President of the International Court of Justice

international cout of justiceOn 26th October 2011, the President of the International Court of Justice, H.E. Judge Hisashi Owadamade an announcement in the General Assembly stating that the best efforts are being made by the Court to respond to the high expectations of the international community for an expeditious handling of the cases referred to the International Court of Justice.
He also said that with the increase in the number of cases in the docket, the court is now opining on more than a few cases on a parallel basis.

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The deadlock over Lokpal bill

anti corruption billThe Lokpal bill has been brought before the parliament previously for almost 6 times. But it bill failed to take the shape of an act. The current Lokpal bill led by Anna Hazare is lying in deadlock due to some obvious reasons. First of the entire Lokpal bill drafted by the government states that the Lokpal will not have any sue motto powers and it cannot take complaints directly from public. The complaint should be forwarded by the chairman of Loksabha or Rajya sabha. But, this is being opposed by team Anna as to the Lokpal should have sue motto powers and they should be able to take complaints directly from public .If this is not taken care then Lokpal will be always effected by the ruling party.  Secondly, according to government Lokpal should be an advisory body and should work in co-ordination with the competatent authority. On the other hand team Anna doesn’t want Lokpal to be an advisory body, as if such will be the case then prime minister will never allow initiating action against himself.

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Baker And McKenzie To Enter Turkish Market

Baker And McKenzie To Enter Turkish Market Via Exclusive Relationship

law_firmAs turkey being emerging as one of the fastest growing economies of the world, the leading global law firms likely Clifford chance llp and DLA Piper have already entered the market in 2011 and 2010 respectively, the latest being Baker and McKenzie which is planning to enter the Turkish market later this year via exclusive relationship with leading Turkish law firm Esin Attorney Partnership.

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Review of Energy loans laws in US

legalThe republican representative Tim Murphy has supported the reviewing of the laws regarding the energy laws in United States. In United States recently a car company loan was guaranteed by Department of Energy of the United States. But this electric car company has its manufacturing centers in Finland.  As a result using the tax money of people of united sates the company is operating in Finland and is not contributing to US. As no jobs are generated in US due to the fact that the company operates in Finland.

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Nira Radia exists from Communication Business

Nira_RadiaToday, Nira Radia announced her exit from the communication and consultancy business by making the decision to close down ‘VAISHNAVI CORPORATE COMMUNICATIONS’, which had an impressive clientele including the Tata group and the Mukesh Ambani led Reliance industries limited (RIL). Citing as family and health as her priorities, Ms Radia decided to close her consultancy group and described it as ‘quite painful’.

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MIRCHPUR DALIT KILLINGS VERDICT OUT: 15 OUT 97 ACCUSED CONVICTED

A local court in Delhi convicted only 15 out of 97 accused of burning alive a 70 year old man and his 17 year old physically challenged daughter in the village of Mirchpur in Haryana last year. 82 accused were acquitted in the past hearing. Additional SeMirchpur_Dalits_killingsssions Judge Kamini Lau, however, did not held guilty either of the 15 accused on charges of murder. The court held the 15 accused guilty on the grounds of arson, rioting while the main conspirators consisting of Kulwinder, Ramphal and Rajender were convicted under Section 304 (culpable homicide not amounting to murder) of the IPC for setting ablaze the house of Tara Chand on April 21.

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