After spending 12 years of life in a school, everyone has a sense of excitement about the life which would be important in many aspects from choice of career to the mature environment, where there would be no school friends, no study without tension etc. In other words, the period which one would be...
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It has been declared by Supreme Court that it would start testing the constitutional validity of section 377 of Indian Penal Code from April 19, 2011. The petition is filed against the decision of Delhi high court legalizing section 377 declaring it as a violative of article 14, 15 and 21 of the Ind...
The recent news regarding the pron MMS scandal of two JNU students who used to stay at the Co-Ed hostel has left the prestigious institution in shock. A High Resolution video was made while they were making love in the hostel. It has been a great setback on the reputation of the University who has b...
Just for you, I broke some heart We had a start, but are now apart Just for you, I broke some heart It was never easy, but now feels crazy Battle is tough, and I feel lazy Just for you, I broke some heart Need a start, but am no more smart People change, but never known changes so fast Few days back...
We all know about the United Nations . We also know about the Security Council and its functions. [If you don’t then check the links.] The Security Council has 15 members. 10 non-permanent elected members who have a 2 year term and 5 permanent members. They permanent members are collectively called,...
‘Crime in India-2009’ report released by the National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB) reveals that cases of incest rape have ‘increased by 30.7 per cent from 309 cases in 2008 to 404 cases in 2009’, and out of total rape cases of 21,397, 94.9 per cent involved offenders who were known to the victims. Re...
As an outsider to Law (Engineer in US), I was pleased with yet another fantastic judgment from the Supreme Court of India’s Division Bench of Honorable Justices Markandey Katju and Gyan Sudha Misra on Prafull Goradia V. Union of India case today. Here it is in TOI: http://bit.ly/hHraVi The Division ...
When we look back at 2010, beyond a few startling events, do we know what the main issues that affected India were? India Analyser - Annual Review is an effort to highlight the key issues that concerned the state and society in 2010. The ten topics highlighted in the review deal with matters that pr...
From the Project Cloud Desk 26 January 2010 As you walk to class and you take a minute to reflect, you’ve just realised there is so much to be done. There is the project in subject A that you have to submit next week. And it doesn’t look good. You have a feeling Professor A does not like your new ha...
With my eyes half open, I checked the time on my cell phone, it was 12:45 PM of Sunday morning. Sorry afternoon (we really need to amend the whole morning, noon and evening thing). What’s the first thing you do after waking up? Most people do some Ramdev yoga or drink water or have a cig. While I we...
In Rural Litigation V State of UP, AIR 1987 SC 359, the Supreme Court highlighted the importance of fundamental duties enumerated in Article 51A, with a special reference to its clause (g). Rajasthan High Court in Surya Narain v. Union of India, AIR 1982 Raj.1, held that fundamental duties are not e...
A special CBI court in Ghaziabad directed the investigating agency to provide a copy of closure report to Dr Rajesh and Nupur Talwar, the parents of Aarushi Talwar. Then why does CBI deny to do so? In this unsolved case the special court observed that no one can be called an accused on the basis of ...
Rather than crying over spilt milk and upbraiding each other for the mishap, it’s time now for Government to realize that they really need to maneuver to secure the devotees at places of pilgrimage. “Right to Life”, is guaranteed under Article 21 of the Constitution of India which seems highly endan...
“ Dude!! can you really do THIS in courts?? Man, this must be freaking adventurous ” jumping on couch with excitement, my friend, an engineering student, asked me this question when we were watching a Govinda movie wherein he puts himself on fire, just to prove his point. “ Not just this dude, in an...
A small example of our active Legal System Here 2 diffrent-2 stories, one of them a common man and 1 of them a Politician. A common man get strict punishment for the little crime,while another side a politician get nothing for his big theft(2G Scam) of Rs 1.76 lakh crore. Let’s see 2G Scam in Brief ...
More than six decades has passed of our Independence but we the Indians are still following the British made Laws one such example is Police Act 1861. During the colonioal period the motive of the Police was to suppress the common man and in order to obey the Government orders exploiting the common ...
A lot is being said and written about the movie “ No One Killed Jessica ”. No doubt, it is a good movie, though not one of those path-breaking classics, but indeed a relief from usual Bollywood types. Please don't think I'm writing a review on this movie because for that there are a lot better sites...
I wrote this on Lawctopus yesterday. I argue that the ToI report is inaccurate and cursory. Moreover, according to a student the timing of the report has a link to the demands of a domicile quota at NLSIU. --- The Times of India Report , referring findings of a CJI’ appointed committee on how NLSIU ...
Bangalore: Just 4-6 hours of classroom teaching a week, rising instances of drug abuse, sex and drinking among students, indifference to plagiarism in student project reports and decline in serious research pursuit and academic rigour. This is the dismal state of affairs at Bangalore’s National Law ...
Author Name – Jai Prakash Meena Court of Arbitration for Sports Introduction Sport is big business accounting for more than 3 per cent of world trade and 1 per cent of the combined GNP of the 15 member states of the European Union (EU). [1] It is not surprising, therefore, with so much money at stak...