Month: September 2017

  • The Fugitive Economic Offenders Bill: A Summary

    By Rabia Mohamed Ismail Abdul Rahim, NUALS, Kochi. It all went downhill for the “King of Good Times” in July 2015, when the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) registered a case against him, Vijay Mallya, Indian Businessman and Politician, for loan default based on a complaint by IDBI Bank. The 61 year-old Chief of the Kingfisher…

  • Zero Hunger Programme: A Step to Remove Nutritional Deficiency in India

    By Arifa Khan, Post Graduate College of Law, Osmania University, Hyderabad. Every day, men and women across the globe struggle to feed their children a nutritious meal. In a world where we produce enough food to feed everyone, one in nine – still goes to bed on an empty stomach each night. The second most populous country…

  • Surrogacy in India: An Analysis

    By Rabia Mohamed Ismail Abdul Rahim, NUALS, Kochi. The surrogacy scenario is India is ironic. When on one hand celebrities, ranging from Sharukh Khan to Karan Johar have enthusiastically adopted this Artificial Reproductive Technology, the Government on the other hand, displeased, drafts a bill banning commercial surrogacy as a whole, which is a $400 million industry.…

  • Journalism: A Brave Affair?

    By Arifa Khan, Post Graduate College of Law, Osmania University, Hyderabad. Journalism can never be silent: that is its greatest virtue and its greatest fault. It must speak, and speak immediately, while the echoes of wonder, the claims of triumph and the signs of horror are still in the air. -Henry Anatole Grunwald Journalism is a…