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In recent times, forest staff are increasingly facing hostile elements, poachers and lawbreakers, who are committing forest offences with impunity. Officers and staff are being brutally assaulted while performing their duties. The Supreme Court has now stepped in.

In the face of repeated assaults by emotional relatives of patients, are healthcare professionals left to fend for themselves? Despite safeguards by the government, this issue is here to stay.

The cyber attack on AIIMS was worrying and has highlighted the need for cyberspace security. India needs to enact a new national cyber security policy and follow China and the US in tightening laws in this regard.

The apex court in a recent hearing observed that religion is the choice of a person and he has freedom of religion, but conversions by allurement, by offering food grains and medicines, was wrong.

In order to update the National Population Register, the centre may come out with a Bill that proposes that the Registrar General of India maintain a national database of births and deaths.

President Droupadi Murmu drew the attention of the Human Rights Day gathering to the new challenges created by climate change and said the rights of every animate thing must be protected. 

Recently, the Union government proposed to establish the Higher Education Commission of India for regulating higher education in the country. The present system is over-regulated, but under governed and to address this issue, a complete overhaul is planned. Can it work?

As online shopping catches on, there is an increasing trend of fake reviews and misleading information. This is a violation of consumer rights and the government has now unveiled a framework to curb it.

The Madhya Pradesh High Court, in an interim order granting relief to interfaith couples entering into wedlock, has held as “unconstitutional” a provision in the Madhya Pradesh Freedom of Religion Act that requires an individual to give a declaration to the district magistrate before undertaking religious conversion.

The Bill has attempted to correct the anomalies of the 2019 Bill and includes measures for greater right to privacy and huge penalties for data fiduciaries who fail to take measures against data breaches