Author: LexQuest Foundation
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Rashtriya Swasthya Bima Yojana: Providing Social-sector benefits through technology
By Medha Haradhan, WBNUJS, Kolkata. Rashtriya Swasthya Bima Yojana is a health insurance scheme for the poor. Till March 25, 2013, the scheme had 34,285,737 Smart Cards and 5,097,128 hospitalization cases. RSBY was launched by the Ministry of Labour and Employment, Government of India to provide health insurance coverage for Below Poverty Line (BPL) families. The…
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Easwar Panel Report: How people-friendly can the tax laws be?
By Anusmita Mazumder, Department of Law, University of Calcutta. Just a few days ahead of the Union Budget 2016-17, a committee was asked to make necessary recommendations for simplifying the current Income Tax Laws, which accordingly has recommended a higher threshold for deduction of tax at source and cuts in rates, plus measures to reduce litigation. The…
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The Delhi (Right Of Citizen To Time Bound Delivery Of Services) Amendment Bill, 2015
By Archishman Chakraborty, Symbiosis Law School, Pune. On November 26, 2015, the Government of NCT of Delhi, passed The Delhi (Right Of Citizen To Time Bound Delivery Of Services) Amendment Bill, 2015, living up to its promises to provide services in a time bound manner and to compensate the citizen automatically in case of delay in services…
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The Ganga Gram Yojana: An Endeavour for Cleaner Water
By Shrutika Garg, Jamnalal Bajaj School of Legal Studies, Banasthali Vidyapith. “Only when the last tree has died and the last river has been poisoned and the last fish been caught will we realise we cannot eat money”
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Urban Refugee: Educational Needs of the Dispersed
By Binny Kumari, Central University of South Bihar, Gaya and Saif Rasul Khan, Research Associate, LexQuest. Meaning of the term urban refugee The Geneva Convention on Refugees defines a refugee as, “a person who is outside their country of citizenship because they have well founded fear of prosecution because of their race, religion, nationality, membership of…
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K.M. Nanavati v State of Maharashtra
By Kanishka Mishra, University of Delhi. Here’s an interesting power point presentation prepared by our Research Intern, to simplify the case. Do go through the same to brush up your knowledge about the case.
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Women’s Right to Reproductive Freedom v. Human Rights
By Koshika Krishna, Rizvi Law College, Mumbai University. The United States of America faces a dilemma. An NGO sobriquet ‘Planned Parenthood’ has come under the radar of public outrage. This initiative started with the motto ‘Care. No matter what’, aimed to introduce America into the new era of family planning, reduced teenage pregnancy and maternal mortality…
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Pradhan Mantri Fasal Bima Yojana: A Study
By Ananya Banerjee, WBNUJS, Kolkata. Farmers’ Suicides The National Crime Records Bureau, in its report for accidental deaths and suicides, stated that a total of 5,650 farmers have committed suicide in the year 2014. The highest incidents of 2,568 farmers’ suicide were recorded in Maharashtra, followed by 898 incidents in Telangana and 826 in Madhya Pradesh…
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Cyber Challenges and Emerging Trends: A Step ahead of Law
By Priyanka Gehlot, Raffles University, Rajasthan. Cyber crime is just another invention of a technological advancement. As more and more people started accessing internet, the paradigm of cyber space changed from a utopia to a doom and gloom. This vicious circle operates through technical methods of spoofing, onion routing, bot mapping which disguises the real Internet Protocol…
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National Herald Scam: An Insight
By Nidhi Mudgal, Amity Law School, Lucknow. The National Herald scam is an ongoing case in a Delhi Court filed by an Indian economist and politician, Subramanian Swamy against the politicians named Sonia Gandhi and Rahul Gandhi and their companies and associated persons. As per the complaint filed by Subramanian Swamy in the Court of the Metropolitan Magistrate, he alleged that the Indian National…