Category: Blog
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Bollywood and Religious Sentiments: When a Legal Notice comes knocking
By Adv. Sanyukta Banerjie. Nothing falls apart faster in India than roads during rain and religious sentiments during a movie release. Every other day, the dailies report yet another movie producer, director or even the actor (no seriously) grappling with a legal notice and I shake my head thinking “Ah! Well they are still being…
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Bails and Anticipatory Bails: Part II
By Adv. Shriya Maini and Adv. Chethana Venkatraghavan We take off from where we left in the last post on Bails and Anticipatory Bails. Now that we know about Bails, Anticipatory Bails and Interim Bails, let us examine the substantive provisions behind granting of bail.
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Oath Taking Ceremony: A Mockery of the Constitution
By Rabia Mohamed Ismail Abdul Rahim, NUALS Kochi. On the 18th day of May, 2018, B. S. Yeddyurappa was sworn in as the Chief Minister of Karnataka. What happened after is no secret. Having sworn in, Yeddyurappa was the Chief Minister on the day of the floor test. He was also the Chief Minister when…
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Bails and Anticipatory Bails: Part I
By Adv. Shriya Maini and Ms Chethana Venkatraghavan This write-up is for those students who have realized that they have a law exam tomorrow and are looking for a source which discusses the practical and theoretical aspects of law in a deliberately simple form. This is also for those lawyers who are struggling to fill…
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Citizenship Amendment Bill, 2016: Domestic Law with a Religious Marker
By Qamar Ali Jafri, Dr. Ram Manohar Lohiya National Law University, Lucknow. Here’s an interesting and crisp presentation on the much debated and talked about, Citizenship Amendment Bill, 2016.
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Institutions of Eminence in the age of Academic Hype
By Qamar Ali Jafri, Dr. Ram Manohar Lohiya National Law University, Lucknow. Everyone dreams of studying in a premiere world institute. No country ever feels that it can do without a world-class university. Now, in the age of academic hype, who decides what is ‘world-class’ or ‘premiere’ or ‘flagship’ or for that matter, who decides upon the…
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Dovetailing Livelihood with Literacy
By Annapurna Sinharay, Symbiosis Law School, Pune. Karl Marx vilified the education system as an instrument in the hands of the evil capitalists to train a pliant labour force. However, the widespread unemployment plaguing the country today has reduced the system to one of a much benign nature, hopefully to Marx’s liking. Among the many…
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Foreign Direct Investment: The Conundrum Explained
By Bhumesh Verma, Managing Partner, Corp Comm Legal. Foreign Direct Investment or FDI, as it is called in common parlance, has become the fuel which is essential to sustain and develop any country’s economy. Developing countries such as India, require significant and consistent infusion of foreign investments in their economy in order to maintain a…
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Understanding Cooperatives: Constitution (97th Amendment) Act, 2011
By Aashna Aggarwal, Delhi Metropolitan Education, IP University, Noida. The concept of co-operatives is not new to man. It actually dates back to man himself and today they are a universal form of organisation, which is found in almost all the countries.
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My Preparation for the Battle of IPU Common Entrance Test
By Samridhi Talwar, University School of Law and Legal Studies, New Delhi. The University School of Law and Legal Studies is a part of the Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University. Nestled in Dwarka, this college is well known amongst students wishing to pursue the profession of law. I didn’t even have a vague idea about the…