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Police in India clash with farmers during protest march over minimum price demand for crops
2 weeks, 3 days ago

Police in India clash with farmers during protest march over minimum price demand for crops

Associated Press  

NEW DELHI — Indian police on Friday used tear gas against hundreds of farmers taking part in a march to New Delhi to demand guaranteed crop prices in a repeat of 2021 protests. The farmers, who began their march in Haryana and Punjab, are seeking guarantees, backed by law, of more state support or a minimum purchase price for farm …

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From Education to Employment: The Role of Disability Inclusion in the Workplace
3 weeks ago

From Education to Employment: The Role of Disability Inclusion in the Workplace

The Quint  

From Amartya Sen's capability approach, inclusion enhances individuals' abilities to achieve their full potential. By creating inclusive spaces in education and employment, persons with disabilities can contribute economically, reducing dependence and driving social progress. A study by Harvard Business Review revealed that companies with greater diversity experience a 19 percent increase in revenue. According to WTW’s Wellbeing Programmes India Survey, …

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Criminal laws passed 'forcibly', INDIA will not allow 'bulldozer' justice in par system: Congress
5 months, 3 weeks ago

Criminal laws passed 'forcibly', INDIA will not allow 'bulldozer' justice in par system: Congress

The Hindu  

With the three new criminal laws coming into effect, the Congress on July 1 accused the government of getting them “forcibly” passed in Parliament after suspending 146 MPs and asserted that going forward, the INDIA bloc will not allow such “bulldozer justice” to prevail in the country’s parliamentary system. Explained | Sedition ‘repealed’, death penalty for mob lynching: the new …

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India rejects USCIRF report on religious freedom
5 months, 3 weeks ago

India rejects USCIRF report on religious freedom

Op India  

On Friday, the Ministry of External Affairs rejected the US State Department’s report on international religious freedom calling it “deeply biased”. The report also appears to challenge the integrity of certain legal judgments given by Indian courts,” Jaiswal said. The report also appears to challenge the integrity of certain legal judgments given by Indian courts,” Randhir Jaiswal said. The USCIRF …

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India’s citizenship laws: The path to the Assam Accords
6 months, 3 weeks ago

India’s citizenship laws: The path to the Assam Accords

The Hindu  

It took India as many as eight years to formulate and enact its first Citizenship Act, 1955. The root of the citizens versus outsiders’ movement can be traced to this one neglected remark by Rohini Kumar Chaudhuri in the Constituent Assembly debates in 1949: “Already I have been to Cachar and I have seen in that district, from which crossing …

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CJI Chandrachud on enactment of three new criminal laws: ‘India is changing’
8 months ago

CJI Chandrachud on enactment of three new criminal laws: ‘India is changing’

Hindustan Times  

Chief Justice of India D Y Chandrachud on Saturday hailed the enactment of three new criminal laws in the country, saying that it is a “clear indication” of India changing. Chief Justice of India Justice DY Chandrachud “I think that the enactment of three new criminal laws by the Parliament is a clear indicator that India is changing. He added,"India …

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Bar Council of India appreciates the removal of colonial, outdated criminal laws
11 months, 2 weeks ago

Bar Council of India appreciates the removal of colonial, outdated criminal laws

Op India  

The Bar Council of India acknowledges the positive features embedded in the three Acts–Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, and Bharatiya Sakshya Sanhita–passed by the Indian Parliament on December 21, 2023, which thereupon received Presidential assent on December 25, 2023 and were published in the official gazette on the same day. Understanding the need for a comprehensive legal framework, …

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Navigating the complex landscape of data privacy laws in India
1 year, 3 months ago

Navigating the complex landscape of data privacy laws in India

Hindustan Times  

In an era where data is hailed as the "new oil," the need for strong data privacy laws has never been more critical. India, too, has stepped up its game in this regard with the introduction of the Digital Personal Data Protection Act, 2023. Compliance with data protection laws, such as the Digital Personal Data Protection Act, 2023 in India, …

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From the India Today archives (2022) | How a Uniform Civil Code could impact marriages
1 year, 5 months ago

From the India Today archives (2022) | How a Uniform Civil Code could impact marriages

India Today  

On April 22, Union home minister Amit Shah, while addressing a BJP meeting in Bhopal, reportedly told his colleagues that it was time to focus on the Uniform Civil Code. IMPACT OF UCC ON MARRIAGES A common law can fix minimum legal age for marriage, abolish bigamy and polygamy and encourage interfaith marriages 1. Special provisions the UCC may abolish …

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Elon Musk Says He Was Unaware Of Twitter Removing Posts On BBC Prime Minister Narendra Modi Documentary Remove Tweet
1 year, 8 months ago

Elon Musk Says He Was Unaware Of Twitter Removing Posts On BBC Prime Minister Narendra Modi Documentary Remove Tweet

ABP News  

On Wednesday morning, Elon Musk participated in a Twitter Spaces conversation with BBC journalist James Clayton. During the conversation, Clayton asked the Twitter CEO about the microblogging platform's removal of posts related to a BBC documentary on Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, which was later banned in India. Musk clarified that he was not aware of this particular case, but …

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Review: The Anarchist Cookbook by Aakar Patel
1 year, 8 months ago

Review: The Anarchist Cookbook by Aakar Patel

Hindustan Times  

What Jawaharlal Nehru and the Congress inherited on 14 August 1947, says Aakar Patel in the second chapter of The Anarchist Cookbook, “was an aggressively expansionist imperialist State. Patel’s answer is that the Fundamental Rights promised in the Indian Constitution are the essential difference that separate free India from India under the British Raj. Independent India has had “Rowlatt Acts …

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Here are 11 things that India can do to take advantage of the brewing crisis in China
2 years ago

Here are 11 things that India can do to take advantage of the brewing crisis in China

Op India  

We have yet another reason to thank our stars that social media and alternative sources of information have sprung up and grown stronger over the past few years. There’s enormous scope for gig work, be it design, IT development or even things like repairing costly watches or tailoring. Our laws must make things simple and reward the ones bringing in …

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Political asylum in UK: Nirav Modi's last ditch effort to escape Indian laws
2 years, 1 month ago

Political asylum in UK: Nirav Modi's last ditch effort to escape Indian laws

India Today  

Fugitive businessman Nirav Modi, who has been ordered to be extradited to India for defrauding the Punjab National Bank of crores, might be able to stall his return. Nirav Modi had recently sought political asylum in the United Kingdom, which if granted will allow him to escape the law in India, sources said. In a big win for India last …

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Supreme Court Half Yearly Digest (Jan - Jun) Administrative, Labour & Service Laws
2 years, 3 months ago

Supreme Court Half Yearly Digest (Jan - Jun) Administrative, Labour & Service Laws

Live Law  

Administrative Law - Appeal challenging adverse Remarks made in the Allahabad HC judgment regarding a Statutory authority - Allowed - Even if the High Court found that the impugned actions of the authorities concerned, particularly of the appellant, had not been strictly in conformity with law or were irregular or were illegal or even perverse, such findings, by themselves, were …

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Scaling The Diameter Of Censorship Laws In India And The Proposed Amendments To The IT Rules, 2021
2 years, 5 months ago

Scaling The Diameter Of Censorship Laws In India And The Proposed Amendments To The IT Rules, 2021

Live Law  

Censorship ends up becoming a tool for moral policing that controls other people's lives rather than concerning itself with larger public issues. This makes censorship legislation prone to misuse.1 Particularly in India, censorship laws take everything that comes in public domain – Thus, there have been several instances when speeches and other forms of public expression have been removed from …

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As US Supreme Court scraps Roe vs Wade, a look at how abortion laws have evolved in India
2 years, 5 months ago

As US Supreme Court scraps Roe vs Wade, a look at how abortion laws have evolved in India

Firstpost  

As the United States Supreme Court ends 50 years of federal abortion rights by overturning the landmark Roe vs Wade verdict, we go back to 1972 when India’s abortion law came into force Protests have erupted across the United States after the country’s Supreme Court overturned its 50-year-old Roe vs Wade decision, now denying women the constitutional right to abortion. …

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NordVPN Ready To Move Servers Out Of India Before New CERT-In Data Laws Apply
2 years, 6 months ago

NordVPN Ready To Move Servers Out Of India Before New CERT-In Data Laws Apply

News 18  

NordVPN on Tuesday announced it will remove servers from India over a recent cybersecurity directive from the Indian Computer Emergency Response Team. Panama-based NordVPN joins Surfshark and ExpressVPN in removing its servers from the country over the April 28 directive from India’s cyber agency that seeks additional compliance requirements for all VPN providers whose users are in the country. Earlier …

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Waqf Act: Delhi HC seeks Centre's stand on PIL against validity of 'Waqf' and religious properties
2 years, 7 months ago

Waqf Act: Delhi HC seeks Centre's stand on PIL against validity of 'Waqf' and religious properties

Firstpost  

A bench of Acting Chief Justice Vipin Sanghi and Justice Navin Chawla issued notice on the petition by Devendra Nath Tripathi and granted time to the respondents to file their response New Delhi: The Delhi High Court Thursday sought the stand of the Central government and Central Waqf Council on a PIL seeking to declare that the Waqf Act is …

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Xiaomi says all operations in India 'compliant' with laws after ED seizure
2 years, 7 months ago

Xiaomi says all operations in India 'compliant' with laws after ED seizure

Hindustan Times  

Xiaomi issued a statement on Saturday after the Enforcement Directorate seized ₹5551.27 crore of Xiaomi Technology India Pvt Ltd on charges of violating the Foreign Exchange Management Act. "The company has remitted foreign currency equivalent to ₹5,551.27 crore to three foreign-based entities which include one Xiaomi group entity, in the guise of royalty," the ED said alleging that such huge …

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International Workshop On Laws Governing Aviation In India [February 22nd & 23rd, 2022]
2 years, 10 months ago

International Workshop On Laws Governing Aviation In India [February 22nd & 23rd, 2022]

Live Law  

About Organizer: CAMPUS LAW CENTRE, UNIVERSITY OF DELHI, is a legal institution par excellence, representing a heterogeneous and diverse set of values, opinions, and ideas. Workshop Details We are delighted to invite you to THE INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP ON LAWS GOVERNING AVIATION IN INDIA to be held on February 22nd & 23rd, 2022. The workshop is the first of its kind …

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Govt’s New IAS Rules Put India's Federal Structure Under Threat
2 years, 10 months ago

Govt’s New IAS Rules Put India's Federal Structure Under Threat

The Quint  

The Union government has proposed an amendment to the IAS Rules, which would enable it to post IAS officers on Central deputation without consulting state governments. The founding fathers of the Constitution understood that while India as a political entity had been created, the centripetal forces at work could rip the nascent nation apart. An amalgam of princely states and …

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India will face crisis if law on MSP is made: Member of Supreme Court-appointed committee on farm laws
3 years, 1 month ago

India will face crisis if law on MSP is made: Member of Supreme Court-appointed committee on farm laws

India TV News  

Highlights Govt, farmers leaders should think of some other way, MSP not a solution, says SC committee member SC appointed three-member committee in January this year while staying the three farm laws Union Cabinet is likely to take up for approval the bills for withdrawal of 3 farm laws India will face a crisis if a law on MSP is …

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Give appointment letters to kin of farmers who died during protests: Punjab CM Channi to ministers
3 years, 2 months ago

Give appointment letters to kin of farmers who died during protests: Punjab CM Channi to ministers

India TV News  

Following the meeting with the new cabinet over lending support to Bharat Bandh on September 28, Punjab Chief Minister Charanjit Singh Channi has asked the ministers to visit the houses of deceased farmers and deliver appointment letters for government jobs to their family members, said a press release from the chief minister office on Monday. The CM also said, "Earlier …

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Dr Ashok Dhawale: ‘Crisis has engulfed agrarian society’
3 years, 3 months ago

Dr Ashok Dhawale: ‘Crisis has engulfed agrarian society’

The Hindu  

Dr Ashok Dhawale, national president, All India Kisan Sabha, India’s largest farmers’ organisation, has spearheaded the farmers’ movement for over three decades, and is one of the prominent faces of the Samyukt Kisan Morcha. The simple fact is that India’s agricultural growth rate in the 1980s was higher than the agricultural growth rate in the last 30 years of neoliberal …

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