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What people most often forget is, India is at the end of the day a democracy. Whenever there shall be bouts of autocratic rule and authoritarianism, people will come together and rise up against it. Even in the smallest...
You hear a myriad of things when you're about to start your journey into a law school, but no one reveals the deep dark secrets, they're for you to find and discover. That's what happened when I entered a...
WhatsApp, the most popular messaging app in the India, might have accidentally made itself illegal through their new security update. That could mean that the 100 million people who use WhatsApp in India and about 10 per cent of...
In the month of August 2015, a video was uploaded on YouTube titled ‘Drunk Delhi police man on Delhi metro-Funny’, which was a recording of Salim, posted with the Civil Lines police station. The video went viral and he...
The Supreme Court on March 16, 2016 asked Punjab to maintain the status quo by giving its order regarding the Sutlej- Yamuna Link Canal (SYLC). It was in reference to an application filed by the Haryana Government alleging that...
In the case of State of Karnataka vs. Common Cause & Ors., the Supreme Court in its review petition permitted the photographs of Governors, Chief Ministers and Cabinet Ministers to be published in print media and electronic media while...
In a seminar organized by an NGO, run by women lawyers in Kozhikode; Kerala High Court judge Justice B Kemal Pasha raised a question as to why Muslim women could not have four husbands while men could have four...
The apex bar body, BCI, conducts All India Bar Examination (AIBE) to examine an advocate's capability to practice the profession of law and it has been made mandatory. The notification bringing the All India Bar Examination into force was passed...
Lawyers are now required to submit all educational qualification certificates and get a certification from “court procedure and ethics” training academies, in order to practice in courts according to the Bar Council of India (BCI).
The BCI has started collecting...
The reservation debate never gets old. In fact several present issues like the Jat violence in Haryana and the Rohit Vermula suicide case are all revolving around the same. On 26th February 2016, the Supreme Court decided to hear...
Jats are a dominant caste in the Indian state of Haryana. They are also found in large numbers in various other states of northern India. As of 2016, the total Jat population in India is around 82.5 million. In Haryana,...
The Indian Railways is one the largest Public Sector Undertakings in India. The Railway Budget is an annual financial statement that shows estimated receipts and expenditures related to the Indian Railways in the coming financial year.
The term ‘Railway Budget’...
Pakistan’s Sindh Assembly’s passing of the Hindu Marriage Bill has made Sindh the first province in the country to allow the minority community namely, the Hindus to register their marriages.
The Bill states that at the time of marriage, if any of...
The Maharashtra police arrested Dr. G.N Saibaba, an English Literature professor at Ramlal Anand College, Delhi University, on 9th May 2014. The wheelchair –bound professor was charged under the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act (UAPA) for alleged Maoist links. He...
Delhi receives most of its water from the Yamuna through Haryana, Ganga and underground reserves. The areas affected by the crisis are West Delhi, North-West, Central, South and part of North Delhi. The water crisis had surfaced following the...
The Governement has selected Justice Handyala Lakshminarayanaswamy Dattu (HL Dattu), former Chief Justice of India, as the Chairperson of the National Human Rights Commission. He will be the 7th Chairperson of the Commission.
The NHRC is an autonomous public body constituted in 1993. Located...
It was a black day for the Indian judiciary when, on 15th February, 2016, a troop of lawyers attacked the student leader of JNU Students’ Union, Kanhaiya Kumar who was present for a hearing at the Patiala House Court in...
The Supreme Court declared on 12th February, 2016 that the ambit of ‘Occupation’ under Article 19(1)(g) does not include the office of MLA. The Article 19(1)(g) gives the Right to practise any profession, or to carry on any occupation,...
The Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) is a public university set up in 1969 by an Act of Parliament. The present controversy surrounding this university began on 9th February when an event was organized by the ultra-Left Democratic Students Union...
On February 5, 2016, a sub-divisional Magistrate (SDM), Bihar, issued summons to Lord Hanuman. A notice of the summon was sent asking the statue of Lord Hanuman to appear before the Court. The notice was hung around the neck...
A year and a half ago, 39 Indians were taken hostage by ISIS from a construction site in Mosul, Iraq. On June 30, 2015, Gaurav Kumar Bansal, a lawyer filed an RTI to the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA)...
The Lahore High Court has accepted a petition seeking direction to the government to bring back the Koh-i-Noor diamond from Queen Elizabeth II. The Koh-i-Noor is one of the Crown Jewels and is now on display in the Tower...
After a heated month in Arunachal Pradesh with the imposition of emergency in the State, the SC finally declared during the hearing that the Governor can’t summon Assembly on his whims and fancies alone. The Governor, JP Rajkhowa nearly...
The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India on Monday issued the 'Prohibition of Discriminatory Tariffs for Data Services Regulations, 2016' that does not allow service providers from offering or charging biased tariffs for data services on the basis of content.
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At 3:14 pm on Tuesday, 2nd February, 2016, hearing for what turned out to be a “landmark” curative petition commenced before a three-judge bench of Indian Supreme Court’s senior most judges-CJI T S Thakur, Justice Anil R Dave and...
The curious case of the Arunachal Pradesh (AP) Governor’s recommendations started in November 2011 when Nabam Tuki became Chief Minister of AP. His cousin, Nabam Rebia was appointed Speaker of the Assembly.
In April 2015, Kalikho Pul, the former Health...
LGBTQ Activists have refused to back down and their perseverance has finally resulted in a hearing scheduled to be held on 2nd February, 2016 for a ‘curative petition’ that seeks to make the Supreme Court reverse its judgement and...
The Supreme Court collegium had, last week, recommended Judges to occupy the post of Chief Justice for the High Courts of Meghalaya, Rajasthan, Orissa, Bombay, Gauhati and Gujarat.
The five member SC collegium has, in principle, decided to start the...
Sabarimala is a Hindu pilgrimage centre in Kerala. The temple is situated on top of a hill and is believed to have the highest number of annual pilgrimages. This temple allows men of all ages to enter the shrine...
The Road Transport Ministry has notified a Standard Operating Procedure (SOP) that encourages more bystanders to come forward and help road crash victims by taking them to hospitals or informing the police about such an accident.
According to the SOP,...