Year: 2017
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Rohingya Deportation Issue: Revamping the right to life?
By Kaushiki Kar, South Calcutta Law College, Kolkata. Right to life is one of the basic human rights and not even the State has the authority to violate that right. Protection of life and personal liberty in India means: No person shall be deprived of his life or personal liberty except according to procedure established by law.…
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Cohabitation as a Legal Controversy in India
By Pratiksha Yadav, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi. Traditionally, in India, there existed only one kind of relationship between an unrelated male and female and that was “Marriage”. Marriage legally entitles both the persons involved, to co-habit; the children born out of a legal wedlock are legitimate; the wife is entitled to maintenance during the subsistence of marriage…
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The Perils of Climate Change
By Vignesh Ganesh, G.J. Advani Law College, Mumbai. With the world growing in economic prosperity by making rapid strides in various fields, there is no question that the human civilization has developed and prospered over the millennium.
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Eradicate Child Labour and Aspire for a Better Future
By Souromita Chatterjee, Utkal University, Bhubaneswar. “Children should be making sand castles, not bricks.” Child labour is the practice of having children engage in economic activity, on a part-time or full-time basis. The International Labour Organisation (ILO) defines the term child labour as, “work that deprives children of their childhood, their potential and their dignity, and that is harmful to physical…
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The Bharat Mala Project: A Messiah for the Indian Roads
By Rabia Mohamed Ismail Abdul Rahim, NUALS, Kochi. One of the major drawbacks of our Incredible India’s infrastructure is the poor quality of roads. But that is about to change! On the 24th of October, Union Minister Nitin Gadkari announced an umbrella programme for roads, The Bharat Mala Project. The programme is scheduled to hit…
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Tax Reformation in India: An Analysis
By Syashu Pesswani, University of Petroleum and Energy Studies, Dehradun. President Pranab Mukherjee, with the press of a button at the midnight of July 1, 2017 in the Parliament’s Central Hall of India, switched to GST, the single biggest reform undertaken by the country in its 70 years of independence. It is basically established to subsume various…
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Government to the Rescue of Domestic Workers
By Arifa Khan, Post Graduate College of Law, Osmania University, Hyderabad. The exploitation of women and children domestic workers is regularly reported and with no rights protecting them. Most of the domestic help have become contemporary slaves. They are everywhere, in our homes, around small dhabas, tea stalls and working in every menial job possible. They work…
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To Live or Not: But is the Choice Really Ours?
By Rabia Mohamed Ismail Abdul Rahim, NUALS, Kochi. There’s a story of a democratic country I would like to narrate today. India. The Indian Constitution guarantees every individual the Right to Life. THE END.
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Supreme Court rules on protecting Minor Wives
By Arifa Khan, Post Graduate College of Law, Osmania University, Hyderabad. The Supreme Court, in a landmark judgment, affirmed that sexual intercourse with a minor wife is rape, where consent is immaterial. The judgment came on a petition filed by an NGO- Bachpan Bachao Andolan (BBA) run by Nobel Prize winner Kailash Satyarthi to examine the…