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 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, ...
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....
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...
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...
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
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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...
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.
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 ...
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...