United Nations: India was on Friday re-elected to the International Law Commission for a five year term beginning January 1, 2012. UN General Assembly re-elected India's Narinder Singh as a member of the Commission. A member of the ILC since 2007, Singh is currently legal adviser and Head of the Legal and Treaties Division of Ministry of External Affairs. He has served as coordinator of the meeting of legal advisers...
10:09 AM, Nov 18, 2011
Law minister Veerappa Moily says he has written to the law commission to re-look at the sedition law. ...
01:39 PM, Apr 15, 2011
Is taking a life going against nature or is keeping someone alive with machine support unethical. ...
04:00 PM, Aug 29, 2008
The proposal is an initiative aimed at controlling population. ...
02:26 AM, Aug 02, 2008
New Delhi: When 25-year-old Venkatesh from Hyderabad died in 2004, it made headlines. Not so much because he was a former national chess-champion, but because he had pleaded that his life support system be switched off. However, this amounted to euthanasia or mercy killling which is illegal in India. Max hospital Emergency Head, Dr Talat Halim says, "There are many factors that need to be considered in such a case....
10:18 PM, Jul 04, 2008
London: England's one-day captain Alastair Cook insists that he is not after the Test captaincy. Cook denied reports that he was taking his ODI captaincy as an audition for the Test captaincy. I feel honoured to captain England's One-day side. It's certainly not an audition, as it's a job on its own. Andy Flower and Andrew Strauss are our two big leaders and Stuart Broad and I are very fortunate...
01:07 AM, Feb 07, 2008
Karachi: The Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) has said it can ban Shahid Afridi from participating in the inaugural Sri Lanka Premier League (SLPL) if the former Pakistan captain doesn't stop his rants against the board. Earlier this month, the PCB granted Afridi a No Objection Certificate (NOC) to play for Hampshire in English Twenty20 league after their bitter dispute was settled out of court. But Afridi's continued tirade has irked...
03:40 PM, Feb 06, 2008
Durban: South African pacer Dale Steyn on Sunday said his urge to bowl an additional over after each dry spell paid rich dividends as he returned with a four-wicket haul on the opening day of the second Test here. Steyn said he had asked skipper Graeme Smith to allow him to bowl an additional over after each wicket-less spell and it worked for him at the Kingsmead cricket ground here....
04:58 PM, Nov 21, 2007
The Law Minsitry has denied reports that it is in favour of a death penalty for Mohammad Afzal. ...
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