South Asian Women’s Day observed in Delhi

November 26th, 2009 NEW DELHI - The Delhi High Court Thursday cancelled Lotika Sarkar's gift deed bequeathing her house in upmarket Hauz Khas to Preeti Dhoundial, wife of a police official, and asked the 87-year-old former Delhi University law faculty professor to stay there. Justice S.N.

November 24th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Refusing information to an octogenarian under the Right To Information Act has cost a Delhi government official dear. He will have Rs.4,500 deducted from his salary every month for the next five months as penalty for violating the RTI act provisions.

November 11th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Taking note of the increasing number of undertrials languishing in Tihar jail, the Delhi High Court Wednesday asked police to submit a detailed record of people who are in jail for more than seven years. A division bench of Chief Justice Ajit Prakash Shah and Justice S.

November 10th, 2009 LONDON - Four people suffered stab wounds after a mob of white and black youths set upon Muslim Asian students - including at least six of Indian origin - near the prestigious City University in north London, police and student groups said Tuesday. Three students and a passerby who tried to intervene had to be hospitalised with facial and head injuries when a 30-strong mob armed with knives, metal poles, bricks and sticks attacked South Asian students Thursday, police said.

November 5th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Giving relief to accident victims, the Delhi High Court Thursday asked the insurance companies to pay interim compensation within 30 days of the incident. Justice J.R.

November 2nd, 2009 KOLKATA - Participants from South Asian countries will deliberate on how to secure the rights of physically challenged women in mainstream society at a round table in Kolkata Tuesday. "Representatives from South Asian nations - Pakistan, Bangladesh, Nepal, Bhutan, Sri Lanka and Maldives - will participate in the round table discussion.

October 30th, 2009 NEW DELHI - The Delhi High Court Friday said the house of former Delhi University law faculty professor Lotika Sarkar - in an ownership dispute for almost a year - would be sealed till the matter was resolved. Hearing an urgent application by Preeti Dhoundial, wife of Indian Police Service (IPS) officer Nirmal Dhoundial, Justice S.N.Dhingra said: "Till the final disposal of the appeal, the house will be sealed." A tribunal, set up under the Maintenance and Welfare of Parents and Senior Citizens Act 2007, had Thursday ordered the 87-year-old Sarkar to stay in her house and directed the deputy commissioner of police (south district) to immediately evict the Dhoundials, who claimed she had gifted them the property, from her house.

October 28th, 2009 NEW DELHI - The Delhi High Court Wednesday asked the Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) commissioner to submit an action plan for the cycle rickshaws in the city, expressing concern over the social factors arising out of a ban on the rickshaws in the capital. A special bench comprising of Chief Justice Ajit Prakash Shah and Justice S.

October 28th, 2009 NEW DELHI - The Delhi High Court Wednesday asked the Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) for the sanction plan for constructing an indoor basketball stadium in a park in Karol Bagh area for the 2010 Commonwealth Games. Reserving its final order, a division bench of Chief Justice Ajit Prakash Shah and Justice S.

October 24th, 2009 NEW DELHI - A Delhi-based regional human rights group has criticised Nepal government's appointment of a senior officer accused of alleged human rights abuses as the acting chief of the army staff. The Nepal cabinet had Friday approved Major General Toran Singh as the acting army chief, with the incumbent going away to the US to attend a seminar.

October 23rd, 2009 LONDON - The leader of the anti-immigrant British National Party (BNP) was booed, jeered and scorned by the studio audience of a popular television show after weeks of protests against his appearance erupted Thursday in a large demonstration and six arrests. As Nick Griffin made his debut on the flagship BBC panel discussion show Question Time, an Asian member of the audience told him that far from expelling non-Whites from Britain, it is the BNP leader who could be put on a flight out.

October 13th, 2009 NEW DELHI - The National Commission for Women (NCW) will Wednesday begin its probe into an Air India air hostess' alleged molestation during a mid-air scuffle also involving a purser and two pilots this month. We have already looked into reports from the police and Air India.

October 13th, 2009 NEW DELHI - The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) has asked the Assam government to compensate the families of two people who were killed in police firing while they were protesting the torture of an advocate in the state last month. Ram Singh Chauhan and Jawaharlal Gour were protesting the manhandling of an advocate by the police last month in the Karbi Anglong district of Assam, when they were "fired at indiscriminately" by a police officer.

September 9th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Delhi High Court Wednesday denied a public interest litigation asking for permission to serve liquor in bars and restaurants in the capital at any time in the day. A division bench comprising Chief Justice Ajit Prakash Shah and Justice Manmohan dismissed the petition that sought to amend the Delhi Police Act of 1978 so that liquor can be served anytime at bars and restaurants.

August 31st, 2009 NEW DELHI - The Shopian twin-rape-and-murder probe is going nowhere because evidence has been manipulated to cover up the heinous crime" and shield some men in uniform, a women's group here said Monday. A four-member team of the Independent Womens Initiative for Justice in Shopian visited the south Kashmir town where two women - Asiya Jan, 17, and her sister-in-law Neelofer, 22 - were found raped and murdered May 30.