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  • Foreign Direct Investment in India: I

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    By Aashna Jain, National Law University, Jodhpur. SEGMENT 1 FDI in Defence- Recent Development It was December 2014 and the debate on the topic of FDI in Defence got heated up. “The biggest and the most immediate fallout from Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s visit to the United States should be this: India allows 100 per…

  • Uber Case: A Critical Analysis

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    By Archit Gupta, National Law Institute University, Bhopal. A woman was allegedly raped by the driver of a cab she had booked using the app based tax service, Uber[i]in Delhi. Uber is one of those smart app radio taxi services which have given new way of traveling for Indian women. These services are generally considered…

  • Child Beggary in India

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    By Trishala Sanyal, AKK New Law Academy. Introduction Arpita Khan’s wedding was very much in news as she is the adopted sister of the famous Bollywood Thespian, Salman Khan. Little did people know about her being the biological daughter of a homeless beggar woman. She is just one of the lucky children among those thousands…

  • Analysis of the Xiaomi Injunction Case

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    By Ahona Chakrabarty, KIIT School Of Law, Bhubaneswar. This case relates to an application filed by a company called Ericsson against a Chinese company called Xiaomi. The case is being heard in the Hon’ble High Court at Delhi and recently the Court has passed an injunction order on the defendants, which by another order has…

  • MAT and the Finance Act: Is it justifiable to impose MAT on SEZs?

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    By Sudipta Bhowmick, KIIT School Of Law, Bhubaneswar. Introduction: How MAT was stretched out? The Concept of Minimum Alternate Tax (MAT) was introduced for the first time in the annual year 1988-89 under Section 115J of Income Tax Act,1961 to tax big corporate groups which had become Zero Tax companies. This section provided for levy…

  • Constitutional Amendment Bill, 2014: GST

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    By Poonam Bera, Army Institute of Law, Mohali. After a prolonged delay, Goods and Service Tax (122nd Constitutional Amendment) Bill, 2014 has introduced in lower house of parliament on 19th December, 2014. It is regarded as one of the biggest tax reforms since 1947 and is targeted to be implemented by April 2016[i]. GST regime…

  • Good Governance: The Present Scenario

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    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

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    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

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    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

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    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…