More than 70 people have died across 11 countries.[1] Four American including one senior diplomat killed in Libya and US warships are already on the coast of Libya.[2] Western Countries including US, UK and France are shutting down their embassies in...
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If you’ve never experienced the fire of inferno, experience it now. Draw up a cartoon. And unless your drawing skills are absolutely hopeless, you'll most probably end up in jail. That is exactly what has been happening lately. First the arrest...
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This week saw several knee jerkers. Two knee jerkers came straightway from the Apex Court.
While the overruling of the Bhatia judgment has led to the cooling of several simmering fair criticisms of the judgment, legal eagles have left no stone...
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MAHENDRA SONI (LL.M., NLIU)
The Answer Key Issued by UGC for June 2012 NET JRF Exam has incorrect answers for 10 Questions (4 in Paper-1 and 6 in Paper-2)
UGC- NET LAW PAPER-2
10. Match List-I (Jurist) with List-II
(Assumption) and...
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For the past few months, the Twitter-verse has blown up with numerous trends such as #Election2012, #Rs35Lakh etc.
Corruption and elections related scams are the most frequent ones. However, to my eye, these elections by far played a subsidised role when...
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The announcement of the candidature of the 13th President of India has shaken the roots of Indian politics. Alliances being broken, rumours being circulated and not to mention the ridiculous to the face of it opinion of choosing the Prime Minister...
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Poland's new national stadium provides for a symbol of optimism over the general gloom that lingers over Europe, much of it due to the ongoing recession.
The New stadium is part of Poland's endeavors as co-hosts of the 2012 Euro Cup...
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"What a fucking joke!”
Immortalized by Arvind Adiga's The White Tiger, this phrase holds true for the state of Indian politics today. Ministers fight over personal instead of patriotic differences while they fill personal instead of public coffers.
Scams have become...
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The response of law to the challenge of corruption
By Pritish Chatterjee
Corruption is in the air. We hear of some corruption or the other everyday. Indeed, news of ‘scams’ dominate the media almost on a daily basis. In the 50’s...
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This blog is a personal opinion/thought & purely an attempt to present a true picture of the situation only if one is ready to open up his/her mind. Anyone not capable of doing so, will be reading at his/her own risk....
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One thing that has virtually mesmerized the whole world these days is perhaps ‘DEMOCRACY’.
Though it is not of nascent origin and has been in vogue for past couple of centuries in some form or the other in many countries, its...
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In recent times, the Supreme Court passed a landmark judgement in the Vodafone-Hutchison deal case which saved the international telecom giant from shelling out a whooping 11,000 crores. It has proved that the judiciary, however slow and inefficient at times...
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Joseph Kony started the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) in Uganda in 1986. It's an army of tens of thousands of children who live in concentration camps day and night in the fear of getting abducted and being turned into child soldiers...
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This may or may not qualify perfectly for this website but I thought as a law student I must make a start here. This also may be a dry subject for most visitors but there is more to the world apart...
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Rest in Peace, Library.nu.
For over a fortnight now, faithful users of library.nu have tried various means of accessing the website. There were frantic calls for help from across the globe to figure out what had gone wrong. Discussions on various fora...
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Regardless of the number of legislations that passed, the immensity of the World Wide Web makes it difficult to be monitored (Click here to read LegallyIndia's opinion on SOPA). In fact, so vast is the internet that there exists an...
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We have all learnt from various media reports about the recent turn of events with respect to the Fox Mandal - Little merger going sour. At the outset I wish to clarify that I am not part of the law firm...
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“Kolkatta hospital fire kills over 70”. “Fire at Indian nursing home kills 35”. “Hospital fire kills at least 40 in Eastern India”. “Police blame safety violations as India hospital fire kills”. And the list is long.
I was dumb-struck at seeing...
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So!
Our dear Honorable Minister of Communications and Information Technology says the cyber space needs regulation. Well, well said, I say!
It is probably believed by the lot of learned people like him, that the cyber space has succumbed to be...
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Kapil Sibal the Telecom Minister of India has been on the news for all the wrong reasons, so to say. This time he spoke about 'gagging content on internet' thus setting a new wave of protests from people across the country and...
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