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Going Up in Smoke

A study by an NGO has shown that there were around 1.5 lakh to 2 lakh of street children in Delhi alone with 80 percent of them indulging in rampant substance abuse. When will the government act to sa...

Brexit is not the only referendum

Brexit has rekindled the demand for referendum in other EU member countries too. What is the genesis of this demand for breaking away? A Report By Stratfor While clearly enormously significant, ...

Was Narasimha Rao responsible for Babri masjid?

Vinay Sitapati recounts the events leading up December 6, 1992, and tries to absolve Prime Minister Narasimha Rao of complicity with right-wing parties in its demolition. Excerpts: 6 December 1992....

Uniform Civil Code: several shades of grey

Distinguished guests confabulated on the uniform Civil Code and how the government should approach it at the weekly India Legal show The issue of Uniform Civil Code has once again reared its head w...

Do women matter in judiciary?

Distinguished guests from the legal fraternity shared their concerns about scant representation of women in the profession at the weekly India Legal show At a time when women in India have broken t...

MHA Disowns Tibetan Citizens

  Even though the law and courts say that all persons, including children born between 1950 and 1987 to Tibetan refugees, are citizens of India by birth, MHA refuses to recognize them as such ...

Do we need a Common Civil Code?

Will such a code in a multi-religious, multi-cultural society like India infringe on freedom of religion?  No, it will not interfere in the way of worship of any religion. By Justice Narendra Chapa...

A Boost for E-commerce?

E-commerce companies are looking forward to the Goods and Services Tax (GST) as it will allow them to reach out to more customers by ending the scourge of entry taxes that states impose on goods coming from across their borders.

Taxmen cast net over dodgers under PM’s amnesty scheme

By Vinayak Misra. In his latest Mann ki Baat radio address to the people on June 26, Prime Minister Narendra Modi warned India’s infamous legions of tax evaders that they were being given a chance ...

Guarding the Coastline

Ten years after the 26/11 attacks, one would have expected the Maharashtra government to beef up coastal vigilance. But state officials recently informed the Bombay High Court that they were still wor...

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