Protection of whistle blowers has been one of the leading questions today. In today’s world we want to bring change and this change and for that we need to bring revolution and this revolution can be brought by the information and the same is being carried out in the world currently by wiki leaks. Wikileaks exposes cables from all over the world and as a result world politics has cropped for stopping the wiki leaks or banning its operation.
Julia Gillard government declared victory today after Senate has passed the Carbon law. The government has won the historic vote in the Upper House of 36 to 32.
Former Climate change minister and Finance Minister Senator Penny Wong said that “we accept the need of the act; we accept science on the need of climate change. He said we accept the need of science and putting a price on carbon is a best way to reduce emission.
The restrictions put forth by the Israel government in Gaza clearly makes in nearly impossible for a Palestinian to sue there. Gaza has been under the Israel rule for more than three years till date. During the past three year, Gaza has been suffering from the military offenses; however, they find it impossible to sue the soldiers for compensation as they are restricted by unjustifiable unreasonable restrictions. Israeli restrictions prevent Gazans from entering Israel to testify, undergo medical exams or meet with their lawyers. However the most intolerable restriction put forth by them is the heavy court fees and legal charges. On an average, this sum comes to about tens of thousands of dollars.
WikiLeaks can resume releasing confidential files again if it solves its bitter dispute with Visa Europe over ban of payment to the controversial site. Earlier this year the site had stopped releasing confidential files due to lack of payments as the credit card companies such as Visa or MasterCard had stopped the donations towards the site under pressure from the US Government.
Michael Jackson personal physician Dr. Conrad Murray was found guilty of involuntary manslaughter by the Los Angeles Superior Court after a six-week long trail that portrayed him as a negligent caregiver who administered a lethal dose of a powerful anesthetic that killed the pop star. This marked the latest chapter in one of pop culture’s most shocking tragedies – the death of the King of Pop on the eve of the singer’s heavily promoted comeback concerts. A few minutes later he was handcuffed and taken into custody without bail until sentencing on November 29. Murray showed no reaction towards the verdict as officials led him out of the courtroom.
An alumnus of NLSIU (National Law School of India University) has topped the Oxford University’s postgraduate programme.
Niranjan V, who is a Rhodes Scholar, had opted for Bachelor of Civil Law course. He beat 150 classmates to top in the course with what he described as one of the most demanding programmes in the world He topped in three of the four courses, including Conflict of Law, Restitution, Personal Taxation and Law of Evidence.
Data Protection Act is unconstitutional; it is full of ambiguous, lot of loopholes and other short comings in the law. This Data Protection Act was passed by both the House of Parliament but then also it was not passed accordance with the majority to amend the constitutional rights as this Act was without the public consult or without the discussion of stakeholders before it was debated. Since this act was passed four months ago still the pollution is not informed about its rights or affected organization about their obligations.
A minor girl of forteen years was allegedly set affire in the Lalitpur district of Uttar Pradesh by a man due to facing resistance for raping her, as reported by the police on Saturday. The girl suffered severe burnt injuries and is currently in a very serious condition. However, the accused is missing.
The girl was a resident of Lakshmipura area who was set afire on Thursday by Lalit Soni, a man aged nineteen, of the same area when she resisted his rape attempt. Acting on the complaint of the victim’s parents, the police, late on Friday, registered a case against Soni, who is absconding.
She alleged that Soni caught her while she was working in the fields and tried to rape her. After she raised an alarm by screaming and calling other people, Soni fired her from a burning torch and fled from the spot.