winner on law school stereotypes and mooting passion
Madhupreetha and her team from [[ILS Pune]], after winning the Jessup south qualifiers this year, will be representing India at the world finals to be held at Washington D.C. this month. She spoke to Legally India’s MPL Team about the Jessup problem, the legal research involved and the passionate mooting culture at ILS.
Abortion in India
The term abortion is not alien to a person, as it must been have been heard by him several times whether it is movie or it is news. The viewpoint of different persons has been different on the legality of abortion. Some argues that it is equivalent to murder, on the other had it has been argued by o...
Section 498A I.P.C.- Its Use & Misuse
Sec-498 A I.P.C. – Its Use And Misuse Introduction : To start with first we have to look that what this word marriage means. ‘Marriage is the voluntary union for life of one man and one woman to the exclusion of all others.’ It is a social institution where husband has the responsibility to take car...