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Conjugal Visits in Prison: The Human Touch

In a sensitive order, a Madurai bench grants a convict two weeks' leave to enjoy procreation rights and paves the way for more such liberal judgments in future ~By Venkatasubramanian Nelson Mand...

Amul: Brand Protection

Amul’s cute little girl shows aggression as the company goes on the offensive against infringers of its popular trademark ~By Diljeet Titus and Rai S Mittal Over the last several decades, Amul’...

Tribal Travails

Above: Adivasis are getting deprived of their ancestral land/Photo: PARI There have been several attempts to deprive tribals of their land in the garb of development, and to make the process quicke...

An Escape Route?

Men in live-in relationships in the state will no longer be tried for rape if this Act gets presidential assent. Does MP being a state with the highest number of rape cases have anything to do with it...

Role of CBFC: Challenging the Censors

While Padmaavat is set for release after a baptism of fire, filmmaker Amol Palekar’s petition in the Supreme Court, to be heard this month, contests the validity itself of the Censor Board ~By Usha...

EC recommends disqualification of 20 AAP MLAs: Reports

Above: Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal (file picture)/Photo: UNI If the President accepts the Election Commission’s recommendation, AAP’s strength in 70-member Delhi Assembly will be reduced to 42, by-po...

Panellists at India Legal show think judges’ press conference as unfortunate and unprecedented

The recently-held press conference by four seniormost judges of the Supreme Court, questioning the functioning of the Chief Justice of India (CJI) formed the leitmotif of the latest edition of India L...

Imperfect Legislation

The new consumer protection bill seeking to replace the 1986 Act is grand in design and seeks to rein in online fraud, but has too many contradictions and loopholes to be effective ~By Sucheta Dasg...

Did Facebook help Modi create Troll Armies, influence voters in 2014 polls?

By Shelley Kasli A recent Bloomberg report has revealed how a secret unit of Facebook has helped create troll armies for governments around the world including India for digital propaganda to influ...

Doctors Not on Call

Above: Central Jail in Bhopal has only one doctor/Photo: Gagan Nayar An NHRC report has found that the state’s jails are woefully short of doctors and don’t have funds to appoint them on a part-tim...

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