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Artificial Intelligence (AI) is the science and engineering of making intelligent machines, especially intelligent computer programs (1). AI in itself is a vast field covering a number of concepts one of which is Machine learning. Machine learning is essentially...
Electronic waste or e-waste describes discarded electrical or electronic devices. India is considered to be world's fifth largest E-waste producer . India generates about 2 million TPA (tonnes per annum) of electronic waste per annum. With the rapid growth of...
Recently a gay couple moved the High Court of Kerela challenging the constitutionality of Special Marriage Act, 1954 to the extent that the act provides registration of marriages between heterosexual couples only. Though the Act does not exclude the...
India currently has a large population of youngsters who are exploring dating apps. In 2018, it was reported that 6.3 million active users in Tinder in 2018, TrulyMadly has 5 million users in India and over a million users...
The meat industry is third largest contributor to GHG (Green House Gases) emissions. The livestock industry represents 14.5 percent of human-induced GHG emissions. One of the main ways in which the livestock sector contributes to global warming is...
India generates about 2 million TPA (tonnes per annum) of electronic waste per annum. With the rapid growth of technology and the fast rate at which things become obsolete, the amount of e waste generated is expected to increase...
Mahatma Gandhi and Bal Gangadhar Tilak were the first prominent personalities who were charged with Sedition during the British Colonial Rule.
“Sec 124 (A) under which I am happily charged, is perhaps the prince among the political sections of the...
On 15th September 2018, the Supreme Court struck down parts of the draconian Section 377 of Indian Penal Code, 1872. This was hailed as a big victory for the LGBT+ community. Many report that the judgement helped them come...
Businesses around the world are focused on collecting as much information about their consumers as they can to optimize their business activities with the intent to earn higher profits and in this highly digitalized world collection and storage of...
The Constitution of India grants the right to freedom of religion under Articles 25 to 28. The sub-section 2 of Article 28 does not bar an educational institution, which is administered by the State but has been established under any endowment or...
Gene-editing- one of the surprising yet
realist field of science which has the potential of bringing to life the
characters of a Marvel movie, is the second most interesting field, after
artificial intelligence that threatens to surpass humanity. Gene-editing (also
called Genome editing)...
On June 24, 2015, The Hague District Court created history in the case of Urgenda Foundation V. the State of the Netherlands. The decision was historic on two counts: it marks the first successful climate change action founded in...
Collusion is not a newly founded phenomenon. It is evident when the auto rickshaw driver charges more when it is raining despite the practice being deemed illegal. Cartels are another common example of collusion. Collusion often helps the business...
People appointed to various posts in the Legislative, Executive and Judiciary wing of governance, derive their rights, roles and responsibilities from the Constitution and as such are called constitutional functionaries. These functionaries, who have taken the pledge to uphold...
A democratic government is supposed to reflect the needs and desires expressed by the public. However, public will not be in a position to express their needs or voice their opinions unless proper information is made available to them....
Surrogacy, in general, is one
of the assisted reproductive treatments (ARTs) whereby a woman-surrogate mother-
bears and delivers a child on behalf of another couple/person with the
intention that the child should be handed over to them after birth. The
couple/person on whose...
A decade ago, the Adani coal mine was proposed in Carmichael, Australia. Since the announcement of the project, it has been met by many protests and litigations. The opposition faced by the business house was by the on...
Last year, India saw the maximum number of internet shutdowns with 82 instances of internet shutdowns, many lasting for several days. India’s internet shutdowns dwarfs internet shutdowns by authoritative governments like China amidst the protests in Hong Kong. Further,...
Amidst the tension following
the spread of the infamous coronavirus, there was a news piece doing rounds of
Whatsapp groups and Instagram stories. The headline read, “China seek for court’s approval to kill the over 20,000 coronavirus
patients to avoid further spread...
In 1999, the Central Water Commission propose a plan to transfer surplus rivers to deficit rivers. This was later modified to include intra-basin development. Canals were proposed to transfer Canals are proposed to transfer surplus water from the eastern...
The NCRB statistics of 2016 which was released in 2019 shows that more than 67 per cent of 4.33 lakh inmates lodged in 1,400 jails in the country are undertrials. It is a common feature for undertrial prisoners to...
While the right to clean water is interpreted as a fundamental right, the theory of it does not connect with ground reality. In 2015, India had highest population without access to clean water, despite being the first country to...
Article 21 of Indian Constitution protects the right of citizens
to live with dignity. But there is a class of people in India untouched by any
form of dignity. The class of people being referred to is manual scavengers.
Manual scavengers are...
“When the well is dry,
we will know the true value of water “
-Benjamin Franklin
Water is the elixir of life. Without water, life would not sustain. It is also interlinked with day to day human activities such as cleaning...
As India makes millions and millions of a year, it pays the cost of environment. This article deals with one of the many costs – illegal sand mining. Sand mining is the extraction of sand through an open pit...
On Friday the Supreme Court confirmed the death sentence awarded to the four convicts in the Nirbhaya case. The bench comprising of Justices Dipak Misra, R Bhanumati and Ashok Bhushan upheld the High Court order and held that the...
The 7 judge bench of the Supreme Court has found Justice Karnan guilty of contempt and has sentenced him to 5 months imprisonment. The Bench stated, “We are punishing him for contempt of Indian judiciary as well as judicial...
On Wednesday Mr. Aarghya Sengupta presented his arguments for the Central Government in the AADHAAR case; he argued that arbitrariness cannot be a ground for declaring a statute unconstitutional, he then went on to rebut Mr. Shyam Divan’s submission...
On Wednesday the Central Information Commission directed the Ministry of Law and Justice to disclose the steps taken in addressing the complaint against ex CJI Altamas Kabir. Mr. Subhash Agarwal had made a request for disclosure of the steps...