The Legal Newswire

Not too many people remember Kawas Maneckshaw Nanavati now. After all, Nanavati died, almost unnoticed in Canada in 2003. He was tried for shooting Prem Ahuja, his wife Sylvia's lover in 1959.

A Story on Jury Trials in India. ................. Bibek Debroy

The Supreme Court of India recently had to decide on the interesting question of whether it has jurisdiction to appoint an arbitrator in case of an international arbitration governed by a foreign law. While reaching the conclusion that it does have jurisdiction to appoint an arbitrator in case of international arbitration, the court held.....

The Supreme Court has decided to look into whether the fee charged by the foreign law firms for advising non-resident companies on various projects in India was taxable.

Narendra Modi government's law to make voting compulsory in local body polls in Gujarat has failed to make a cut with the Election Commission which says extending the idea across the country is "impracticable".

If former Haryana police chief SPS Rathore has got away with a six-month sentence for molesting a 14-year-old girl, Ruchika Girhotra,who killed herself three years later while desperately searching for justice, it is mainly due to a glaring lacuna in the 150-year-old Indian Penal Code, which does not have any provisions for child victims of sexual molestation

The climate summit was far from being a democratic exercise. But the struggle to prevent the terrible consequences of climate change must continue....

Apart from the excellent post written by Arun on the proposed formation of Telangana, there is another issue that needs to be brought out.
I was quite puzzled on the victory rally taken out by the TRS workers the moment they heard that a resolution may be introduced in the state legislature to form Telangana. The number of ministers and MLAs resigning is increasing by the day. Bandhs are being carried out and there has been a large scale destruction of public property. This because everybody seems to think that a resolution being passed is �the all and end of� of the Telangana issue.