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In the run-up to the 2024 Lok Sabha elections, the Indian government is taking proactive measures to combat the spread of misinformation facilitated by these messaging platforms. Fuelled by the surge in artificial intelligence-driven deep fake videos featuring politicians, the centre is now invoking a contentious law to hold WhatsApp accountable for the content shared on its platform

An abandoned wife can claim maintenance from her estranged husband even if she is educated and employed. There is a logical economic line defining the situation

India’s burgeoning retail sector is caught between a rock and a hard place, between subsisting on thin margins and rising client expectations. The government needs to put in place its trade policy with alacrity

In a move to sensitise people towards the trauma faced by same-sex couples, Chief Justice DY Chandrachud issued a slew of measures to protect them, including safe houses and hotline numbers

Even as feisty Trinamool Congress MP Mahua Moitra faces allegations of professional impropriety, the question is whether she has broken the Code of Conduct governing members of Parliament

While there are laws dealing with obscenity, OTT platforms with frontal nudity and lesbian and homosexual acts seem to have democratised it. Social change is liberalising views on it

In a recent case, the Supreme Court said that marriage is a pious life-net and dismissed the plea for divorce. Yet, in numerous cases, it has cited Article 142 to dissolve marriages which are beyond repair

The ED’s attempts to book the party in the alleged liquor policy scam may come to naught as there is no separate law for financial misdemeanours of political parties

Congress leader Afzal Lakhani, who was arrested for posting anti-Indian and pro-Pakistani messages, besides derogatory remarks against Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his late mother Hiraben Modi, was granted bail by the Supreme Court recently. The Court has also intervened in other cases where bail was denied by the High Courts

As the Right To Information Act completes 18 years of its enactment, the focus once again shifts to questions of efficacy, transparency and governmental control. FORMER CHIEF INFORMATION COMMISSIONER YASHVARDHAN KUMAR SINHA, who demitted office this month, spoke to RAJSHRI RAI, editor-in-chief, APN channel, on a wide range of issues during the interaction at the India Legal Research Foundation symposium