Month: December 2014

  • Good Governance: The Present Scenario

    By Anjali Rawat, RMLNLU, Lucknow. Recently the term good governance has been getting much coverage in news channels and newspapers. The reason behind it is the declaration of 25th December as Good Governance Day by the Indian Government. Well, even though the attention towards this term is new but the concept of governance is not…

  • Cyber Law: An Overview

    By Sagarika Chandel, KIIT School of Law, Bhubaneswar. “The modern thief can steal more with a computer than with a gun. Tomorrow’s terrorist may be able to do more damage with a keyboard than a bomb”. -National Research Council, USA “Computers at Risk” (1991) Internet in India has been ever growing at a fast pace…

  • The Consumer Protection (Amendment) Bill, 2011 and ‘Make in India’ Vision

    By Sanya Darakhshan Kishwar, Central University of Bihar, Gaya. A consumer is one who makes the flow of business smooth if he is satisfied to the fullest, but if a consumer has grievances, it is the duty of the government to look after the same. Lately the Modi Government has been striving hard to work…

  • The Companies (Amendment) Bill, 2014

    By Sudipta Bhowmick, KIIT School Of Law, Bhubaneswar. The new Companies Act, 2013 has been operationalized for only nine months, yet a new Companies Amendment Bill, 2014 has been passed by the Lower House on 17th December, 2014 to ‘ease the doing of business’. After the Companies Act, 1956, it took 57 years to replace…

  • National Laws on Free Speech and the Internet

    By Sanya Darakhshan Kishwar, Central University of Bihar, Gaya. “Give me the liberty to know, to utter and to argue freely according to conscience, above all liberties” — John Milton But stop and think a while is it all to give full freedom of speech and expression to a person or citizen. Is it correct…

  • Should Astrology based TV Shows be Banned?

    By Ahona Chakrabarty, KIIT School Of Law, Bhubaneswar. Astrology is based on the belief that astronomical phenomenon are related and affects or controls phenomenon of the human world. Various civilizations have developed several systems for predicting terrestrial events from celestial observations. In the West, astrology most often consists of a system of horoscopes purporting to explain aspects…

  • Protectionism instead of Facilitation, Indian Stand at WTO: How far justified?

    By Sudipta Bhowmik, KIIT School Of Law, Bhubaneswar. Behind the extremely technical debate within the WTO, what is at stake above all are models of agricultural development.[1] -Dr. Bruno Losch  “Trade can be a powerful force for growth and poverty reduction. Countries that have increased the share of trade in their GDP have grown faster and reduced…

  • Piercing of Corporate Veil

    By Palak Pathak. Piercing the corporate veil describes a legal decision to treat the rights or duties of a corporation as the rights or liabilities of its shareholders or directors. Usually a corporation is treated as a separate legal person, who is solely responsible for the debts it incurs and the sole beneficiary of the…

  • Criminal Defamation: Need for a paradigm shift

    By Anjali Rawat, RMLNLU, Lucknow. Defamation generally can be defined as publication of a statement which lowers or deteriorates the reputation of an individual in the eyes of the society which results in bad treatment of that individual by the members of society in ways such as avoiding or shunning. Defamation is of two types-…

  • Women in Rural India: Prospects and Challenges

    By Deepali Bagla, Pravin Gandhi College of Law, Mumbai. India is a country of villages as the majority of its population lives in villages and far-flung remote areas. The interesting aspect is that every region of the country though connected with the cities now; however, still possesses its own peculiar traditional ethos. Also most of the…