IL Feature

The Delhi police commissioner has ordered his personnel to use simple words in FIRs instead of difficult Urdu or Persian ones which few understand.

The Bill is expected to herald the Indian competition framework into a new era that can efficiently regulate new-age markets. The role of different stakeholders must also be kept in mind. 

The recent release of the Report outlines the major areas in which India falls behind in terms of justice delivery, analysing it from the perspectives of the police, judiciary, prisons and legal aid.

The Supreme Court had directed that all convicts and undertrials, released during the Covid-19 pandemic to decongest jails, should surrender within a fortnight. The top court also dismissed an application filed by a convict for considering the parole granted during the pandemic as part of his actual sentence since it was involuntary

As the population of the majestic animals increases in Gir forests in Gujarat, there is a plan to relocate some to Kuno in Madhya Pradesh. Will the relocation be as successful as those of cheetahs from Africa?

The report of the statutory body’s chairperson to the Department of Health and Family Welfare recommends that rape victims should be given priority and attended to by gynaecologists without delay. The recommendations also aim at curbing delays in conducting medical examination of sexual assault victims at government hospitals.

Indian workers on H1B visas caught a modest bit of help recently from a federal district court in Washington DC.

Instructions by the Food Safety and Standards Authority of India to Karnataka Milk Federation to label curd as “Dahi” are being seen as an attempt to impose Hindi on non-Hindi speaking states.

The centre is planning to liberalise construction activity close to protected monuments so that the land can be used for developmental and infrastructure-related work. Will this open a Hornet’s Nest?

The Supreme court recently said in a review judgment said that “courts should not indulge in furthering the notion that only a male child furthers family lineage or is able to assist the parents in old age. Such remarks involuntarily further patriarchal value judgments that courts should avoid regardless of the context"