Category: Blog
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Analysis of Bill Relating to Indian Institutes of Management
By Devashish Jain, University of Petroleum and Energy Studies. Years after its first proposal, the government has finally made it mind to bring in a legislation that will be dealing with the Indian Institutes of Management. By the virtue of this bill, the government seeks to bring all the 13 IIMs under the ambit of this future…
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Referendums of the Irish and the Greek: Should the Indians follow?
By Sudipta Purkayastha, Gujarat National Law University. Referendum. The Oxford dictionary defines this word as : ‘A general vote by the electorate on a single political question which has been referred to them for a direct decision’. Perhaps a more colloquial version of this definition can be found in the Cambridge dictionary : ‘A vote in which…
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Lalit Modi and the Controversies
By Anjali Bisht, Law College Dehradun. I wouldn’t be wrong in saying that Lalit Modi and controversies go hand in hand. One after another the name has attracted a number of controversies and the year 2015 is no different. The former Indian Premier League Commissioner has been battling with allegations throughout his career and his current…
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Goods and Services Tax: Recent Developments
By Piyush Jain, Rajiv Gandhi National University of Law, Punjab. Goods and Services Tax (GST), which is considered the most significant tax reform since independence, proposes to subsume a majority of the indirect taxes prevailing in India and will change the way business is done. It will bring about a structural change in the current indirect taxation…
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Understanding the concept of ‘Hot Pursuit’
By Saif Rasul Khan, Government Law College, Mumbai. The term ‘Hot Pursuit’ refers to the urgent and direct pursuit of a criminal suspect by law enforcement officers, or by belligerents under international rules of engagement for military forces. It is termed as fresh or immediate pursuit. Such hot pursuit grants special powers to the officers in command, which otherwise they do…
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Kejriwal-Jung Imbroglio
By Ravi Boolchandani, Amity Law School, Delhi. The main reason for discord in this controversy was, who has the power to appoint and transfer the bureaucrats in Delhi? Whether the power resides with the Lt. Governor or the CM? Both Kejriwal and Jung accused each other of exceeding their respective authorities but in order to decide the…
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Online VAT Returns: Filing and Registration
By Devashish Jain, University of Petroleum and Energy Studies. Starting with the definition of Value Added Tax (VAT), it is an indirect tax that is imposed on the consumption of the goods, paid by its original producer (The Manufacturer) upon the change in the goods to the ultimate consumer. It is based on the value added to…
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Indian Politics reaches a new low: The Fake Degree Row
By Tanya Shrivastava, University of Petroleum and Energy Studies, Dehradun. Shuffling through the newspaper in the morning and reading the news which never seems to be anymore, every lazy eye must have been taken aback by the news reading: Delhi Law Minister Tomar’s UG degree fake, reveals RTI query. But this halt will not last long, because…
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New Income Tax Returns Form: The Changes
By Anaida Kuthiala, Army Institute of Law, Mohali. In a democracy like India, where the Govt is of the people, for the people and by the people, there rests with the people the right to privacy i.e. the right of non-disclosure, and the liability to inform (along with the right to be informed). In order to strike…
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Nestlé’s product Maggi at controversy
By Ashish, Faculty of Law, The ICFAI University. Nestle India is facing the biggest crisis in last three decades as its product maggi is at controversy for not satisfying the quality of the product. Maggi, India’s best known comfort food after staples such as rice, dal and wheat but the sale of Maggi is decreasing day…