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GST: Taxing Times

Above: Post-floods, Kerala needs funds for rehabilitation and rebuilding infrastructure/Photo: UNI Is Kerala’s demand that it be allowed to impose a cess on GST in order to mobilise resources in th...

Panthic Votes: Slugfest over Religion

Above: Granthis with the Shri Guru Granth Sahib in the inner sanctum sanctorum of the Golden Temple in Amritsar The move to make acts of sacrilege involving all religious texts punishable is an ind...

Section 295AA: Holier Than Thou

Above:  The Punjab assembly passed the IPC (Punjab Amendment) Bill, 2018 By enacting a new law against blasphemy, the legislative assembly of Punjab has put the clock back on the march of civilisat...

Uniform Civil Code neither necessary, nor desirable: Law Commission

By Puneet Nicholas Yadav Stating there are hindrances to any endeavours to institute a uniform civil code, Law Commission favours reforms within existing personal and marriage laws On the last d...

IPR and Digital Piracy: A Lost Cause

Above: The American fantasy drama TV series apparently owes its popularity to digital piracy In an age when digitisation of the world has radically changed the consumption of copyright, it is evide...

Courts’ Activism: Shell Companies

Above: The Amrapali Group’s ugly, half-built buildings are a sharp reminder of the way homebuyers have been duped/Photo: Anil Shakya In a relief for homebuyers, the Supreme Court has slammed variou...

Australian court’s green signal to Adani’s use of indigenous land spells doom for all such peoples on that continent

Above: Photo courtesy www.australianmining.com.au ~By Sujit Bhar Indigenous people, across the world have suffered at the hands of “development” that has taken away their traditional livelihood...

Dera Sacha Sauda: Crash Landing

Above: The compound of the Dera Sacha Sauda in Sirsa, Haryana Investigating agencies are probing benami deals of Gurmeet Ram Rahim, the convicted former head of the sect, who acquired properties in...

E-Commerce Industry: Another Licence Raj?

New government proposals to regulate this industry seem mindless, designed to kill the goose that lays the golden egg and will allow entrenched interests such as traders to benefit ~By Sanjiv Bhat...

SGPC: A Sikh Rebellion

Above: The General House of the Shiromani Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee For the first time, an association has questioned provisions in the Sikh Gurdwara Act for giving control of gurdwaras to the ...

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